L Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with L. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Let this be one invariable rule of your conduct--never to show the least symptom of resentment, which you cannot, to a certain degree, gratify; but always to smile, where you cannot strike.”
Source: Lord Chesterfield's Letters
“let this be our beautiful departure from stagnation; let our minds come alive; enter another dimension; go beyond the stars eagerly struggling to find that... which our naked eyes did not know existed; rise like a falcon born to soar and not be alone but be present amongst others.”
“Let this be our rule for goodwill and helpfulness, that whenever we are able to assist others we should behave as stewards who must someday give an account of ourselves.”
Source: Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life
“Let this be the criterion always: anything that makes you festive, anything that gives you celebration, anything that makes you dance and sing to such an extent that you disappear in your dancing, in your singing, in your celebration... is the only true religion I know of.”
“Let this be the hour when we draw swords together. Fell deeds awake. Now for wrath, now for ruin, and the red dawn. Forth, Eorlingas!”
“Let this be thy whole endeavor, this thy prayer, this thy desire,-that thou mayest be stripped of all selfishness, and with entire simplicity follow Jesus only.”
“Let this be to you the mark of true gospel preaching - where Christ is everything, and the creature is nothing; where it is salvation all of grace, through the work of the Holy Spirit applying to the soul the precious blood of Jesus.”
Source: The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 42: Sermons 2446-2497
“Let this be your wall of brass, to have nothing on your conscience, no guilt to make you turn pale.”
“Let this become your key - next time when anger comes, just watch it. Don't say.”
“Let this Christmas Day remind us that Christ came to invite us to offer love to ALL humankind and to open the door of God's Kingdom to Every soul.”
“Let this circumstance of our constitution therefore be directed to this noble purpose, and then all the objections urged against it by jealous tyranny and affrighted superstition will vanish.”
“Let this coming year be better than all the others. Vow to do some of the things you have always wanted to do but could not find the time. Call up a forgotten friend. Drop an old grudge, and replace it with some pleasant memories. Vow not to make a promise you do not think you can keep. Walk tall, and smile more. You will look 10 years younger. Do not be afraid to say, I love you. Say it again. They are the sweetest words in the world.”
“Let this coming year be better than all the others. Vow to do some of the things you've always wanted to do but couldn't find the time.”
“Let this great maxim be my virtue's guide,- In part she is to blame that has been tried: He comes too near that comes to be denied.”
“Let this hell be our heaven.”
Source: What Dreams May Come
“Let this little book be thy friend, if, owing to fortune or through thine own fault, thou canst not find a dearer companion.”
“Let this one great, gracious, glorious fact lie in your spirit until it permeates all your thoughts and makes you rejoice even though you are without strength. Rejoice that the Lord Jesus has become your strength and your song - He has become your salvation.”
“Let this point therefore stand: that those whom the Holy Spirit has inwardly taught truly rest upon Scripture, and that Scripture itself is self-authenticated. . . . Therefore, illumined by his power, we believe neither by our own nor by any one else's judgment that Scripture is from God; but above human judgment we affirm with utter certainty (just as if we were gazing upon the majesty of God himself) that it has flowed to us from the very mouth of God by the ministry of men.”
“Let this sad tale of death never be told without a tear: let every parent tell the shameful story to his listening children, till tears of pity glisten in their eyes, or boiling passion shakes their tender frames.”
“Let this serve as an axiom to every lover: A woman who refuses lunch refuses everything.”
Source: A Diary Without Dates
“Let this single hour atone For the theft of all of me”
Source: Flame and Shadow
“Let this time in your life cut you open and drain all of the things that are holding you back. I’m going to help you forgive the things that you won’t let yourself forget.”
“Let this truth go as deep in you as possible: that life is already here, arrived. You are standing on the goal. Don't ask about the path.”
“Let this veil be,
Let this secret be,
Let this affair be,
Let this truth be,
Let this vibe be,
Let this ecstasy be,
Let this contemplation be,
Let this love be,
Let this time be,
Let this thought be,
Let this life be,
Let this lover be,
Let beloved be!”
