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My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.
Maya Angelou
Inspirational
Life
Passion
Compassion
Humor
Thrive
Style
Some
Merely
Mission
Survive
To Survive
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.
Amelia Earhart
Life
You
Change
Reward
Decision
Rest
Fears
Own
Control
Difficult
Paper
Tenacity
Merely
Most
Most Difficult Thing
Tigers
Procedure
Anything
Decide
Process
Act
Your
Thing
Difficult Thing
You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.
Woodrow Wilson
Motivational
Hope
You
Achievement
Yourself
World
Vision
Live
Living
Enrich
Finer
Spirit
More
Merely
Make
Greater
Enable
Errand
Forget
Order
Here
All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages.
William Shakespeare
Time
Man
Women
World
Men
Men And Women
Stage
Seven
One-Man
Entrance
Merely
Parts
His
Being
Ages
Many
Acts
Players
Plays
Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.
John Wooden
Character
You
Reputation
Think
Others
More
Merely
Concerned
Because
Than
While
Really
Your
Happiness doesn't come from being rich, nor merely from being successful in your career, nor by self-indulgence. One step towards happiness is to make yourself healthy and strong while you are a boy so that you can be useful and so you can enjoy life when you are a man.
Robert Baden-Powell
Happiness
Life
You
Man
Yourself
Strong
Enjoy Life
Healthy
Rich
Being Rich
Enjoy
Step
Merely
Towards
Come
Make
Boy
Nor
Being
While
Successful
Your
Useful
Career
The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.
Salvador Dali
Success
Jealousy
Merely
Success Is
Thermometer
Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world.
Joel A. Barker
Time
Change
World
Vision
Action
Change The World
Dream
Merely
Without
Passes
Just
For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.
Nelson Mandela
Freedom
Free
Live
Others
Way
Respects
Cast
Merely
Off
Chains
Enhances
Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.
Rumi
Love
You
Yourself
Find
Seek
Merely
Within
Built
Task
Against
Your
Barriers
A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.
William James
Great
People
Think
Thinking
Merely
Prejudices
Many
A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive because someone expended effort on them.
Liberty Hyde Bailey
Good
Gardening
Garden
Plants
Thrive
Ambition
Patient
Good Intentions
Someone
Attention
Merely
Because
Labor
Effort
Intentions
Them
Fulfill
Requires
Grow
Satisfy
Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It's beyond me.
Zora Neale Hurston
Angry
Me
Sometimes
Pleasure
Merely
Feel
Beyond
Make
Does
How
Discriminated
Deny
Any
Against
Themselves
Company
Finance is not merely about making money. It's about achieving our deep goals and protecting the fruits of our labor. It's about stewardship and, therefore, about achieving the good society.
Robert J. Shiller
Finance
Good
Money
Goals
Society
Our
About
Merely
Protecting
Stewardship
Making
Making Money
Labor
Achieving
Fruits
Deep
Therefore
Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.
Eric Hoffer
People
Propaganda
Merely
Does
Deceive
Them
Themselves
Helps
Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike.
Alexander Hamilton
Men
Oppose
Those
Had
Merely
Because
Been
May
Often
Dislike
Agency
Planned
Planning
Whom
Thing
Peace is not a relationship of nations. It is a condition of mind brought about by a serenity of soul. Peace is not merely the absence of war. It is also a state of mind. Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people.
Jawaharlal Nehru
War
Relationship
Soul
Peace
People
Mind
Lasting
Lasting Peace
State
Brought
About
Only
Absence
Merely
Come
Also
Condition
Nations
Serenity
Peaceful
The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.
Oprah Winfrey
Attitude
Future
Time
Great
Change
Changing
All-Time
Merely
Greatest
His
Discovery
Person
The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.
Rabindranath Tagore
Life
Education
Harmony
Our
Give
Highest
Merely
Makes
Does
Existence
Information
Which
Us
We often refuse to accept an idea merely because the tone of voice in which it has been expressed is unsympathetic to us.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Has-Been
Voice
Merely
Idea
Unsympathetic
Accept
Because
Been
Often
Refuse
Which
Us
Expressed
Tone
Democracy is not merely a form of government. It is primarily a mode of associated living, of conjoint communicated experience. It is essentially an attitude of respect and reverence towards fellow men.
B. R. Ambedkar
Attitude
Government
Democracy
Respect
Experience
Men
Living
Primarily
Merely
Towards
Fellow
Fellow Men
Reverence
Mode
Essentially
Form
Associated
The secret of living a life of excellence is merely a matter of thinking thoughts of excellence. Really, it's a matter of programming our minds with the kind of information that will set us free.
Charles R. Swindoll
Life
Thoughts
Matter
Will
Free
Living
Thinking
Programming
Secret
Our
Minds
Kind
Excellence
Merely
The Secret Of
Information
Us
Really
Set
Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
Aldous Huxley
Technology
Progress
Backwards
More
Merely
Provided
Efficient
Going
Us
Means
Technological
Technological Progress
Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid.
Mark Twain
Noise
Nothing
Asteroid
Merely
She
Proves
Egg
Often
Laid
Who
Hen
Education is not merely neglected in many of our schools today, but is replaced to a great extent by ideological indoctrination.
Thomas Sowell
Education
Today
Great
Our
Neglected
Great Extent
Merely
Indoctrination
Schools
Ideological
Replaced
Many
Extent
When a new source of taxation is found it never means, in practice, that the old source is abandoned. It merely means that the politicians have two ways of milking the taxpayer where they had one before.
H. L. Mencken
Old
Practice
Before
Politicians
Taxpayer
Ways
Abandoned
Never
Had
Merely
New
Source
Where
Taxation
Means
Found
Two
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