Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.
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

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

Most people who succeed in the face of seemingly impossible conditions are people who simply don't know how to quit.
Robert H. Schuller

What appears to be the end of the road may simply be a bend in the road.
Robert H. Schuller

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

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

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

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

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

The man who has begun to live more seriously within begins to live more simply without.
Ernest Hemingway

I've tried to reduce profanity but I reduced so much profanity when writing the book that I'm afraid not much could come out. Perhaps we will have to consider it simply as a profane book and hope that the next book will be less profane or perhaps more sacred.
Ernest Hemingway

For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.
Ernest Hemingway

Cowardice... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination.
Ernest Hemingway

Failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.
Jim Rohn

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

Successful people are simply those with successful habits.
Brian Tracy

Your decision to be, have and do something out of ordinary entails facing difficulties that are out of the ordinary as well. Sometimes your greatest asset is simply your ability to stay with it longer than anyone else.
Brian Tracy

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

A sportsman is a man who every now and then, simply has to get out and kill something.
Stephen Leacock