O Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with O. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Once your kids get older and get out of the house, it's not like it stops. They're on the phone with me every day; I'm intimately involved in their problems.”
“Once your leaders get corrupted one way or another, it's hard to stop the organization from being corrupted.”
“Once your message is aligned with your purpose, it is a constant reminder for your success.”
Source: Harmonize Your Home 52 Tips to Energize Your Work From Home Life for Greater Success
“Once your mind becomes absolutely still, your intelligence transcends human limitations.”
“Once your mind is calm and full of love, there is no room for hatred or fear. Others will trust you because of your open heart.”
“Once your mind is caught on the right snag, there's nothing so hard about the mechanics of writing.”
“Once your mind stretches to a new level it never goes back to its original dimension”
Source: Wings of Fire: An Autobiography
“Once your mindset changes, everything on the outside will change along with it.”
Source: Life, the Truth, and Being Free
“Once your motivation is killed, it's kind of hard to revive it and bring it back to life.”
“Once your name becomes well known, politicians come courting.”
Source: Pride: the Charley Pride story
“Once your name gets out, people just want to crack you.”
“Once your passions are ignited, it becomes easier to find success in whatever field you choose.”
Source: Holistic Wealth: 32 Life Lessons to Help You Find Purpose, Prosperity, and Happiness
“Once your past no longer has the power to define you, your future is, quite literally, yours for the taking. Every single beautiful thing you could possibly want or imagine will be yours.”
Source: Single Dad Laughing: The Best of Year One
“Once your product is working, switch from not caring about this to caring about this a little bit.”
“Once your reputation's done/ You can live a life of fun”
Source: Memoirs of an Anti-Semite
“Once your self-inquiry and self-investigation process concludes that you are an extended particle of the Supreme truth, you would start understanding the Universal consciousness and its workings.”
Source: Enter Heaven
“Once your soil is fertile and weed-free, everything else becomes easier.”
Source: Charles Dowding's Skills for Growing
“Once your Soul becomes the un-corruptible one, only then, you will have attained a real level of unconditional self-love that no-one can break.”
“Once your soul has been enlarged by a truth, it can never return to its original size.”
“Once your soul is awakened, you never return to the sleepwalking state of mind. Some people become complacent in life. They are just going through the motions and not aware of truth. Seek the knowledge, wisdom, and the understandings that vivify your existence.”
Source: Heart Crush
“Once your thoughts reflect what you genuinely wan to be, the appropriate emotions and the consequent behaviour will flow automatically. Believe it and you will see it.”
“Once your writing is out there, you can't control how other people perceive it. All you can do is stand in your truth.”
“Once youths are awakened by Christ,
they will be ‘woke’ to the cause of Christ.”
Source: How to Grow Your Church Younger and Stronger: The Story of the Kids who Built a World-Class Church
“Once youve changed who you are or who youve portrayed in your music, the fans, theyll catch it... Once I feel like the world knows me for anything else but my music, then I feel like I failed.”
“Once you’re comfortable by yourself you learn to be more at ease with others.”
“Once you’re facing the direction of the deep within, awareness enters without a thought.”
“Once you’re in sales, you will also learn what sells and what not. Use the sensitivity of detecting market sentiments as a platform for running your business and in the identification of product winners in the future.”
“Once you’re out of the classroom, you might vow never to open another book, after being force-fed their contents for so many years. But know this: Books are the most worthy companions to take with you on this bitter-sweet journey known as life.”
“Once you’re sensitized to the negative effects of unhealthy choices, it gets easier to turn down what used to seem impossible to resist.”
“Once you’ve accepted your flaws, no one can use them against you.”
“Once you’ve actually died on stage… I mean, how do you top that?”
“Once you’ve lived a little you will find that whatever you send out into the world comes back to you in one way or another. It may be today, tomorrow, or years from now, but it happens; usually when you least expect it, usually in a form that’s pretty different from the original. Those coincidental moments that change your life seem random at the time but I don’t think they are. At least that’s how it’s worked out in my life. And I know I’m not the only one.”
“Once you’ve read too many trashy best-sellers, you begin to look for something with substance, something that attempts to define the universe.”
