O Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with O. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish.”
“Outstanding leaders have a sense of mission, a belief in themselves and the value of their work.”
Source: Effective Leadership
“Outstanding long-term results are produced primarily by avoiding dumb decisions, rather than by making brilliant ones.”
“Outstanding past work in photography, and in fact in all the arts, is very important to today's photographers. But it should be used for inspiration and not for imitation. These works should be something to be built upon, not to be repeated.”
“Outstanding people have one thing in common: They do not fear failure. They capitalize on the experience. Like the mystical Phoenix, they always rise from their own ashes.”
Source: Reconditioning: Change your life in one minute
“Outstanding people have one thing in common: an absolute sense of mission”
“Outstanding success in life, leadership, business, marriage and ministry always come down to a test of whether or not you will make a sacrifice when no one else is watching. The key to our success is what we will do when no one will applaud us or even notice us.”
“Outward appearance is nothing to Him if it is not an expression of the inner.”
“Outward appearances mean everything.”
Source: Perfect Chemistry
“Outward as well as inward morality helps to form the idea of a true Christian freedom. We are right to lay stress on inwardness, but in this world there is no inwardness without an outward expression.”
“Outward beauty is a true sign of inner goodness. This loveliness, indeed, is impressed upon the body in varying degrees as a token by which the soul can be recognized for what it is, just as with trees the beauty of the blossom testifies to the goodness of the fruit.”
“Outward beauty is not enough; to be attractive a woman must use words, wit, playfulness, sweet-talk, and laughter to transcend the gifts of nature.”
“Outward beauty is the frame for the masterpiece of your soul.”
“Outward change comes after we change from within”
“Outward failure may be a manifested variant of inward success.”
“Outward judgment often fails, inward judgment never.”
“Outward objects cannot take hold of the soul, nor force their passage into her, nor set any of her wheels going. No, the impression comes from herself, and it is her own motions which affect her. As for the contingencies of fortune, they are either great or little, according to the opinion she has of her own strength.”
Source: The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius
“Outward Peace is useless without inner Peace”
Source: Peace: The Words and Inspiration of Mahatma Gandhi
“Outward simplicity befits ordinary men, like a garment made to measure for them; but it serves as an adornment to those who have filled their lives with great deeds: they might be compared to some beauty carelessly dressed and thereby all the more attractive.”
“Outward spiritual pursuit” - This is an oxymoron but these days I see a lot of young men and women on “Outward spiritual pursuit”. Your mind can create an exact replica of everything your soul has to offer. It can make you feel like you are on spiritual path. But mind’s replica of solitude is depression. Mind’s replica of No-thingness (non-existence) is Nothing-ness (pessimistic outlook). Mind’s replica of Samadhi is suicide.”
“Outward success alienates a man from himself.”
“Outward, thanks to the knowledge of physical laws, man could subdue (or subjugate...) nature, but inwardly, he remained a slave to it. For, when all is said and done, at what is aiming all this display (or deployment) of activity, if not to realized outward profits, to provide material pleasure (or enjoyment). It is not the first time that men sell their birth right for a dish of lentils, and thus disown (or repudiate or deny) the best of thmeselves.”
“Outwardly, he may look like he's just making a hard decision, but inwardly, he is fighting a long, hard, and blood-riddled battle. A battle between the fierce army of tradition and the strong army of genealogy, the strict army of the past and the seemingly freeing army of the future. Who is winning? No one knows - no one but Daurat Meran, who has the power to alter the course of this battle.”
Source: Sabre Black
“Outwardly I am 83, but inwardly I am every age, with the emotions and experience of each period.”
“Outwardly I was all confidence and openness; inwardly I was spiteful and lonely and unaware of how to relate to the world. I wanted so much to be good but only knew how to appear that way by being bad.”
Source: Confessions of a Sociopath: A Life Spent Hiding in Plain Sight
“Outwardly one's life may suffer every kind of limitation, from bodily paralysis to miserable surroundings, but inwardly it is free in meditation to reach out to a sphere of light, beauty, truth, love, and power.”
Source: The Notebooks of Paul Brunton: Meditation. The body
“Outwardly, other than her hair, she had not changed much. She was still more or less the same cool, aloof woman who garnered more respect than affection. On the inside, however, it had been impossible to return to the person she used to be.”
