I like to be against the odds. I'm not afraid to be lonely at the top. With me, it's just the satisfaction of the game. Just performance. — Barry Bonds
If I am a legend, then why am I so lonely? — Judy Garland
The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely. — Lorraine Hansberry
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 E. Marcos
Only the lonely know the way I feel tonight. — Roy Orbison
The loneliest feeling in the world is when you think you are leading the parade and turn to find that no one is following you. No president who badly misguesses public opinion will last very long. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
I was always a lonely person when I was with everyone. — Ernest Hemingway
All great and precious things are lonely. — John Steinbeck
The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
I am a lover without a lover. I am lovely and lonely and I belong deeply to myself. — Warsan Shire
I go in solitude, so as not to drink out of everybody's cistern. When I am among the many I live as the many do, and I do not think I really think; after a time it always seems as if they want to banish myself from myself and rob me of my soul. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Sometimes the smallest step in the right direction ends up being the biggest step of your life. Tip top if you must, but take the step.
Music means communication to me. I say 'listen you people out there, listen to my music, let's be one.' Music is a friend to me when I am lonely, when I am blue. You can't define music 'cause music is cosmos and it knows no barrier or definition. You have to feel music to dig it. — Robert Plant
I cannot keep quiet even when I am a lone voice. — Mahathir Mohamad
Why do people have to be this lonely? What's the point of it all? Millions of people in this world, all of them yearning, looking to others to satisfy them, yet isolating themselves. Why? Was the earth put here just to nourish human loneliness? — Haruki Murakami
Loneliness does not come from having no people around you, but from being unable to communicate the things that seen important to you.
I am never lonely when I am reading the Bible. Nothing dissolves loneliness like a session with God's Word. — Billy Graham
I am truly a "lone traveler" and have never belonged to my country, my home, my friends, or even my immediate family, with my whole heart. — Albert Einstein
Yes, I guess you could say I am a loner, but I feel more lonely in a crowed room with boring people than I feel on my own. — Henry Rollins
Two possibilities exist: Either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying. — Arthur C. Clarke
Lonely Quotes
The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself. — Friedrich Nietzsche
The first great thing is to find yourself and for that you need solitude and contemplation - at least sometimes. I can tell you deliverance will not come from the rushing noisy centers of civilization. It will come from the lonely places. — Fridtjof Nansen
Great eagles fly alone; great lions hunt alone; great souls walk alone-alone with God. Such loneliness is hard to endure, and impossible to enjoy unless God accompanied. Prophets are lone men; they walk alone, pray alone and God makes them alone. — Leonard Ravenhill
Alone and lonely is not the same thing.
I have the best roommates in the world! It creates a fun sense of family... and that's really important to me. Things can get so lonely without it. — Kristen Bell
Give me a flagon of red wine, a book of verses, a loaf of bread, and a little idleness. If with such store I might sit by thy dear side in some lonely place, I should deem myself happier than a king in his kingdom. — Omar Khayyam
Flee the country where a lone man holds all power: It is a nation of slaves. — Simon Bolivar
When you reach the top, keep climbing.
I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o'er vales and hills When all at once I saw a crowd A host of golden daffodils Beside the lake beneath the trees Fluttering and dancing in the breeze. — William Wordsworth
You sometimes think you want to disappear, but all you really want is to be found. — Kid Cudi
The cure for a lonely heart is to be alone with Jesus! — Joseph Prince
No price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Lone Quotes
If you're lonely when you're alone, you're in bad company. — Jean-Paul Sartre
Do not feel lonely on the road of righteousness Because of the fewness of the walkers on it. — Ali ibn Abi Talib
Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers. You can fill your life up with ideas and still go home lonely. All you really have that really matters are feelings. That's what music is to me.” – Janis Joplin — Janis Joplin
People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges.
