Mere Quotes

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... not mere achievement, but rather the more difficult feat of handling your life efficiently. It means to be a success as a person; controlled,… — Norman Vincent Peale
Criticism is necessary and useful; it is often indispensable; but it can never take the place of action, or be even a poor substitute for… — Theodore Roosevelt
There is not in all America a more dangerous trait than the deification of mere smartness unaccompanied by any sense of moral responsibility. — Theodore Roosevelt
If we lose the virile, manly qualities, and sink into a nation of mere hucksters, putting gain over national honor, and subordinating everything to mere… — Theodore Roosevelt
Of all forms of tyranny the least attractive and the most vulgar is the tyranny of mere wealth. — Theodore Roosevelt
If there ever comes a day when the Saints interfere with the rights of others to live as they see fit, you can know with… — Brigham Young
In truth, I am nothing but a plodding mediocrity â€” please observe, a plodding mediocrity â€” for a mere mediocrity does not go very far,… — Benjamin Cardozo
If, when stung by slander or ill-nature, we wax proud and swell with anger, it is a proof that our gentleness and humility are unreal,… — Saint Francis de Sales
If the creatures with fur/feathers/fins are our brothers in a lower stage of development then their very weakness and inability to protest, demands that man… — Luther Burbank
. . . you [film critics] always overstress the value of images. You judge films in the first place by their visual impact instead of… — Orson Welles
The man who really counts in the world is the doer, not the mere critic -- the man who actually does the work, even if… — Theodore Roosevelt
The first requisite of a good citizen in this Republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his weight; that… — Theodore Roosevelt
We do not accost a physician as we do any mere nobody; nor a magistrate as we do a private individual. We try to get… — Saint Basil
Mere communion with nature, mere contact with the free air, exercise a soothing yet comforting and strengthening influence on the wearied mind, calm the storm… — Alexander von Humboldt
None may wholly escape the good of Nature, however imperfectly exposed to her blessings. The minister will not preach a perfectly flat and sedimentary sermon… — John Muir
Nowadays the field naturalist-who is usually at all points superior to the mere closet naturalist-follows a profession as full of hazard and interest as that… — Theodore Roosevelt
Good teachers are not known for telling you what you want to hear, and consequently they're rarely popular because they tend to offend people on… — Frederick Lenz
Nothing makes me feel better - calmer, clearer and happier - than being in one place, absorbed in a book, a conversation, a piece of… — Pico Iyer
The most conspicuous thing about suffering is, as W.H. Auden once observed, its banality. The day is green, the sun is shinging, someone is eating,… — Michael Jackson
Wealth to us is not mere material for vainglory but an opportunity for achievement; and poverty we think it no disgrace to acknowledge but a… — Thucydides

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