O Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with O. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“One must be awake to his own duty, however little it seems, and then be vigilant in condemning those who would do bad things, and vigilant also to reward with honor those who are great in doing good things.”
Source: California's Story
“One must be aware that one is continually being tested in what one wishes most in order to make clear whether one's heart is on earth or in heaven.”
“One must be brave if one is to take the wheel.”
“One must be businesslike, although the glass is falling.”
Source: All Passion Spent
“One must be careful not to allow himself fall into the trap of hero worship; we are to take counsel from men, emulate their courage, and godliness, but we are not allowed to worship them. Heroes are men, and men make mistakes.”
“One must be careful with words. Words turn probabilities into facts and by sheer force of definition translate tendencies into habits.”
“One must be chary of words because they turn into cages.”
“ONE MUST BE COMPASSIONATE TO ONE'S SELF BEFORE EXTERNAL COMPASSION.”
“One must be convinced to convince, to have enthusiasm to stimulate the others.”
Source: Unrast der Liebe: ihr Leben und ihre Zeit im Spiegel ihres Briefwechsels
“One must be cunning and wicked in this world.”
Source: War and Peace: Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky
“One must be deeply aware of the impermanence of the world.”
“One must be entirely sensitive to the structure of the material that one is handling. One must yield to it in tiny details of execution, perhaps the handling of the surface or grain, and one must master it as a whole.”
“One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life.”
Source: Two Cheers for Democracy
“One must be frank to be relevant.”
“One must be just a little crazy to write a great novel. One must be capable of allowing the darkest, most ancient and shrewd parts of one’s being to take over the work from time to time.”
“One must be of one's time and paint what one sees.”
“One must be one's own inspiration.”
“One must be oneself very little of a philosopher not to feel that the finest privilege of our reason consists in not believing in anything by the impulsion of a blind and mechanical instinct, and that it is to dishonour reason to put it in bonds as the Chaldeans did. Man is born to think for himself.”
“One must be patient like the earth. What iniquities are being perpetuated on her! Yet she quietly endures them all.”
“One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!”
Source: Complete Works Of George Eliot
“One must be prepared to reject not only the schema of the physical library, which is essentially a response to books and their proliferation, but the schema of the book itself, and even that of the printed page as a long term storage device, if one is to discover the kinds of procognitive systems needed in the future.”
“One must be present, fully and deeply, in the garden of the now. In this state of presence, the ego’s chatter can be heard, acknowledged, and understood for what it is – not the entirety of our being, but a part of our human experience. It is in this mindful acknowledgment that the ego is gently guided to take its rightful place as a servant to the essence, no longer the master of our destinies.”
Source: The 7 Laws of Quantum Power
“One must be ready to question, able to believe and open to change. For without doubt we are easily deceived, without belief we learn nothing new and without change we cannot move forward.”
Source: The Dream To End All Dreams
“One must be reasonable in one's demands on life. For myself, all that I ask is: (1) accurate information; (2) coherent knowledge; (3) deep understanding; (4) infinite loving wisdom; (5) no more kidney stones, please.”
Source: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness
“One must be rich in thought and character to owe nothing to books, though preparation is necessary to profitable reading; and the less reading is better than more;--book-struck men are of all readers least wise, however knowing or learned.”
Source: Tablets
“One must be rich in thought and character to owe nothing to books.”
Source: Tablets
“One must be ruthless with one's own writing or someone else will be.”
“One must be simultaneously bursting with life and totally unreal.
Every acceleration produces an equivalent or even greater mass. Every mobilization gives rise to an equal or greater immobility. Every differentiation gives rise to an equal or greater indifference. All speed produces an equal or greater inertia. There is no need to brake. No need for a braking machine. Besides, such a machine has never existed. Only accelerating machines exist. Or ones for decelerating, which amounts to the same thing. But not for slowing down, because no machinery can produce that. Only language, music and the body can do that.”
Source: Cool memories
“One must be something to be able to do something.”
“One must be something, in order to do something.”
Source: Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann
“One must be stark mad, to believe that mankind can subsist without magistrates.”
Source: The dictionary historical and critical of Mr. Peter Bayle
“One must be strict even in little things.”
“One must be thrust out of a finished cycle in life, and that leap is the most difficult to make - to part with one's faith, one's love, when one would prefer to renew the faith and recreate the passion.”
“One must be truly able to say I in order to know the mystery of the Thou in its whole truth.”
Source: Between Man and Man
“One must be truthful and honest in his approach; a constant independent inquiry and not blindly following a certain blue print laid down by others”
Source: Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living
“One must be truthful with oneself about one's own motives, especially if one is to survive in the world. It takes rigor, and it takes courage.”
“One must be very cautious when using biblical data in systematic theology. The questions which we ask are *our* questions. Our answers must be capable of holding up in biblical terms, but it would be false to treat them as exegetical conclusions because the way we have decided in their favor is that appropriate to systematic thought.”
Source: Eschatology: Death and Eternal Life
“One must be very particular about telling the truth. Through truth one can realize God.”
Source: Sayings: The Most Exhaustive Collection of Them, Their Number Being 1120
“One must be very strong, or very stupid, or completely exhausted to face life with indifference.”
“One must be wary of the view that these loose and diverse coalitions represent a new form of globalized participatory democracy. The dissent industry is largely a product of the Internet revolution. Inexpensive, borderless, real-time networking provides advocacy non-governmental organizations [NGOs] with economies of scale and also of scope by linking widely disparate groups with one common theme.”
“One must be willing to stand alone - in the unknown, with no reference to authority or the past or any of one's conditioning. One must stand where no one has stood before in complete nakedness, innocence, and humility.”
“One must bear in mind that the expansion of federal activity is a form of eating for politicians.”
“One must bear in mind the odd angle or slant that the rays of love have to take in order to reach a heart like mine.”
Source: Humboldt's Gift
“One must beckon the spiritual warrior inside oneself whenever it is necessary for the task at hand. Courage is the fuel. Healing is the direction. Forgiveness is the balm. Love is the atmosphere Divine.”
Source: The Love of Devotion
“One must become as humble as the dust before he can discover truth.”
“One must believe neither the people of the palace, who ordinarily measure the power of the king by the shape of his crown, which, being round, has no end, nor those who, in the excesses of an indiscreet zeal, proclaim themselves openly as partisans of Rome.”
“One must believe that every living thing whatsoever must change insensibly in its organization and in its form... One must therefore never expect to find among living species all those which are found in the fossil state, and yet one may not assume that any species has really been lost or rendered extinct.”
“One must believe that private dilemmas are, if deeply examined, universal, and so, if expressed, have a human value beyond the private, and one must also believe in the vehicle for expressing them, in the talent.”
Source: Journal of a Solitude
“One must beware of ministers who can do nothing without money, and those who want to do everything with money.”
“One must care about a world one will not see.”