Tons Quotes

An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Related topics: Wisdom

An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

My definition of success is to live your life in a way
that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain -
and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel
a lot more pleasure than they do pain.
- Tony Robbins

Successful people ask better questions,
and as a result, they get better answers.
- Tony Robbins

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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

If you do what you've always done,
you'll get what you've always gotten.
- Tony Robbins (quoting Mark Twain)

Whatever happens, take responsibility.
- Tony Robbins

The path to success is to take massive, determined action.
- Tony Robbins

I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece.
I challenge you to join the ranks of those people
who live what they teach, who walk their talk.
- Tony Robbins

Sometimes it is better to lose
and do the right thing
than to win and do the wrong thing.
- Tony Blair

People are not lazy.
They simply have impotent goals -
that is, goals that do not inspire them.
- Tony Robbins

Only those who have learned the power
of sincere and selfless contribution
experience life's deepest joy: true fulfillment.
- Tony Robbins

We can change our lives.
We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish.
- Tony Robbins

If you ask a stupid question, you may feel stupid;
if you don't ask a stupid question, you remain stupid.
- Tony Rothman

Stay committed to your decisions,
but stay flexible in your approach.
- Tony Robbins

To succeed, you need to find
something to hold on to,
something to motivate you,
something to inspire you.
- Tony Dorsett

It is not what we get.
But who we become, what we contribute...
that gives meaning to our lives.
- Tony Robbins

Once you have mastered time,
you will understand how true it is that
most people overestimate what
they can accomplish in a year -
and underestimate what
they can achieve in a decade!
- Tony Robbins

"When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone,
"it means just what I choose it to mean - neither more nor less."
- Lewis Carroll

The best of a book is not the thought which it contains,
but the thought which it suggests;
just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones
but in the echoes of our hearts.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes

To know yet to think that one does not know is best;
Not to know yet to think that one knows
will lead to difficulty.
- Lao Tzu

Tolerance is the first principle of community;
it is the spirit which conserves
the best that all men think.
- Helen Keller

Life is best when I wish neither to hurry the future nor to slow it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Simply do your best, and you will avoid
self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.
- don Miguel Ruiz

Best Friends: we're a parade - even by ourselves!
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Knowing your own darkness is the best method
for dealing with the darknesses of other people.
- Carl Jung

A common denominator of all religions is that
they have the power to bring out the best and the worst in people.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

There are some things you learn best in calm,
and some in storm.
- Willa Cather

My experience has been that work is
almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer
is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
- Theodore Roosevelt

Use what talents you possess.
The woods would be very silent
if no birds sang there,
except those that sang best.
- Henry Van Dyke

Always do your best.
- don Miguel Ruiz

The success of a project is best predicted
by the enthusiasm of its participants.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you,
whose presence calls forth your best.
- Epictetus

Work Hard. Do your best. Keep your word.
Never get too big for your britches.
Trust in God. Have no fear;
and Never forget a friend.
- Harry S. Truman

An optimist is one who makes the best
of what he gets the worst of.
- Anonymous

He who knows best knows how little he knows.
- Thomas Jefferson

The best road to progress is freedom's road.
- John F. Kennedy

Write it on your heart that every day
is the best day in the year.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

One's philosophy is not best expressed in words;
it is expressed in the choices one makes...
and the choices we make
are ultimately our responsibility.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

The best relationship is one in which
your love for each other
exceeds your need for each other.
- Anonymous

When we do the best that we can,
we never know what miracle is wrought in our life,
or in the life of another.
- Helen Keller

The best way to gain self-confidence
is to do what you are afraid to do.
- Anonymous

Make the best use of what is in your power,
and take the rest as it happens.
- Epictetus

If a man empties his purse into his head,
no man can take it away from him.
An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
- Benjamin Franklin

Sometimes you get the results you wanted,
sometimes you don't.
What matters is that you did your best.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

It is no use saying, "We are doing our best."
You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
- Winston Churchill

I never had a policy;
I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.
- Abraham Lincoln

The fox has many tricks.
The hedgehog has but one.
But that is the best of all.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The price of success is hard work,
dedication to the job at hand,
and the determination that whether we win or lose,
we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.
- Vince Lombardi

I do the very best I know how -
the very best I can;
and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.
- Abraham Lincoln

Experience is the best teacher.
- Proverb

The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

The best is yet to come.
- Ernest Holmes

A leader is best when people barely know he exists;
when his work is done, his aim fulfilled,
they will say: we did it ourselves.
- Lao Tzu

It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.
- Henry David Thoreau

When you do your best
you learn to accept yourself
- don Miguel Ruiz

A man's good name is his best monument
- from an old churchyard at Lockerbie, Scotland

The greatest harm can result from the best intentions.
- Terry Goodkind

Success has a simple formula:
do your best, and people may like it.
- Sam Ewing

The season of failure is the best time
for sowing the seeds of success.
- Paramahansa Yogananda

If you're doing your best,
you won't have any time to worry about failure.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

We fear both the best and the worst in life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Success comes from knowing that
you did your best to become the best
that you are capable of becoming.
- John Wooden

Life is NOT "Supposed to be Fair."
Know that there is no single way that life is "supposed" to be.
Demanding that life meet our expectations
is a sure fire recipe for a miserable existence.
Life is a game with no rules.
Life just happens to us regardless of our best intentions.
Our only path to happiness lies in being open
to receiving whatever life throws at us -
with Gratitude. Have NO Expectations of life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Speak when you are angry -
and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.
- Laurence J. Peter

Things turn out best for the people
who make the best of the way things turn out.
- Art Linkletter

Be the best that you can be.
- Anonymous

May you never forget what is worth remembering,
or remember what is best forgotten.
- Anonymous

I want it said of me by those who knew me best,
that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower
where I thought a flower would grow.
- Abraham Lincoln

Success often grows best in the fertile soil of failure.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Die when I may, I want it said by those who knew me best
that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower
where I thought a flower would grow.
- Abraham Lincoln

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May the world be kind to you, and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie