A Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with A. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Ask yourself, if they getting married, would you be upset if you weren't invited? If the answer is no, then that's an easy name to cross off your list.”
Source: Don't Tell the Boss
“Ask yourself if you are in this for the long run-if it's only your weight you want to change or if you are willing to use your eating patterns as a portal to the inner universe. And if the answer is the latter, then there is no end to what you can learn, be, understand, become.”
“Ask yourself if you’re taking the time to see beyond the surface.”
Source: The Stress Solution: Using Empathy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to Reduce Anxiety and Develop Resilience
“Ask yourself if you would feel comfortable giving your two best friends a key to your house. If not, look for some new best friends.”
“Ask yourself if you would want your children to follow the same habits that you are currently following. If the answer is “no”, simply change your habit.”
Source: Master Your Skills To Succeed
“Ask yourself in the most silent hour of your night: must I write [create]? Dig into yourself for a deep answer.”
“Ask yourself is it right or wrong and act accordingly.”
“Ask yourself my love whether you are not very cruel to have so entrammelled me, so destroyed my freedom. Will you confess this in the Letter you must write immediately, and do all you can to console me in it — make it rich as a draught of poppies to intoxicate me —write the softest words and kiss them that I may at least touch my lips where yours have been. For myself I know not how to express my devotion to so fair a form: I want a brighter word than bright, a fairer word than fair.”
Source: Selected Letters
“Ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.”
“Ask yourself something. Have you ever thought about why guys want you gone the next day? It’s not because they’ve got things to do, though I’m sure there are a few assholes who think like that, either because they repeated the folly so often they learned to bury the guilt or because they didn’t have a conscience to begin with but, truthfully, it’s because they can’t stand to look at the reason they feel a hole in their chest. They don’t like reminders of who helped put that sick feeling in the pits of their stomachs. As long as they had a decent mama, the guilt is always substantial. Always. If they say differently, they’re liars." - Spencer Blackwell, GREED”
Source: Greed
“Ask yourself the question: If I don't do it, who will? If you find the answer is no one will do it, then do it yourself.”
Source: Letters to a Young Muslim
“Ask yourself the secret of your success. Listen to your answer, and practice it.”
“Ask yourself these three questions, Tatiana Metanova, and you will know who you are. Ask: What do believe in? What do you hope for? What do you love?”
“Ask yourself these three questions, Tatiana Metanova, and you will know who you are. Ask: what do you believe in? What do you hope for? But most important - ask: what do you love? ... I know who I am, she thought, taking his hand and turning to the altar. I am Tatiana. And I believe in, and hope for, and love Alexander for life.”
“Ask yourself these two questions: Do I remember at every moment that I am dying, and that everyone and everything else is, and so treat all beings at all times with compassion? Has my understanding of death and impermanence become so keen and so urgent that I am devoting every second to the pursuit of enlightenment? If you can answer "yes" to both of these, then you really understand impermanence.”
“Ask yourself this question CONSTANTLY: where can I add the most value to what matters most to me and the people who care about me?”
“Ask yourself this question every day: "How may I best serve the most people?"”
“Ask yourself this question everyday: What is it about me that other people would change if they could?”
“Ask yourself this question:
If my life is the same five years from now as it is today, would I be OK with that?
If the answer is no--or especially if the answer is hell no--then now is the time to do something about it.”
Source: Future Widow: Losing My Husband, Saving My Family, and Finding My Voice
“Ask yourself this question in the morning when you wake:
in a world of possibilities, today, what will you make?”
Source: Be a Maker
“Ask yourself this question: Of this had been a white child found dead in a black neighborhood, would they be knocking on every door? 'Yes, sir.' Searching high and low? 'Yes, indeed.' It this had been a white child, would they paint him as a sinner and not a saint? 'Lord, no...”
“Ask yourself this question, will this matter a year from now?”
“Ask yourself this question. Do we have to be humans forever? Consciousness is exhausted. Back now to inorganic matter. This is what we want. We want to be stones in a field.”
Source: Point Omega
“Ask yourself this: How much deprivation, how much self-effacement must you suffer through before you act on your desire for meaning and fulfillment? Before it’s your turn to thrive in your life, instead of barely surviving it? Some people live their dreams. Why not you?”
“Ask yourself this: If there was zero chance of failure, what would you do? Now, go do that.”
“Ask yourself throughout the course of each day, 'if this were my last day on earth, would I do anything differently?”
Source: Finding Parker
“Ask yourself to slow down.”
