Mere Quotes

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There is a difference between WISHING for a thing and being READY to receive it. No one is ready for a thing, until he believes… — Napoleon Hill
The only real number is one, the rest are mere repetition — Vladimir Nabokov
The revealed and mystic literature of mankind bears ample testimony to the fact that religious experience has been too enduring and dominant in the history… — Muhammad Iqbal
I want to fall in love in such a way that the mere sight of a man, even a block away from me, will shake… — Anais Nin
Don't take 'no' for an answer, never submit to failure. Do not be fobbed off with mere personal success or acceptance. You will make all… — Winston Churchill
The avalanche of time sweeps everything before it. Every individual instant hurtles into oblivion, drowning out the obliteration of the instant immediately preceding it, and… — David Gerrold
In cases of this sort, let us say adultery, rightness and wrongness do not depend on committing it with the right woman at the right… — Aristotle
I guess in all my years, what I heard more than anything else was: a mere town cannot support a discount store for very long. — Sam Walton
Teachers, who educate children, deserve more honour than parents, who merely gave them birth; for the latter provided mere life, while the former ensure a… — Aristotle
If advertising has invaded the judgment of children, it has also forced its way into the family, an insolent usurper of parental function, degrading parents… — Jules Henry
Courage is not a virtue of value among other personal values like love or fidelity. It is the foundation that underlies and gives reality to… — Rollo May
Without love, all worship is a burden, all dancing is a chore, all music is mere noise. — Unknown Author
Faith must have adequate evidence, else it is mere superstition. — Archibald Alexander Hodge
The lack of emotional security of our American young people is due, I believe, to their isolation from the larger family unit. No two people… — Pearl S. Buck
Motivation will almost always beat mere talent. — Norman Ralph Augustine
Tradition usually rests upon something which men did know; history is often the manufacture of the mere liar. — Jefferson Davis
Probably there is an imperceptible touch of something permanent that one feels instinctively to adhere to true humour, whereas wit may be the mere conversational… — Mark Twain
Humorists of the 'mere' sort cannot survive. Humor is only a fragrance, a decoration. — Mark Twain
Without craftsmanship, inspiration is a mere reed shaken in the wind. — Johannes Brahms
The mere formulation of a problem is far more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skills. To… — Albert Einstein
Therefore, teaching, talk and tale, however lucid or fascinating, effect nothing until self-activity be set up; that is, self-education is the only possible education; the… — Charlotte Mason
Nothing truly valuable arises from ambition or from a mere sense of duty; it stems rather from love and devotion towards men and towards objective… — Albert Einstein
Independently of its misdeeds, the mere power, - the bare existence of such a power, - is a thing irreconcilable with the nature and spirit… — Unknown Author
The earth is not a mere fragment of dead history, stratum upon stratum like the leaves of a book, to be studied by geologists and… — Henry David Thoreau
Patriotism has become a mere national self assertion, a sentimentality of flag-cheering with no constructive duties. — H.G. Wells

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