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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• 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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• 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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  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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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 I've learned over these last 30 or 40 years is that people make history. There's no fait accompli to any of this.

  Jeremy Rifkin

  Years, People, Lasts

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• There is only one thing that arouses animals more than pleasure, and that is pain. Under torture you are as if under the dominion of those grasses that produce visions. Everything you have heard told, everything you have read returns to your mind, as if you were being transported, not toward heaven, but toward hell. Under torture you say not only what the inquisitor wants, but also what you imagine might please him, because a bond (this, truly, diabolical) is established between you and him.

  Umberto Eco

  Pain, Animal, Heaven

  Umberto Eco (2014). “The Name of the Rose”, p.65, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• History leaves no doubt that among of the most regrettable crimes committed by human beings have been committed by those human beings who thought of themselves as civilized. What, we must ask, does our civilization possess that is worth defending? One thing worth defending, I suggest, is the imperative to imagine the lives of beings who are not ourselves and are not like ourselves: animals, plants, gods, spirits, people of other countries, other races, people of the other sex, places and enemies.

  Wendell Berry

  Country, Sex, Animal

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• Doug Ford was one of the first of the old pros I saw during my first full year on tour, in 1963. To this day he's the best chipper I've ever seen. One thing Doug did was get the ball onto the green and rolling right away, keeping it as low as possible. He never hit his chips higher than was absolutely necessary.

  Ray Floyd

  Years, Rolling, Balls

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• There is only one thing I want to say about Ohio that has a political tinge, and that is that I think a mistake has been made of recent years in Ohio in failing to continue as our representatives the same people term after term. I do not need to tell a Washington audience, among whom there are certainly some who have been interested in legislation, that length of service in the House and in the Senate is what gives influence.

  William Howard Taft

  Mistake, Thinking, Ohio

  Speech before the Ohio Society, Washington, D.C. "Congressional Record", Volume 53, p. 8527, May 23, 1916.

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• Wisdom is one thing, to know how to make true judgment, how all things are steered through all things.

  Heraclitus

  Wisdom, Judgment, All Things

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• The men who made the Industrial Revolution are usually pictured as hardfaced businessmen with no other motive than self-interest. That is certainly wrong. For one thing, many of them were inventors who had come into business that way.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Men, Self, Way

  Jacob Bronowski (1976). “The ascent of man”

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• One thing I feel is this: that a great deal of poetry is the product of adolescence-or of an emotionally adolescent frame of mind: and that as this state of mind changes, poetry is likely to dry up.

  James Agee

  Dry Up, Mind, States

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• One thing about cold weather: it brings out the statistician in everyone.

  Paul Theroux

  Weather, Cold, Statistician

  Paul Theroux (2014). “The Old Patagonian Express: By Train Through the Americas”, p.50, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• One thing about a pig, he thinks he's warm if his nose is warm. I saw a bunch of pigs one time that had frozen together in a rosette, each one's nose tucked under the rump of the one in front. We have a lot of pigs in politics.

  Eugene McCarthy

  Thinking, Pigs, Together

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• I think one thing that does cause unhappiness is protracted anxiety and worry.

  Derek Bok

  Thinking, Worry, Anxiety

  "Should Governments Make Happiness A Priority?". Interview with Alison St. John, www.kpbs.org. April 26, 2011.

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