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Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable. – Voltaire

Leadership is the other side of the coin of loneliness, and he who is a leader must always act alone. And acting alone, accept everything alone. – Ferdinand Marcos

Blood alone moves the wheels of history. – Martin Luther

What is uttered from the heart alone, Will win the hearts of others to your own. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

You are never so alone as when you are ill on stage. The most nightmarish feeling in the world is suddenly to feel like throwing up in front of four thousand people. – Judy Garland

Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces. – Marcel Proust

The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world. – Orison Swett Marden

We are not weak if we make a proper use of those means which the God of Nature has placed in our power… the battle, sir, is not to the strong alone it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave. – Patrick Henry

Even though I love solar and love wind, like most people do, I like the renewable sources, they alone are not going to get America energy independent. – Mitt Romney

There are two types of poor people, those who are poor together and those who are poor alone. The first are the true poor, the others are rich people out of luck. – Jean-Paul Sartre

Your most precious, valued possessions and your greatest powers are invisible and intangible. No one can take them. You, and you alone, can give them. You will receive abundance for your giving. – W. Clement Stone

I like the idea of being alone. I like the idea of often being alone in all aspects of my life. I like to feel lonely. I like to need things. – Robert Plant

People used what they called a telephone because they hated being close together and they were scared of being alone. – Chuck Palahniuk

If those committed to the quest fail, they will be forgiven. When lost, they will find another way. The moral imperative of humanism is the endeavor alone, whether successful or not, provided the effort is honorable and failure memorable. – E. O. Wilson

Faith, mighty faith, the promise sees, And looks to God alone Laughs at impossibilities, And cries it shall be done. – Charles Wesley

Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone. – Baltasar Gracian

I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable. – Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest in themselves. – Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

The more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware of your freedom to choose. – Thornton Wilder