The goal is to rise spiritually, not simply to avoid sin. Paisios of Mount Athos
For me life is continuously being hungry. The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer. Arnold Schwarzenegger
Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something. Henry David Thoreau
The truth is not simply what you think it is it is also the circumstances in which it is said, and to whom, why, and how it is said. Václav Havel
An ambassador is not simply an agent; he is also a spectacle. Walter Bagehot
Life consists not simply in what heredity and environment do to us but in what we make out of what they do to us. Harry Emerson Fosdick