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It is only through labor and painful effort,
by grim energy and resolute courage,
that we move on to better things.
- Theodore Roosevelt
Related topics: Motivational Success
Do what you can,
with what you have,
where you are.
- Theodore Roosevelt
Believe you can and you're halfway there.
- Theodore Roosevelt
Whenever you are asked if you can do a job,
tell 'em, Certainly I Can. -
and get busy and find out how to do it.
- Theodore Roosevelt
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Far and away the best prize that life has to offer
is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
- Theodore Roosevelt
Far better is it to dare mighty things,
to win glorious triumphs,
even though chequered by failure,
than to take rank with those poor spirits
who neither enjoy much nor suffer much,
because they live in the grey twilight
that knows not victory or defeat.
- Theodore Roosevelt
To educate a person in mind and not in morals
is to educate a menace to society.
- Theodore Roosevelt
Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.
- Theodore Roosevelt
Life is an adventure.
I can only wonder what treasure
awaits at the top of the path.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
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
Hate is never conquered by hate,
Hate is only conquered by love.
- The Buddha
We have only this moment,
sparkling like a star in our hand -
and melting like a snowflake.
- Marie B. Ray
Nothing in life is to be feared.
It is only to be understood.
- Marie Curie
One can not reflect in streaming water.
Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
- Lao Tzu
There are only two ways to live your life.
One is as though nothing is a miracle.
The other is as though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph
is for enough good men to do nothing.
- Edmund Burke
If the only prayer you said in your whole life was,
Thank you, that would suffice.
- Meister Eckhart
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
- Robert F. Kennedy
Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
There are no facts, only interpretations.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
People only see what they are prepared to see.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Darkness cannot drive out darkness;
only light can do that.
Hate cannot drive out hate;
only love can do that.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Don't hurry. Don't worry.
You're only here for a short visit.
So don't forget to stop and smell the roses.
- Walter Hagen
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
We can only be said to be truly alive in those moments
when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.
- Thornton Wilder
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
The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy
is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet,
alone with the heavens, nature and God.
Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.
- Anne Frank
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
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
Imagine all the people living life in peace.
You may say I'm a dreamer,
but I'm not the only one.
I hope someday you'll join us,
and the world will be as one.
- John Lennon
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
The only place where your dream becomes impossible
is in your own thinking.
- Robert H. Schuller
Life only
appears to be
rushing toward us
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The only one who can make you give up is yourself.
- Sidney Sheldon
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful,
committed people can change the world.
Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
- Margaret Mead
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
I never worry about action, but only about inaction.
- Winston Churchill
I can only have peace of mind when I forgive rather than judge.
- Gerald Jampolsky
God doesn't require us to succeed;
He only requires that you try.
- Mother Teresa
We are each of us are angels with only one wing,
and we can only fly by embracing one another.
- Lucretius
We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal,
and then leap in the dark to our success.
- Henry David Thoreau
Goodness is the only investment that never fails.
- Henry David Thoreau
Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow...
but only empties today of its strength.
- C. H. Spurgeon
Find your balance and stand with it.
Find your song and sing it out.
Find your cadence and let it appear like a dance.
Find the questions that only you know how to ask and
The answers that you are content to not know.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
You only get out what you put in.
- Anonymous
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly;
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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
Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow,
it only saps today of its joy.
- Leo Buscaglia
Hate is only conquered by love.
- The Buddha
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
I teach one thing and one only:
that is, suffering and the end of suffering.
- The Buddha
You don't get to choose how you're going to die,
only how you're going to live.
- Joan Baez
Lend your voices only to sounds of freedom,
no longer lend your strength to that
which you wish to be free from.
Fill your life with love and bravery,
and you shall live a life uncommon.
- Jewel
Minds are like parachutes.
They only function when they are open.
- James Dewar
Remember, there are no mistakes, only lessons.
Love yourself, trust your choices, and everything is possible.
- Cherie-Carter Scotts
When one has nothing to lose, one becomes courageous.
We are timid only when
there is something we can still cling to.
- Carlos Castaneda
The only roadblock to success is limited thinking.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Confidence is the most important single factor in this game,
and no matter how great your natural talent,
there is only one way to obtain and sustain it: work.
- Jack Nicklaus
An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The only fool bigger than the person who knows it all
is the person who argues with him.
- Stanislaw Jerszy Lec
Know that miracles are the natural way of the Universe
Your only job is to move your doubting mind out of the way.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Yesterday is ashes.
Tomorrow is green wood.
Only today does the fire burn brightly.
- Eskimo Proverb
You have to accept whatever comes
and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage
and with the best that you have to give.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
If only the people who worry about their liabilities
would think about the riches they do possess,
they would stop worrying.
- Dale Carnegie
You only live once, and once is enough
if you play your cards right.
- the movie Interiors (1978)
Courage is the art of being the only one
who knows you're scared to death.
- Earl Wilson
For some of us, the world appears to provide
only a fixed quantity of each resource -
a limited amount of food, of money,
of love, of success, of appreciation.
For others, life is unlimited.
Their world expands with the generosity, compassion,
inventiveness, and service that they contribute.
In this world-view, money that is spent
or given away returns multiplied.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You only live once -
but if you work it right, once is enough.
- Joe E. Lewis
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
Things are only impossible until they're not.
- Jean-Luc Picard, character in STAR TREK: The Next Generation
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