O Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with O. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Our most profitable lessons are learned from failure, not success.”
“Our most profound breakthroughs often arrive when we’re not actively seeking them.”
“Our most serious obstacle is the uncontrollable urge to convert everything to the familiar, to reduce it all to the level of the primate brain; to reject the living, breathing reality of the totality of all possible attention.”
“Our most serious problem, perhaps, is that we have become a nation of fantasists. We believe, apparently, in the infinite availability of finite resources.”
Source: What Are People For?: Essays
“Our most significant opportunities will be found in times of greatest difficulty.”
“Our most successful leaders are people who put other people first … in the long run, that’s exactly what makes them successful.”
“Our most tragic error may have been our inability to establish a rapport and a confidence with the press and television with the communication media. I don't think the press has understood me.”
“Our most treasured family heirloom are our sweet family memories. The past is never dead, it is not even past.”
“Our most valuable and most instructive materials in the history of man are treasured up in India.”
“Our most valuable teachers are our enemies.While our friends can help us in many ways, only our enemies can provide us with the challenge we need to develop tolerance, patience, and compassionthree virtues essential for building character, developing peace of mind, and bringing us true happiness.”
“Our most widely known scholars have been trained in universities outside of the South.”
Source: The Mis-Education of the Negro
“Our mother always taught us to be in control of our voice and our bodies and our work, and she showed us that through her example. If she conjured up an idea, there was not one element of that idea that she was not going to have her hand in. She was not going to hand that over to someone. And I think it's been an interesting thing to navigate, especially watching you do the same in all aspects of your work: Society labels that a control freak, an obsessive woman, or someone who has an inability to trust her team or to empower other people to do the work, which is completely untrue.”
“Our mother Eve, who tasted of the tree, Giving to Adam what she held most dear, Was simply good, and had no power to see.”
“Our mother gives us our earliest lessons in love- and its partner, hate. Our father-our "second other"-elaborates on them.”
Source: Necessary Losses: The Loves Illusions Dependencies and Impossible Ex
“Our Mother Mary is full of beauty because she is full of grace.”
“Our mother teach us to speak, and the world teaches us to shut up.”
Source: Lost Children Archive
“Our mother the City is not a merciful mother,' she says as she gathers my hair in one hand. 'To be a girl in this city is to be weak. It is to call evil things down upon you. And the City is not kind to weak things. She sends Death the Endless to winnow the frail from the strong. You know this.”
Source: The Court of Miracles
“Our mother thought smartphones were liabilities. So, what you want, she’d say whenever we begged her for a smartphone or a smart anything, is to have a device that means you see everything through it, as if everything is at your fingertips and you can hold it all in the palm of one hand. It would certainly make you feel very important to yourself. What you’d be preoccupied with would be so important to you that there would be no point in you looking at anything else.”
Source: Gliff
“Our mother tongue, so far ahead of me,
Displays her goods, hints at each bond and link, Provides the means, leaves it to us to think,
Proffers the possibles, balanced mutually,
To be used or not, as our designs elect,
To be tried out, taken up or in or on, Scrapped or transformed past recognition,
Though she sustains, she’s too wise to direct.
Ineffably regenerative, how does she know
So much more than we can? How hold such store For our recovery, for what must come before
Our instauration, that future we will owe
To what? To whom? To countless of our kind,
Who, tending meanings, grew Man’s unknown Mind.”
“Our mother used to say that a hero doesn't always have to slay a dragon to save the day." She swept a lock of hair behind her ear in an honest gesture, then pursed her lips and looked back at him, her gaze endearing. "Sometimes he just walks through the fire alongside you, and that's enough.”
Source: The Illusionist's Apprentice
“Our mother was killed for something she did not do. She was taken away from us. That's as personal as it can get. But, the fact that the government facilitated the invention of evidence in order to convict someone of a capital crime, that is something that should concern everybody.”
“Our mother's first gift to us comes at the moment we are born, because Mom, as she will subsequently remind us over and over, gives us the Gift of Life Like many of the gifts we receive from our mothers, the Gift of Life usually doesn't fit properly and is almost never returnable without a major hassle.”
“Our mothers always remain the strangest, craziest people we've ever met.”
Source: Practicalities
“Our mothers and fathers want change. They worked all of their lives, but today live in destitution.”
“Our mothers and grandmothers ... moving to music not yet written.”
