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The only good luck many great men ever had was
being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.
- Channing Pollock
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Move out of your comfort zone. You can only
grow if you are willing to feel awkward and
uncomfortable when you try something new.
- Brian Tracy
People only see what they are prepared to see.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
There are no facts, only interpretations.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nothing in life is to be feared.
It is only to be understood.
- Marie Curie
We have only this moment,
sparkling like a star in our hand -
and melting like a snowflake.
- Marie B. Ray
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph
is for enough good men to do nothing.
- Edmund Burke
Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
There are only two or three human stories,
and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely
as if they had never happened before.
- Willa Cather
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
- Robert F. Kennedy
Darkness cannot drive out darkness;
only light can do that.
Hate cannot drive out hate;
only love can do that.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Majority rule only works if you're also
considering individual rights,
because you can't have five wolves and one sheep
voting on what to have for dinner.
- Larry Flynt
Life only
appears to be
rushing toward us
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Hate is never conquered by hate,
Hate is only conquered by love.
- The Buddha
Friendship is born at that moment
when one person says to another,
"What! You too? I thought I was the only one."
- C. S. Lewis
You're only here for a short visit.
Don't hurry. Don't worry.
And be sure to smell the flowers along the way.
- Walter Hagen
The essence of all religions is one.
Only their approaches are different.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
One can not reflect in streaming water.
Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
- Lao Tzu
Play with life, laugh with life,
dance lightly with life,
and smile at the riddles of life,
knowing that life's only true lessons
are writ small in the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition,
is not only a waste of energy
but the worst habit you could possibly have.
- Dale Carnegie
Choose Inner Peace.
Nothing is worth losing your inner peace.
Take action as circumstances require,
but never surrender your inner peace.
Stop. Breathe deeply.
Close your eyes and breathe deeply again.
Then, and only then, take action -
from a peaceful heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is an adventure.
I can only wonder what treasure
awaits at the top of the path.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.
- Publilius Syrus
The only limits in our life are those we impose on ourselves.
- Bob Proctor
There is no security on this Earth,
there is only opportunity.
- Douglas MacArthur
It is only through labor and painful effort,
by grim energy and resolute courage,
that we move on to better things.
- Theodore Roosevelt
Yesterday is dead. Tomorrow is a dream.
Today - each today - is where the action is
where all of life occurs.
Today IS your life - your only life.
Life today to the fullest.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer.
You have only to persevere to save yourselves.
- Winston Churchill
Only aim to do your duty,
and mankind will give you credit where you fail.
- Thomas Jefferson
One thing I know: the only ones among you
who will be really happy are those
who will have sought and found how to serve.
- Albert Schweitzer
A man can do only what he can do.
But if he does that each day he can sleep at night
and do it again the next day.
- Albert Schweitzer
The only gift is a portion of thyself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
When you argue with reality,
you lose - but only always.
- Byron Katie
Only in love are unity and duality not in conflict.
- Rabindranath Tagore
I cannot teach anybody anything.
I can only make them think.
- Socrates
The only way to deal with an unfree world
is to become so absolutely free
that your very existence is an act of rebellion.
- Albert Camus
Trust only movement.
Life happens at the level of events, not of words.
Trust movement.
- Alfred Adler
Your life belongs only to you.
- Ayn Rand
Commitment cannot be taught;
it can only be caught.
I refer to the crusading spirit.
Without the crusading spirit,
you may have the starting power
but not the staying power.
- Jimmy Yen
Courage is the art of being the only one
who knows you're scared to death.
- Earl Wilson
Worthless people live only to eat and drink;
people of worth eat and drink only to live.
- Socrates
The only ones among you who will be really happy
are those who will have sought and found how to serve.
- Albert Schweitzer
You don't get to choose how you're going to die,
only how you're going to live.
- Joan Baez
Hatred does not cease by hatred,
but only by love;
this is the eternal rule.
- The Buddha
I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know:
the only ones among you who will be really happy
are those who will have sought and found how to serve.
- Albert Schweitzer
This isn't a rehearsal or a practice life.
This is your real life - your one and only real life.
There are no retakes - no second chances.
Begin now - live full out.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The only source of knowledge is experience.
- Albert Einstein
Only a man's character is the real criterion of worth.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Miracles are the natural way of the Universe -
our only job is to move our doubting minds aside
and let the miracles flow.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Only those who have learned the power
of sincere and selfless contribution
experience life's deepest joy: true fulfillment.
- Tony Robbins
We really have to understand the person we want to love.
If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
- John Stuart Mill, On Liberty (1859)
The only sovereign you can allow to rule you is reason.
- Terry Goodkind
The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.
- Anais Nin
Example is not the main thing in influencing others.
It is the only thing.
- Albert Schweitzer
Remember, there are no mistakes, only lessons.
Love yourself, trust your choices, and everything is possible.
- Cherie-Carter Scotts
I am only one, but still I am one.
I cannot do everything, but still I can do something;
And because I cannot do everything
I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.
- Helen Keller
Yesterday is a canceled check;
tomorrow is a
promissory note;
today is the only cash you have;
so spend it wisely.
- Kay Lyons
Whenever you are angry, be assured that
it is not only a present evil,
but that you have increased a habit.
- Epictetus
You cannot teach a man anything;
you can only help him find it within himself.
- Galileo Galilei
The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.
- Vince Lombardi
Don't give up. There are too many nay-sayers out there
who will try to discourage you.
Don't listen to them.
The only one who can make you give up is yourself.
- Sidney Sheldon
There's no wrong, only discovery...
- Byron Katie
A man is truly ethical only when he obeys
the compulsion to help all life which he is able to assist,
and shrinks from injuring anything that lives.
- Albert Schweitzer
Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it.
- Lewis Carroll
Only that day dawns to which we are awake.
- Henry David Thoreau
Could we change our attitude,
we should not only see life differently,
but life itself would be different.
- Katherine Mansfield
You remember lesson about balance?
Lesson not just karate only. Lesson for whole life.
Whole life have a balance. Everything be better. Understand?
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid
Apology is only egotism wrong side out.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
And now here is my secret, a very simple secret:
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly;
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
You can conquer almost any fear
if you will only make up your mind to do so.
For remember, fear doesn't exist
anywhere except in the mind.
- Dale Carnegie
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May the world be kind to you, and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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