65 Lone Quotes On Success In Life
These lone quotes will inspire you. Lone, having no company, solitary or single, or lacking the support of others; isolated.
A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging lone quotes, lone sayings, and lone proverbs.
Best Lone Quotes
- “We are the music-makers, And we are the dreamers of dreams, Wandering by lone sea-breakers, And sitting by desolate streams. World-losers and world-forsakers, Upon whom the pale moon gleams; Yet we are the movers and shakers, Of the world forever, it seems.” ~ Arthur O’Shaughnessy
- “Anything in life worth doing is worth overdoing. Moderation is for cowards.” ~ Seal
- “When the snows fall and the white winds blow, the lone wolf dies but the pack survives.” ~ George R. R. Martin
- “There’s a storm inside of us. I’ve heard many team guys speak of this. A burning. A river. A drive.” ~ Marcus Luttrell
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“There come a time, when good man must wear mask.” ~ Johnny Depp
- “A sentence starts out like a lone traveler heading into a blizzard at midnight, tilting into the wind, one arm shielding his face, the tails of his thin coat flapping behind him.” ~ Billy Collins
- “The wolves knew when it was time to stop looking for what they’d lost, to focus instead on what was yet to come.” ~ Jodi Picoult
- “I guess I’m pretty much of a lone wolf. I don’t say I don’t like people at all, but, to tell you the truth, I only like it then if I have a chance to look deep into their hearts and their minds.” ~ Bela Lugosi
- “Pray, always pray; beneath sins heaviest load, Prayer claims the blood from Jesus’ side that flowed. Pray, always pray; though weary, faint, and lone, Prayer nestles by the Father’s sheltering throne.” ~ A. B. Simpson
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“Lone women, like to empty houses, perish.” ~ Christopher Marlowe
- “It’s hard to deny that an alarming number of those who stood for peace, not war, were either killed by deranged lone gunmen or else died in suspicious circumstances. We refer of course to the likes of JFK, Martin Luther King, Benazir Bhutto, Bobby Kennedy and John Lennon, to name but a few.” ~ James Morcan
- “The cat will keep his side of the bargain. He will kill mice, and he will be kind to babies when he is in the house, just so long as they do not pull his tail too hard. But when he has done that, and between times, and when the moon gets up and night comes, he is the Cat that walks by himself, and all places are alike to him. Then he goes out to the Wet Wild Woods or up on the Wet Wild trees or on the Wet Wild roofs, waving his wild tail and walking by his wild lone.” ~ Rudyard Kipling
- “Miss Abigail, I want to be an author because writers know when a person is lonely. I mean, when Molly read me some books, those writers reached out and said, Look Gideon, we know about your loneliness and we know you’re feeling downtrodden. And they said…I’ll stand up for you. You’re not lone anymore.” ~ Leon Uris
- “If you really care about starting a movement, have the courage to follow and show others how to follow. And when you find a lone nut doing something great, have the guts to be the first one to stand up and join in.” ~ Derek Sivers
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“Jeff Sessions is the lone voice in the Senate.” ~ Rush Limbaugh
- “We’re going to make that Lone Star shine again.” ~ Kinky Friedman
- “Somewhere there waiteth in this world of ours For one lone soul another lonely soul, Each choosing each through all the weary hours, And meeting strangely at one sudden goal, Then blend they, like green leaves with golden flowers, Into one beautiful and perfect whole; And life’s long night is ended, and the way Lies open onward to eternal day.” ~ Edwin Arnold , Lone quotes life
- “Truth occurs in unusual places. Sometimes it’s in the frozen food section of the supermarket, sometimes it appears while you are waiting for your car to be fixed, sometimes you see it while in bed with someone you love, sometimes you find it while you’re meditating on a lone mountain.” ~ Frederick Lenz
- “The role that I play as a lone striker, I enjoy it and particularly playing with great players.” ~ Jermain Defoe
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“We are very definitely in a new phase in the global terrorist threat where the so-called lone wolf could strike at any moment.” ~ Jeh Johnson
- “Never was isle so little, never was sea so lone,
But over the scud and the palm-trees an English flag was flown.” ~ Rudyard Kipling - “When we think of his lone effort to live and its bleak reward, the mind turns to the myth “for His mercy endureth forever,” with confiding revulsion.” ~ Emily Dickinson
- “I have been thinking more and more that I shall always be a lone wanderer of the wilderness. God, how the trail lures me. You cannot comprehend its resistless fascination for me. After all, the lone trail is bestI’ll never stop wandering. And when the time comes to die, I’ll find the wildest, loneliest, most desolate spot there is.” ~ Everett Ruess
- “Swiftly walk o’er the western wave, Spirit of Night! Out of the misty eastern cave, Where, all the long and lone daylight, Thou wovest dreams of joyand fear, Which make thee terrible and dear, Swift be thy flight!” ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
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“While obsessive behavior may be an antisocial plague to societies and communities at large, it’s total moxie when lone practitioners catch it.” ~ Robert Genn
- “Not the swart Pariah in some Indian grove, Lone, lean, and hunted by his brother’s hate, Hath drunk so deep the cup of bitter fate As that poor wretch who cannot, cannot love: He bears a load which nothing can remove, A killing, withering weight.” ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
- “If it’s true what is said, that only the wise discover the wise, then it must also be true that the lone wolf symbolizes either the biggest fool on the planet or the biggest Einstein on the planet.” ~ Criss Jami
