G Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with G. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Genuine is the sorrow endured without anyone else knowing about it.”
“Genuine kindness continues to remain our ultimate weapon in this unknown world of personal hate.”
“Genuine kindness is not what we do, it is what we are.”
“Genuine laughing is the vent of the soul, the nostrils of the heart, and just as necessary for health and happiness as spring water is for a trout.”
“Genuine laughter is true eloquence and more effective than speech”
Source: Peace: The Words and Inspiration of Mahatma Gandhi
“Genuine leadership comes from the quality of your vision and your ability to spark others to extraordinary performance.”
“Genuine leadership is inherently moral.”
“Genuine leadership is inherently moral. So the values chosen matter tremendously, and they must be values aligned with society (including the most universal statement of human values in history, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, as well as clear values of sustainability evidenced in global declarations like the Stockholm and Rio Declarations.”
“Genuine listening ability is one of the few true forms of competitive advantage.”
“Genuine love for a child, it seems to me, must include a desire for his maturity and ultimately his independence. WAtching a personality unfold is perhaps the deepest pleasure of parenthood; wishing, or trying, to retard this growth is one of the deepest sins.”
Source: The Best of Sydney J. Harris
“Genuine love for Jesus manifests itself in obedience to His commandments.”
“Genuine love is between two people who know they are already complete. Genuine love is based on a new paradigm in which both partners are committed to the celebration of each other and their loved ones.”
“Genuine love is rarely an emotional space where needs are instantly gratified. To know love we have to invest time and commitment...'dreaming that love will save us, solve all our problems or provide a steady state of bliss or security only keeps us stuck in wishful fantasy, undermining the real power of the love -- which is to transform us.' Many people want love to function like a drug, giving them an immediate and sustained high. They want to do nothing, just passively receive the good feeling.”
“Genuine love is volitional rather than emotional.”
Source: The Road Less Traveled, 25th Anniversary Edition: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values, and Spiritual Growth
“Genuine love is volitional rather than emotional. The person who truely loves does so because of a decision to love. This person has made a commitment to be loving whether or not the loving feeling is present. ...Conversely, it is not only possible but necessary for a loving person to avoid acting on feelings of love.”
Source: The Road Less Traveled, 25th Anniversary Edition: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values, and Spiritual Growth
“Genuine love not only respects the individuality of the other but actually cultivates it, even at the risk of separation or loss. The ultimate goal of life remains the spiritual growth of the individual, the solitary journey to peaks that can be climbed only alone.”
Source: The Road Less Traveled, Timeless Edition: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth
“Genuine love will always feel urged to communicate joy - to be a joy-giver. Mankind needs joy.”
“Genuine magic demands on perfect simplicity of execution.”
“Genuine mental health would involve a balanced interplay of both modes of experience, a way of life in which one's identification with the ego is playful and tentative rather than absolute and mandatory, while the concern with material possessions is pragmatic rather than obsessive.”
“Genuine modesty sets one to creating order and inspires one to begin by disciplining one's own ego and one's immediate circle. Only through having the courage to marshal one's armies against oneself, will something forceful really be achieved.”
Source: The I Ching or Book of Changes
“Genuine newspapers give us news.
Propaganda only gives us rubbish.”
“Genuine peace is based on inner peace, because you cannot build peace on the basis of anger”
“Genuine peace must be the product of many nations, the sum of many acts. It must be dynamic, not static, changing to meet the challenge of each new generation. For peace is a process-a way of solving problems.”
“Genuine people are rare; fake ones are everywhere. Choose wisely.”
Source: The Light in the Heart
“Genuine people are scarce these days...”
“Genuine people will not only celebrate you when you are on the mountaintop, but they will also encourage you when you are at rock bottom. They will provide support and motivation through it all.”
Source: Coming to Grips with the Mountains and Valleys of This World
“Genuine philosophical problems are always rooted outside philosophy and they die if these roots decay.”
Source: Conjectures and Refutations: The Growth of Scientific Knowledge
“Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.”
