O Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with O. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Our greatest defeat is not in failure, but in giving up; the surest path forward is the courage to rise and try once more.”
Source: The Light in the Heart
“Our greatest dreams are never out of reach, only out of belief.”
“Our greatest duty and our main responsibility is to help others. But please, if you can't help them, would you please not hurt them.”
“Our greatest duty to our children is to love them first. Secondly, it is to teach them. Not to frighten, force, or intimidate our children into submission, but to effectively teach them so that they have the knowledge and tools to govern themselves.”
Source: Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year
“Our greatest enemies, the ones we must fight most often, are within.”
“Our greatest enemy is devious enough to tell us that we are our greatest asset, and that the investment of the whole of ourselves into the whole of ourselves represents the whole of our life. But what the person in the mirror is not telling you is what kind of ‘hole’ that will actually dig.”
“Our greatest enemy lives within us.”
“Our greatest evil flows from ourselves.”
“Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.”
Source: Emilius; Or, an Essay on Education
“Our greatest experiences are our quietest moments.”
“Our greatest failing is that we neglect the significance of a question and obsess over the accuracy of the answer. Therefore, we end up being satisfied with remarkably accurate answers to meaningless questions and dissatisfied with imprecise answers that attempt to respond to the important issues.”
Source: The Scoloderus Conspiracy
“Our greatest fear is that we will lose the love in our life... that we will be abandoned, left alone, bereaved, misunderstood, deprived, hated and rejected....but we can never be OUT OF LOVE. We are love and if our minds separate ourselves from who we really are it is a painful delusion. Ego personalities, including our own, might separate ourselves from love but love never dies because it is what we are made of.”
“Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don't really matter.”
Source: Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless God
“Our greatest fears lie in anticipation.”
“Our greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within.”
Source: Don Quixote
“Our greatest freedom is the freedom to choose our attitude.”
“Our greatest furies spring from events which violate our sense of the ground of our existence.”
“Our greatest gain is to lose the wealth that is of such brief duration and, by comparison with eternal things, of such little worth; yet we get upset about it and our gain turns to loss.”
Source: The Letters of Saint Teresa of Jesus
“Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising every time we fail.”
Source: 100 Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.”
“Our greatest good, and what we least can spare,
Is hope: the last of all our evils, fear.”
Source: The Poetical Works of Armstrong, Dyer, and Green: With Memoirs, and Critical Dissertations
“Our greatest happiness comes from the experience of love & compassion.”
Source: Pocket Peace: Effective Practices for Enlightened Living
“Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.”
Source: Light and Liberty: Reflections on the Pursuit of Happiness
“Our greatest heart-treasure is a knowledge that there is in creation an individual to whom our existence is necessary - some one who is part of our life as we are part of theirs, some one in whose life we feel assured our death would leave a gap for a day or two.”
Source: My Brilliant Career
“Our greatest hope does not rest in the death of suffering. Neither does our help lie in us having a full and perfect life, with no pain, no brokenness, and no Lyme disease. Instead our hope lies in God and we hope in the fact that this is our temporary home and our forever home with Him in Heaven is perfect. This hope- this beautiful and living hope (I Peter 1:3-4) is for the future but also gives us hope for our present days.”
Source: Path of Hope: Daily Reflections on Hope from the Psalms for the Lyme Disease Journey
“Our greatest hope is for the experience of joy, and often we are not as smart as we think we are when it comes to predicting what would bring us that joy. . . Hope that is attached to a particular outcome is looking for pleasure but fishing for pain, because attachment itself is a source of pain. It is best to hope for an experience of life in all its fullness-a life that can embrace both joy and sorrow, and will still be at peace.”
“Our greatest hope is to bring up children inspired by their opportunities for being helpful and loving.”
Source: A better world for our children: rebuilding American family values
“Our greatest human adventure is the evolution of consciousness. We are in this life to enlarge the soul, liberate the spirit, and light up the brain.”
“Our greatest human freedom is that, despite whatever our physical situation is in life, WE ARE ALWAYS FREE TO CHOOSE OUR THOUGHTS!”
“Our greatest illusion is disillusion. We imagine that we are disillusioned with life, when the truth is that we have not even begun to live.”
“Our greatest illusion is reliance upon the security and permanence of material possessions. We must search for some other coin.”
“Our greatest individual challenge in life is self-discipline. The self-discipline of a healthy diet, daily exercise, controlling our thoughts, selflessly serving others, and living a life of integrity.”
“Our greatest indulgence towards a man springs from our despair of him.”
“Our greatest joy and our greatest pain comes in our relationships with others.”
Source: First Things First
“Our greatest joys and inspirations are usually found behind our fears. The trick is just to find fun in the force of Nature, wherever it manifests.”
“Our greatest lack is not money for any undertaking, but rather ideas, If the ideas are good, cash will somehow flow to where it is needed.”
“Our greatest leaders are neither dreamers nor dictators: They are, like Jefferson, those who articulate national aspirations yet master the mechanics of influence and know when to depart from dogma.”
Source: Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power
“Our greatest lesson in this lifetime is to practice opening our hearts, even when it hurts.
Especially when it hurts.”
Source: Breakup Bootcamp: The Science of Rewiring Your Heart
“Our greatest longing is to be intimate.”
“Our greatest misfortunes come to us from ourselves.”
Source: Emile or Concerning Education
“Our greatest mistakes, if we look at them, and digest them, and interact with them, and learn from them… they can be the greatest moments of our lives.”
Source: Single Dad Laughing: The Best of Year One
“Our greatest national resource is the minds of our children.”
“Our greatest natural resources are our hearts and minds, together with those of the people around us.”
“Our greatest need is not to try harder. Our greatest need is a new heart.”
Source: Follow Me: A Call to Die. A Call to Live.
“Our greatest need is the grace of God.”
“Our greatest obligation to our children is to prepare them to understand and to deal effectively with the world in which they will live and not with the world we have known or the world we would prefer to have.”
“Our greatest pleasure, surely, is in fragments, just as we derive the most pleasure from life if we regard it as a fragment, whereas the whole and the complete and the perfect are basically abhorrent.”
“Our greatest power as nations and individuals is not the ability
to employ assault weapons, suicide bombers, and drones
to destroy each other. The greater more creative powers
with which we may arm ourselves are grace and compassion
sufficient enough to love and save each other.”
Source: Splendid Literarium: A Treasury of Stories, Aphorisms, Poems, and Essays
“Our greatest prejudice is against death. It spans age, gender and race. We spend immeasurable amounts of energy fighting an event that will eventually triumph. Though it is noble not to give in easily, the most alive people I've ever met are those who embrace their death. They love, laugh and live more fully.”
“Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there.”
Source: The passionate state of mind, and other aphorisms