The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be. — Anne Frank
Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty. — Mother Teresa
We are born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Everything in-between is a gift. — Yul Brynner
To be an effective criminal defense counsel, an attorney must be prepared to be demanding, outrageous, irreverent, blasphemous, a rogue, a renegade, and a hated, isolated, and lonely person - few love a spokesman for the despised and the damned. — Clarence Darrow
Over The Top Quotes
Success is not easy and I think everyone should know that hard work and perseverance and being open to giving back are so much more powerful than stepping all over people to get to the top. — Misty Copeland
Birds... scream at the top of their lungs in horrified hellish rage every morning at daybreak to warn us all of the truth. They know the truth. Screaming bloody murder all over the world in our ears, but sadly we don't speak bird. — Kurt Cobain
Someday I'll wish upon a star And wake up where the clouds Are far behind me Where troubles melt like lemon drops Away above the chimney tops that's where you'll find me — Eva Cassidy
Ability can take you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.
Unfortunately folks we gotta help the innocents and face the demons that have taken over. We gotta face it. Most of your top government people are child rapists, murdering scum. I've told you everything else, you've seen it come true. It's a pedophile army. — Alex Jones
I would expect, going to Hell, being surrounded by people that look and act like this guy - Sir Jimmy Savile. Obviously psychopathic eyes. If you saw this guy at the playground you would call the police. Just flaming scumbag. Just over the top, out of control, degenerate demon. — Alex Jones
I'm going to make him an offer he can't refuse. — Marlon Brando
Luxury must have that over-the-top attitude but be effortless at the same time, that's what feels chic to me. — Stefano Pilati
The only way we can guarantee our continued survival on earth is to recognise the importance of other non human life forms and stop pretending we're on top of some pyramid of domination over other beings. — Rod Coronado
There were four million people in the American Colonies and we had Jefferson and Franklin. Now we have over 200 million and the two top guys are Clinton and Dole. What can you draw from this? Darwin was wrong. — Mort Sahl
The climb is tough, but the view from the top is worth it.
I'm not afraid to be lonely at the top. — Barry Bonds
It's lonely at the top, so you better know why you are there. — John C. Maxwell
It's lonely on the top when there's no one on the bottom. — Rodney Dangerfield
A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top.
It's perfect. It's awesome. Every day is just filled with just wins. All we do is put wins in the record books. We win so radically in our underwear before our first cup of coffee, it's scary. People say it's lonely at the top, but I sure like the view. — Charlie Sheen
I am pleased with the race and happy with fourth position. It was a real shame for the team that Felipe had an issue at the start. It was a lonely race but the final 20 laps were very tough. Sebastian was quicker than me, and closed up behind very fast, but the fight was really good fun. I know a few tricks that can really help to defend and they all worked today, and I am delighted to come out on top today. — Valtteri Bottas
It's lonely at the top - if you don't like that, then you don't start a company. — Gary Vaynerchuk
People know who I am, but I'm feeling so lonely in the middle area, because I feel like I should be at the top. — SonReal
They say it's lonely at the top. It must be even lonelier at the tippy top. — Demetri Martin
At a time when it's possible for thirty people to stand on the top of Everest in one day, Antarctica still remains a remote, lonely and desolate continent. A place where it's possible to see the splendours and immensities of the natural world at its most dramatic and, what's more, witness them almost exactly as they were, long, long before human beings ever arrived on the surface of this planet. Long may it remain so. — David Attenborough
It's lonely at the top. Ninety-nine percent of people in the world are convinced they are incapable of achieving great things, so they aim for the mediocre. The level of competition is thus fiercest for "realistic" goals, paradoxically making them the most time-consuming and energy consuming. It is easier to raise $10,000,000 than it is $1,000,000. It is easier to pick up the one perfect 10 in the bar than the five 8s. — Tim Ferriss
There's a hole in the world like a great black pit and the vermin of the world inhabit it and its morals aren't worth what a pig could spit and it goes by the name of London. At the top of the hole sit the privileged few Making mock of the vermin in the lonely zoo turning beauty to filth and greed... I too have sailed the world and seen its wonders, for the cruelty of men is as wonderous as Peru but there's no place like London! — Stephen Sondheim
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