N Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with N. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Never confuse a clear path with a short distance.”
“Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.”
“Never confuse acquiring degrees with wisdom.”
“Never confuse activity with accomplishment.”
“Never confuse activity with action.”
“Never confuse activity with productivity.”
Source: What on Earth Am I Here For? Purpose Driven Life
“Never confuse activity with results.”
“Never confuse culture with state. Some of the richest cultures of the world often end up with some of the most regressive states in the world - Türkiye, Azerbaijan, India, Italy to name a few, in the context of 2023.
So I repeat, never let your disapproval of a government make you bitter towards a culture. Government never reflects culture - if it did, I would not have penned a single Turkish word in my works - as opposed to the fact that, the Turkish culture is an intrinsic element of Naskarean literature.”
Source: Bulletproof Backbone: Injustice Not Allowed on My Watch
“Never confuse desire with vision. Desire has to do with what we want. Vision has to do with what we need.”
“Never confuse education and intelligence. There are far too many well-educated fools in this city, while others who are much wiser are neither noticed nor heeded.”
“Never confuse efficiency with effectiveness.”
Source: Anarchy in the Age of Dinosaurs
“Never confuse emotivism for critical thinking skills.”
Source: Time For Dervin - Living Large In Geiggityville
“Never confuse faith, or belief — of any kind — with something even remotely intellectual.”
Source: A Prayer For Owen Meany
“Never confuse fighting for one's government with fighting for one's country.”
“Never confuse honor with stupidity!”
“Never confuse looking your best with doing your best.”
“Never confuse luxury with necessity.”
Source: When Veins Ignite: Either Integration or Degradation
“Never confuse motion with action.”
“Never confuse motions with action.”
“Never confuse movement with action.”
Source: The Good Life According to Hemingway
“Never confuse personal ambition with the dictates of patriotism.”
“Never confuse precision with simplicity - the best people make highly-complex things seem easy through natural ability.”
“Never confuse reputation for character.
Never confuse management with leadership.
Never confuse fame for success.
Never confuse knowledge with wisdom.
Never confuse lust for love.
Never confuse flattery for friendship.
Never confuse perception with reality.
Never confuse dissent for disloyalty.
Never confuse opinions with facts.
Never confuse pleasure for happiness.
Never confuse defeat with failure.
Never confuse honesty for truth.
Never confuse hearing with listening.
Never confuse courage for fearlessness.
Never confuse faith with feelings.
Never confuse age for maturity.
Never confuse contentment with satisfaction.
Never confuse liberty with license.
Never confuse unity for uniformity.
Never confuse change with progress.”
Source: Ageless Wisdom: A Treasury of Quotes to Motivate & Inspire
“Never confuse sitting on your side with being on your side.”
“Never confuse someone else's inability to do something with its inability to be done.”
Source: Life, the Truth, and Being Free
“Never confuse the faith with the supposedly faithful.”
“Never confuse the importance of things with things of importance.”
“Never confuse the person, formed in the image of God, with the evil that is in him: because evil is but a chance misfortune, an illness, a devilish reverie. But the very essence of the person is the image of God, and this remains in him despite every disfigurement.”
“Never confuse the size of your paycheck with the size of your talent.”
“Never connect yourself with the other person's pain. Just hear their need. Leave yourself out of the other person's feelings and needs.”
“Never consider the possibility of failure; as long as you persist, you will be successful.”
“Never consider whether you are of use; but ever consider that you are not your own but His.”
Source: My Utmost for His Highest Classic Edition
“Never consider your desires as your needs, because the more you desire the more you will suffer.”
“Never console yourself into believing that the terror has passed, for it looms as large and evil today as it did in the despicable era of Bedlam. But I must relate the horrors as I recall them, in the hope that some force for mankind might be moved to relieve forever the unfortunate creatures who are still imprisoned in the back wards of decaying institutions.”
“Never contend with a man who has nothing to lose.”
“Never content just to be, America is also obliged to mean; America signifies, hence its constant and riveting vulnerability to illusion.”
Source: Vintage Amis
“Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.”
“Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.”
“Never contradict anybody.”
“Never contradict. Never explain. Never apologize. (Those are the secrets of a happy life!)”
“Never copy yourself, always copy someone else.”
“Never correct or rewrite until the whole thing is down.”
“Never cosign a loan. Once you have cosigned, you cannot get out of it - even on your deathbed.”
“Never could an increase of comfort or security be a sufficient good to be bought at the price of liberty.”
“Never could I advocate nonviolence in this country and not advocate nonviolence for the whole world.”
“Never could I expect to be so truly beloved and important; so always first and always right in any man's eyes as I am in my father's.”
Source: Emma: A Novel
“Never could Mathias give the right answer, but always had he an excuse for being wrong.
"I was just a thinkin'," he'd fend himself. "If I hadn't been a thinkin', I wouldn't a thought that way.”
Source: The Fields
“Never count calories, never go hungry, only exercise if you want to!”
“Never count on making a good sale. Have the purchase price be so attractive that even a mediocre sale gives good results.”
“Never count on mercy from the world.”