B Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with B. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Be not intimidated... nor suffer yourselves to be wheedled out of your liberties by any pretense of politeness, delicacy, or decency. These, as they are often used, are but three different names for hypocrisy, chicanery and cowardice.”
“Be not lax in celebrating.
Be not lazy in the festive service of God.
Be ablaze with enthusiasm.
Let us be an alive, burning offering before the altar of God.”
“Be not like the bird that sees the seed, but not the trap.”
“Be not merely a man of letters! Let literature be an honorable augmentations to your arms, not constitute the coat or fill the escutcheon!”
Source: The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an Introductory Essay Upon His Philosophical and Theological Opinions
“Be not miserable about what may happen tomorrow. The same everlasting Father, who cares for you today, will care for you tomorrow.”
“Be not niggardly of what costs thee nothing, as courtesy, counsel, & countenance.”
Source: Poor Richard's Almanack
“Be not ordinary in a world where you were created by an extraordinary hand, in an extraordinary way, and for extraordinary reasons.”
Source: Sips And Little Portions
“Be not over solicitous about education. It may be able to do much, but it does not do as much as expected from it. It may mould and direct the character, but it rarely alters it.”
“Be not penny-wise. Riches have wings. Sometimes they fly away of themselves, and sometimes they must be set flying to bring in more.”
Source: The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, Lord High Chancellor of England ...: With Several Additional Pieces, Never Before Printed in Any Edition of His Works. To which is Prefixed, a New Life of the Author
“Be not proud of race, face, place, or grace.”
“Be not rushed by the tide of life. Take life in sips and little portions.”
Source: These Words Pour Like Rain
“Be not scared to sail into the storm, every storm reveals the jewels of life.”
Source: Revolution Indomable
“Be not scared to sail into the storm, every storm reveals the jewels of life. Be not scared to walk into the dark, your footsteps are the very light the dark is afraid of.”
Source: Revolution Indomable
“Be not scared to walk into the dark, your footsteps are the very light the dark is afraid of.”
Source: Revolution Indomable
“Be not selfish in your doings: pass it on.”
“Be not sick too late, nor well too soon”
Source: Poor Richard's Almanack
“Be not so bigoted to any custom as to worship it at the expense of truth.”
“Be not so foolish as to cling to what was, rather than embrace what can be.”
Source: The Forest of Lost Souls
“Be not so set upon poetry, as to be always poring on the passionate and measured pages. Let not what should be sauce, rather than food for you, engross all your application. Beware of a boundless and sickly appetite for the reading of poems which the nation now swarms withal; and let not the Circaen cup intoxicate you. But especially preserve the chastity of your soul from the dangers you may incur, by a conversation with muses no better than harlots.”
“Be not so severe as to cause shyness, nor so clement as to encourage boldness.”
“Be not solitary, be not idle”
“Be not sorry for what you have done.
Be sorry for what you've got undobe.
Just do what you can do with style.
And you may live well a long while!”
Source: A-Z of Happiness: Tips for Living and Breaking Through the Chain that Separates You from Getting That Dream Job
“Be not swept off your feet by the vividness of the impression, but say, "Impression, wait for me a little. Let me see what you are and what you represent. Let me try you."”
“Be not that far from me, for trouble is near; haste Thee to help me. Blessed be the Lord my strength, which teacheth my hands to war, and my fingers to fight. My goodness, and my fortress; my high tower, and my deliverer; my shield, and he in whom I trust; who subdueth my people under me. O my God, I trust in thee: let me not be ashamed, let not mine enemies triumph over me”
“Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.”
Source: The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope
“Be not the fourth friend of him who had three before and lost them.”
“Be not the glass that holds the lamp, rather let thyself be the light.”
“Be not the glass that surrounds the lamp, rather be the source of the light......”
“Be not the one who debunks but the one who assembles, not the one who lifts the rugs from under the feet of the naive believers but the one who offers arenas in which to gather.”
