L Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with L. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Let 2022 be the year that truth reigned supreme.”
“Let 2022 be the year that words count for something.”
“Let [children] be able to do all things, and love to do only the good.”
Source: Complete Essays
“Let [Ted] Cruz - let the people go to the courts and see if he's here legitimately. I don't know. I'm not going to get into that.”
“Let [us] seek for wisdom instead of power and [we] will have all the power [we] have wisdom to exercise.”
“Let a bill, or law, be read, in the one branch or the other, every one instantly thinks how it will affect his constituents.”
“Let a crown be placed thereon, by which the world may know, that so far as we approve of monarcy, that in America the law is King. For as in absolute governments the King is law, so in free countries the law ought to be King; and there ought to be no other.”
Source: Common Sense: and The American Crisis I
“Let a disciple live as Christ lived, and he will easily believe in living again as Christ does.”
Source: Enthanasy; Or, Happy Talk Towards the End of Life ...
“Let a fool be made serviceable according to his folly.”
Source: Joseph Conrad: The Complete Novels [Nostromo, Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim, The Secret Agent, etc.] (Book House)
“Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage.”
“Let a gentleman be known to have been cheated of twenty pounds, and it costs him forty a-year for the remainder of his life.”
Source: Barrow and Newton. Peleus and Thetis. The King of Ava and Rao-Gong-Fao. Photo Zavellas and his sister Kaido. Epicurus, Leontion, and Ternissa. The Empress Catharine and Princess Dashkoff. William Penn and Lord Peterborough. Miguel and mother. Metellus and Marius. Nicolas and Michel. Leofric and Godiva. Izaac Walton, Cotton, and William Oldways
“Let a good person do good deeds with the same zeal that an evil person does bad ones.”
“Let a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred schools of thought contend.”
Source: The Writings of Mao Zedong, 1949-1976: January 1956-December 1957
“Let a hundred flowers bloom.”
Source: Mao Tse-tung unrehearsed: talks and letters, 1956-71
“Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it runs by.”
“Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by.”
Source: The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg
“Let a man (as most men do) rate themselves as the highest Value they can; yet their true Value is no more than it is esteemed by others.”
Source: Leviathan
“Let a man accept his destiny, No pity and no tears.”
Source: Euripides
“Let a man avoid evil deeds as a man who loves life avoids poison.”
Source: The Dhammapada
“Let a man be but in earnest in praying against a temptation as the tempter is in pressing it, and he needs not proceed by a surer measure.”
“Let a man be endowed with ten virtues and have but one fault and the one fault will eclipse and darken all the virtues.”
“Let a man be firmly principled in his religion, he may travel from the tropics to the poles, it will never catch cold on the journey.”
Source: Lectures and Sermons
“Let a man be ne'er so wise, he may be caught with sober lies.”
Source: The Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D.: Carefully Selected; with a Biography of the Author
“Let a man be of what side he may in politics, unless he be much more of a partisan than a patriot, he will think it well that there should be some equity of division in the bestowal of crumbs of comfort.”
Source: Anthony Trollope: The Chronicles of Barsetshire & The Palliser Novels (Unabridged): The Warden + The Barchester Towers + Doctor Thorne + Framley Parsonage + The Small House at Allington + The Last Chronicle of Barset + Can You Forgive Her? + The Prime Minister + Eustace Diamonds...
“Let a man be stimulated by poetry, established by the rules of propriety, and perfected by music.”
“Let a man begin in earnest with "I ought," and he will end, by God's grace, if he persevere, with "I will." Let him force himself to abound in all small offices of kindliness, attention, affectionateness, and all these for God's sake. By and by he will feel them become the habit of his soul.”
“Let a man beware how he keepeth company with choleric and quarrelsome persons; for they will engage him into their own quarrels.”
Source: Selected Writings of Francis Bacon
“Let a man choose what condition he will, and let him accumulate around him all the goods and gratifications seemingly calculated to make him happy in it; if that man is left at any time without occupation or amusement, and reflects on what he is, the meagre, languid felicity of his present lot will not bear him up. He will turn necessarily to gloomy anticipations of the future; and unless his occupation calls him out of himself, he is inevitably wretched.”
“Let a man do what he will by a single woman, the world is encouragingly apt to think Marriage a sufficient amends.”
Source: A collection of the moral and instructive sentiments, maxims, cautions, and reflexions, contained in the histories of Pamela, Clarissa, and Sir Charles Grandison: Digested under proper heads, with references to the volume, ...
“Let a man fear, above all, me, his God, and so much the gentler will he become toward my creatures and animals, on whom, on account of me, their Creator, he ought to have compassion.”
“Let a man find himself, in distinction from others, on top of two wheels with a chain - at least in a poor country like Russia - and his vanity begins to swell out like his tires. In America it takes an automobile to produce this effect.”