“Once Zhuang Zhou dreamed he was a butterfly. A butterfly fluttering happily around— was he revealing what he himself meant to be? He knew nothing of Zhou. All at once awakening, there suddenly he was — Zhou. But he didn't know if he was Zhou having dreamed he was a butterfly or a butterfly dreaming he was Zhou. Between Zhou and the butterfly there must surely be some distinction. This is known at the transformation of things.”
Source: Chuang-Tzu: The Inner Chapters
“Once Zhuangzi dreamt he was a butterfly...”
“Once, a French journalist told me that all my films are the same. I said, 'Excuse me? I work hard to make them different.' What she meant was that in my films there is a character that faces insurmountable odds, and they overcome them. But I thought that might be true, but you need certain factors for drama, and you need to overcome them.”
“Once, a friend’s mom said to me when I was very young 'You can't really invest in your looks as the only thing because it's a depreciating asset. I think this is trueit’s like putting money into a stock that’s going down. Put your money, put your effort, invest in your brain and talent which will appreciate and get better as you get older.”
“Once, a union job at GM or AT&T was a bridge to success. Now, a nonunion Wal-Mart job is a bridge to nowhere.”
“Once, after finishing a picture, I thought I would stop for awhile, take a trip, do things-the next time I thought of this, I found five years had gone by.”
Source: De Kooning: a centennial exhibition
“Once, as an experiment, I travelled around the world with a single suit. Before I left, I went to a tailor in Savile Row and asked him to make me a suit that I could wear in any climate and which I could use as a tuxedo, a dinner jacket, a lounge suit and a blazer.”
“Once, at a seminar, I heard a Westernized lama say that a meditator's state of mind should be like that of a hotel doorman. A doorman lets the guests in, but he doesn't follow them up to their rooms. He lets them out, but he doesn't walk into the street with them to their next appointment. He greets them all, then lets them go on about their business. Meditation is, in its initial stages, simply accustoming oneself to letting thoughts come and go without grasping at their sleeves or putting up a velvet rope to keep them out.”
Source: The Compassionate Life: Walking the Path of Kindness
“Once, at the dreaming dawn of history -- before the world was categorized and regulated by mortal minds, before solid boundaries formed between the mortal world and any other -- fairies roamed freely among men, and the two races knew each other well. Yet the knowing was never straightforward, and the adventures that mortals and fairies had together were fraught with uncertainty, for fairies and humans were alien to each other.”
“Once, BBC television had echoed BBC radio in being a haven for standard English pronunciation. Then regional accents came in: a democratic plus. Then slipshod usage came in: an egalitarian minus. By now slovenly grammar is even more rife on the BBC channels than on ITV. In this regard a decline can be clearly charted... If the BBC, once the guardian of the English language, has now become its most implacable enemy, let us at least be grateful when the massacre is carried out with style.”
“Once, during an interview in front of my wife, I was asked, "Are you one of those actors who brings your character home? Do you stay in character?" I said, "No, not really. I don't do that," and she started laughing. I asked her why. She said, "Well, you might think you don't bring characters home, but you do." So, while I don't feel like a character is lingering, it probably is.”
“Once, during Prohibition, I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water.”
“Once, during the drinking phase, Wendy had accused him of desiring his own destruction but not possessing the necessary moral fiber to support a full-blown deathwish. So he manufactured ways in which other people could do it, lopping a piece at a time off himself and their family.”
Source: THE SHINING
“Once, he hadn't been able to touch her without causing himself pain. Now, it only hurt when he didn't touch her.”
Source: The Psy-Changeling eBook Collection
“Once, he'd used it in song, but the songs in his heart had gone silent long ago, and he knew that one day so would his voice. A man with nothing inside him eventually had nothing to say.”
Source: Archangel's Storm
“Once, hurrying through a busy airport to get to my gate on time for a connecting flight, I came upon a lady in a wheelchair. Amidst the chaos of the hundreds of people rushing around us, my eyes met hers. The sweetest smile appeared on her face. I smiled back, but I knew she would never fully realize how that small gesture had filled my soul. I believe that God is in our everyday. Many moments occur in our lives which reveal his face, his touch, his voice. Look for him today. He will be found.”
“Once, I asked my mom why stars shine. She said they were night-lights, so the angels could find their way around in Heaven. But when I asked my dad, he started talking about gas, and somehow I put it all together and figured that the food God served caused multiple trips to the bathroom in the middle of the night.”
Source: My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel