Best Merely Quotes to Inspire, Uplift & Motivate You Every Day

“I am merely doing my best to represent the Philippines in weightlifting.”

“I keep traveling regularly, whether it's for my work life or merely a break from my work life.”

“Nothing in life is without cause and effect. Nothing is merely a shell. Everything has some motive.”

“Some plants become weeds simply by virtue of their success rather than any other factor. You merely want less of them.”

“School teaches us more than merely the three Rs. It teaches us about life: how to get along with other people, follow rules and prepare for the world of work and adult responsibilities.”

“I am of the opinion that even if my role is merely 10 minutes long, it needs to leave an impact on the audiences.”

“There is a perception that anganwadis are merely places where food is provided to children.”

“Happiness is not merely a word. It is a state of mind.”

“When I say I don't get involved in politics, I merely mean that I don't talk to reporters about it.”

“The fact we exist merely means we exist. That's all it means.”

“We inculcate young people with the message that if they don't succeed, it is merely of their own doing. They should have worked harder, we say. They should have made better decisions. This message is especially present in communities of color.”

“I write my novels longhand. I love the feeling of writing; I love to see pen on paper. It feels more creative than typing, and it's a more visual process for me - I can picture the entire scene in my head and am merely writing what I see.”

“I'm merely a fan of fashion from high end to streetwear, from Nike to Comme des Garcons.”

“A sword in hand is a sure sign of a violent mind; but one does not become non-violent merely by throwing the sword away.”

“Merely slogans and statements will not remove poverty.”

“Fashion is not style, but merely an outlet to showcase our unique personal styles.”

“For Obama, 'rule of law' is merely his political silly-putty.”

“And now there is merely silence, silence, silence, saying all we did not know.”

“Freedom is not won by merely overthrowing a tyrannical ruler or an oppressive regime. That is usually only the prelude to a new tyranny, a new oppression.”

“True philosophy invents nothing; it merely establishes and describes what is.”

“I have a passion to make something that's good, not merely OK.”

“They are more human and more brotherly towards one another, it seems to me, than we are. But perhaps that is merely because they feel themselves to be more unfortunate than us.”

“A theoretical system does not merely state facts which have been observed and that logically deducible relations to other facts which have also been observed.”

“Children with Hyacinth's temperament don't know better as they grow older; they merely know more.”

“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.”

“Our first remark on this subject is that the ministry is an office, and not merely a work.”

“I'm an optimist about NAFTA merely being updated.”

“My time is much too precious to be wasted on people who merely want to talk about being a high performance person and can't or won't take action!”

“I look askance at any movement which assists in making the peacemaker among nations merely a national warrior.”

“Oddly, for a book to do well merely because people like it is surprisingly rare.”

“'Humanity' is a name not merely for a species but also for a quality.”

“In physics, to be in two places at the same time would be a miracle; in politics it seems not merely normal, but natural.”

“The Public is merely a multiplied 'me.'”

“Many who think they are workers in politics are really merely tools.”

“I have never written for an audience. On the other hand I do not write merely to please myself.”

“I am well-nigh resolv'd to write no more tales but merely to dream when I have a mind to, not stopping to do anything so vulgar as to set down the dream for a boarish Publick.”

“I seem to have been possessed by a mind of my own and I did not merely want to be a pop product, but I wanted to be an artist which was always my ambition.”

“Public behavior is merely private character writ large.”

“God made man merely to hear some praise of what he'd done on those Five Days.”

“How is it possible to defame Trump? When Secretary of State Rex Tillerson called the president a 'moron,' was that defamatory or merely the prosaic truth?”

“Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.”

“Knowledge fills a large brain; it merely inflates a small one.”

“What humanity needs today is not merely philosophy or theology, but a message or reassurance.”

“We are merely the stars tennis-balls, struck and bandied which way please them.”

“Nothing comes merely by thinking about it.”

“If tolerance is the best we can do in this moment, then by all means let's be tolerant. But by stopping there, by merely tolerating each other, we miss so much.”

“I did not write it. God wrote it. I merely did his dictation.”

“Many people lose their tempers merely from seeing you keep yours.”

“Wear your learning like your watch, in a private pocket; and do not pull it out, and strike it, merely to show that you have one.”

“I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.”

“I'm merely trying to be something akin to a nice, kind, good actress.”