Only Quotes by Franklin D. Roosevelt, Isaac Newton, Aristotle, Emil Cioran, Deb Haaland, Alan Watts and many others.
Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe.
The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind.
Wall Street is the only place that people ride to in a Rolls Royce to get advice from those who take the subway.
Only Americans can hurt America.
Persistence and resilience only come from having been given the chance to work though difficult problems.
Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.
Give me love and work – these two only.
No one can possibly know what is about to happen: it is happening, each time, for the first time, for the only time.
The only way to take sorrow out of death is to take love out of life.
At the end of the day, you can’t control the results; you can only control your effort level and your focus.
The only thing that will make you happy is being happy with who you are, and not who people think you are.
I only like two kinds of men, domestic and imported.
I hope it is true that a man can die and yet not only live in others but give them life, and not only life, but that great consciousness of life.
Hope is like peace. It is not a gift from God. It is a gift only we can give one another.
The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.
It is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises-but only performance is reality.
A human being is only breath and shadow.
There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love; there’s only scarcity of resolve to make it happen.
Fast cars are my only vice.
Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one.
Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough, You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it.
Winning isn’t everything, it’s the only thing.
The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.
The biggest risk is not taking any risk… In a world that is changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.
A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke.
Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.
Human rights are not only violated by terrorism, repression or assassination, but also by unfair economic structures that creates huge inequalities.
You can’t control where you were born, the family you were born into, what you look like; you can’t control any of those circumstances. The only thing you can control is how you react.
Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.
The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
Betrayal is the only truth that sticks.
A company is only as good as the people it keeps.
The only thing we never get enough of is love; and the only thing we never give enough of is love.
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
The belief that there is only one truth, and that oneself is in possession of it, is the root of all evil in the world.
If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
Would you believe in what you believe in if you were the only one who believed it?
Cultural patterns of oppression are not only interrelated but are bound together and influenced by the intersectional systems of society. Examples of this include race, gender, class, ability, and ethnicity.
A Country is not a mere territory; the particular territory is only its foundation. The Country is the idea which rises upon that foundation; it is the sentiment of love, the sense of fellowship which binds together all the sons of that territory.
Unity can only be manifested by the Binary. Unity itself and the idea of Unity are already two.
Capitalism knows only one color: that color is green; all else is necessarily subservient to it, hence, race, gender and ethnicity cannot be considered within it.
If I take death into my life, acknowledge it, and face it squarely, I will free myself from the anxiety of death and the pettiness of life – and only then will I be free to become myself.
Badminton is not only about winning. What is important to me is about playing hard, doing my best and putting up a good show for the spectators.
I have no friends and no enemies – only competitors.
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
You can’t be afraid to fail. It’s the only way you succeed – you’re not gonna succeed all the time, and I know that.
If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.
I’m just really a free spirit. You gotta be like that. ‘Cause life ain’t that complicated. It’s only that complicated when you make it that way. I just wanna wake up and move with the way it goes. If it’s meant to happen, it will happen.
The only way round is through.
Life is like a landscape. You live in the midst of it but can describe it only from the vantage point of distance.
Bravery is being the only one who knows you’re afraid.
The unreal is more powerful than the real, because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it, because it’s only intangible ideas, concepts, beliefs, fantasies that last. Stone crumbles, wood rots. People, well, they die. But things as fragile as a thought, a dream, a legend, they can go on and on.
There are many paths but only one journey.
Even if the government spends itself into bankruptcy and the economy still does not recover, Keynesians can always say that it would have worked if only the government had spent more.
A great thing can only be done by a great person; and they do it without effort.
We never really grow up, we only learn how to act in public.
I don’t have no fear of death. My only fear is coming back reincarnated.
I have only one sister, Asha Nanda, and she lives in Maharani Bagh.
I have learned that as long as I hold fast to my beliefs and values – and follow my own moral compass – then the only expectations I need to live up to are my own.
The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.
