Merely Quotes

3319 Merely quotes by 1909 unique authors

A healthy appetite for righteousness, kept in due control by good manners, is an excellent thing; but to hunger and thirst after it is often… — C. D. Broad
We pray to you, O God ... for strength, determination, and willpower, to do instead of just to pray, to become instead of merely to… — Harold S. Kushner
What sets you apart from the rest of humanity is your ability to give visual form to an idea - the skill to transform it… — Richard Schmid
The highest point of humility consists in not merely acknowledging one's abjection, but in taking pleasure therein, not from any want of breadth or courage,… — Saint Francis de Sales
What my enemies call a general peace is my destruction. What I call peace is merely the disarmament of my enemies. Am I not more… — Napoleon Bonaparte
It is not a dreamlike state, but the somehow insulated state, that a great musician achieves in a great performance. He's aware of where he… — Arnold Palmer
I have no business to feel downcast or querulous merely because when so much as been given me I have not had even more. — Theodore Roosevelt
Pure politics is merely the calculus of combinations and of chances. — Napoleon Bonaparte
There are two kinds of success. One is the rare kind that comes to the person who has the power to do what no one… — Theodore Roosevelt
Sometimes I am a collector of data, and only a collector, and am likely to be gross and miserly, piling up notes, pleased with merely… — Charles Fort
Our attitude towards plants is a singularly narrow one. If we see any immediate utility in a plant we foster it. If for any reason… — Rachel Carson
Wild beasts and birds are by right not the property merely of the people today, but the property of the unborn generations, whose belongings we… — Theodore Roosevelt
I've met a few people who had to change their jobs in order to change their lives, but I've met many more people who merely… — Peace Pilgrim
I have destroyed the enemy merely by marches. — Napoleon Bonaparte
Every beggar shall be arrested. But to arrest a beggar merely in order to put him in jail would be barbarous and absurd. He should… — Napoleon Bonaparte
There is something to be said for government by a great aristocracy which has furnished leaders to the nation in peace and war for generations;… — Theodore Roosevelt
Democracy is good. I say this because other systems are worse. So we are forced to accept democracy. It has good points and also bad.… — Jawaharlal Nehru
We must remember not to judge any public servant by any one act, and especially should we beware of attacking the men who are merely… — Theodore Roosevelt
l have no fear of change as such and, on the other hand, no liking for it merely for its own sake. — Robert Moses
Let us show, not merely in great crises, but in every day of life, qualities of practical intelligence, of hardihood and endurance, and above all,… — Theodore Roosevelt
If we seek merely swollen, slothful ease and ignoble peace, if we shrink from the hard contests where men must win at the hazard of… — Theodore Roosevelt
You might prove doctrine from the Bible till doomsday, and it would merely convince a people, but would not convert them. You might read the… — Brigham Young
God in His answers to prayer often says "Yes." Sometimes He says "Wait." Often He says "No." In any case, His will is done, and… — Norman Vincent Peale
After you have made a decision that is pleasing to God, the Devil may try to make you have second thoughts. Intensify your prayer time,… — Ignatius Loyola
The Bible is not merely a book-it is a living power. . . . Nowhere as in the Bible can be found such a series… — Napoleon Bonaparte

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