“Our mothers are our first teachers, and we teach others the same lessons we learn from them. As a child, when your mother believes in you, you believe in yourself, and when that happens, there is nothing you can’t do. As a mother, that is the greatest gift we can give to a child.”
Source: She Walks in Beauty: A Woman's Journey Through Poems
“Our mothers are our last taste of unconditional love on this earth.”
“Our mothers are our most direct connection to our history and gender.”
Source: Motherless Daughters: The Legacy of Loss
“Our mothers are racked with the pains of our physical birth; we ourselves suffer the longer pains of our spiritual growth.”
Source: The Promised Land
“Our mothers give us so many gifts. They give us the precious gift of life, of course, but they also leave treasured lessons that can guide us along our journeys even when they are no longer with us.”
“Our mothers put God first when they fill their highest mission within the walls of their own homes.”
Source: The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson
“Our mothers were largely silent about what happened to them as they passed through this midlife change. But a new generation of women has already started to break the wall of silence.”
“Our mothers who have gone are buried in our bodies. It can be said that we were born with dead mothers in our body.”
“Our Mothers
Your eyes see hope for tomorrow
Your hearts are made of gold that many wish to borrow
Your minds sharp enough for others follow
Your hands ensure that children grow
Your feet go places where some cannot know
Your courage makes you stand where strong winds blow
Your presence becomes warmth, regardless of the snow
Your influence can be felt within a stone’s throw
You hold nothing back for whom you protect
You speak words with good intent
You treat others with so much respect
You fight and never retract
You pursue a path that keeps your faith intact
You fulfil dreams and make a significant impact
You pass through tough times while remaining steadfast
You conquer battles as you pray and fast
You instil discipline that becomes a great shield
You serve others until they succeed
You give inspiration among those who bleed
You understand that you are rearing a rare breed
You plant and nurture the right seed
You help attract breakthroughs with speed
You care for those in need
You touch lives, indeed
You lead your own to be great every step of the way
You play your role very well, even without a pay
You smile as if every day is your pay day
You exude wisdom and put it on full display
You save generations from going astray
You run your race just like in a relay
You pass the baton with no delay
You carry so much worth as you get to be gray
Hence, we salute you, our Mothers”
Source: From My Mother's Classroom: A Badge of Honour for a Remarkable Woman
“Our mothers' generation fought so hard to change things and we're the first generation to benefit. And now you get girls in their twenties who say they're not feminists.”
“Our motivations are as important as our goals, use this to understand your enemy. With such knowledge you can either defeat him or, better, manipulate him into becoming your ally.
=Miles Teg”
Source: Hunters of Dune
“Our motive is not to prove our self-worth, but to live up to our possibilities.”
“Our motives and thoughts ultimately influence our actions.”
“Our motives and thoughts ultimately influence our actions. Jesus repeatedly emphasized the power of good thoughts and proper motives: 'Look unto me in every thought; doubt not, fear not' In Proverbs we read, 'For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he”
“Our motor car is our supreme form of privacy when we are away from home.”
“Our motto is 'from cradle to grave.' Unwanted babies are delivered to us through our cradle programme, where we work to find new homes for them for parents desiring children. In addition to our healthcare programmes, we also have a programme for burying the dead, meeting all the necessary expenses for those who are unable to do so.”
“Our motto is just to play the whole 48 minutes. We are here to play it from start to finish. Things will go up and down. We will make runs and they will make runs. But we just keep playing.”
“Our motto is to work for peace based on social justice. Our mandate is to improve the condition, health and safety of workers, and our mission is universal.”
“Our motto is 'unity in diversity' but what we have had for a long time, and increasingly so, is fragmentation ... ethically and spiritually.”
Source: Julia's Jihad
“Our motto is whenever you make a mistake, do it twice.”
“Our motto is, "With God, anywhere: without God, nowhere."”
Source: The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 37
“Our motto is, 'Be gentle and subversive.'”
“Our motto must continue to be perseverance. And ultimately I trust the Almighty will crown our efforts with success.”
“Our motto should be: let us make peace so that we can concentrate on the really important work that needs to be done. That is, alleviating the plight of the poor and the defenceless, for as long as most of humanity feels the pain of poverty we all remain prisoners.”
“Our mountains will always be, our rivers will always be, our people will always be, The American invaders defeated, we will rebuild our land ten times more beautiful.”