“Be not the slave of your moods, but their master. But if you are so angry, so depressed and so sore that your spirit cannot find deliverance and peace even in prayer, then quickly go and give some pleasure to someone lowly or sorrowful, or to a guilty or innocent sufferer! Sacrifice yourself, your talent, your time, your rest to another, to one who has to bear a heavier load than you - and your unhappy mood will dissolve into a blessed, contented submission to God.”
“Be not the slave of your own past - plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far.”
“Be not the slave of your own past - plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far, so you shall come back with new self-respect, with new power, and with an advanced experience that shall explain and overlook the old.”
“Be not the slave of your own past.”
Source: A Year with Emerson: A Daybook
“Be not thy tongue thy own shame's orator.”
Source: The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works
“Be not too great a niggard in the commendations of him that professes thy own quality: if he deserve thy praise, thou hast discovered thy judgment; if not, thy modesty: honor either returns or reflects to the giver.”
Source: The Complete Works in Prose and Verse of Francis Quarles
“Be not too hasty either with praise or blame; speak always as though you were giving evidence before the judgement-seat of the Gods.”
“Be not too hasty to trust or to admire the teachers of morality; they discourse like angels, but they live like men.”
Source: Samuel Johnson: Selected Writings
“Be not too presumptuously sure in any business; for things of this world depend on such a train of unseen chances that if it were in man's hands to set the tables, still he would not be certain to win the game.”
“Be not too rash in the breaking of an inconvenient custom; as it was gotten, so leave it by degrees. Danger attends upon too sudden alterations; he that pulls down a bad building by the great may be ruined by the fall, but he that takes it down brick by brick may live to build a better.”
Source: Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles
“Be not too slow in the breaking of a sinful custom; a quick, courageous resolution is better than a gradual deliberation; in such a combat he is the bravest soldier that lays about him without fear or wit. Wit pleads, fear disheartens; he that would kill Hydra had better strike off one neck than five heads: fell the tree, and the branches are soon cut off.”
Source: Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles
“Be not too strict - too far east is west. You may lose all by demanding all.”
Source: The Maid of Maiden Lane: A Sequel to
“Be not too tame neither, but let your own Discretion be your tutor; suit the action to the word, the word to the action.”
“Be not too thick with anybody; your joys will be fewer, and so will pains.”
“Be not under the dominion of thine own will; it is the vice of the ignorant, who vainly presume on their own understanding.”
Source: The history of Don Quixote de la Mancha
“Be not unwilling in what thou doest, neither selfish nor unadvised nor obstinate; let not over-refinement deck out thy thought; be not wordy nor a busybody.”
“Be not virtuous beyond your powers! And seek nothing from yourselves opposed to probability!...
Shy, ashamed, awkward, like the tiger whose spring hath failed—thus, ye higher men, have I often seen you slink aside. A cast which ye made had failed...
The higher its type, always the seldomer doth a thing succeed. Ye higher men here, have ye not all—been failures?
Be of good cheer; what doth it matter? How much is still possible! Learn to laugh at yourselves, as ye ought to laugh!
What wonder even that ye have failed and only half-succeeded, ye half-shattered ones! Doth not—man's future strive and struggle in you?
Man's furthest, profoundest, star-highest issues, his prodigious powers—do not all these foam through one another in your vessel?
What wonder that many a vessel shattereth! Learn to laugh at yourselves, as ye ought to laugh! Ye higher men, Oh, how much is still possible!”
“Be not weary in well-doing. … Out of small things proceedeth that which is great. Behold, the Lord requireth the heart and a willing mind.”
Source: Live the Good Life
“Be not wishing and pining but thankfully content. For it is a short bridge between wanting and regret."
- from "Dimpellumpzki”
“Be not with honor's gilded baits beguil'd,
Nor think ambition wise, because 'tis brave;
For though we like it, as a forward child,
'Tis so unsound, her cradle is the grave.”
“Be nothing which thou art not”