Top 560 One Thing Quotes

All is connected… no one thing can change by itself.
Paul Hawken
Remember your dreams and fight for them. You must know what you want from life. There is just one thing that makes your dream become impossible: the fear of failure.
Paulo Coelho
One thing I’ve learned from my parents and from observing all the artists I’ve been lucky enough to grow up around is that you’ve got to be brave.
Maya Hawke
The one thing I do not want to be called is First Lady. It sounds like a saddle horse.
Jackie Kennedy
One thing the futurists never get right, though, is that the extreme desire for polyester only lasted a brief period in the ’70s!
Lea Thompson
Democracy is never a thing done. Democracy is always something that a nation must be doing. What is necessary now is one thing and one thing only that democracy become again democracy in action, not democracy accomplished and piled up in goods and gold.
Archibald MacLeish
In everything one thing is impossible: rationality.
Friedrich Nietzsche
When I’m on stage, I’m trying to do one thing: bring people joy. Just like church does. People don’t go to church to find trouble, they go there to lose it.
James Brown
You may be rich, but there is one thing you can’t afford – that is, if you are a good sort – you can’t afford to spend money on your own luxuries while there are people around you wanting the necessaries of life.
Robert Baden-Powell
I didn’t believe in a guardian angel when I was young. I was brought up in the Protestant faith, and the one thing you had over your Catholic friends was that you didn’t have those awful saints chivvying you around.
Jennifer Johnston
Once the world sees you as that one thing, and the better you are at that thing, the more you can only be that thing.
Maverick Carter
There’s one thing everyone should understand: I like my character.
Dennis Rodman
I find it really hard to stick to one thing because I'm

I find it really hard to stick to one thing because I’m so fickle and I like to change my mind a lot.
Ashnikko
There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.
William James
Stay open-minded; stay focused. Train hard and train smart. For me, the older I get, the smarter I have to train also, because the recovery time is longer. Work on everything: become a well-rounded fighter – don’t just be good at one thing; be good at everything.
Brock Lesnar
One thing that I find very unmotivating is the kind of Plan B argument: when Earth gets destroyed, you want to be somewhere else. That doesn’t work for me. We have sent robotic probes now to every place in the solar system, and this is the best one.
Jeff Bezos
One thing I’ve always liked about the military is there’s a certain amount of pragmatism.
Phil Klay
Individuals, too, who cultivate a variety of skills seem brighter, more energetic and more adaptable than those who know how to do one thing only.
Robert Shea
The one thing that’s always been the center of my political thinking – and it goes back to when I was 19 and editor of my college paper – is an abhorrence of the extreme.
Charles Krauthammer
I really want to pop the crowd. I want to show off. That is the one thing that I’ve always loved about my career is I just want to show off. I always hated the storylines.
Rob Van Dam
You can’t have a value structure without a hierarchy. They’re the same thing because a value structure means one thing takes precedence over another.
Jordan Peterson
I’ll tell you one thing about Donald Trump: There will never be a Benghazi in a Donald Trump administration.
Bobby Knight
I am one of 40 grandchildren. What bothers me about the whole trust-fund thing is that it sort of presumes that everything is handed to you. And if there is one thing about my family that I do identify with, it is that everyone is extremely hardworking.
Rooney Mara
When I was a child, there’s one thing I said: ‘I never want to be alone.’ That’s what I would say. I don’t want to be alone.
Elon Musk
It’s one thing to recognize that the gap between the rich and everybody else is growing like a cancer; it’s another thing to come up with useful solutions.
Molly Ivins
I remain just one thing, and one thing only, and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher plane than any politician.
Charlie Chaplin
There is one thing I can say about working in a steel mill. If it does not kill you, it will make a man out of you.
Chuck Klein
Responsibility is the thing people dread most of all. Yet it is the one thing in the world that develops us, gives us manhood or womanhood fiber.
Frank Crane
Let me tell you what the truth is… I have learned one thing in life: there is no such thing as bad press. There is not. That’s a fundamental truth. The more bad things said about you, the more power they give to you.
John McAfee
There is only one thing people like that is good for them; a good night’s sleep.
E. W. Howe
Smile, for everyone lacks self-confidence and more than any other one thing a smile reassures them.
Andre Maurois
One thing at a time, all things in succession. That which grows fast withers as rapidly; and that which grows slow endures.
Josiah Gilbert Holland
People accuse me of being Methody, but I’m not at all. The one thing I don’t want people to see is me. I don’t want them to be able to recognize my faults and failures and qualities, and I won’t use those things to spark off emotions or to illustrate.
Kristin Scott Thomas
Drums isn’t my one thing anymore. I love to produce. I love to make tracks, write tracks, produce tracks, and I can’t just sit back as a drummer anymore.
Tommy Lee
It’s one thing to have a relationship, to lay your hands on it, and another to make it continue and last. That’s something I haven’t talked about much in my comic strips, and it’s certainly something I’m interested in.
Lynda Barry
I took one thing to heart that I heard from Sidney Poitier in ‘Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner.’ And it resonated so much with me. He says: ‘Dad, you always looked at yourself as a black man. I look at myself as a man.’
Dennis Haysbert
The one thing that I would say that defines me is I love to learn. I get excited about new things. I buy more books than I read or finish.
Satya Nadella
I think that soccer is one thing, and money is another thing.
Andrea Pirlo
There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time as come.
Victor Hugo
There is only one entity which I built, which is HCL. And the legacy which I want to leave behind that is in my name. There is only one thing which bears my name in the doorsteps – that is only the University and the foundation. And that legacy will not have a price tag.
Shiv Nadar
I’ve been doing this since I was 12… I don’t want to act much longer; I can’t do one thing my whole life.
Ryan Gosling
My number one thing to work on is not being reactive – but appropriateness doesn’t come easily to me sometimes.
Courtney Love
I’m an extremist so I’m either hated or loved. I think it’s down to when I first got to Formula One not always knowing what I was saying, saying things that mean one thing but people were taking the other way and then people don’t forget.
Lewis Hamilton
Some girls like to say one thing and mean another. And