- “Cities of mortals woe-begone Fantastic care derides, But in the serious landscape lone Stern benefit abides.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “The wild bird that flies so lone and far has somewhere its nest and brood. A little fluttering heart of love impels its wings, and points its course. There is nothing so solitary as a solitary man.” ~ Edwin Hubbel Chapin
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“Life is a lone wolf, scratching out a living with teeth and claws and a heart of stone.” ~ Dan Wells
- “And it may be that a crowd at a particular moment of history creates the object to justify its gathering, as it did at the first Human Be-In and Monterey Pop and Woodstock. Or it may be that two generations of war and surveillance had left people craving the embodiment of their own unease in the form of a lone, unsteady man on a slide guitar.” ~ Jennifer Egan
- “Once in the dream of a night I stood
Lone in the light of a magical wood,
Soul-deep in visions that poppy-like sprang;
And spirits of Truth were the birds that sang,
And spirits of Love were the stars that glowed,
And spirits of Peace were the streams that flowed
In that magical wood in the land of sleep.” ~ Sarojini Naidu - “The privilege against self-incrimination is one of the great landmarks in man’s struggle to make himself civilized… The Fifth is a lone sure rock in time of storm … a symbol of the ultimate moral sense of the community, upholding the best in us.” ~ Erwin Griswold
- “There’s a book that I read, really a great book – it’s called ‘Lone Survivor’ and I think they’re trying to make it into a movie. I would love to play Marcus Luttrell, who was the author and the ‘lone survivor.’ He’s a national hero; he’s very courageous and heroic in insurmountable danger, so it’s something I’d love to explore.” ~ Jared Padalecki
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“The first actor I ever saw was The Lone Ranger. I thought: “That’s what I want to do.”” ~ Michael Caine
- “The trails of the world be countless, and most of the trails be tried; You tread on the heels of the many, till you come where the ways divide;And one lies safe in the sunlight, and the other is dreary and wan,But you look aslant at the Lone Trail, and the Lone Trail lures you on.” ~ Robert W. Service
- “There is scarce a cave, an isolated rock, a lone pine tree or a pile of stones without supporting folklore.” ~ John Hillaby
- “My life is like a lone, forgotten Q-Tip in the second-to-last drawer.” ~ Carrie Fisher
- “This was not an attack by a mentally deranged, lone-wolf gunman. This was not an ‘un-Islamic’ attack by a bunch of thugs – the perpetrators could be heard shouting that they were avenging the Prophet Muhammad. Nor was it spontaneous. It was planned to inflict maximum damage, during a staff meeting, with automatic weapons and a getaway plan. It was designed to sow terror, and in that it has worked.” ~ Ayaan Hirsi Ali
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“I cannot keep quiet even when I am a lone voice.” ~ Mahathir Mohamad
- “A beam of God’s countenance is enough to fill the heart of a believer to overflowing. It is enough to light up the pale cheek of a dying saint with seraphic brightness, and make the heart of the lone widow sing for joy.” ~ Robert Murray M’Cheyne
- “The hostility of this landscape teaches me how to be quiet and unobtrusive, how to find grace among spiders with a poisonous bite. I sat on a lone boulder in the midst of the curlews. By now, they had grown accustomed to me. This too, I found encouraging-that in the face of stressful intrusions, we can eventually settle in. One begins to almost trust the intruder as a presence that demands greater intent toward life. On a day like today when the air is dry and smells of salt, I have found my open space, my solitude, and sky. And I have found the birds who require it.” ~ Terry Tempest Williams
- “A person who is in the elements of his own is often
thrown to a situation to be shown all alone; and people who aren’t may
be in a position seen by all, but they are often unknown to be utterly
lone.” ~ Anuj - “I did ‘Lone Star Love’ in 2007 with Randy Quaid, and that was supposed to come to Broadway at the Belasco and a marquee went up and everything… and it all fell apart, and that marquee came right down, and we got severance pay. And, it was very sad.” ~ Kara Lindsay
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“A vampire victim. I’d never seen a lone kill. They were like potato chips; once a vamp tasted them, he couldn’t stop at just one.” ~ Laurell K. Hamilton
- “We may say that a basic substance is one which has a lone pair of electrons which may be used to complete the stable group of another atom, and that an acid is one which can employ a lone pair from another molecule in completing the stable group of one of its own atoms.” ~ Gilbert N. Lewis
- “Nine years ago on September 14, 2001, I placed the lone vote against the ‘Authorization for Use of Military Force’ – an authorization that I knew would provide a blank check to wage war anywhere, at any time, and for any length.” ~ Barbara Lee
- “My aunt could not have been the lone romantic who gave up everything for sex. Women in the old China did not choose. Some man had commanded her to lie with him and be his secret evil.” ~ Maxine Hong Kingston
- “Beneath our feet a fairy pathway flows, The grass still glitters in the summer breeze, The dusky wood, and distant copse appear, And that lone stream, upon whose chequerd face We mused, when noon-rays made the pebbles gleam, Is mirrord to the mind: though all around Be rattling hoofs and roaring wheels, the eye Is wandring where the heart delights to dwell.” ~ Robert Montgomery
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“Well the Lone Ranger and Tonto, they are riding down the line fixing everybody’s troubles, everybody except mine.” ~ Bob Dylan
- “Lovely are the curves of the white owl sweeping
Wavy in the dusk lit by one large star.