Source: The Inward Journey
“Let This Voice Be Heard fulfills the mandate of biography at its best because Maurice Jackson has captured the history of a great moral movement's origins in a single, extraordinary life. An indispensable addition to the antislavery bibliography.”
“Let those be thy choicest companions who have made Christ their chief companion.”
“Let those desert places in our hearts bloom.”
“Let those feelings out. Talk about it. Even if you’re talking to your journal by yourself in an empty room. That still counts. That still matters.
If you know someone who’s struggling and isolated, help them talk about it. Even if they don’t have the right words. Even if you sit in silence as they try to feel safe. Even if they shower you with complaints, excuses, and justifications. Even if you can see they’re just playing small, being irrational, blaming circumstances. Just be there. It all counts. It all matters.”
“Let those find fault whose wit's so very small, They've need to show that they can think at all; Errors, like straws, upon the surface flow; He who would search for pearls, must dive below. Fops may have leave to level all they can; As pigmies would be glad to lop a man. Half-wits are fleas; so little and so light, We scarce could know they live, but that they bite.”
Source: The Poetical Works of John Dryden
“Let those flatter who fear; it is not an American art .”
Source: Memoirs, correspondence and private papers of Thomas Jefferson, ed. by T.J. Randolph
“Let those flatter, who fear: it is not an American art. To give praise where it is not due, might be well from the venal, but would ill beseem those who are asserting the rights of human nature.”
Source: Memoirs, Correspondence, and Private Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Late President of the United States
“Let those love now who've never loved; let those who've loved, love yet again.”
“Let those only return to their homes who are called by the imperative duties which they owe to their families, and those who by their glorious wounds have deserved the credit of their country.”
“Let those parents that desire Holy Children learn to make them possessors of Heaven and Earth betimes; to remove silly objects from before them, to magnify nothing but what is great indeed, and to talk of God to them, and of His works and ways. before they can either speak or go.”
Source: Centuries of Meditations
“Let those possess the land, and only those,
Who love it with a love so strong and stupid
That they may be abused and taken advantage of
And made fun of by business, law, and art.”
Source: Robert Frost, a tribute to the source
“Let those that merely talk and never think, That live in the wild anarchy of drink”
Source: Poetical Works of Ben Jonson. Edited by Robert Bell
“Let those that play your clowns speak no more than is set down for them.”
“Let those who are awake awaken the dormant in every matter which desperately needs the liberating light of the truth or else the dormant will forever sleep!”
“Let those who are famished come that they may lay aside perpetual hunger and be filled with heavenly food.”
“Let those who are looking for some extraordinary people must know that all the extraordinariness is hidden in the ordinary people!”
“Let those who believe, believe. Let those who doubt, doubt.”
Source: Peony in Love
“Let those who can sing to sing on top of their voices and those who dance to dance to their very best rhythm.”
“Let those who desire a secure homeland conquer it. Let those who do not conquer it live under the whip and in exile, watched over like wild animals, cast from one country to another, concealing the death of their souls with a beggar's smile from the scorn of free men.”
“Let those who drink not, but austerely dine, dry up in law; the Muses smell of wine.”
“Let those who feel
the heavy brazen hand of fear
bear slavery:
freedom needs virtue,
needs daring.
She (for myth may veil
the spirit of truth) lent wings
to Icarus – and though he fell,
and his wings drowned
beneath the waves,
he fell from great heights
and still died free. Should you
die like a sheep, dishonored,
at the hands of a tyrant,
your grave will be an abomination.”
“Let those who follow me continue to build with the plumb of honor, the level of truth, and the square of integrity, education, courtesy and mutuality.”
Source: Maxims of Life and Business
“Let those who hanker after the past return to the past! Let those who want to leave the world leave the world! Let those who want to ascend to heaven do so! Let those whose souls want to leave their bodies expire quickly! The earth today should be inhabited by man with a firm hold on the present, a firm hold on the earth.”
“Let those who have deserved their punishment, bear it patiently.
[Lat., Aequo animo poenam, qui meruere, ferant.]”
“Let those who know know, and let me keep what little privacy I can.”
“Let those who like society better have it.”