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Your present circumstances don't determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start.
Nido Qubein

Start, Present, Determine

All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages.
William Shakespeare

Time, Women, Men

A 'No' uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.
Mahatma Gandhi

Trouble, Worse, Avoid

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.
John Wooden

Character, Others, While

We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence of the good people.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Good, Bad, Silence

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
Albert Einstein

Reality, Illusion, Persistent

Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Peace, Goal, Means

We who in engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface the hidden tension that is already alive.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Alive, Action, Bring

We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war but the postive affirmation of peace.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Peace, War, Negative

The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
Albert Einstein

Made, Problem, Energy

For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.
Nelson Mandela

Freedom, Live, Free

Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.
Mark Twain

Wrinkles, Smiles, Indicate

The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.
Mark Twain

History, Written, Prejudice

Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid.
Mark Twain

Nothing, Often, She

The Public is merely a multiplied 'me.'
Mark Twain

Public, Multiplied

Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.
Albert Camus

Energy, Nobody, Normal

Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief.
C. S. Lewis

Live, Thinking, Living

The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.
William Shakespeare

Dream, Shadow, Ambitious

Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
Oscar Wilde

America, After, Perhaps

I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy.
Oscar Wilde

Society, Simply, Tragedy

The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.
Oprah Winfrey

Change, Time, Attitude

Money and success don't change people; they merely amplify what is already there.
Will Smith

Success, Change, Money

Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.
Samuel Ullman

May, Give, Living

We often refuse to accept an idea merely because the tone of voice in which it has been expressed is unsympathetic to us.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Often, Accept, Idea

The first test of a truly great man is his humility. By humility I don't mean doubt of his powers or hesitation in speaking his opinion, but merely an understanding of the relationship of what he can say and what he can do.
John Ruskin

Great, Mean, Doubt

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure , the process is its own reward.
Amelia Earhart

Life, Change, Decision

Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Nature, Truth, Art

A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite.
Leo Tolstoy

Life, Food, Live

The Artist is he who detects and applies the law from observation of the works of Genius, whether of man or Nature. The Artisan is he who merely applies the rules which others have detected.
Henry David Thoreau

Nature, Law, Others

The language of excitement is at best picturesque merely. You must be calm before you can utter oracles.
Henry David Thoreau

Best, Before, Calm

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