Source: The History of the Russian Revolution ...
“Let a man get up and say, Behold, this is the truth, and instantly I perceive a sandy cat filching a piece of fish in the background. Look, you have forgotten the cat, I say.”
Source: The Waves
“Let a man go down as low as possible; there must come a time when out of sheer desperation he will take an upward curve and will learn to have faith in himself.”
Source: Practical Vedanta Philosophy
“Let a man in a garret but burn with enough intensity and he will set fire to the world.”
“Let a man lay himself down in the Great Bed and his 'identity' is no longer his own, his 'trust' is not with him, and his 'willingness' is turned over and is of another permission. His distress is wild and anonymous. He sleeps in a Town of Darkness, member of a secret brotherhood. He neither knows himself nor his outriders; he berserks a fearful dimension and dismounts, miraculously, in bed!”
Source: Nightwood
“Let a man learn to look for the permanent in the mutable and fleeting; let him learn to bear the disappearance of things he was wont to reverence; without losing his reverence; let him learn that he is here, not to work, but to be worked upon; and that, though abyss open under abyss, and opinion displace opinion, all are at last contained in the Eternal Cause.”
Source: Essays, lectures and orations
“Let a man neither give himself over to pleasures ... nor yet let him give himself over to self-mortification ... To the exclusion of both these extremes, the Truth-Finder has discovered a middle course.”
“Let a man nobly live or nobly die.”
Source: Sophocles II: Ajax, The Women of Trachis, Electra, Philoctetes, The Trackers
“Let a man of genius make use [of photography] as it should be used, and he will raise himself to a height that we do not know.”
“Let a man once overcome his selfish terror at his own finitude, and his finitude itself is, in one sense, overcome.”
“Let a man once see himself as others see him, and all enthusiasm vanishes from his heart.”
Source: Contemplations: Being Several Short Essays Helpful Sermonettes, Epigrams and Orphic Sayings
“Let a man overcome anger by love.”
“Let a man practice the profession which he best knows.”
“Let a man practise the profession he best knows.
[Lat., Quam quisque novit artem, in hac se exerceat.]”
“Let a man proclaim a new principle. Public sentiment will surely be on the other side.”
“Let a man radically alter his thoughts, and he will be astonished at the rapid transformation it will effect in the material conditions of his life. Men imagine that thought can be kept secret, but it cannot; it rapidly crystallizes into habit, and habit solidifies into circumstance.”
Source: The Prosperity Bible: The Greatest Writings of All Time on the Secrets to Wealth and Prosperity
“Let a man radically alter his thoughts, and he will be astonished at the rapid transformation it will effect in the material conditions of his life. Men imagine that thought can be kept secret, but it cannot; it rapidly crystallizes into habit, and habit solidifies into circumstance. Bestial thoughts crystallize into habits of drunkenness and sensuality, which solidify into circumstances of destitution and disease: impure thoughts of every kind crystallize into enervating and confusing habits, which solidify into distracting and adverse circumstances: thoughts of fear, doubt, and indecision crystallize into weak, unmanly, and irresolute habits, which solidify into circumstances of failure, indigence, and slavish dependence: lazy thoughts crystallize into habits of uncleanliness and dishonesty, which solidify into circumstances of foulness and beggary: hateful and condemnatory thoughts crystallize into habits of accusation and violence, which solidify into circumstances of injury and persecution: selfish thoughts of all kinds crystallize into habits of self-seeking, which solidify into circumstances more or less distressing. On the other hand, beautiful thoughts of all kinds crystallize into habits of grace and kindliness, which solidify into genial and sunny circumstances: pure thoughts crystallize into habits of temperance and self-control, which solidify into circumstances of repose and peace: thoughts of courage, self-reliance, and decision crystallize into manly habits, which solidify into circumstances of success, plenty, and freedom: energetic thoughts crystallize into habits of cleanliness and industry, which solidify into circumstances of pleasantness: gentle and forgiving thoughts crystallize into habits of gentleness, which solidify into protective and preservative circumstances: loving and unselfish thoughts crystallize into habits of self-forgetfulness for others, which solidify into circumstances of sure and abiding prosperity and true riches.
A particular train of thought persisted in, be it good or bad, cannot fail to produce its results on the character and circumstances. A man cannot directly choose his circumstances, but he can choose his thoughts, and so indirectly, yet surely, shape his circumstances.”
Source: As a Man Thinketh
“Let a man set his heart only on doing the will of God and he is instantly free. If we understand our first and sole duty to consist of loving God supremely and loving everyone, even our enemies, for God's dear sake, then we can enjoy spiritual tranquility under every circumstance.”
“Let a man set his heart only on doing the will of God and he is instantly free. No one can hinder him.”
“Let a man then know his worth and keep things under his feet.”
Source: The Annotated Emerson