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Please enjoy these encouraging quotes by Theodore Roosevelt.
It is only through labor and painful effort,
by grim energy and resolute courage,
that we move on to better things.
- Theodore Roosevelt
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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
Far and away the best prize that life has to offer
is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
- Theodore Roosevelt
Believe you can and you're halfway there.
- Theodore Roosevelt
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Do what you can,
with what you have,
where you are.
- 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
Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.
- Theodore Roosevelt
To educate a person in mind and not in morals
is to educate a menace to society.
- Theodore Roosevelt
Hate is never conquered by hate,
Hate is only conquered by love.
- The Buddha
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
Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
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
There are no facts, only interpretations.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
People only see what they are prepared to see.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph
is for enough good men to do nothing.
- Edmund Burke
One can not reflect in streaming water.
Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
- Lao Tzu
Darkness cannot drive out darkness;
only light can do that.
Hate cannot drive out hate;
only love can do that.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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
If the only prayer you said in your whole life was,
Thank you, that would suffice.
- Meister Eckhart
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
God doesn't require us to succeed;
He only requires that you try.
- Mother Teresa
We are rich only through what we give,
and poor only through what we refuse.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
- Robert F. Kennedy
Hate is only conquered by love.
- The Buddha
I can only have peace of mind when I forgive rather than judge.
- Gerald Jampolsky
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
- Henry Kaiser
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
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
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
Failure is only the opportunity to
begin again more intelligently.
- Henry Ford
Only from the heart can you touch the sky.
- Rumi
Minds are like parachutes.
They only function when they are open.
- James Dewar
Example is not the main thing in influencing others.
It is the only thing.
- Albert Schweitzer
An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
I can only wonder what treasure awaits at the top of the path.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
I teach one thing and one only:
that is, suffering and the end of suffering.
- The Buddha
Be not afraid of growing slowly,
be afraid only of standing still.
- Chinese Proverb
There are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes.
- William John Bennett
Winning isn't everything; it's the only thing.
- Vince Lombardi
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
Love is the only force capable of
transforming an enemy into friend.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
A dream you dream alone is only a dream.
A dream you dream together becomes reality.
- John Lennon
The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.
- Vince Lombardi
Forgiveness is the only way to heal
- don Miguel Ruiz
There is no security on this Earth,
there is only opportunity.
- Douglas MacArthur
A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue,
but the parent of all other virtues.
- Cicero
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
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
The only limits in our life are those we impose on ourselves.
- Bob Proctor
Goodness is the only investment that never fails.
- Henry David Thoreau
Life only
appears to be
rushing toward us
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.
- The Buddha
We can only be said to be truly alive in those moments
when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.
- Thornton Wilder
Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow,
it only saps today of its joy.
- Leo Buscaglia
The heart knows nothing of the past,
nothing of the future;
it knows only of the present.
- Osho
You cannot teach a man anything;
you can only help him find it within himself.
- Galileo Galilei
There is no death, only a change of worlds.
- Chief Seattle
There is no certainty; there is only adventure.
- Roberto Assagioli
Providence has its appointed hour for everything.
We cannot command results, we can only strive.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Never stop dreaming your inspired future.
Believing in your dreams is only the first step,
but unless you have a dream that you believe in,
you are leaving your future to random chance.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
People are like stained glass windows,
they sparkle and shine when the sun is out,
but when darkness sets in their true beauty
is revealed only if there is a light from within.
- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
- Susan Sontag
Mind what people do, not only what they say,
for deeds will betray a lie.
- Terry Goodkind
Worthless people live only to eat and drink;
people of worth eat and drink only to live.
- Socrates
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