Simply Quotes
Sad Quotes about Simply

Simply do your best, and you will avoid
self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.
- don Miguel Ruiz

Morality is simply the attitude we adopt
towards people whom we personally dislike.
- Oscar Wilde

To fall in love is awfully simple,
but to fall out of love is simply awful.
- Bess Myerson

I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation
of confusion, misery and death...
I think... peace and tranquillity will return again.
- Anne Frank

Be simply yourself and don't compare or compete.
- Lao Tzu

Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.
- Mel Brooks

Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people
by the people for the people.
- Oscar Wilde

Some days are simply meant for playing.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

In spite of everything, I still believe
that people are really good at heart.
I simply can't build up my hopes on a foundation
consisting of confusion, misery and death.
- Anne Frank

Our Joy comes from living our own lives simply -
never from demanding that others live simply -
or from ever making any demands whatsoever upon others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Most people don't CHOOSE their value system -
they simply inherit the beliefs of their parents and community.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Aim above morality.
Be not simply good,
be good for something.
- Henry David Thoreau

Could you risk believing that everything
will unfold just fine if you completely let go
of all concern about everything else,
and simply are here, now - if only for a moment?
- Dmitri Bilgere

The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.
- Henry David Thoreau

Simply put, you believe that things
or people make you unhappy,
but this is not accurate.
You make yourself unhappy.
- Wayne Dyer

Good for who? Good for what?
There is no absolute "good."
"Good" is simply one person's preference.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Many a man fails as an original thinker
simply because his memory is too good.
- Nietzsche

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds,
adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.
With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. -
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Good manners sometimes means simply
putting up with other people's bad manners.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

If the person you are talking to doesn't appear to be listening, be patient.
It may simply be that he has a small piece of fluff in his ear.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)

Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl
is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.
- Albert Einstein

When you are content to be simply yourself
and don't compare or compete,
everybody will respect you.
- Lao Tzu

Everything deep is also simple
and can be reproduced simply
as long as its reference
to the whole truth is maintained.
But what matters is not what is witty
but what is true.
- Albert Schweitzer

The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive,
but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer.
- Arnold Schwarzenegger

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
- Oscar Wilde

Nurturing is not complex.
It's simply being tuned in to the thing or person before you
and offering small gestures toward what it needs at that time.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend.
I have no wealth to bestow on him.
If he knows that I am happy in loving him, he will want no other reward.
Is not friendship divine in this?
- Henry David Thoreau

Do not be too moral.
You may cheat yourself out of much life.
So aim above morality.
Be not simply good;
be good for something.
- Henry David Thoreau

Successful people are simply those with successful habits.
- Brian Tracy

Self-disciplined begins with the mastery of your thoughts.
If you don't control what you think,
you can't control what you do.
Simply, self-discipline enables you
to think first and act afterward.
- Napoleon Hill

Simply see that you are at the center of the universe,
and accept all things and beings
as parts of your infinite body.
When you perceive that an act done to another
is done to yourself,
you have understood the great truth.
- Lao Tzu

Marriage is neither heaven nor hell,
it is simply purgatory.
- Abraham Lincoln

The most central ingredient in the recipe
for living Simply An Inspired Life
is to Make Joyful CHOICES.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

People are not lazy.
They simply have impotent goals -
that is, goals that do not inspire them.
- Tony Robbins

In order to fly, all one must do is simply miss the ground.
- Douglas Adams

Science is simply common sense at its best,
that is, rigidly accurate in observation,
and merciless to fallacy in logic.
- Thomas Huxley

Don't simply retire from something; have something to retire to.
- Harry Emerson Fosdick

We didn't actually overspend our budget.
The health Commission allocation simply fell short of our expenditure.
- Frank Howard Clark

The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born -
that there is a genetic factor to leadership.
This myth asserts that people simply either
have certain charismatic qualities or not.
That's nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true.
Leaders are made rather than born.
- Warren G. Bennis

What most persons consider as virtue,
after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.
- Voltaire

Failure does not exist.
Failure is simply someone else's opinion of how
a certain act should have been completed.
Once you believe that no act must be performed
in any specific other-directed way,
then failing becomes impossible.
- Wayne Dyer

If you can't explain it simply,
you don't understand it well enough.
- Albert Einstein

Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes
from one generation to another.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton

We all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words.
- John Fowles

Without initiative, leaders are simply workers in leadership positions.
- Bo Bennett

Any informed borrower is simply less vulnerable to fraud and abuse.
- Alan Greenspan

Some men are alive simply because it is against the law to kill them.
- Edward W. Howe

The greatest battle of all is simply... Life.
This is no child's game. This is the big one -
the Super Bowl - the Game of all games.
The rules of Life are unwritten and unknown.
Perhaps, one could say that there are no rules.
The Judge has ultimate power.
She can call the game at any time - for any reason.
The penalties in the Game are completely arbitrary -
in both timing and severity.
Penalty for what, we ask?
The Judge is silent.
How can I win the Game?
"You can never win," comes the answer,
"So just take pleasure in playing the Game."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.
- Peter Ustinov

Prayer is simply a two-way conversation between you and God.
- Billy Graham

There is only one boss.
The customer.
And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down,
simply by spending his money somewhere else.
- Sam Walton

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again,
this time more intelligently.
- Henry Ford

Food simply isn't important to me.
- Alice Paul

Love is simply the name for the desire and the pursuit of the whole.
- Aristophanes

A mistake is simply another way of doing things.
- Katharine Graham

Ecstasy is our very nature;
not to be ecstatic is simply unnecessary.
To be ecstatic is natural, spontaneous.
It needs no effort to be ecstatic,
it needs great effort to be miserable.
That's why you look to tired,
because misery is really hard work;
to maintain it is really difficult,
because you are doing something against nature.
- Osho

Success is simply a matter of luck.
Ask any failure.
- Earl Wilson

If nothing else, we simply get used to being alive.
- Doug Coupland

All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud,
fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
- Edgar Allan Poe

To judge from the notions expounded by theologians,
one must conclude that God created most men simply
with a view to crowding hell.
- Marquis de Sade

She would sit by herself in the middle of the old stoe amphitheatre,
with the sky's starry vault overhead,
and simply listen to the great silence around her.
- Michael Ende

Androgyny is not trying to manage the relationship between the opposites;
it is simply flowing between them.
- June Singer

If money help a man to do good to others,
it is of some value; but if not, it is simply a mass of evil,
and the sooner it is got rid of, the better.
- Swami Vivekananda

Happiness is not a brilliant climax to years of grim struggle and anxiety.
It is a long succession of little decisions simply
to be happy in the moment.
- J. Donald Walters

It is simply the truth that the political system that
I am part of has degenerated to the point that it needs fundamental change.
- Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

When I started writing this, I found that I simply
couldn't take fantasy seriously,
so it became humorous, and continued from there.
- Piers Anthony

Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected
talents and capacities simply by being given the opportunity to do so.
- Doris Lessing

I'd like to know what law is it that says that a woman is a better parent,
simply by virtue of her sex.
- Robert Benton

It seems some have chosen to ignore or have simply
forgotten the big-picture vision promoted by Dr. King and his kin.
- Al Sharpton

For the parents of a Little Leaguer,
a baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown into innings.
- Earl Wilson

I believe the right question to ask,
respecting all ornament,
is simply this; was it done with enjoyment,
was the carver happy while he was about it?
- John Ruskin