Only Quotes

The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.

People only see what they are prepared to see.

Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.

You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.

The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.

I replaced the headlights in my car with strobe lights, so it looks like I'm the only one moving.

Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

Death is not natural for a state as it is for a human being, for whom death is not only necessary, but frequently even desirable.

All emotions are pure which gather you and lift you up; that emotion is impure which seizes only one side of your being and so distorts you.

I know of only one duty, and that is to love.

You will launch many projects, but have time to finish only a few. So think, plan, develop, launch and tap good people to be responsible. Give them authority and hold them accountable. Trying to do too much yourself creates a bottleneck.

Do not separate text from historical background. If you do, you will have perverted and subverted the Constitution, which can only end in a distorted, bastardized form of illegitimate government.

The drama is complete poetry. The ode and the epic contain it only in germ; it contains both of them in a state of high development, and epitomizes both.

Thomas Jefferson once said, 'We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works.' And ever since he told me that, I stopped worrying.

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.

He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise.

If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.

Some of us will do our jobs well and some will not, but we will be judged by only one thing-the result.

Goodness is the only investment that never fails.

Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.

A man is only as faithful as his options.

If the human race wishes to have a prolonged and indefinite period of material prosperity, they have only got to behave in a peaceful and helpful way toward one another.

Self-reform is the only kind that works.

I don't want to be the next Michael Jordan, I only want to be Kobe Bryant.

The only time my prayers are never answered is on the golf course.

Emotion resulting from a work of art is only of value when it is not obtained by sentimental blackmail.

Some people try to find things in this game that don't exist but football is only two things - blocking and tackling.

A free America... means just this: individual freedom for all, rich or poor, or else this system of government we call democracy is only an expedient to enslave man to the machine and make him like it.

The frontier between hell and heaven is only the difference between two ways of looking at things.

The only vice that cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy.