O Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with O. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“One must live well to know what living is.”
Source: Brecht Collected Plays: 2: Man Equals Man; Elephant Calf; Threepenny Opera; Mahagonny; Seven Deadly Sins
“One must live with all, e'en if life be hell: Crime makes shame, not monetary stricture.”
“One must look at the next step on the path ahead, rather than the mountain in the distance, or one would never reach one's goal.”
Source: Clockwork Princess
“One must look at what impiety hates, what puts it in a rage, what it attacks always, everywhere, and with fury - that will be the truth.”
“One must look for one thing only, to find many.”
Source: This Business of Living
“One must look hard through history to find when a clear understanding of the truth moved anyone to fire the first shot.”
“One must lose one's life in order to save it.”
Source: Maybe: Incidentally : the satire of Federico Mangahas : essays
“One must lose one's life to find it.”
“One must love a cat on its own terms.”
“One must love a poet on its own terms.”
“One must love everything.”
Source: Selected Works of Virginia Woolf
“One must love God first, and only then can one love one's closest of kin and neighbors. We must not be idols to one another, for such is not the will of God.”
Source: Our Thoughts Determine Our Lives: The Life and Teachings of Elder Thaddeus of Vitovnica
“One must love humanity in order to reach out into the unique essence of each individual: no one can be too low or too ugly.”
“One must love life before loving its meaning ... yes, and when the love of life disappears, no meaning can console us.”
“One must love people a good deal whom one takes pains to convince or instruct.”
“One must love the mirror in the face of truth, only if one loves the outlook of your inner compassion.”
“One, must make a continuing conscious effort to control undesirable emotions.”
“One must make one's own mistakes”
“One must make the warrior walk his everyday walk.”
“One must marry one's feelings to one's beliefs and ideas. That is probably the only way to achieve a measure of harmony in one's life.”
Source: Mindset StackingTM Inspirational Journal VolumeSS02
“One must need to be strong, otherwise one will never become strong.”
Source: The Portable Nietzsche
“One must never allow oneself to acquire an exaggerated sense of one's own importance. There's no necessity to burden oneself with absolutes”
Source: The Fountainhead
“One must never be either content with, or impatient with, oneself.”
Source: Letters to an American Lady
“One must never be perfidious to his master. In the Lun Yu it says: One should act according to the way even in times of haste. One should act according to the way even in times of danger. It says further: 'When one is serving his master, he should exert himself.'”
“One must never be satisfied with his ability to love. No matter where he is, it is always just a beginning.”
Source: Love
“One must never comment as an actor, never show that a character is shallow or vindictive, but let that be conveyed. I mean, none of us thinks of ourselves as being vindictive or shallow - perhaps we should.”
“One must never compromise with tyrants. One can only strike at kings through the head. Nothing can be expected from European kings except by force of arms. I vote for the death of the tyrant.”
“One must never despair upon losing something, whether it’s an individual or an experience of joy or happiness; everything returns even more magnificently. (Letters on Life)”
“One must never fail to pronounce moral judgment.”
Source: The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z
“One must never have spared oneself, one must have acquired hardness as a habit to be cheerful and in good spirits in the midst of nothing but hard truths.”
Source: Basic Writings of Nietzsche
“One must never judge the writer by the man; but one may fairly judge the man by the writer.”
“One must never let the fire go out in one's soul, but keep it burning.”
Source: The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh
“One must never look for happiness: one meets it by the way.”
“One must never lose perspective. You don't get lost in your success, and you don't get depressed about failure, and you keep it all in an even keel.”
“One must never miss an opportunity of quoting things by others which are always more interesting than those one thinks up oneself.”
Source: Marcel Proust, Selected Letters: 1910-1917
“One must never place a loaded rifle on the stage if it isn't going to go off. It's wrong to make promises you don't mean to keep.”
“One must never set up a murder. They must happen unexpectedly, as in life.”
“One must never settle on a perspective. A sad day was not worth surrendering to because it only meant the depressed heart had not seen enough. A happy day was not worth believing because it had not yet reached the night. There was no single weather for humans.”
Source: A Happy Ghost
“One must never tell a child what it is they should display acting.”
“One must never underestimate the profound bigotry and anti-intellectualism and intolerance and illiberality of liberalism.”
“One must not align himself with the beliefs that limit his thinking; free from all beliefs and superstitions; we all make difference.”
Source: A moment with God ; Poetry
“One must not allow oneself to skid down to isolationism and unbridled economic egoism. ... The second possible mistake would be excessive interference into the economic life of the country. And the absolute faith into the all-mightiness of the state.”
“One must not always think so much about what one should do, but rather what one should be. Our works do not ennoble us; but we must ennoble our works.”
“One must not assume that an understanding of science is present in those who borrow the language”
“One must not attempt to justify them, but rather to sense their nature simply and clearly.”
Source: Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words
“One must not avoid Schopenhauer. One should read him and then overcome him. It is the ladder that you must get rid of once you reach the top.”
Source: The Gods Are Not Dead
“One must not be afraid of a little silence. Some find silence awkward or oppressive. But a relaxed approach to dialogue will include the welcoming of some silence. It is often a devastating question to ask oneself, but it is sometimes important to ask it - 'In saying what I have in mind will I really improve on the silence?”
Source: Servant Leadership: A Journey Into the Nature of Legitimate Power and Greatness
“One must not be mean with affections; what is spent of the funds is renewed in the spending itself. Left untouched for too long, they diminish imperceptibly or the lock gets rusty; they are there all right but one cannot make use of them.”
Source: Letters of Sigmund Freud
“One must not be mean with the affections; what is spent of the fund is renewed in the spending itself.”
“One must not be negligent in learning. In the Lun Yu it says: "To study and not to think is darkness. To think without study is dangerous."”