“Genuine polemics approach a book as lovingly as a cannibal spices a baby.”
Source: One-Way Street
“Genuine politics -- even politics worthy of the name -- the only politics I am willing to devote myself to -- is simply a matter of serving those around us: serving the community and serving those who will come after us. Its deepest roots are moral because it is a responsibility expressed through action, to and for the whole.”
“Genuine recollections almost invariably explain oneself to oneself. Suppose, for example, that you feel an instinctive aversion to some particular kind of wine. Try as you will, you can find no reason for it. Suppose when you explore a previous incarnation, you remember you died by a poisoned administered in a wine of that kind, your aversion is explained by the proverb: 'A burnt child dreads the fire.'”
“Genuine relationships depend first on a healthy relationship with ourselves.”
“Genuine religion is matter of feeling rather than matter of opinion.”
“Genuine religion is not about speculating about God or the soul or about what happened in the past or will happen in the future; it cares only about one thing finding out exactly what should or should not be done in this lifetime.”
“Genuine religion is not so much a matter of feeling as a matter of principle.”
“Genuine respect for law is the result of possessing something which the law exerts itself to guard. Should it happen that you possess nothing, and that your education in metaphysics has been grievously neglected, the strong probability is that your mind will reduce the principle of society to its naked formula: Get, by whatever means, so long as with impunity.”
Source: The Nether World
“Genuine rights don’t conflict—they enable us to live together without intractable conflicts.”
Source: Free Market Revolution: How Ayn Rand's Ideas Can End Big Government
“Genuine self esteem – please understand this – genuine self esteem is not competitive or comparative. Genuine self esteem isn’t expressed by self-glorification at the expense of others, or by trying to make yourself superior to everyone else, or diminishing others in order to elevate yourself. Arrogance, boastfulness, the overestimation of your abilities, reflect low self esteem, even though we’re often encouraged to believe the opposite. In human beings, joy in the simple fact of existence is a core meaning of healthy self esteem. Thus understood, how can you possibly have too much of it?”
“Genuine self-love is the most profound experience in the universe. However, it usually takes time, sincere dedication, and discipline to develop. We are surrounded by so many images, beliefs, and behaviors that reinforce the idea of self-hatred every day that it can be extremely difficult for us to connect to the love inside of us.”
Source: Awakened Empath: The Ultimate Guide to Emotional, Psychological and Spiritual Healing
“Genuine self-acceptance is not derived from the power of positive thinking, mind games or pop psychology. IT IS AN ACT OF FAITH in the God of grace.”
Source: The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out
“Genuine simplicity of heart is a healing and cementing principle.”
Source: .) (1853).
“Genuine sincerity opens people's hearts, while manipulation causes them to close.”
“Genuine sorrows are very tranquil in appearance in the deep bed they have dug for themselves. But, seeming to slumber, they corrode the soul like that frightful acid which penetrates crystal.”
“Genuine spiritual knowledge lies not in wonderful and mysterious thoughts but in actual spiritual experience through union of the believer's life with truth.”
Source: The Spiritual Man
“Genuine spiritual movement should forgive and encourage.”
“Genuine success is not found on the market shelves. That is why, it is priceless. You must consistently do your best and pursue a life of excellence.”
Source: The Kind of Substance You Need For Your Success
“Genuine surprise is a great help when faced with an unwelcome duty. Of course, when it’s the paying of debts you’re forgetting, that can lead to broken fingers. And worse. I guess it’s a form of lying— lying to oneself. And I’m very good at falsehoods. They often say the best liars half-believe their lies— which makes me the very best because if I repeat a lie often enough I can end up believing it entirely, no half measures involved!”
Source: Prince of Fools
“Genuine thanksgiving is a response to both who God is and what He has done, is doing, and will do.”
“Genuine tolerance does not mean ignoring differences as if differences made no difference. Genuine tolerance means engaging differences within a bond of civility and respect.”
“Genuine tragedies in the world are not conflicts between right and wrong. They are conflicts between two rights.”