Merely Quotes

The world is blessed most by men who do things, and not by those who merely talk about them.

The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.

The governments of the present day have to deal not merely with other governments, with emperors, kings and ministers, but also with the secret societies which have everywhere their unscrupulous agents, and can at the last moment upset all the governments' plans.

There is a loftier ambition than merely to stand high in the world. It is to stoop down and lift mankind a little higher.

Life asks not merely what you can do; it asks how much can you endure and not be spoiled.

Many good sayings are to be found in holy books, but merely reading them will not make one religious.

Some people think they are concentrating when they're merely worrying.

Just when we most need to be clearheaded, in order to face the hard facts before us, there is all too frequently a very real inclination to give way to dangerous tendencies merely as an escape from realities.

Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversation.

History does not merely touch on language, but takes place in it.

It is very vulgar to talk about one's business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then merely at dinner parties.

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure , the process is its own reward.

There is a distinction between fact and truth. Truth has an element of revelation about it. If something is true, it does more than strike one as merely being so.

And now there is merely silence, silence, silence, saying all we did not know.

Now the British are coming. I think Cameron should ask the Chinese government not to make people 'disappear' or to jail them merely because they have different opinions.

My guess is that if they now choose to change of director for every other film, it's just because you can't really change the formula, you can merely try to film it your way.

All political revolutions, not affected by foreign conquest, originate in moral revolutions. The subversion of established institutions is merely one consequence of the previous subversion of established opinions.

Air power is indivisible. If you split it up into compartments, you merely pull it to pieces and destroy its greatest asset, its flexibility.

In order to really enjoy a dog, one doesn't merely try to train him to be semi-human. The point of it is to open oneself to the possibility of becoming partly a dog.

I don't think you need to dumb down to a child, you merely have to be clear, you know?

If religion were true, its followers would not try to bludgeon their young into an artificial conformity; but would merely insist on their unbending quest for truth, irrespective of artificial backgrounds or practical consequences.

Violence is hidden within democratic structures because they are not radically democratic - Western democracy is merely a domestic convenience of consumerism.

Not a tenth of us who are in business are doing as well as we could if we merely followed the principles that were known to our grandfathers.

The Roman Code was merely an enunciation in words of the existing customs of the Roman people.

Thinking about the universe has now been handed over to specialists. The rest of us merely read about it.

Good and evil do not exist for me any more. The fear of evil is merely a mass projection here and on Earth.

Men ought either to be indulged or utterly destroyed, for if you merely offend them they take vengeance, but if you injure them greatly they are unable to retaliate, so that the injury done to a man ought to be such that vengeance cannot be feared.

The biggest fool in the world is he who merely does his work supremely well, without attending to appearance.

Aikido is not merely about fighting and the development of the physical self but the perfection of the spiritual man at the same time. It has very harmonious movements, very beautiful to watch and beautiful for your body to feel.

Social paralysis is strong and stands firmly in the way of change on the ground level. As allies, we have to prepare ourselves to step into the fire when necessary, even - and especially - when said fire is merely a still-lit cigarette tossed carelessly onto the street.