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Please enjoy these encouraging quotes by Franklin D. Roosevelt.
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Happiness lies in the joy of achievement
and the thrill of creative effort.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Men are not prisoners of fate,
but only prisoners of their own minds.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To reach a port, we must sail -
sail, not tie at anchor - sail, not drift.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt quoting Oliver Wendell Holmes
Men and women are not prisoners of fate,
but only prisoners of their own minds.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Competition has been shown to be useful
up to a certain point and no further,
but cooperation, which is the thing we must strive for today,
begins where competition leaves off.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself -
nameless, unreasoning, unjustified, terror.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
"Appeasement" is the policy of feeding your friends to a crocodile,
one at a time, in hopes that the crocodile will eat you last.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself -
nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror
which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
The school is the last expenditure upon which America
should be willing to economize.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
I am neither bitter nor cynical but I do wish
there was less immaturity in political thinking.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Hate is never conquered by hate,
Hate is only conquered by love.
- The Buddha
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
Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
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
There are no facts, only interpretations.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph
is for enough good men to do nothing.
- Edmund Burke
Life is an adventure.
I can only wonder what treasure
awaits at the top of the path.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
People only see what they are prepared to see.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
One can not reflect in streaming water.
Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
- Lao Tzu
Nothing in life is to be feared.
It is only to be understood.
- Marie Curie
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
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
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
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
Darkness cannot drive out darkness;
only light can do that.
Hate cannot drive out hate;
only love can do that.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
If the only prayer you said in your whole life was,
Thank you, that would suffice.
- Meister Eckhart
An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.
- Vince Lombardi
The only limits in our life are those we impose on ourselves.
- Bob Proctor
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
- Henry Kaiser
The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.
- The Buddha
God doesn't require us to succeed;
He only requires that you try.
- Mother Teresa
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
We are rich only through what we give,
and poor only through what we refuse.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A dream you dream alone is only a dream.
A dream you dream together becomes reality.
- John Lennon
We can only be said to be truly alive in those moments
when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.
- Thornton Wilder
Love is the only force capable of
transforming an enemy into friend.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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
I teach one thing and one only:
that is, suffering and the end of suffering.
- The Buddha
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 from the heart can you touch the sky.
- Rumi
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
Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow,
it only saps today of its joy.
- Leo Buscaglia
Example is not the main thing in influencing others.
It is the only thing.
- Albert Schweitzer
Goodness is the only investment that never fails.
- Henry David Thoreau
I can only wonder what treasure awaits at the top of the path.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Be not afraid of growing slowly,
be afraid only of standing still.
- Chinese Proverb
There is no security on this Earth,
there is only opportunity.
- Douglas MacArthur
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
Winning isn't everything; it's the only thing.
- Vince Lombardi
Hate is only conquered by love.
- The Buddha
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
Forgiveness is the only way to heal
- don Miguel Ruiz
Minds are like parachutes.
They only function when they are open.
- James Dewar
Just stop it. Seriously.
Whatever it is. Just stop it.
If only for an hour, a day, a week.
Stop doing it long enough to get a glimpse
of what the change would actually look like.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Life only
appears to be
rushing toward us
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Failure is only the opportunity to
begin again more intelligently.
- Henry Ford
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
I can only have peace of mind when I forgive rather than judge.
- Gerald Jampolsky
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
- Robert F. Kennedy
A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue,
but the parent of all other virtues.
- Cicero
There are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes.
- William John Bennett
Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Books are mirrors:
you only see in them what you already have inside you.
- Carlos Ruiz Zafon
What seems new is only new to us.
- Pearl S. Buck
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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 sovereign you can allow to rule you is reason.
- Terry Goodkind
Inner peace can be reached
only when we practice forgiveness ...
letting go of the past,
and correcting our misperceptions.
- Gerald Jampolsky
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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