The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.
Salvador Dali

I'm sometimes scared of everything that has happened to us. We didn't think Desilu Productions would grow so big. We merely wanted to be together and have two children.
Lucille Ball

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

It is an open question whether any behavior based on fear of eternal punishment can be regarded as ethical or should be regarded as merely cowardly.
Margaret Mead

Age merely shows what children we remain.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Your belief in God is merely an escape from your monotonous, stupid and cruel life.
Jiddu Krishnamurti

Make every thought, every fact, that comes into your mind pay you a profit. Make it work and produce for you. Think of things not as they are but as they might be. Don't merely dream - but create!
Robert Collier

The secret of living a life of excellence is merely a matter of thinking thoughts of excellence. Really, it's a matter of programming our minds with the kind of information that will set us free.
Charles R. Swindoll

One can be a brother only in something. Where there is no tie that binds men, men are not united but merely lined up.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

The atom bomb was no "great decision." It was merely another powerful weapon in the arsenal of righteousness.
Harry S. Truman

It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.
Immanuel Kant

You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.
Woodrow Wilson

There is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a compact between men.
Epicurus

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

Better to illuminate than merely to shine, to deliver to others contemplated truths than merely to contemplate.
Saint Thomas Aquinas

You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.
Rabindranath Tagore

The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.
Rabindranath Tagore

Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good.
Calvin Coolidge

Every reader finds himself. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it possible for the reader to discern what, without this book, he would perhaps never have seen in himself.
Marcel Proust

Man can and must prevent the tragedy of famine in the future instead of merely trying with pious regret to salvage the human wreckage of the famine, as he has so often done in the past.
Norman Borlaug