One Thing Quotes

• When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Positive, Religious

  Quoted inWilliam H. Herndon and JesseW.Weik, Herndon's Lincoln: The True Story of a Great Life (1889)

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  Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• The time is always right to do what is right.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Positive, Inspiring

  "This Dallas Boy's MLK Jr. Speech Is Such A Sweet Message For Today's World" by Sarah Friedmann, www.bustle.com. January 2018.

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• Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.

  Will Rogers

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  "The Graduation Speech I'd Give, if Anyone Asked" by Karina Bland, www.azcentral.com. June 03, 2015.

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• The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at once.

  Samuel Smiles

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Self-Help: With Illustrations of Conduct and Perseverance".

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• Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  Attributed to Goethe by Johannes Falk in "Goethe aus näherm persönlichen Umgange dargestellt", 1832.

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• The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Love, Life, Failure

  "23 Leadership Tips From Oprah Winfrey" by John Greathouse, www.forbes.com. September 27, 2012.

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• Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "P.S. I Love You: When Mom Wrote, She Always Saved the Best for Last". Book by H. Jackson Brown, Jr., March 1, 1991.

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• My theory is that everyone at one time or another has been at the fringe of society in some way: an outcast in high school, a stranger in a foreign country, the best at something, the worst at something, the one who's different. Being an outsider is the one thing we all have in common.

  Alice Hoffman

  Country, Healing, School

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• Every ordinary thing in your life is a word of God's love: your home, your work, the clothes you wear, the air you breathe, the food you eat.... the flowers under your feet are the courtesy of God's heart flung down on You! All these things say one thing only: "See how I love you."

  Caryll Houselander

  Love, Life, God

  Caryll Houselander, Thomas Hoffman (2000). “A Child in Winter: Advent, Christmas and Epiphany with Caryll Houselander”, p.38, Rowman & Littlefield

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• To be called one thing, is oftentimes to be another.

  Herman Melville

  Literature

  Herman Melville (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Herman Melville (Illustrated)”, p.898, Delphi Classics

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• In everything one thing is impossible: rationality.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Impossible, Rationality

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.172, Penguin

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• One thing which makes us find so few people who appear reasonable and agreeable in conversation is, that there is scarcely any one who does not think more of what he is about to say than of answering precisely what is said to him.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Thinking, People, Doe

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• Reason is one thing and faith is another and reason can as little be made a substitute for faith, as faith can be made a substitute for reason.

  John Henry Newman

  Littles, Reason, Made

  John Henry Newman, James Tolhurst (1849). “Discourses Addressed to Mixed Congregations”, p.188, Gracewing Publishing

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• No one thing does human life more need than a kind consideration of the faults of others. Every one sins; everyone needs forbearance. Our own imperfections should teach us to be merciful.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Imperfection, Doe, Needs

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• Sex is the one thing you cannot really swindle; and it is the centre of the worst swindling of all, emotional swindling.... Sex lashes out against counterfeit emotion, and is ruthless, devastating against false love.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Sex, Emotional, False Love

  D. H. Lawrence, Michael Squires (2002). “Lady Chatterley's Lover and A Propos of 'Lady Chatterley's Lover'”, p.313, Cambridge University Press

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• All successful men have agreed in one thing -- they were causationists. They believed that things went not by luck, but by law; that there was not a weak or a cracked link in the chain that joins the first and last of things.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Successful, Science, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2275, Delphi Classics

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• No king on earth is as safe in his job as a Trade Union official. There is only one thing that can get him sacked; and that is drink. Not even that, as long as he doesn't actually fall down.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Kings, Jobs, Fall

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• The one thing that is always clear in my mind is that the people, and their stories, and the themes of life that I photograph are always more important to me than the process of photography itself.

  Peter Turnley

  Photography, People, Mind

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• There’s something to be said for doing one thing right.

  Lionel Ferbos

  Said

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• What is the one thing that 43% of men prefer over sex? Bacon!

  Jon Taffer

  Sex, Men

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• I had a basketball net that my dad had put up outside. I went out there and dribbled all day long. I wanted to play basketball. Then Id go baseball, and then Id go to football. I remember playing football in a plowed field. I grew up going from one thing to the next wanting to play something.

  Joe Gibbs

  Basketball, Baseball, Football

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• One thing you might want to learn before you attend the world's largest ukulele lesson is how to say ukulele.

  Mary Schmich

  Ukulele, World, Lessons

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• Men ... are not agreed about any one thing, not even that heaven is over our heads.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Men, Agreement, Heaven

  Michel de Montaigne (1877). “Essays”, p.314

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• Often, the thing we pursue most passionately is but a substitute for the one thing we really want and cannot have.

  Eric Hoffer

  Want, Substitutes, Pursue

  Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”

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