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The opposite of courage in our society
is not cowardice, it is conformity.
- Rollo May
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Cowardice asks the question - is it safe?
Expediency asks the question - is it politic?
Vanity asks the question - is it popular?
But conscience asks the question - is it right?
And there comes a time when one must take a position
that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular;
but one must take it BECAUSE it is right.
- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Fear has its use but cowardice has none.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
A coward is incapable of exhibiting love;
it is the prerogative of the brave.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.
- Thomas Jefferson
To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.
- Abraham Lincoln
Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.
- William Shakespeare
Obstacles are like wild animals.
They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can.
If they see you are afraid of them...
they are liable to spring upon you;
but if you look them squarely in the eye,
they will slink out of sight.
- Orison Swett Marden
It is only the great-hearted who can be true friends.
The mean and cowardly can never know what true friendship means.
- Charles Kingsley
A conservative is a man who is
too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
- Elbert Hubbard
It is an open question whether any behavior
based on fear of eternal punishment
can be regarded as ethical
or should be regarded as merely cowardly.
- Margaret Mead
Minds are like parachutes.
They only function when they are open.
- James Dewar
People only see what they are prepared to see.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
There are no facts, only interpretations.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Beware the Rattlesnake of the Mind -
A Mind is Only Useful When Tamed..
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
What seems new is only new to us.
- Pearl S. Buck
Life can only be understood backwards;
but it must be lived forwards.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Whenever you are angry, be assured that
it is not only a present evil,
but that you have increased a habit.
- Epictetus
Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.
- Publilius Syrus
The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
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
Apology is only egotism wrong side out.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
There is no truth, only human opinion.
- Anonymous
Change is the law of life.
And those who look only to the past or the present
are certain to miss the future.
- John F. Kennedy
I cannot teach anybody anything.
I can only make them think.
- Socrates
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
Without health, life is not life;
it is only a state of languor and suffering -
an image of death.
- The Buddha
The distinction between the past, present and future
is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
- Albert Einstein
There is no "right", there is no "wrong" -
there are only points of view.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There's no wrong, only discovery...
- Byron Katie
The only source of knowledge is experience.
- Albert Einstein
The world is moved along, not only
by the mighty shoves of its heroes,
but also by the aggregate of tiny pushes
of each honest worker.
- Helen Keller
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
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
Intellectual growth should commence at birth
and cease only at death.
- Albert Einstein
For time and the world do not stand still.
Change is the law of life.
And those who look only to the past or the present
are certain to miss the future.
- John F. Kennedy
Unity can only be manifested by the Binary.
Unity itself and the idea of Unity are already two.
- The Buddha
It is only in adventure that some people
succeed in knowing themselves -
in finding themselves.
- Andre Gide
Only that day dawns to which we are awake.
- Henry David Thoreau
When you argue with reality,
you lose - but only always.
- Byron Katie
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying
about things which are beyond the power of our will.
- Epictetus
Most of the luxuries, and many of the so-called comforts of life
are not only not indispensable,
but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.
- Henry David Thoreau
Men are not prisoners of fate,
but only prisoners of their own minds.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
The truth is a snare:
you cannot have it, without being caught.
You cannot have the truth
in such a way that you catch it,
but only in such a way that it catches you.
- Soren Kierkegaard
The only sovereign you can allow to rule you is reason.
- Terry Goodkind
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
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph
is for enough good men to do nothing.
- Edmund Burke
There is no certainty; there is only adventure.
- Roberto Assagioli
The only wealth which you will keep forever
is the wealth you have given away.
- Marcus Aurelius
He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
- John Stuart Mill, On Liberty (1859)
Smile at the riddles of life,
knowing that life's only true lessons
are writ small in the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
Far from idleness being the root of all evil,
it is rather the only true good.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Worthless people live only to eat and drink;
people of worth eat and drink only to live.
- Socrates
Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Do not attempt to conquer the world with force,
for force only causes resistance.
- Lao Tzu
There is only one time that is important - NOW!
It is the most important time because
it is the only time that we have any power.
- Leo Tolstoy
Men and women are not prisoners of fate,
but only prisoners of their own minds.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
We must respect the other fellow's religion,
but only in the sense and to the extent
that we respect his theory that
his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
- H. L. Mencken
Mind what people do, not only what they say,
for deeds will betray a lie.
- Terry Goodkind
People generally complain about only two things:
when they have less than yesterday,
and when they have less than their neighbor.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks,
that we concentrate only
on what is most significant and important.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.
- Albert Einstein
Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it.
- Lewis Carroll
Improve what you can
and accept all the rest of life
just as it comes.
Know that fear is your worst enemy -
perhaps your only enemy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
- Susan Sontag
An idea that is developed and put into action
is more important than
an idea that exists only as an idea.
- The Buddha
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
Peace cannot be kept by force;
it can only be achieved by understanding.
- Albert Einstein
Books can only reveal us to ourselves,
and as often as they do us this service we lay them aside.
- Henry David Thoreau
Trust only movement.
Life happens at the level of events, not of words.
Trust movement.
- Alfred Adler
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