Merely Quotes

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The yearning for strong leadership is more about strength of purpose - clarity of vision - than about merely 'getting tough'. — Hugh Mackay
... that ultimate success in community leadership will only be achieved if it stimulates participation by others who are also to be seen as in… — James Gobbo
We were told that they wished merely to pass through our country. . . to seek for gold in the far west . . .… — Red Cloud
It is not enough merely possess virtue, as if it were an art; it should be practiced. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
The notion that somehow or another they'll (Iran) put it in a picnic basket and hand it to some terrorist group is merely an argument… — Zbigniew Brzezinski
As poet-philosopher Rabindranath Tagore reminds us, "We cannot cross the sea merely by staring at the water." Simplicity has power. And living on purpose comes… — Dan Millman
...virtue is not merely a state in conformity with the right principle, but one that implies the right principle; and the right principle in moral… — Aristotle
If you punish a child for being naughty, and reward him for being good, he will do right merely for the sake of the reward;… — Immanuel Kant
All the cruelty and torment of which the world is full is in fact merely the necessary result of the totality of the forms under… — Arthur Schopenhauer
Man is appealed to be guided in his acts, not merely by love, which is always personal, or at best tribal, but by his perception… — Peter Kropotkin
We have no butter... but I ask you, would you rather have butter or guns? Preparedness makes us powerful. Butter merely makes us fat. — Hermann Goring
The Reichswirtschaftsministerium ('Reich Ministry of Economic Affairs') tells the shop managers what and how to produce, at what prices and from whom to buy, at… — Ludwig von Mises
Any of us can achieve virtue, if by virtue we merely mean the avoidance of the vices that do not attract us. — Robert Staughton Lynd
I like the poem on the page and not at the podium. I like to address the poem in peace and quiet, not on the… — Ted Kooser
Men in general desire the good and not merely what their fathers had. — Aristotle
How many human beings anywhere, hold on to a relationship merely because it exists? This fear of loneliness, abandonment, or failure can, if we let… — Walter Inglis Anderson
The Army of Northern Virginia was never defeated. It merely wore itself out whipping the enemy. — Jubal Early
Youth means a temperamental predominance of courage over timidity of the appetite, for adventure over the love of ease. This often exists in a man… — Samuel Ullman
You and I want our lives to matter. We want our lives to make a real difference - to be of genuine consequence in the… — Werner Erhard
Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it. — Edward Albee

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