N Quotes
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“No one can control their results. We can, however, control our attitude. When we practise compassion, it is most effective when it is unconditional and free from seeking an outcome – compassion is a matter of choice rather than a self-seeking action. And so, if we assist another human being from a place of presence and compassion, we are not looking to find our happiness off the back of others’ suffering. Nor are we trying to control them. Compassion is a conscious choice rather than an emotional knee-jerk reaction.”
Source: The Kindness Habit: Transforming our Relationship to Addictive Behaviours
“No one can convince Plato that Socrates was not a saviour and that he did not die for their sins during their generation.”
“No one can count the terrors that the earth spawns, catastrophic, gruesome, and the vast arms of the sea swarm with brute monsters bent on harm, and everywhere between the sky and ground lights bloom by day in flares and sudden bolts; and birds and beasts alike can tell of the whirlwind's whirling wrath.”
Source: The Oresteia
“No one can crave what truly harms him.”
Source: Aphorisms
“No one can create a noteworthy work without knowing the tenets of their own language and literature. Language is renewed but it never changes its essence, because the contracts that have come about over time for communication cannot be rescinded so easily.”
“No one can create negativity or stress within you. Only you can do that by virtue of how you process your world.”
“No one can create your brand for you. No one can create your story for you. To be authentically created, this has to be with you.”
“No one can cross the boundary into another -- for the simple reason that no one can gain access to himself”
Source: The New York Trilogy
“No one can dance better than his own shadow and no shadow can dance better than its own owner!”
“No one can decide the road that inspires us to kick-start a journey better than the one embarking on the path. We may find others joining our journey, but we have to take the first step alone to reach our destination.”
“No one can defeat a determined soul forever.”
“No one can define or measure justice, democracy, security, freedom, truth, or love. No one can define or measure any value. But if no one speaks up for them, if systems aren’t designed to produce them, if we don’t speak about them and point toward their presence or absence, they will cease to exist.”
Source: Thinking in Systems: A Primer
“No one can degrade us except ourselves.”
Source: The Booker T. Washington Papers
“No one can deny that a network (a world network) of economic and psychic affiliations is being woven at ever increasing speed which envelops and constantly penetrates more deeply within each of us. With every day that passes it becomes a little more impossible for us to act or think otherwise than collectively.”
Source: THE FUTURE OF MAN
“No one can deny that much of our modern advertising is essentially dishonest; and it can be maintained that to lie freely and all the time for private profit is not to abuse the right of free speech, whether it is a violation of the law or not. But again the practical question is, how much lying for private profit is to be permitted by law?”
Source: Freedom and Responsibility in the American Way of Life
“No one can deny that some Islamist groups have credential and popularity. But that does not mean they are a majority. If we are serious about democracy we cannot blame the people for choosing what they want. We must promote the kinds of procedures and processes that are helping the people move ahead.”
“No one can deny that the feudal wars, which were quite localized and subject moreover to restrictive regulation by the spiritual authority, were nothing compared to the national wars that have resulted, following the Revolution and the Napoleonic Empire, in armed nations, and we have seen in our own day new developments hardly reassuring for the future.
By compelling all men indiscriminately lo take part in modern wars, the essential distinctions among the social functions are entirely ignored, this being moreover a logical consequence of 'egalitarianism'.”
Source: Spiritual Authority & Temporal Power
“No one can deny the excitement of visiting another world.”
Source: The Selected Papers of Bernard M. Oliver
“No one can deny you or grant you anything. It all comes to you by virtue of your vibration.”
“No one can deny, this love I have inside, and I'll give it all to you, my endless love.”
“No one can deplete you of love when you have the realization you are already love.”
Source: Learning To Love: And The Power of Sacred Sexual Spiritual Partnerships
“No one can depute authority. It comes too much from personal accidents, and too little from reason or law to be handed over to others.”
Source: The Palliser Novels: Complete Parliamentary Chronicles (All Six Novels in One Volume): Can You Forgive Her? + Phineas Finn + The Eustace Diamonds + Phineas Redux + The Prime Minister + The Duke’s Children
“No one can desire the love of God without first knowing human love.”
“No one can destroy a man than his deeds.”
“No one can destroy the love God has for you. When you abide in truth, you also abide in love. And truth is evidence of love. Nothing can destroy the power of trusting and loving unconditionally.”
“No one can develop freely in this world and find a full life without feeling understood by at least one person.”
Source: To Understand Each Other
“No one can dictate purpose to another. We discover it for ourselves. Typically leaders know what makes them tick so they do have a purpose, be it to advance their career, achieve some wealth, and be recognized for their efforts. Where they need help is reminding themselves of why they chose their career and their company. They also need to decide periodically if they need to do something new and different. Purpose is an inner compass that points us in the right direction.”
“No one can disgrace us but ourselves.”
“No one can displease/aggravate others and yet attain moksha. Remain calm when someone displease/aggravate you. You will lose moksha if you retaliate. You cannot cause others strife and go to moksha, ever. If anyone causes you strife, maintain calm. If you go to avenge the strife, your moksha is lost.”
Source: Anger
“No one can do anything with politics and government," Lovisa said scornfully. "It's just two bickering sides who are exactly the same, pretending to fight about good sense and ideals when really it's all about money.”
Source: Winterkeep
“No one can do everything, but everyone can do something. - The Malwatch”
“No one can do everything, but everyone can do something”
Source: You Were Made to Make a Difference
“No one can do everything, but everyone can do something, and together we can change the world.”
“No one can do in the octagon what I can do. That 'Showtime Knee' - I never even practiced that once.”
“No one can do inspired work without genuine interest in his subject and understanding of its characteristics.”
Source: Advanced photography: methods and conclusions
“No one can do it better than You and I”
Source: No One Is Better Than You
“No one can do me any good by loving me; I have more love than I need or could do any good with; but people do me good by making me love them - which isn't easy.”
“No one can do the learning for you.”
“No one can do what you alone are meant to do.”
Source: Unlimited Intuition NOW
“No one can do without some semblance of immortality, and even less will they deny themselves the right to seek it out in the form of this or that reputation, starting with the literary... Since death has come to be accepted by all as the absolute end, everyone writes.”
“No one can dominate a population of 80,000,000.”
“No one can doubt that there are times when an abortion is justifiable but they will become unnecessary when care is taken to prevent conception. This is the only cure for abortions.”
“No one can doubt, that the convention for the distinction of property, and for the stability of possession, is of all circumstances the most necessary to the establishment of human society, and that after the agreement for the fixing and observing of this rule, there remains little or nothing to be done towards settling a perfect harmony and concord.”
Source: A Treatise of Human Nature
“No one can draw more out of things, books included, than he already knows. A man has no ears for that to which experience has given him no access.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche
“No one can drive us crazy unless we give them the keys.”
“No one can dub you with dignity. That's yours to claim.”
“No one can duplicate the confidence that RSA offers after 20 years of cryptanalytic review.”
“No one can earn a million dollars honestly.”
“No one can endure his own solitude.”
“No one can enjoy freedom without trembling.”