Top 454 Only Quotes

He who doesn’t fear death dies only once.
Giovanni Falcone
If I had to live my life again, I’d make the same mistakes, only sooner.
Tallulah Bankhead
The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much. In public affairs, in the rebuilding of civilization, something less dramatic and emotional is needed, namely tolerance.
E. M. Forster
Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only by the man who is as well organized in his individuality as the mass itself.
Carl Jung
If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love.
Maya Angelou
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
Henry J. Kaiser
A good captain is great only if he has a great team.
S. Sreesanth
Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui.
Helen Keller
The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.
Benjamin Franklin
The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
Albert Einstein
One only dies once, and if one does not die well, a good opportunity is lost and will not present itself again.
Jose Rizal
The only solutions that are ever worth anything are the solutions that people find themselves.
Satyajit Ray
You only live once – but if you work it right, once is enough.
Joe E. Lewis
In the morning a man walks with his whole body; in the evening, only with his legs.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
They also serve who only stand and wait.

They also serve who only stand and wait.
John Milton
Real education enhances the dignity of a human being and increases his or her self-respect. If only the real sense of education could be realized by each individual and carried forward in every field of human activity, the world will be so much a better place to live in.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
Pressure is when you play for five dollars a hole with only two in your pocket.
Lee Trevino
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
A throne is only a bench covered with velvet.
Napoleon Bonaparte
An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.
Mahatma Gandhi
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.
Allen Iverson
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
I should be a postage stamp, because that’s the only way I’ll ever get licked. I’m beautiful. I’m fast. I’m so mean I make medicine sick. I can’t possibly be beat.
Muhammad Ali
The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.
Bruce Feirstein
Paradise is exactly like where you are right now… only much, much better.
Laurie Anderson
The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.
Albert Camus
The only way to take sorrow out of death is to take love out of life.
Russell M. Nelson
The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Cruel leaders are replaced only to have new leaders turn cruel.
Che Guevara
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.
Mother Teresa
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.
Thomas Sowell
Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one’s mistakes.
Oscar Wilde
I never worry about diets. The only carrots that interest me are the number you get in a diamond.
Mae West
But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
William Butler Yeats
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
We Spaniards know a sickness of the heart that only gold can cure.
Hernan Cortes
On your journey, don’t forget to smell the flowers. Take time out to notice that you’re alive. You can only live in one day.
Ray Fearon
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.
Lin Dan
Many will call me an adventurer – and that I am, only one of a different sort: one of those who risks his skin to prove his platitudes.
Che Guevara
The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity… and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.
William Blake
I am someone who can’t hold on to negativity or hold on to grudges. I might feel something at a certain point, but I get tired after that. I don’t carry it with me. I forgive and forget very easily, and that’s the only way to be happy and peaceful.
Deepika Padukone
Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable.
Henry Ward Beecher
Today is life-the only life you are sure of. Make the most of today. Get interested in something. Shake yourself awake. Develop a hobby. Let the winds of enthusiasm sweep through you. Live today with gusto.
Dale Carnegie
Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live.
Socrates
True self is non-self, the awareness that the self is m

True self is non-self, the awareness that the self is made only of non-self elements. There’s no separation between self and other, and everything is interconnected. Once you are aware of that you are no longer caught in the idea that you are a separate entity.
Thich Nhat Hanh
Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence.
Henri Frederic Amiel
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 essential lesson I’ve learned in life is to just be yourself. Treasure the magnificent being that you are and recognize first and foremost you’re not here as a human being only. You’re a spiritual being having a human experience.
Wayne Dyer
The only love affair I have ever had was with music.
Maurice Ravel
All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume.
Noam Chomsky
The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
Albert Einstein
When we tackle obstacles, we find hidden reserves of courage and resilience we did not know we had. And it is only when we are faced with failure do we realise that these resources were always there within us. We only need to find them and move on with our lives.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal.
Marilyn Ferguson
I do not believe in people owning guns. Guns should be owned only by the police and military. I am going to do everything I can to disarm this state.
Michael Dukakis
False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
Socrates
The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all.
Harry S Truman
Written laws are like spiders’ webs, and will, like them, only entangle and hold the poor and weak, while the rich and powerful will easily break through them.
Anacharsis
A company is only as good as the people it keeps.
Mary Kay Ash
A human being is only breath and shadow.
Sophocles
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.
Ralph Nader
Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get – only with what you are expecting to give – which is everything.
Katharine Hepburn
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.
Mao Zedong
Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!
Dr. Seuss
Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body, it is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity.
John F. Kennedy
I realize that humor isn’t for everyone. It’s only for people who want to have fun, enjoy life, and feel alive.
Anne Wilson Schaef
Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Happiness can exist only in acceptance.
George Orwell
You’re only as good as your last haircut.
Fran Lebowitz
Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature.
Saint Augustine
My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together.
Desmond Tutu
Words are only painted fire; a look is the fire itself.
Mark Twain
I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.
Mahatma Gandhi
The only difference between a hero and the villain is that the villain chooses to use that power in a way that is selfish and hurts other people.
Chadwick Boseman