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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

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Nothing in life is to be feared.
It is only to be understood.
- Marie Curie

Winning isn't everything; it's the only thing.
- Vince Lombardi

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

Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit
which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.
- Henry David Thoreau

You don't get to choose how you're going to die,
only how you're going to live.
- Joan Baez

It is only through labor and painful effort,
by grim energy and resolute courage,
that we move on to better things.
- Theodore Roosevelt

I never worry about action, but only about inaction.
- Winston Churchill

The only good luck many great men ever had was
being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.
- Channing Pollock

There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth;
not going all the way, and not starting.
- The Buddha

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

When one has nothing to lose, one becomes courageous.
We are timid only when
there is something we can still cling to.
- Carlos Castaneda

Failure is only the opportunity to
begin again more intelligently.
- Henry Ford

Be not afraid of growing slowly,
be afraid only of standing still.
- Chinese Proverb

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

After climbing a great hill,
one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.
- Nelson Mandela

One can not reflect in streaming water.
Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
- Lao Tzu

There are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes.
- William John Bennett

The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.
- Vince Lombardi

There are a hundred valid reasons why something can't be done,
but only one reason, Commitment, why it can.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

Example is not the main thing in influencing others.
It is the only thing.
- Albert Schweitzer

There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything.
And that is by making the other person want to do it.
- Dale Carnegie

The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.
- The Buddha

A dream you dream alone is only a dream.
A dream you dream together becomes reality.
- John Lennon

The only way to discover the limits of the possible
is to go beyond them into the impossible.
- Arthur C. Clarke

Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer.
You have only to persevere to save yourselves.
- Winston Churchill

One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles
possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.
- Albert Schweitzer

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood.
Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.
- Marie Curie

Providence has its appointed hour for everything.
We cannot command results, we can only strive.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

The only limits in our life are those we impose on ourselves.
- Bob Proctor

Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
- Henry Kaiser

Play the game for more than you can afford to lose...
only then will you learn the game.
- Winston Churchill

In the long run, men hit only what they aim at.
Therefore, they had better aim at something high.
- Henry David Thoreau

Not every difficult and dangerous thing
is suitable for training,
but only that which is conducive to success
in achieving the object of our effort.
- Epictetus

There is no security on this Earth,
there is only opportunity.
- Douglas MacArthur

Your visions will become clear only
when you can look into your own heart.
Who looks outside, dreams;
who looks inside, awakes.
- Carl Jung

The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on.
It is never of any use to oneself.
- Oscar Wilde

An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere,
while the pessimist sees only the red stoplight.
The truly wise person is colorblind.
- Albert Schweitzer

Yesterday is ashes.
Tomorrow is green wood.
Only today does the fire burn brightly.
- Eskimo Proverb

There are no facts, only interpretations.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

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

You only get out what you put in.
- Anonymous

It is awfully hard to be brave, when you're only a Very Small Animal.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)

If your only tool is a hammer,
you tend to see every problem as a nail.
- Abraham Maslow

Courage is the art of being the only one
who knows you're scared to death.
- Earl Wilson

We have only this moment,
sparkling like a star in our hand -
and melting like a snowflake.
- Marie B. Ray

The only place where your dream becomes impossible
is in your own thinking.
- Robert H. Schuller

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

People only see what they are prepared to see.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

It's the little things you do
that can make a big difference.
What are you attempting to accomplish?
What little thing can you do today
that will make you more effective?
You are probably only one step away from greatness.
- Bob Proctor

If only the people who worry about their liabilities
would think about the riches they do possess,
they would stop worrying.
- Dale Carnegie

Between believing a thing and thinking you KNOW
is only a small step and quickly taken.
- Mark Twain

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
- Robert F. Kennedy

The only reason you suffer is because you choose to suffer.
The only reason you are happy is because you choose to be happy.
Happiness is a choice, and so is suffering.
- don Miguel Ruiz

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

You only live once -
but if you work it right, once is enough.
- Joe E. Lewis

Could we change our attitude,
we should not only see life differently,
but life itself would be different.
- Katherine Mansfield

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

The only one who can make you give up is yourself.
- Sidney Sheldon

Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes.
Don't resist them - that only creates sorrow.
Let reality be reality.
Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.
- Lao Tzu

All in the dark we grope along,
And if we go amiss
We learn at least which path is wrong,
And there is gain in this.
We do not always win the race
By only running right;
We have to tread the mountain's base
Before we reach its height.
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Things are only impossible until they're not.
- Jean-Luc Picard, character in STAR TREK: The Next Generation

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

Regret is an appalling waste of energy,
you can't build on it - it's only good for wallowing in.
- Katherine Mansfield

You only live once, and once is enough
if you play your cards right.
- the movie Interiors (1978)

The only reward of virtue is virtue;
the only way to have a friend is to be one.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is only when we truly know and understand
that we have a limited time on earth
and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up    
that we will begin to live each day to the fullest,
as if it were the only one we had.
- Elizabeth Kubler-Ross

The only thing necessary for evil to triumph
is for enough good men to do nothing.
- Edmund Burke

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