Only those who have learned the power
of sincere and selfless contribution
experience life's deepest joy: true fulfillment.
- Tony Robbins
My definition of success is to live your life in a way
that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain -
and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel
a lot more pleasure than they do pain.
- Tony Robbins
Whatever happens, take responsibility.
- Tony Robbins
People are not lazy.
They simply have impotent goals -
that is, goals that do not inspire them.
- Tony Robbins
The path to success is to take massive, determined action.
- Tony Robbins
I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece.
I challenge you to join the ranks of those people
who live what they teach, who walk their talk.
- Tony Robbins
Once you have mastered time,
you will understand how true it is that
most people overestimate what
they can accomplish in a year -
and underestimate what
they can achieve in a decade!
- Tony Robbins
If you do what you've always done,
you'll get what you've always gotten.
- Tony Robbins (quoting Mark Twain)
We can change our lives.
We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish.
- Tony Robbins
Successful people ask better questions,
and as a result, they get better answers.
- Tony Robbins
It is not what we get.
But who we become, what we contribute...
that gives meaning to our lives.
- Tony Robbins
Stay committed to your decisions,
but stay flexible in your approach.
- Tony Robbins
The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on.
It is never of any use to oneself.
- Oscar Wilde
The only fool bigger than the person who knows it all
is the person who argues with him.
- Stanislaw Jerszy Lec
Life is like jumping out of an airplane without a parachute -
only the last couple seconds are fatal,
but most people are scared to death the whole way down.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Oh, if only God would give me some sign.
If He would just speak to me once. Anything.
One sentence. Two words. If He would just cough.
- the movie Love and Death
You ask me if I keep a notebook
to record my great ideas.
I've only ever had one.
- Albert Einstein
I don't want to move to a city where the only cultural advantage
is being able to make a right turn on a red light.
- the Woody Allen movie Annie Hall
One good reason to only maintain a small circle of friends
is that three out of four murders
are committed by people who know the victim.
- George Carlin
Life only
appears to be
rushing toward us
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The only advantage of not being too good a housekeeper
is that your guests are so pleased
to feel how very much better they are.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
It is only the poor who pay cash,
and that not from virtue,
but because they are refused credit.
- Anatole France
I've developed a new philosophy...
I only dread one day at a time.
- the character Charlie Brown in Charles M. Schulz' Peanuts comic
Advertisements contain the only truths
to be relied on in a newspaper.
- Thomas Jefferson
Less is only more where more is no good.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Only dead fish swim with the stream.
- Anonymous
I believe totally in a Capitalist System,
I only wish that someone would try it.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
There is only one thing about which I am certain,
and that is that there is very little
about which one can be certain.
- W. Somerset Maugham
I only wish that ordinary people
had an unlimited capacity for doing harm;
then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.
- Socrates
The reason I talk to myself is because
I'm the only one whose answers I accept.
- George Carlin
You are only young once,
but you can stay immature indefinitely.
- Anonymous
The only good thing ever to come out of religion was the music.
- George Carlin
The only true love is love at first sight;
second sight dispels it.
- Israel Zangwill
Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born
at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
- Mark Twain
A doctor can bury his mistakes
but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Boys will be boys. And even that wouldn't matter
if only we could prevent girls from being girls.
- Anne Frank
The claim "I was only following orders" has been used
to justify too many tragedies in our history.
- Captain Picard of the television series
STAR TREK: The Next Generation
Things may come to those who wait,
but only the things left by those who hustle.
- Abraham Lincoln
Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous.
In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.
- Winston Churchill
The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
- Albert Einstein
The physician can bury his mistakes,
but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines -
so they should go as far as possible from home
to build their first buildings.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Money is better than poverty,
if only for financial reasons.
- Woody Allen
I never make stupid mistakes.
Only very, very clever ones.
- John Peel
Nothing in life is to be feared.
It is only to be understood.
- Marie Curie
Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition,
is not only a waste of energy
but the worst habit you could possibly have.
- Dale Carnegie
Only two things are infinite,
the universe and human stupidity,
and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein
Only a fool tests the depth of the water with both feet.
- African Proverb
Human beings are the only creatures on the planet
who tell time and think they have to earn a living.
- Buckminster Fuller
The attempt to combine wisdom and power
has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.
- Albert Einstein
I always pass on good advice.
It is the only thing to do with it.
It is never of any use to oneself.
- Oscar Wilde
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely
only after they have exhausted all other alternatives.
- Abba Eban
The essence of all religions is one.
Only their approaches are different.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Love is only a dirty trick played on us
to achieve continuation of the species.
- W. Somerset Maugham
There are three hundred and sixty-four days
when you might get un-birthday presents,
and only one for birthday presents, you know.
- Lewis Carroll
Magic is natural to Wizards,
and only a little harder for the rest of us.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because
he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong
only because he has remained silent.
- Winston Churchill
There is no such thing as public opinion.
There is only published opinion.
- Winston Churchill
If you want total security, go to prison.
There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on.
The only thing lacking... is freedom.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
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
People only see what they are prepared to see.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We have only this moment,
sparkling like a star in our hand -
and melting like a snowflake.
- Marie B. Ray
Darkness cannot drive out darkness;
only light can do that.
Hate cannot drive out hate;
only love can do that.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Hate is never conquered by hate,
Hate is only conquered by love.
- The Buddha
Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
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
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
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph
is for enough good men to do nothing.
- Edmund Burke
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
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
- Robert F. Kennedy
There are no facts, only interpretations.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
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