Some girls like to say one thing and mean another. And me being who I am, I’m very straightforward.
Zayn Malik
There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience.
Archibald MacLeish
It’s one thing, holding open the door for someone at a grocery store, or the library, or just about anyplace else. But the doughnut shop is a different thing altogether. This is a get-in-and-out-as-fast-as-you-can operation. There’s no room for courtesy or chivalry here.
Linwood Barclay
One thing I can say right off the bat is that creating great editorial is a huge challenge, and you can’t help but go through the process and not appreciate how valuable this skill is, and how much I admire the people who do this every day.
Michael Wolf
If I’ve learned one thing in life, it’s: Stand for something or you’ll fall for anything.
Bonnie Hunt
I never give advice unless someone asks me for it. One thing I’ve learned, and possibly the only advice I have to give, is to not be that person giving out unsolicited advice based on your own personal experience.
Taylor Swift
One thing I noticed when I moved to America, people don’t really know about me, so a lot of them question why I look like a boy or dress like a boy, or why I didn’t have longer hair, or what’s with the tattoos.
Ruby Rose
I’m quite contradictory – a bit OCD, but quite untidy. I have piles of stuff everywhere, but they make sense to me. And I’ll find the one thing in the room that’s my boyfriend’s, and complain about him leaving it out.
Kimberley Nixon
Nostalgia is one thing. It’s great to go and play the old songs. People know them and appreciate them. You got to give them what they want to hear.
Denny Laine
Issues are never simple. One thing I’m proud of is that very rarely will you hear me simplify the issues.
Barack Obama
I think the one thing that most stands out is that my father always did what he believed to be the right thing to do and he always told us that we had to go our own way even if he disagreed.
Klaus Fuchs
One thing I longed to do was to design a complete look, from head to toe, so I started a make-up line in 1966.
Mary Quant
You have to look out for becoming trapped in a place where people want to see you all the time doing one thing.
Lucy Liu
I’ll tell you one thing, it’s a cruel, cruel world.
Danny DeVito
I owed Lewis one thing, at least. Once you had suffered the experience of presenting a case at one of his Monday morning conferences, no other public appearance, whether on radio, TV or the lecture platform, could hold any terrors for you.
Anthony Storr
It’s marvelous the change that comes about when a man gets together all his forces and centers them upon the doing of one thing at a time.
George Matthew Adams
One thing that was amazing about World War II was that everybody signed up for the duration plus six months. Fliers got to leave combat after 25 missions, or 35 missions, but other than that, you were in it. You were part of the great effort, until, oh boy, six months after it was over.
Tom Hanks