We’re born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we’re not alone.
A person hears only what they understand.
The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.
A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding.
The only difference between the Republican and Democratic parties is the velocities with which their knees hit the floor when corporations knock on their door. That’s the only difference.
Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
Life is only a dream and we are the imagination of ourselves.
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.
Our only security is our ability to change.
Advance, and never halt, for advancing is perfection. Advance and do not fear the thorns in the path, for they draw only corrupt blood.
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.
Only the educated are free.
The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them.
The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.
Never be afraid to fail. Failure is only a stepping stone to improvement. Never be overconfident because that will block your improvement.
The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.
There is no ‘them’ and ‘us.’ There is only us.
A democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it.
The only failure is not to try.
I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly.
It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.
One only dies once, and if one does not die well, a good opportunity is lost and will not present itself again.
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
For me, a better democracy is a democracy where women do not only have the right to vote and to elect but to be elected.
It is only the modern that ever becomes old-fashioned.
You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.
Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things.
Love is not only something you feel, it is something you do.
The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.
We think too small, like the frog at the bottom of the well. He thinks the sky is only as big as the top of the well. If he surfaced, he would have an entirely different view.
The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain.
What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.
The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.
It is impossible for us to break the law. We can only break ourselves against the law.
If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.
Light is meaningful only in relation to darkness, and truth presupposes error. It is these mingled opposites which people our life, which make it pungent, intoxicating. We only exist in terms of this conflict, in the zone where black and white clash.
The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.
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.
I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past, I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone, there will be nothing. Only I will remain.
I have short goals – to get better every day, to help my teammates every day – but my only ultimate goal is to win an NBA championship. It’s all that matters. I dream about it. I dream about it all the time, how it would look, how it would feel. It would be so amazing.
Dealing with backstabbers, there was one thing I learned. They’re only powerful when you got your back turned.
The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.
Thus it is that in war the victorious strategist only seeks battle after the victory has been won, whereas he who is destined to defeat first fights and afterwards looks for victory.
Take care of your body. It’s the only place you have to live.
There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.
Complacency is a state of mind that exists only in retrospective: it has to be shattered before being ascertained.
The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man, but only to have the law of nature for his rule.
We die only once, and for such a long time.
I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
People must not believe in rumours. Even those who are spreading rumours and fake news must realize that they are not only disturbing others, but also putting their own lives at risk.
If you’re white and you’re wrong, then you’re wrong; if you’re black and you’re wrong, you’re wrong. People are people. Black, blue, pink, green – God make no rules about color; only society make rules where my people suffer, and that why we must have redemption and redemption now.
I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.
A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.
The woman who is known only through a man is known wrong.
Every good citizen makes his country’s honor his own, and cherishes it not only as precious but as sacred. He is willing to risk his life in its defense and is conscious that he gains protection while he gives it.
We are healed from suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
Only those who have patience to do simple things perfectly ever acquire the skill to do difficult things easily.
The main difference between a cat and a lie is that a cat only has nine lives.
The wounds of love can only be healed by the one who made them.
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.
Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.
The love we give away is the only love we keep.
The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.
We’re only here for so long. Be happy, man. You could get hit by a truck tomorrow.
Only the dead have seen the end of the war.
The poets are only the interpreters of the gods.
There is only one real deprivation… and that is not to be able to give one’s gifts to those one loves most.
A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.
Not only do I not know what’s going on, I wouldn’t know what to do about it if I did.
The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at once.
Good manners are cost effective. They not only increase the quality of life in the workplace, they contribute to employee morale, embellish the company image, and play a major role in generating profit.
You will only be remembered for two things: the problems you solve or the ones you create.
There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.
Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
The only good political movement I’ve seen lately was Occupy Wall Street. They had no leaders, which was genius. But unfortunately it always ends up with some hippy playing a flute.
