O Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with O. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“One should not try to be empathic with customers without first having an empathic internal culture.”
“One should not understand this compulsion to construct concepts, species, forms, purposes, laws ('a world of identical cases') as if they enabled us to fix the real world; but as a compulsion to arrange a world for ourselves in which our existence is made possible:-we thereby create a world which is calculable, simplified, comprehensible, etc., for us.”
“One should not utter a word about his own inadequacies. In the Oxo it says: 'When a man lets out a single word, the long and short of him will be known.'”
“One should not waste life. Life is a great possibility to be, to grow, and one should not just vegetate and be lethargic. We have got life without paying for it, which is why we think life is valueless. One goes on living life like we can simply waste it. We waste life by putting our attention on the trivial things: money, power, position, status, greed and prestige, but we never think about life and it's
infinite value. Everything else is just trivial in comparison to life.”
Source: God is Everywhere: You are Divine, Everything is Divine
“One should not wish anyone disagreeable conditions of life; but for him who is involved in them by chance, they are touchstones of characters and of the most decisive value to man.”
“One should not wish to enjoy where one does not give joy.”
“One should not withdraw from individuals and commit to the community what they can accomplish by their own enterprise and industry”
“One should not worry about the future, particularly if it hasn't happened yet.”
“One should not wrongly reify 'cause' and 'effect,' as the natural scientists do (and whoever, like them, now 'naturalizes' in his thinking), according to the prevailing mechanical doltishness which makes the cause press and push until it 'effects' its end; one should use 'cause' and 'effect' only as pure concepts, that is to say, as conventional fictions for the purpose of designation and communication-not for explanation.”
Source: Basic Writings of Nietzsche
“One should oblige everyone to the extent of one's ability. One often needs someone smaller than oneself.”
“One should observe not how you want things to be, but how things are in reality.”
Source: The Divine Government: Guidance for the Leader
“One should only question gods where none but gods can reply.”
“One should only see a psychiatrist out of boredom.”
Source: Doctors of Philosophy: A Play
“One should part from life as Odysseus parted from Nausicaa-blessing it rather than in love with it.”
Source: Basic Writings of Nietzsche
“One should pay attention to even the smallest crawling creature for these too may have a valuable lesson to teach us.”
“One should perform even an insignificant task with respect.”
“One should plan for spiritual enlightenment. At least bring a flashlight.”
Source: The Beginner's Guide to Living
“One should play and sweat. Life shouldn't be bogged down by books.”
“One should practice much sense, not much learning.”
“One should preach not from one's rational mind but rather from the heart. Only that which is from the heart can touch another heart. One must never attack or oppose anyone. If he who preaches must tell people to keep away from a certain kind of evil, he must do so meekly and humbly, with fear of God.”
Source: Our Thoughts Determine Our Lives: The Life and Teachings of Elder Thaddeus of Vitovnica
“One should put forth great effort in matters of learning. One should read books concerning military matters, and direct his attention exclusively to
the virtues of loyalty and filial piety. Reading Chinese poetry, linked
verse, and waka is forbidden. One will surely become womanized if he gives
his heart such knowledge of such elegant and delicate refinements. Having
been born into the house of a warrior, one's intentions should be to grasp
the long and the short swords and to die”
“One should rather die than be betrayed. There is no deceit in death. It delivers precisely what it has promised. Betrayal, though ... betrayal is the willful slaughter of hope.”
Source: Dracula
“One should read Borges more.”
“One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you'd be stricken blind.”
Source: Daring to Look: Dorothea Lange's Photographs and Reports from the Field
“One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you'd be stricken blind. To live a visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable. I have only touched it, just touched it.”
Source: Daring to Look: Dorothea Lange's Photographs and Reports from the Field
“One should refrain from contempt for the baser specimens of humanity, for whom liberation amounts to shaving the heads of women who have slept with Germans.”
“One should refrain from intoxicating drinks and drugs.”
“One should remain as a witness to whatever happens, adopting the attitude, 'Let whatever strange things that happens happen, let us see!' This should be one's practice. Nothing happens by accident in the divine scheme of things.”
“One should respect a defeated opponent!”
“One should respect an honest person even if he expresses opinions differing from one's own.”
“One should rest with a peaceful and loving mind. Even wrathful emanating Buddhas manifest solely out of the wish to liberate beings.”
“One should say before sleeping: I have lived many lives. I have been a slave and a prince. Many a beloved has sat upon my knee and I have sat upon the knees of many a beloved. Everything that has been shall be again.”
“One should see any opportunity to serve as a rare and precious gift...and never waste such an opportunity.”
“One should see that all appearance is like mist and fog.”
“One should see the world, and see himself as a scale with an equal balance of good and evil. When he does one good deed the scale is tipped to the good - he and the world is saved. When he does one evil deed the scale is tipped to the bad - he and the world is destroyed.”
“One should share their dreams with others right away in the morning. One can use my Lightning Dreamwork process. First, the person shares the dream without being interrupted. Then each person shares their thoughts about the dream by saying, "If it were my dream," not presuming to tell the person what the dream means in an objective way. Lastly, the dreamer is helped to make an action plan for embodying the energy and guidance from the dream.”
“One should steal only where one cannot rob.”
Source: The Portable Nietzsche
“One should stick by one's soul, and by nothing else. In one's soul, one knows the truth from the untruth, and life from death. And if one betrays one's own soul-knowledge one is the worst of traitors.”
Source: The Letters of D. H. Lawrence: October 1916-June 1921
“One should stick to the sort of thing for which one was made; I tried to be an herbalist, Whereas I should keep to the butchers trade.”
Source: The Fables of La Fontaine
“One should strive to understand what underlies sufferings and diseases - and aim for health and well-being while gaining in the Path.”
“One should study the Bible alongside other intellectual traditions - such as British constitutionalism, Enlightenment liberalism, and classical republicanism - in order to truly understand the American founding.”
“One should take care of one’s own [True] Self and do supervision of everything else.”
“One should take good care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life as laughter.”
“One should talk tough to friends in private, but, as the first phone call with the president of the United States, you're trying to build your personal relationship. You're trying to build on the alliance and the partnerships that we have. Usually, that tough talk doesn't happen with your friends and partners. And people wonder why the tough talk by Donald Trump is happening with Mexico and happening with Germany and happening with our pals, but it's not happening with Russia.”
“One should therefore not rely on mere words, but everywhere search for the intention behind them. (121)”
Source: Buddhist Scriptures
“One should think in terms of whether one is loving or not. The question of the object of love does not arise. With your wife, you love your wife; with your children, you love your children; with your servants, you love your servants; with your friends, you love your friends; with the trees, you love the trees; with the ocean, you love the ocean. You are love. Love is not dependent on the object, but is a radiation of your subjectivity - a radiation of your soul. And the vaster the radiation, the greater is your soul.”
“One should travel as light as possible. I can organize myself to go on a ten-day trip with just hand luggage.”
“One should treat one's fate as one does one's health; enjoy it when it is good, be patient with it when it is poor, and never attempt any drastic cure save as an ultimate resort.”
“One should try to be honest with oneself almost as a daily devotion.”
Source: The Gates of Janus: Serial Killing and Its Analysis
“One should try to live with his abilities rather than his deprivals.”
Source: The Cavalier