O Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with O. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Our challenges don’t define us, our actions do.”
“Our challenges make us unique, and how we deal with them makes us unique.”
“Our challenges may be new. The instruments with which we meet them may be new. But those values upon which our success depends -- honesty and hard work, courage and fair play, tolerance and curiosity, loyalty and patriotism -- these things are old. These things are true. They have been the quiet force of progress throughout our history. What is demanded, then, is a return to these truths.”
“Our chances are always pretty good”
“Our changing climate has changed our politics.”
“Our chaotic economic situation has convinced so many of our young people that there is no room for them. They become uncertain andrestless and morbid; they grab at false promises, embrace false gods and judge things by treacherous values. Their insecurity makes them believe that tomorrow doesn't matter and the ineffectualness of their lives makes them deny the ideals which we of an older generation acknowledged.”
“Our chaotic, confused world has no greater need than to hear the message of good news - the Gospel of Jesus Christ.”
Source: Billy Graham in Quotes
“Our character ... is an omen of our destiny, and the more integrity we have and keep, the simpler and nobler that destiny is likely to be.”
“Our character develops with endurance of every circumstance.”
“Our character is basically a composite of our habits.”
Source: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition
“Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconcious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character.”
Source: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition
“Our character is but the stamp on our souls of the free choices of good and evil we have made through life.”
Source: The Life and Words of Christ
“Our character is composed of our ideas and our feelings: and, since it has been proved that we give ourselves neither feelings nor ideas, our character does not depend on us. If it did depend on us, there is nobody who would not be perfect. If one does not reflect, one thinks oneself master of everything; but when one does reflect, one realizes that one is master of nothing”
Source: The Portable Voltaire
“Our character is determined by what we do if every restraint were removed.”
“Our character is mainly shaped by our primary social community - the people with whom we eat, play, converse, and study.”
Source: Center Church: Doing Balanced, Gospel-Centered Ministry in Your City
“Our character is not defined by the struggles and conflicts we traverse in life, nor by wins and losses; but instead, by the battles we dare to fight.”
“Our character is not so much the product of race and heredity as of those circumstances by which nature forms our habits, by which we are nurtured and live.”
“Our character is often most evident at our highs and lows.
Be humble at the mountaintops, be strong in the valleys, and be faithful in between. - Unknown”
Source: The Shell Collector
“Our character is revealed by how we treat people who cannot help us or hurt us.”
“Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.”
“Our character isn’t defined by the battles we win or lose, but by the battles we dare to fight.”
Source: Serafina and the Black Cloak
“Our characteristic response to the mutilated statue, the bronze dug up from the earth, is revealing. It is not that we prefer time-worn bas-reliefs, or rusted statuettes as such, nor is it the vestiges of death that grip us in them, but those of life. Mutilation is the scar left by the struggle with Time, and a reminder of it - Time which is as much a part of ancient works of art as the material they are made of, and thrusts up through the fissures, from a dark underworld, where all is at once chaos and determinism.”
“Our characterization of collective folly is that sound judgment is not feasible when there is forced or false agreement in groups. We also show how group polarization sets the stage for risky and even dangerous decisions to be made. How we navigate between false agreement and polarization is the kind of mastery that collective wisdom represents.”
“Our characters are the result of our conduct.”
Source: The Nicomachean ethics
“Our charity is to be cordial...something that renews, invigorates and warms. Such should be the effect of our love for each other.”
“Our checks are pale. Our wallets are invalids.
Past due, past due, is what our bills are saying
and yet we kiss in every corner, scuffing the dust
and the cat. Love rises like bread as we go bust.”
Source: Words for Dr. Y.: uncollected poems with three stories
“Our cheeky sidekick. We're like a motorcycle and sidecar.”
“Our cheer goes back to them, the valiant dead! Laurels and roses on their graves to-day, lilies and laurels over them we lay, and violets o'er each unforgotten head.”
Source: Along the Trail
“Our chicken maniac, tell us how we can eat it deliciously?” “There's no time for that.”
“Our chief comforts often produce our greatest anxieties, and the increase in our possessions is but an inlet to new disquietudes.”
Source: Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith: With a New Life of the Author
“Our chief defect is that we are more given to talking about things than to doing them.”
Source: Freedom from Fear: Reflections on the Personality and Teachings of Gandhi
“Our chief justices have probably had more profound and lasting influence on their times and on the direction of the nation than most presidents.”
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Richard M. Nixon, 1969
“Our chief usefulness to humanity rests on our combining power with high purpose. Power undirected by high purpose spells calamity, and high purpose by itself is utterly useless if the power to put it into effect is lacking.”
Source: Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century
“Our chief want in life, is,
someone who shall make us do what we can.
This is the service of a friend.
With him we are easily great.”
Source: The Conduct of Life
“Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.”
“Our chiefs are killed. . . . The little children are freezing to death. . . . My people have no blankets, no food. . . . My heart is sick and sad. . . . I will fight no more forever.”
“our child will learn A LOT about how to love themselves from the way you love yourself. Yes, they will learn parts of how to have self-worth from how you love them. But most of what they will do in the way of self-love will be what YOU DO in terms of LOVING YOURSELF”
Source: How To Wear A Crown: A Practical Guide To Knowing Your Worth
“Our child will not be raised in tissue paper! We don't even want her to hear the word princess.”
“Our childhood dies little by little, and its agony is the history of our lives.”
“Our childhood dreams are dead gone”
“Our childhood experiences with food can trap us in destructive patterns for the rest of our lives.”
Source: First Bite: How We Learn to Eat
“Our childhood had passed over into history overnight. The transition was unnoticed by anyone but ourselves.”
Source: The Poisonwood Bible
“Our children ... are not treated with sufficient respect as human beings, and yet from the moment they are born they have this right to respect. We keep them children for too long, their world separate from the real world of life.”
Source: My Several Worlds: A Personal Record
“Our children and grand-children will not make us people, their availability does not make us different from animal”
“Our children and grandchildren are going to be mad at us for burning all this oil. It took the Earth 500 million years to create the stuff we're burning in 200 years. Renewable energy sources are where we need to be headed.”
“Our children and grandchildren are not merely statistics towards which we can be indifferent.”
“Our children and grandchildren visit us regularly in the Élysée Palace . The little ones are constantly running around outside in the garden. The first time they were intimidated by this place, but now they move around here totally normally. I think it is important that people really live in this place.”
“Our children are a reflection of us, we have to lead by example and let them know there isn’t anything wrong with them. We have to instill in them that it is important to step into their truth because they are unique and they do not have to walk in someone else’s shoes.”
“Our children are angry. The profanity is out in the street. It's on the buses and in the subway. Our children are trying to tell us something, and we are not listening.”
“Our children are being raised by appliances.”