I think we judge talent wrong. What do we see as talent? I think I have made the same mistake myself. We judge talent by people’s ability to strike a cricket ball. The sweetness, the timing. That’s the only thing we see as talent. Things like determination, courage, discipline, temperament, these are also talent.
Inner peace can be reached only when we practice forgiveness. Forgiveness is letting go of the past, and is therefore the means for correcting our misperceptions.
Those who ‘abjure’ violence can do so only because others are committing violence on their behalf.
One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.
Many individuals are doing what they can. But real success can only come if there is a change in our societies and in our economics and in our politics.
To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.
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.
Only you can control your future.
Knowledge is power only if man knows what facts not to bother with.
War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.
The only joy in the world is to begin.
What after all, is a halo? It’s only one more thing to keep clean.
The only way to get love is to be lovable. It’s very irritating if you have a lot of money. You’d like to think you could write a check: ‘I’ll buy a million dollars’ worth of love.’ But it doesn’t work that way. The more you give love away, the more you get.
Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
The past, like the future, is indefinite and exists only as a spectrum of possibilities.
The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.
Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.
Empathy is about standing in someone else’s shoes, feeling with his or her heart, seeing with his or her eyes. Not only is empathy hard to outsource and automate, but it makes the world a better place.
The coward only threatens when he is safe.
It only takes one person to mobilize a community and inspire change. Even if you don’t feel like you have it in you, it’s in you. You have to believe in yourself. People will see your vision and passion and follow you.
Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.
The only wealth in this world is children, more than all the money, power on earth.
The only thing that comes to a sleeping man is dreams.
We travel together, passengers on a little spaceship, dependent on its vulnerable reserves of air and soil, all committed, for our safety, to its security and peace. Preserved from annihilation only by the care, the work and the love we give our fragile craft.
In war, you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times.
No nation has friends only interests.
The reason I talk to myself is that I’m the only one whose answers I accept.
The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible.
I have only one understanding of development and of making success, and that’s by going step by step.
You only grow when you are alone.
The only love affair I have ever had was with music.
What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are not able to cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves? This is the most important of all voyages of discovery, and without it, all the rest are not only useless, but disastrous.
Minds are like parachutes – they only function when open.
Everyone in society should be a role model, not only for their own self-respect, but for respect from others.
No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior. All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them.
The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all.
Life is so fresh, life is every day so new if we are fighting, only for the best. Sometimes I think the only real satisfaction in life is failure, failure in your endeavor to do your best.
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.
Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
Happiness can exist only in acceptance.
Not only do I think being nice and kind is easy but being kind, in my opinion, is important.
The only good is knowledge, and the only evil is ignorance.
Slow down and enjoy life. It’s not only the scenery you miss by going to fast – you also miss the sense of where you are going and why.
Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature.
The level of our success is limited only by our imagination and no act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted.
There are two different types of leader. A person can either be like a thermometer or a thermostat. A thermometer will tell you what the temperature is. A thermostat will not only tell you what the temperature is, but it’ll move you to the temperature you need to get to.
There must be a reason why some people can afford to live well. They must have worked for it. I only feel angry when I see waste. When I see people throwing away things that we could use.
A man’s only as old as the woman he feels.
I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.
When you create Hope in people, you create expectations. When you do not fulfill those expectations, when the change becomes more of the same old, same old, the Hope that was created can only turn to anger, frustration and bitter disappointment.
There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity.
Cooking is all about people. Food is maybe the only universal thing that really has the power to bring everyone together. No matter what culture, everywhere around the world, people get together to eat.
He who doesn’t fear death dies only once.
I think that the good and the great are only separated by the willingness to sacrifice.
You only have power over people so long as you don’t take everything away from them. But when you’ve robbed a man of everything, he’s no longer in your power – he’s free again.
Only entropy comes easy.
My friends, as I have discovered myself, there are no disasters, only opportunities. And, indeed, opportunities for fresh disasters.
Either you give in, or you fight. That’s all I know, being where I’m from. You fight for what you want. You go after what you want. The only thing I could do was give up or keep fighting for what I wanted in life.
