There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.
Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point.
The only way I can lose is if I’m caught in bed with either a dead girl or a live boy.
Trust has to be earned, and should come only after the passage of time.
Only free men can negotiate. A prisoner cannot enter into contracts.
The fragrance of flowers spreads only in the direction of the wind. But the goodness of a person spreads in all directions.
It is necessary to fall in love… if only to provide an alibi for all the random despair you are going to feel anyway.
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.
The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good, in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it.
Happiness can only be found if you can free yourself of all other distractions.
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.
Capitalist production, therefore, develops technology, and the combining together of various processes into a social whole, only by sapping the original sources of all wealth – the soil and the labourer.
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.
There is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.
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.
Learn from the past, set vivid, detailed goals for the future, and live in the only moment of time over which you have any control: now.
The only failure is not to try.
The only creatures that are evolved enough to convey pure love are dogs and infants.
Survival was my only hope, success my only revenge.
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
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.
If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough.
Look for yourself, and you will find in the long run only hatred, loneliness, despair, rage, ruin, and decay. But look for Christ, and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in.
No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he’d only had good intentions; he had money as well.
Only the prepared speaker deserves to be confident.
Love is a trap. When it appears, we see only its light, not its shadows.
He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
Anyone can count the seeds in an apple, but only God can count the number of apples in a seed.
I never learn anything talking. I only learn things when I ask questions.
There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them.
If you’re in trouble, or hurt or need – go to the poor people. They’re the only ones that’ll help – the only ones.
The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible.
The belief that one’s own view of reality is the only reality is the most dangerous of all delusions.
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.
Those who ‘abjure’ violence can do so only because others are committing violence on their behalf.
God does not begin by asking our ability, only our availability, and if we prove our dependability, He will increase our capability.
The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.
The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.
Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy.
Everyone in society should be a role model, not only for their own self-respect, but for respect from others.
There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to create.
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.
We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force.
The main difference between a cat and a lie is that a cat only has nine lives.
Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.
I have tried to keep on with my striving because this is the only hope I have of ever achieving anything worthwhile and lasting.
Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?
I know of only one duty, and that is to love.
There is only a finger’s difference between a wise man and a fool.
I only like two kinds of men, domestic and imported.
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.
Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.
The woman who is known only through a man is known wrong.
Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles.
It’s very important that we re-learn the art of resting and relaxing. Not only does it help prevent the onset of many illnesses that develop through chronic tension and worrying; it allows us to clear our minds, focus, and find creative solutions to problems.
Experience teaches only the teachable.
You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.
The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.
What after all, is a halo? It’s only one more thing to keep clean.
The only wealth which you will keep forever is the wealth you have given away.
An organization, no matter how well designed, is only as good as the people who live and work in it.
Only those who have patience to do simple things perfectly ever acquire the skill to do difficult things easily.
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.
Only one thing is impossible for God: To find any sense in any copyright law on the planet.
There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad.
Religious wars are not caused by the fact that there is more than one religion, but by the spirit of intolerance… the spread of which can only be regarded as the total eclipse of human reason.
Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.
Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life’s deepest joy: true fulfillment.
I think that sexuality is only attractive when it’s natural and spontaneous.
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.
Only do what your heart tells you.
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 general who advances without coveting fame and retreats without fearing disgrace, whose only thought is to protect his country and do good service for his sovereign, is the jewel of the kingdom.
The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
The only real valuable thing is intuition.
We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done.
People sacrifice the present for the future. But life is available only in the present. That is why we should walk in such a way that every step can bring us to the here and the now.