Source: Live Boldly: Cultivate the Qualities That Can Change Your Life
“Ask yourself what a man without guile might do to your body in the dark.”
Source: Terrorscape
“Ask yourself: what is it, that if I believed it down to my core, would change everything?”
Source: Live Your Truth
“Ask yourself what makes you come alive.”
“Ask yourself what problem you have right now. Not next year, tomorrow or five minutes from now. You can always cope with the now, but you can never cope with the future. Nor do you have to. The answer, the strength and the right action will be there when you need it. Not before or after.”
“Ask yourself what you could do to make situations less difficult. Do it, even if you think you shouldn't have to.”
“Ask yourself what you will care about when everything is on the line.”
Source: Life on the Edge: The Next Generation's Guide to a Meaningful Future
“Ask yourself what you would do even if you were never paid. That’s a clue to what you should be doing and of course finding a way to be paid for it.”
“Ask yourself whether our language is complete--whether it was so before the symbolism of chemistry and the notation of the infinitesimal calculus were incorporated in it; for these are, so to speak, suburbs of our language. (And how many houses or streets does it take before a town begins to be a town?) Our language can be seen as an ancient city: a maze of little streets and squares, of old and new houses, and of houses with additions from various periods; and this surrounded by a multitude of new boroughs with straight regular streets and uniform houses.”
“Ask yourself whether the dream of heaven and greatness should be waiting for us in our graves - or whether it should be ours here and now and on this earth.”
Source: Ayn Rand Novel Collection
“Ask yourself whether you are happy and you cease to be so. The only chance is to treat not happiness, but some end external to it, as the purpose of life.”
Source: Autobiography of J.S. Mill & on Liberty; Characteristics, Inaugural Address at Edinburgh & Sir Walter Scott
“Ask yourself whether you are happy', observed the philosopher John Stuart Mill, 'and you cease to be so.' At best, it would appear, happiness can only be glimpsed out of the corner of an eye, not stared at directly.”
“Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you cease to be so.”
“Ask yourself whether you have earned the right to have an opinion. Opinions are easy to produce, so bad ones abound. Knowing that you don't know something is nearly as valuable as knowing it. The worst situation is thinking you know something when you don't.”
“ASK YOURSELF: Who are the people you are drawn to who bring out the best in you? How do they make you feel? Is your positive energy doing the same thing for others?”
Source: The Art of Body Language: 8 Ways to Optimize Non-Verbal Communication for Positive Impact
“Ask yourself who you don't see and understand why you don't see them and understand how important attention is for them. We use attention as a way to arm ourselves against the invisibility that patriarchy wants to impose on us.”
Source: The Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls
“Ask yourself why the question you chose seemed important. Then ask why the reason you just gave is important. and so on.”
Source: Questions Are the Answer: A Breakthrough Approach to Your Most Vexing Problems at Work and in Life
“Ask yourself why totalitarian dictatorships find it necessary to pour money and effort into propaganda for their own helpless, chained, gagged slaves, who have no means of protest or defense. The answer is that even the humblest peasant or the lowest savage would rise in blind rebellion, were he to realize that he is being immolated, not to some incomprehensible noble purpose, but to plain, naked human evil.”
Source: Ayn Rand Reader
“ASK YOURSELF: Your closest friends want to know all about the details of your life and want to hear what is happening in your life. How can you be that type of person for others?”
Source: The Art of Connection: 8 Ways to Enrich Rapport & Kinship for Positive Impact
“Ask yourself, "How are my thoughts, words and deeds affecting my friends, my spouse, my neighbour, my child, my employer, my subordinates, my fellow citizens?"”
“Ask yourself, "Is there anything in my life that is causing me to feel a sense of unease, discomfort, or pain?" You can choose a persistent issue that has bothered you for years, or it may be something that has recently come up for you. While it's fine to focus on a chronic, physical disorder, don't approach this exercise as a cure - we're focusing on patterns of perception that encourage us to hold onto suffering.”
“Ask yourself, "When does this decision have to be taken?" and having answered it, defer the decision until then, in order to give yourself maximum pondering time.”
“Ask yourself, "Why do I want to be in shape?" and write all ... Put your list everywhere to constantly remind yourself why you're doing what you're doing and how your life will improve by becoming fitter.”
“Ask yourself, 'how long am I going to work to make my dreams come true?' I suggest you answer, 'as long as it takes.'”
Source: 7 Strategies for Wealth & Happiness: Power Ideas from America's Foremost Business Philosopher