The only place that matters is first.
I never learn anything talking. I only learn things when I ask questions.
Every day, you’re only as good as your last show.
All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again.
Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live.
Time makes fools of us all. Our only comfort is that greater shall come after us.
You only cry for help if you believe there is help to cry for.
There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.
There are no morals in politics; there is only expedience. A scoundrel may be of use to us just because he is a scoundrel.
When we die our money, fame, and honors will be meaningless. We own nothing in this world. Everything we think we own is in reality only being loaned to us until we die. And on our deathbed at the moment of death, no one but God can save our souls.
I freed a thousand slaves I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves.
We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.
Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.
The future doesn’t exist. The only thing that exists is now and our memory of what happened in the past. But because we invented the idea of a future, we’re the only animal that realized we can affect the future by what we do today.
We only see what we want to see; we only hear what we want to hear. Our belief system is just like a mirror that only shows us what we believe.
I have tried to keep on with my striving because this is the only hope I have of ever achieving anything worthwhile and lasting.
Democracy is only an experiment in government, and it has the obvious disadvantage of merely counting votes instead of weighing them.
A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy dare live.
The only real valuable thing is intuition.
Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life’s deepest joy: true fulfillment.
Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.
The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don’t want, drink what you don’t like, and do what you’d rather not.
People often only see one side to someone’s personality, but there are levels.
There are only 3 colors, 10 digits, and 7 notes; its what we do with them that’s important.
Land is the only thing in the world that amounts to anything, for ‘Tis the only thing in this world that lasts, ‘Tis the only thing worth working for, worth fighting for – worth dying for.
I think it’s wrong that only one company makes the game Monopoly.
Education must, be not only a transmission of culture but also a provider of alternative views of the world and a strengthener of the will to explore them.
For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.
Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get – only with what you are expecting to give – which is everything.
If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is compromise.
What is life? A madness. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a story. And the greatest good is little enough; for all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams.
Cinema is not only about making people dream. It’s about changing things and making people think.
Life’s all about choices. Everyone’s destination is the same; only the paths are different.
My only fault is that I don’t realize how great I really am.
I’ve put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant, and that’s the only way of insuring one’s immortality.
There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.
The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
The U. S. Constitution doesn’t guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself.
Only the disciplined ones in life are free. If you are undisciplined, you are a slave to your moods and your passions.
The only limit to your impact is your imagination and commitment.
Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.
It’s 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, we will then begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had.
We only part to meet again.
Lost causes are the only ones worth fighting for.
War is war. The only good human being is a dead one.
If you stand still there is only one way to go, and that’s backwards.
You only live once and you need to enjoy life, to go out and achieve whatever you want to.
Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.
Every man has his own destiny: the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him.
Embrace your differences and the qualities about you that you think are weird. Eventually, they’re going to be the only things separating you from everyone else.
Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.
The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn’t get worse every time Congress meets.
There is only one sort of discipline, perfect discipline.
Human memory is a marvelous but fallacious instrument. The memories which lie within us are not carved in stone; not only do they tend to become erased as the years go by, but often they change, or even increase by incorporating extraneous features.
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
Writing in a diary is a really strange experience for someone like me. Not only because I’ve never written anything before, but also because it seems to me that later on neither I nor anyone else will be interested in the musings of a thirteen-year-old schoolgirl.
Sex is like money; only too much is enough.
If you’re not willing to put in the hard work, to endure and fail, there’s no point. You win only if you’re willing to do whatever it takes.
Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible – the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family.
You only find what you are looking for, really, if the truth be known.
The only think I like better than talking about Food is eating.
Win or lose, I always focus only on giving my 100%.
Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not repeat them in the future.
What a wonderful life I’ve had! I only wish I’d realized it sooner.
A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.
Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only by the man who is as well organized in his individuality as the mass itself.
Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.
The only real power comes out of a long rifle.
