H Quotes
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“He who always seeks more light the more he finds, and finds more the more he seeks, is one of the few happy mortals who take and give in every point of time. The tide and ebb of giving and receiving is the sum of human happiness, which he alone enjoys who always wishes to acquire new knowledge, and always finds it.”
“He who always thinks himself as weak will never become strong, but he who knows himself to be a lion, rushes out from the worlds meshes, as a lion from its cage.”
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
“He who analyses blitz is stupid.”
“He who angers you conquers you.”
“He who anticipates his century is generally persecuted when living, and always pilfered when dead.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)
“He who argues for his limitations gets to keep them”
“He who ascends to mountaintops, shall find The loftiest peaks most wrapt in clouds and snow; He who surpasses or subdues mankind Must look down on the hate of those below”
“He who asks a question is a fool for a minute; he who does not remains a fool forever.
When you realize that by changing your perspective, big things can be seen as little things, it becomes much harder to worry about anything. Commitment is an act, not a word.”
“He who asks fortune-tellers the future unwittingly forfeits an inner intimation of coming events that is a thousand times more exact than anything they may say.”
Source: Selected Writings: 1913-1926
“He who asks fortune-tellers the future unwittingly forfeits an inner intimation of coming events that is a thousand times more exact than anything they may say. He is impelled by inertia, rather than curiosity, and nothing is more unlike the submissive apathy with which he hears his fate revealed than the alert dexterity with which the man of courage lays hands on the future.”
Source: Selected Writings: 1913-1926
“He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.”
“He who asks to receive his daily bread does not automatically receive it in its fullness as it is in itself: he receives it according to his own capacity as recipient. The Bread of Life (cf. Jn. 6:35) gives Himself in His love to all who ask, but not in the same way to all; for He gives Himself more fully to those who have performed great acts of righteousness, and in smaller measure to those who have not achieved so much. He gives Himself to each person according to that person's spiritual ability to receive Him.”
“He who asks with timidity invites a refusal.”
“He who aspires to be a serious wine drinker must drink claret.”
“He who aspires to divine realities willingly allows providence to lead him by principle of wisdom toward the grace of deification. He who does not so aspire is drawn, by the just judgement of God and against his will, away from evil by various forms of discipline. The first, as a lover of God, is deified by providence; the second, although a lover of matter, is held back from perdition by God's judgement. For since God is goodness itself, he heals those who desire it through the principles of wisdom, and through various forms of discipline cures those who are sluggish in virtue.”
“He who asserts belief with absolute certainty knows nothing of faith and makes himself into a fool. He who is wise, upon realizing they have done this, recants and searches themselves for further enlightenment.”
“He who asserts he is free, shall be free. He who says he is bound, bound he shall remain.”
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
“He who assists a poor or needy villain does evil to his neighbor...for through the assistance which he renders he...supplies him with the means of doing evil to others.”
“He who atones for sins never calculates; he pours out the whole essence of his contrite heart.”
Source: The Encyclopaedia of Gandhian Thoughts
“He who attacks the fundamentals of the American broadcasting industry attacks democracy itself.”
“He who attains his ideal, precisely thereby surpasses it.”
Source: Writings of Nietzsche: Volume 1
“He who attains self-knowledge transcends life and death and lives in the bliss of immortality.”
“He who attempts to control another is a governor, an aggressor, an invader; and the nature of such invasion is not changed, whether it is made by one man upon another man ... or by all other men upon one man, after the manner of a modern democracy.”
Source: Instead of a Book
“He who attempts to do all will waste his life in doing little.”
Source: Life and Writings
“He who attempts to draw any conclusion whatever as to the nation's wealth or poverty from the mere fact of a favorable or unfavorable Balance of Trade, has not grasped the first fundamental principle of Political Economy.”
“He who attempts to make others believe in means which he himself despises is a puffer; he who makes use of more means than he knows to be necessary is a quack; and he who ascribes to those means a greater efficacy than his own experience warrants is an impostor.”
“He who attends to his greater self becomes a great man, and he who attends to his smaller self becomes a small man.”
“He who avoids complaint invites happiness.”
“He who avoids prayer is avoiding everything that is good.”
“He who awaits much can expect little.”
“He who awaits the call, but sees the need, Already sets his spirit to refuse it.”
“He who awakes, must first be aware.”
“He who bears in his heart a cathedral to be built is already victorious. He who seeks to become sexton of a finished cathedral is already defeated.”
“He who bears injustice alone is terrible to behold.”
“He who bears the brand of Cain shall rule the earth.”
Source: Back to Methuselah
“He who becomes a Muslim does so in his own interest.”
“He who becomes a Prince through the favour of the people should always keep on good terms with them; which it is easy for him to do, since all they ask is not to be oppressed”
Source: Machiavelli, More & Luther
“He who becomes the slave of habit,
who follows the same routes every day,
who never changes pace,
who does not risk and change the color of his clothes,
who does not speak and does not experience,
dies slowly.
He or she who shuns passion,
who prefers black on white,
dotting ones "it’s" rather than a bundle of emotions, the kind that make your eyes glimmer,
that turn a yawn into a smile,
that make the heart pound in the face of mistakes and feelings,
dies slowly.
He or she who does not turn things topsy-turvy,
who is unhappy at work,
who does not risk certainty for uncertainty,
to thus follow a dream,
those who do not forego sound advice at least once in their lives,
die slowly.
He who does not travel, who does not read,
who does not listen to music,
who does not find grace in himself,
she who does not find grace in herself,
dies slowly.
He who slowly destroys his own self-esteem,
who does not allow himself to be helped,
who spends days on end complaining about his own bad luck, about the rain that never stops,
dies slowly.
He or she who abandon a project before starting it, who fail to ask questions on subjects he doesn't know, he or she who don't reply when they are asked something they do know,
die slowly.
Let's try and avoid death in small doses,
reminding oneself that being alive requires an effort far greater than the simple fact of breathing.
Only a burning patience will lead
to the attainment of a splendid happiness.”
“He who becomes tired of worldly pleasures, is worthy of Moksha.”
Source: Avoid Clashes!
“He who before was the money owner, now strides in front as capitalist; the possessor of labor-power follows as his laborer. The one with an air of importance, smirking, intent on business; the other hesitant, like one who is bringing his own hide to market and has nothing to expect but a hiding.”
“He who befriends a man whose conduct is vicious, whose vision impure, and who is notoriously crooked, is rapidly ruined.”
“He who begins by loving Christianity more than Truth, will proceed by loving his sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all.”
Source: Aids to reflection in the formation of a manly character on the several grounds of prudence, morality and religion
“He who begins by seeking God within himself may end by confusing himself with God.”
“He who begs timidly courts a refusal.”
“He who believes himself to be far advanced in the spiritual life has not even made a good beginning.”
Source: The Spirit of Saint Francis De Sales
“He who believes in freedom of the will has never loved and never hated.”
“He who believes in God and the Last Day should honour his guest; he who believes in God and the Last Day should not annoy his neighbours; and he who believes in God and the Last Day should say what is good or keep silent.”
“He who believes in God is not careful for the morrow, but labors joyfully and with a great heart. "For He giveth His beloved, as in sleep." They must work and watch, yet never be careful or anxious, but commit all to Him, and live in serene tranquility; with a quiet heart, as one who sleeps safely and quietly.”
“He who believes in goodness has the essence of all faith. He is a man of cheerful yesterdays and confident to-morrows.”
Source: Self-culture, lectures
“He who believes in nobody knows that he himself is not to be trusted.”