Lone on the fir-branch, his rattle-note unvaried,
Brooding o’er the gloom, spins the brown eve-jar.” ~ George Meredith - “[He] would drive his sculling boat through mile after mile, in a silent brutal programe of conditioning – he would work all alone, at first light, punishing himself without mercy. His was the private dignity of the lone athlete, with a grim purpose, fighting a solitary war with himself, toward a goal only he can see.” ~ Daniel Topolski
- “I often felt myself the lone voice in discussions suggesting that basic democratic principles be followed. I recommended that not only should workers’ voices be heard, but they should actually have a seat at the table. You have the old boys’ club discussing how the old boys’ club should be reformed.” ~ Joseph Stiglitz
- “Seven years after becoming a lone parent, I feel qualified to look anyone in the eye and say that people bringing up children single-handedly deserve, not condemnation, but congratulation.” ~ J. K. Rowling
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“An actress wants to be seen. An actress wants to be loved. By multitudes of people, not just one lone man.” ~ Joyce Carol Oates
- “I have always played a lone hand. It is the way my mind works. I have to do my own seeing and my own thinking. But I can tell you that after the market began to go my way I felt for the first time in my life that I had allies – the strongest and truest in the world: underlying conditions. They were helping me with all their might.” ~ Jesse Lauriston Livermore
- “Bloggers and other flavors of lone wolf are publishing heart-wrenching photo-essays from the front line of the recovery effort. Newspapers and TV networks? They’re writing about the temperature of the water in some part (they don’t specify which) of some damaged reactor, illustrating it with video screen grabs of machinery they don’t understand enough to explain.” ~ Tim Bray
- “In excited conversation we have glimpses of the universe, hints of power native to the soul, far-darting lights and shadows of an Andes landscape, such as we can hardly attain in lone meditation. Here are oracles sometimes profusely given, to which the memory goes back in barren hours.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “We are now at a point where because we in fact have been successful at stopping a number of plots, a threat has evolved. We do see these lone-wolf actors. We do see these encouragements for troubled individuals to pick up a gun and act out of this ideology.” ~ Barack Obama
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“Since I left Chicago, I’m a lone wolf. I put on the record player and sit and try to play on the guitar. I’ve got five guitars here and can’t play them, but I’m always whompin’ around.” ~ James Cotton
- “We have come from a time of the large-scale, planned, Al Qaeda-style attacks, to the encouragement of lone wolves: Fort Hood, Chattanooga. To the encouragement of people to act on their own.” ~ Barack Obama
- “We know that ISIL and other terrorist groups are actively encouraging people, around the world and in our country, to commit terrible acts of violence, oftentimes as lone-wolf actors.” ~ Barack Obama
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“ISIL videos, ISIL training videos are telling lone wolves the easiest way to cut by a combat assault weapon in America is at a gun show, because of the flip-flopping political approach of Washington.” ~ Hillary Clinton
- “Virtually every advancement made by our species since civilization first peeked out of its nest of stone has been initiated by lone individuals, mavericks who more often than not were ignored, mocked, or viciously persecuted by society and its institutions.” ~ Tom Robbins
- “What smells strongly of crap to one generation – Victorian penny dreadfuls, the music of the Archies, the Lone Ranger radio show, blaxploitation films of the seventies – so often becomes a fruitful source of inspiration, veneration, and study for those to come, while certified Great and Worthy Art molders and fades on its storage rack, giving off an increasingly powerful whiff of naphthalene.” ~ Michael Chabon
