B Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with B. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Be a worthy worker and work will come.”
Source: Wealth of Words
“Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected.”
Source: Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs
“Be able to analyze statistics, which can be used to support or undercut almost any argument.”
“Be able to back up a car for a considerable distance in a straight line and back out of a driveway.”
“Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, and the society of thyself.”
“Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude.”
Source: Religio Medici [and] Its Sequel Christian Morals
“Be able to blow out a dinner candle without sending wax flying across the table.”
“Be able to cite three good qualities of every relative or acquaintance that you dislike.”
“Be able to confide your innermost secrets to your mother and your innermost fears to your father.”
“Be able to correctly pronounce the words you would like to speak and have excellent spoken grammar.”
“Be able to decline a date so gracefully that the person isn't embarrassed that he or she asked.”
“Be able to defend your arguments in a rational way. Otherwise, all you have is an opinion.”
“Be able to describe anything visual, such as a street scene, in words that convey your meaning.”
“Be able to draw an illustration as least well enough to get your point across to another person.”
“Be able to go shopping for a bathing suit and not become depressed afterward.”
“Be able to hiccup silently, or at least without alerting neighbors to your situation. The first hiccup is an exception.”
“Be able to identify the most common breeds of dogs and cats on sight.”
“Be able to keep a secret or promise when you know in your heart that it is the right thing to do.”
“Be able to laugh at difficulties.”
“Be able to live alone, even if you don't want to and think you will never find it necessary.”
“Be able to meet any deadline, even if your work is done less well than it would be if you had all the time you would have preferred.”
“Be able to notice all the confusion between fact and opinion that appears in the news”
“Be able to prove God? It would no longer be God. (Pouvoir prouver Dieu ? ça ne serait plus Dieu)”
Source: Le Sablier
“Be able to read blueprints, diagrams, floorplans, and other diagrams used in the construction process.”
“Be able to recognize many of the major constellations and know the stories behind them”
“Be able to recognize the dangerous snakes, spiders, insects, and plants that live in your area of the country.”
“Be able to recognize when you're reading or hearing material biased to your own side.”
“Be able to resign. It will improve your value to the President and do wonders for your performance.”
Source: Public Statements of Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense, 2001
“Be able to set a table so that you feel like you're dining, not just sitting and eating.”
“Be able to sneeze without sounding ridiculous. That means neither stifling yourself or spraying your immediate vicinity.”
“Be able to suffer wearing a necktie or slightly high heels for an entire evening without complaint or early removal.”
“Be able to take any job that gives you experience on a film. Don't just think that you have to be in one department or the other, because through working on one and seeing what other people do in the movie makes you realize what your role is if you become a costume designer.”
“Be able to tell whether garments that look good on the hanger actually look good on you”
“Be about Kingdom Business. Believe that God is able to do exceedingly and abundantly what you ask in order for you to achieve extraordinary results in life so you can be blessed to be a blessing.”
“Be about ten times more magnanimous than you believe yourself capable of. Your life will be a hundred times better for it.”
Source: Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Someone Who’s Been There
“Be about your brand.”
“Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it.”
“Be above the negative energy of others. Refuse to allow their negativity to affect you. Instead, allow your positive energy to cancel their negative energy.”
Source: The Art of Inner Peace: The Law of Attraction for Inner Peace
“Be absolute with death. Either death or life
Shall thereby be the sweeter. Reason thus with life:
If I do lose thee, I do lose a thing
That none but fools would keep.”
Source: Measure for Measure
“Be absolutely assured that we will die long before our own deaths if we ever allow the fear of adulthood to kill the wonder of childhood.”
“Be absolutely clear about who you are and what you stand for. Refuse to compromise.”
“Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do.”
“Be absorbed in what your customer is saying; be inspired by what your customer is meaning.”
Source: Inside Your Customer's Imagination: 5 Secrets for Creating Breakthrough Products, Services, and Solutions
“Be accountable to your soul, In the name of being determined don't stay disconnected from your true self".”
“Be acted upon rather than active. In this way, God will do through you alone what all men put together could not do without Him.”
Source: Correspondence, Conferences, Documents: Apr. 1650-July 1653
“Be active! Take on responsibility! Work for the things you believe in. If you do not, you are surrendering your fate to others.”
Source: Wings of Fire: An Autobiography
“Be adaptable, flexible and never stop learning. The rate of change will never stop and neither should you.”
“Be addicted to your dream such that it becomes too difficult to wean you from it just like the way drug addicts finds it difficult to stop taking drugs.”
“Be addicted to your dreams.”
“Be adorable always to each other; respect is everlasting.”