I Quotes
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“It is not the straining for great things that is most effective; it is the doing the little things, the common duties, a little better and better.”
“It is not the strength, but the duration, of great sentiments that makes great men.”
“It is not the strength of the body that counts, but the strength of the spirit.”
“It is not the strength of your faith but the object of your faith that actually saves you.”
Source: The Reason for God: Belief in an age of scepticism
“It is not the strength of your faith that saves you, but the strength of Him upon whom you rely! Christ is able to save you if you come to Him-be your faith weak or be it strong.”
“It is not the strengths, but the durations of great sentiments that make great men.”
Source: Writings of Nietzsche: Volume 1
“It is not the strong one that wins, the one that wins is strong.”
“It is not the strongest of the species that survives,
not the most intelligent that survives.
It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.”
“It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change, that lives within the means available and works co-operatively against common threats.”
“It is not the style but the quality and emotional impact of work that makes it marketable. Unless we make art that connects with people, we won't sell much, no matter what the style or subject.”
“It is not the style of clothes one wears, neither the kind of automobile one drives, nor the amount of money one has in the bank, that counts. These mean nothing. It is simply service that measures success.”
Source: George Washington Carver in his own words
“It is not the success, but it is the failures that make us stronger and more resilient.”
“It is not the success but the failures that glorify success.”
“It is not the sun that gives light to the earth, nor imagination that opens heaven-
"heaven and earth will pass away" (Matt. 24:35)-but the presence of God that makes earth and heaven new and incorruptible and unites them. "And the city has no need of sun" (Rev. 21:23). The reality of the Liturgy is not illumined by a light which can pass away, "for no visible thing is good." The unseen presence of the Lord lights and reveals everything.”
Source: Hymn of Entry: Liturgy and Life in the Orthodox Church
“It is not the systems that fail but the ability to maintain them.”
Source: Start With Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone To Take Action
“It is not the task of a writer to 'tell all,' or even to decide what to leave in, but to decide what to leave out. Whatever remains, that meager sum of this profane division, that's the bastard chimera we call a 'story.' I am not building, but cutting away. And all stories, whether advertised as truth or admitted falsehoods, are fictions, cleft from the objective facts by the aforementioned action of cutting away. A pound of flesh. A pile of sawdust. Discarded chips of Carrara marble. And what's left over.
"Houses Under The Sea”
“It is not the task of the University to offer what society asks for, but to give what society needs.”
“It is not the tempest, nor the earthquake, nor the fire, but the still small voice of the Spirit that carries on the glorious work of saving souls.”
“It is not the temptations you have, but the decision you make about them that counts.”
Source: Billy Graham in Quotes
“It is not the thing on which we spend the most time that moulds us, but the thing that exerts the greatest power. Five minutes with God and His Word is worth more than all the rest of the day.”
Source: The Quotable Oswald Chambers
“It is not the things we do in life that we regret on our death bed. It is the things we do not. I assure you I've done a lot of really stupid things, and none of them bother me. All the mistakes, and all the dopey things, and all the times I was embarrassed — they don't matter. What matters is that I can kind of look back and say: Pretty much any time I got the chance to do something cool I tried to grab for it — and that's where my solace comes from.”
“It is not the things we do in life that we regret on our death bed. It is the things we do not.”
“It is not the things you have that make you happy. It is love and kindness and helping each other and just plain being good.”
“It is not the thinker who is the true king of men, as we sometimes hear it proudly said. We need one who will not only show, but be the Truth; who will not only point, but open and be the Way; who will not only communicate thought, but give, because He is the Life. Not the rabbi's pulpit, nor the teacher's desk, still less the gilded chairs of earthly monarchs, least of all the' tents of conquerors, are the throne of the true king. He rules from the cross.”
“It is not the time spent with the child at their activity that is going to produce the highest level athlete. It is in supporting the child in an organized activity so the child can find what they truly like to do and let them go.”
“It is not the time to put school districts up for auction. Now is the time to galvanize them into action.”
