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The opposite of courage in our society
is not cowardice, it is conformity.
- Rollo May
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Fear has its use but cowardice has none.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Cowardice asks the question - is it safe?
Expediency asks the question - is it politic?
Vanity asks the question - is it popular?
But conscience asks the question - is it right?
And there comes a time when one must take a position
that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular;
but one must take it BECAUSE it is right.
- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
A coward is incapable of exhibiting love;
it is the prerogative of the brave.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.
- Thomas Jefferson
To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.
- Abraham Lincoln
Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.
- William Shakespeare
Obstacles are like wild animals.
They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can.
If they see you are afraid of them...
they are liable to spring upon you;
but if you look them squarely in the eye,
they will slink out of sight.
- Orison Swett Marden
It is only the great-hearted who can be true friends.
The mean and cowardly can never know what true friendship means.
- Charles Kingsley
It is an open question whether any behavior
based on fear of eternal punishment
can be regarded as ethical
or should be regarded as merely cowardly.
- Margaret Mead
A conservative is a man who is
too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
- Elbert Hubbard
We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone.
Only through our love and friendship can we
create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.
- Orson Welles
Everyone has a "best friend" during each stage of life,
but only a precious few have the same one.
- Anonymous
The only thing to do is to hug one's friend tight and do one's job.
- Edith Wharton
Friendship is born at that moment
when one person says to another,
"What! You too? I thought I was the only one."
- C. S. Lewis
Friendship is the only thing in the world
concerning the usefulness of which all mankind are agreed.
- Cicero
Darkness cannot drive out darkness;
only light can do that.
Hate cannot drive out hate;
only love can do that.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Friends love misery, in fact.
Sometimes, especially if we are too lucky
or too successful or too pretty,
our misery is the only thing that endears us to our friends.
- Erica Jong
The only reward of virtue is virtue;
the only way to have a friend is to be one.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Each friend represents a world in us,
a world possibly not born until they arrive,
and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
- Anais Nin
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
You only meet your once in a lifetime friend ...
once in a lifetime.
- Little Rascals
Your visions will become clear only
when you can look into your own heart.
Who looks outside, dreams;
who looks inside, awakes.
- Carl Jung
Resistance creates suffering.
Stress happens when your mind resists what is.
The only problem in your life
is your mind's resistance to life as it unfolds.
- Dan Millman
Life in abundance comes only through great love.
- Elbert Hubbard
The greatest and most important problems of life
are all fundamentally insoluble.
They can never be solved but only outgrown.
- Carl Jung
My coat and I live comfortably together.
It has assumed all my wrinkles, does not hurt me anywhere,
has moulded itself on my deformities,
and is complacent to all my movements,
and I only feel its presence because it keeps me warm.
Old coats and old friends are the same thing.
- Victor Hugo
We are free only if we face the challenge of freedom,
do the work of freedom, fight the fight of freedom
and die the death for freedom.
- Charles G. Adams
The only reason you suffer is because you choose to suffer.
The only reason you are happy is because you choose to be happy.
Happiness is a choice, and so is suffering.
- don Miguel Ruiz
We can do no great things,
only small things with great love.
- Mother Teresa
Life only
appears to be
rushing toward us
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We could never learn to be brave and patient,
if there were only joy in the world.
- Helen Keller
If the only tool you have is a hammer,
you tend to see every problem as a nail.
- Abraham Maslow
Only that in you which is me can hear what I'm saying.
- Ram Dass
Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths,
but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.
- Anne Frank
Between believing a thing and thinking you KNOW
is only a small step and quickly taken.
- Mark Twain
Don't marry the person you think you can live with;
marry only the individual you think you can't live without.
- James C. Dobson
The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.
- Bertrand Russell
The heart knows nothing of the past,
nothing of the future;
it knows only of the present.
- Osho
There is no neutrality.
There is only greater or lesser
awareness of one's bias.
- Phyllis Rose
We have no enemies,
we have only friendships that we haven't yet developed
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Only love and death will change all things.
- Khalil Gibran
The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.
- Anais Nin
If your only tool is a hammer,
you tend to see every problem as a nail.
- Abraham Maslow
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself -
nameless, unreasoning, unjustified, terror.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
We really have to understand the person we want to love.
If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
It's work only if I say it's work,
but it's play if I say it's fun.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.
- Helen Keller
Our only security is our ability to change.
- John Lilly
We only see what we want to see,
and hear what we want to hear
- don Miguel Ruiz
We live in a wonderful world that is
full of beauty, charm and adventure.
There is no end to the adventures that we can have
if only we seek them with our eyes open.
- Jawaharlal Nehru
If you have only one smile in you,
give it to the people you love.
Don't be surly at home,
then go out in the street
and start grinning good morning
at total strangers.
- Maya Angelou
Only through experience of trial and suffering
can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared,
ambition inspired, and success achieved.
- Helen Keller
One never notices what has been done;
one can only see what remains to be done.
- Marie Curie
The only real valuable thing is intuition.
- Albert Einstein
Regret is an appalling waste of energy,
you can't build on it - it's only good for wallowing in.
- Katherine Mansfield
Truth is absolute, but only to one person.
My truth is absolute to me, and your truth is absolute to you.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Attention is the ability we have to discriminate
and to focus only on that which we want to perceive.
- don Miguel Ruiz
I look only to the good qualities of men.
Not being faultless myself,
I won't presume to probe into the faults of others.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.
- Dale Carnegie
Guilt is only another way of avoiding informed action.
- Audre Lorde
Peace cannot be achieved through violence,
it can only be attained through understanding.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
In this life we cannot do great things.
We can only do small things with great love.
- Mother Teresa
Hatred does not cease by hatred,
but only by love;
this is the eternal rule.
- The Buddha
The essence of all religions is one.
Only their approaches are different.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
I have found the paradox,
that if you love until it hurts,
there can be no more hurt, only more love.
- Mother Teresa
Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men
is primarily based on mutual trust
and only secondarily on institutions
such as courts of justice and police.
- Albert Einstein
Life only appears complicated when one is worrying.
Relax, and life becomes simple again.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Only love has the ability to put you in that state of bliss
- don Miguel Ruiz
The moment a person forms a theory,
his imagination sees in every object
only the traits which favor that theory.
- Thomas Jefferson
The whole art of teaching is only the art
of awakening the natural curiosity
of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
- Anatole France
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