B Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with B. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.”
Source: The Will to Believe : and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy
“Be not afraid of making mistakes, for most of the creativeness is just a mistake, and each mistake a masterpiece on its own.”
“Be not afraid of those trials which God may see fit to send upon thee. It is with the wind and the storm of tribulation that God, in the garner of the soul, separates the true wheat from the chaff. Always remember, therefore, that God comes to thee in thy sorrows as really as in thy joys. He lays low and He builds up. Thou wilt find thyself far from perfection if thou dost not find God in everything.”
“Be not afraid of whirlpools,
of strong winds, and murky waves.
Fear the creature that dwells
in the darkest depths,
the ice-shackled Kraken,
that threatens to surface
and your soul to keep.”
Source: Beneath the Surface
“Be not afraid to love.
Those who never love, do not know what love is.”
“Be not afraid! In admitting a creator, refuse not to examine his creation; and take not the assertions of creatures like yourselves, in place of the evidence of your senses and the conviction of your understanding.”
Source: Course of popular lectures; with 3 addresses on various public occasions, and a reply to the charges against the French reformers of 1789
“Be not afraid, though every stay
Should fail, or be removed away,
And thou be stript of all;
But lose thyself in that vast sea,
The ocean of the Deity,
And all they cares shall fall.
In death which is the most profound,
The purest life is always found;
Then, blindly, all forego!
He ne're shall find, who will not lose;
Who sinks from self, shall gain repose,
Which none but he can know.”
“Be not afraid. A kind life, a life of spirit, is fundamentally a life of courage-the courage simply to bring what you have, to bring who you are.”
“Be not afraid. God loves you & wants us to love one another as He loves us. As miserable, weak and sinful as we are, He loves us with an infinitely faithful love.”
“Be not an enemy of thy self.”
“Be not an insect of indifference, be the godzilla of zeal and deeds.”
Source: Operation Justice: To Make A Society That Needs No Law
“Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.”
“Be not another, if you can be yourself.”
“Be not arrogant when fortune smiles, or dejected when she frowns.”
“Be not as one that hath ten thousand years to live; death is nigh at hand: while thou livest, while thou hast time, be good.”
“Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes.”
Source: The Chinese classics with a translation, critical and exegetical notes: prolegomena and copious indexes
“Be not ashamed to confess that you have been in the wrong. It is but owning that you now have more sense than you had before, to see your error; more humility to acknowledge it; more grace to correct it.”
Source: Discourses on several important subjects. To which are added, 8 sermons preached at the lady Moyer's lecture, in the cathedral church of st. Paul, London
“Be not ashamed to have had wild days, but not to have sown your wild oats.”
“Be not ashamed women, ... You are the gates of the body, and you are the gates of the soul.”
Source: Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass
“Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many.”
“Be not be discourage by the rejections. Do not stop because of anxiety; stop because you are done with the mission! Be not be down by the susurrant call of the masses to stop, halt or abort your true purpose when you are convinced within your innermost man of how true your purpose is. A true purpose is mostly to a greater extent rejected, spat upon and seen as unworthy cause by the masses until they come to a later realization of how true it is to be accepted”
“Be not careless in deeds, nor confused in words, nor rambling in thought.”
“Be not cast down. If ye saw Him who is standing on the shore, holding out His arms to welcome you to land, ye would wade, not only through a sea of wrongs, but through hell itself to be with Him.”
Source: Letters of Samuel Rutherford: With a Sketch of His Life
“Be not caught by the cunning of those who appear in a disguise.”
“Be not cheap or mediocre in desiring.”
Source: A Walking Tour in Southern France: Ezra Pound Among the Troubadours
“Be not content with the best book; seek sidelights from the others; have no favourites.”
Source: Lectures on Modern History: Great Event
“Be not content with the common place in character anymore than with the commonplace in ambition or intellectual attainment. Do not expect that you will make any lasting or very strong impression on the world through intellectual power without the use of an equal amount of conscience and heart.”
“Be not dazzled by beauty, but look for those inward qualities which are lasting.”
“Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. —GALATIANS 6: 7”
“Be not deceived, GOOD company uncorrupts BAD characters.”
“Be not deceived, Wormwood, our cause is never more in jeopardy than when a human, no longer desiring but still intending to do our Enemy's will, looks round upon a universe in which every trace of Him seems to have vanished, and asks why he has been forsaken, and still obeys.”
Source: The Screwtape Letters
“Be not deceived. Revolutions do not go backward.”
Source: Speeches and Letters of Abraham Lincoln(1832-1865) (EasyRead Super Large 20pt Edition)
“Be not discouraged black women of the world, but push forward, regardless of the lack of appreciation shown you.”
Source: Philosophy & Opinions of Marcus Garvey
“Be not discouraged. There is a future for you. . . . The resistance encountered now predicates hope. . .”
“Be not disgusted, nor discouraged, nor dissatisfied, if thou dost not succeed in doing everything according to right principles; but when thou bast failed, return back again, and be content if the greater part of what thou doest is consistent with man's nature, and love this to which thou returnest”
Source: Meditations
“Be not dishearten'd -- Affection shall solve the problems of Freedom yet; Those who love each other shall become invincible.”
Source: Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1860-1867
“Be not disturbed at trifles, or at accidents common or unavoidable.”
Source: The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin: Published Verbatim from the Original Manuscript, by His Grandson, William Temple Franklin
“Be not diverted from your duty by any idle reflections the silly world may make upon you, for their censures are not in your power and should not be at all your concerns.”
“Be not entangled in this world of days and nights; Thou hast another time and space as well.”
“Be not familiar with the idea of wrong, for sin in fancy mothers many an ugly fact.”
Source: Lessons from the World of Matter and the World of Man
“Be not for ever harassed by impotent desire.”
“Be not forgetful of prayer. Every time you pray, if your prayer is sincere, there will be new feeling and new meaning in it, which will give you fresh courage, and you will understand that prayer is an education.”
Source: The Brothers Karamazov (English Russian Edition illustrated): Братья Карамазовы (англо-русская редакция иллюстрированная)
“Be not forward, but friendly and courteous; the first to salute, hear and answer; and be not pensive when it is time to converse.”
Source: The Writings of George Washington: Being His Correspondence, Addresses, Messages, and Other Papers, Official and Private, Selected and Published from the Original Manuscripts
“Be not frightened at the hard words "imposition," "imposture;" give and ask no questions. Cast thy bread upon the waters. Some have, unawares, entertained angels.”
Source: Works, with a Sketch of His Life and Final Memorials
“Be not glad at the misfortune of another, though he may be your enemy.”
“Be not haughty with the humble; be not humble with the haughty.”
“Be not in despair; let those tears of sadness grow into flowers.”
“Be not in despair, the way is very difficult, like walking on the edge of a razor; yet despair not, arise, awake, and find the ideal, the goal.”
Source: Jnana Yoga: The Yoga of Knowledge
“Be not in the desire of thine own ease.”
“Be not inhospitable to strangers lest they be angels in disguise.”