“It is not the trauma itself that is the source of illness but the unconscious, repressed, hopeless despair over not being allowed to give expression to what one has suffered and the fact that one is not allowed to show and is unable to experience feelings of rage, anger, humiliation, despair, helplessness, and sadness. This causes many people to commit suicide because life no longer seems worth living if they are totally unable to live out all these strong feelings that are part of their true self.”
Source: For Your Own Good: Hidden Cruelty in Child-Rearing and the Roots of Violence
“It is not the tree that forsakes the flower, but the flower that forsakes the tree.”
“It is not the trials in your life that develop or destroy you, but rather your response to those hardships.”
“It is not the truth of Marxism that explains the willingness of intellectuals to believe it, but the power that it confers on intellectuals, in their attempts to control the world. And since, as Swift says, it is futile to reason someone out of a thing that he was not reasoned into, we can conclude that Marxism owes its remarkable power to survive every criticism to the fact that it is not a truth-directed but a power-directed system of thought.”
“It is not the truth that a man possesses, or believes that he possesses, but the earnest effort which he puts forward to reach the truth, which constitutes the worth of a man”
“It is not the truth which has to be sought, it is you who have to be brought home.”
Source: Hsin Hsin Ming: The Book of Nothing
“It is not the ultimate achievement that makes you extraordinary; it is what you become on the way to that achievement that people celebrate. This is what fills 295 pages of your 300 page (auto)biography!”
Source: Know What Matters
“It is not the universal and the regular that characterize the individual, but rather the unique. He is not to be understood as a recurrent unit but as something unique and singular which in the last analysis can be neither known nor compared with anything else.”
Source: The Undiscovered Self
“It is not the victory of science that distinguishes our nineteenth century, but the victory of scientific method over science.”
Source: The Will to Power
“It is not the victory that makes the joy of noble hearts; but the combat.”
“It is not the videshi [foreign] cloth that we burn but the videshi [foreigner] itself - the treacherous attachment to foreigners and consequent betrayal of our Nation that we mean to burn here.”
“It is not the visions but the activity which makes you happy, and the joy and glory of the flier is the flight itself.”
Source: Out of Africa
“It is not the visions but the activity which makes you happy, and the joy and glory of the flier is the flight itself. . . Every time I have gone up in an aeroplane and looked down have realized I was free of the ground, I have had the consciousness of a new discovery. "I see:" I have thought, "This was the idea. And now I understand everything."”
Source: Out of Africa
“It is not the voice that commands the story: it is the ear.”
“It is not the walls of your library with their glass and ivory decorations that I am looking for, but the seat of your mind.”
Source: The Consolation of Philosophy
“It is not the walls that make the city, but the people who live within them. The walls of London may be battered, but the spirit of the Londoner stands resolute and undismayed.”
“It is not the way of cats to interfere with fate.”
Source: The Starless Sea
“It is not the way to convert a sinner to knock him down first and then reason with him.”
“It is not the weariness of mortality, but the strength of divinity, which we have to recognize in all mighty things; and that is just what we now never recognize, but think that we are to do great things by help of iron bars and perspiration. Alas! we shall do nothing that way but lose some pounds of our own weight.”
Source: The true and the beautiful in nature, art, morals, and religion
“It is not the weight of the future or the past that is pressing upon you, but ever that of the present alone. Even this burden, too, can be lessened if you confine it strictly to its own limits.”
“It is not the willingness to kill on the part of our soldiers which most concerns me. That is an inherent part of war. It is our lack of respect for even the admirable characteristics of our enemy; for courage, for suffering, for death, for his willingness to die for his beliefs, for his companies and squadrons which go forth, one after another, to annihilation against our superior training and equipment.”
“It is not the words but the feelings you have for her that are the real source of comfort Sometimes simply holding her hand without uttering a word conveys a lot more than the words spoken.”
“It is not the words or the actions you should trust, rather the pattern.”
“It is not the world that is absurd, nor human thought: the absurd arises when the human need to understand meets the unreasonableness of the world, when 'my appetite for the absolute and for unity' meets 'the impossibility of reducing this world to a rational and reasonable principle.'”