Source: Not Quite a Husband
“Outwardly subtle, yet inwardly profound, Reiki is a powerful holistic therapy that stimulates the bodies natural healing abilities.”
Source: The Essence of Reiki
“Outwardly we might say we believe that liberty is a gift. But our belief that we have a ‘right’ to that ‘gift’ is the thing that’s certain to kill it.”
“Outwit, outlast, outplay. It's the tagline for the television show Survivor and it's damn near what presidenting is like, too.”
“Outwork the bullshit. That means nothing can rattle you when your conditions are set. And the way you set those conditions is by working damn hard.”
“Ouve mas não escuta. Escuta mas não entende. Entende mas não se importa. Se importa mas não demonstra. Demonstra mas eu, eu não percebo.”
Source: Caro Jovem Adulto
“Ouvi, que não vereis com vãs façanhas,
Fantásticas, fingidas, mentirosas,
Louvar os vossos, como nas estranhas
Musas, de engrandecer-se desejosas:
As verdadeiras vossas são tamanhas
Que excedem as sonhadas, fabulosas,
Que excedem Rodamonte e o vão Rugeiro
E Orlando, inda que fora verdadeiro.
Por estes vos darei um Nuno fero,
Que fez ao Rei e ao Reino tal serviço,
Um Egas e um Dom Fuas, que de Homero
A cítara par' eles só cobiço;
Pois polos Doze Pares dar-vos quero
Os Doze de Inglaterra e o seu Magriço;
Dou-vos também aquele ilustre Gama,
Que para si de Eneias toma a fama.”
Source: Os Lusíadas
“Ouviste, coitado?
Pisar em tal terra
Que folhas, a guerra
Virá se quebrar!
Criaturas que vagam
Nas trevas, que ficam
Lamúrias fornecem:
Te irão devorar!”
Source: Raízes, Lendas & Sangue - Uma Releitura do Folclore Brasileiro
“Ouvrir les yeux est un antidote au désespoir.”
Source: Petit traité sur l'immensité du monde
“Ouço a setlist do palhaço.”
Source: Caro Jovem Adulto
“Ouço-te ciciar amo-te pela primeira vez, e na ténue luminosidade que se recolhe ao horizonte acaba o corpo. Recolho o mel, guardo a alegria, e digo-te baixinho: Apaga as estrelas, vem dormir comigo no esplendor da noite do mundo que nos foge.”
Source: O Último Coração do Sonho
“Ova čista mala kapljica od bistrog malog izvora bila je premila, prodirala je duboko sve do srca.”
Source: Villette
“Ovakav je grad morao biti pun heroja: junaka sa svojim slomljenim srcima, epskim ljubavima i hrabrim djelima. Sad nije bilo traga nijendoj od takvih priča jer grad je bio uspavan i tih. I svi su prinčevi i princeze već odavno bili smješteni u svoje tople krevete, igrajući se s vlastitim anđelima i demonima.”
Source: Grad zvijeri
“Oval Window, 1953 - 1957
In 1953 came the first major changes in Beetle styling. Rear view was increasingly a problem and so the boys in Wolfsburg cut out the centre post and made the split into an oval. Some callous butchers are known to have manually cut the center post of the split rear window out either to improve rear visibility or to make their cars look newer!
This window stayed in vogue until 1958 with the first small square rear window model.
Note that the rear bonnet was the same as the Split, except for minor changes such as handle and ‘popes nose’ designs. Taillights are larger and also oval shaped. Outer lens is GLASS, not plastic and has a distinctive honeycomb pattern. These Bugs also came with pop-up (semaphore) indicators in the b-pillars.”
Source: Bugspray
“Ovalar dağları seyreder ve dağlar da ovaları seyreder. Bakışlar vasıtası ile her şey her şeye dokunur, aralarında pek çok kilometreler ve hatta ışık yılları olsa bile!”
“Ovalar ve vadiler, zirvelerden umudu olmayanlar için daha güzel görünürler!”
“OVATION, n. n ancient Rome, a definite, formal pageant in honor of one who had been disserviceable to the enemies of the nation. A lesser "triumph."”
Source: The Best Of Ambrose Bierce: The Damned Thing + An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge + The Devil's Dictionary + Chickamauga (4 Classics in 1 Book)
“Ove and Sonja are not perfect, but they are a harmonious couple. According to others, Ove and his wife together are like night and day. It is evident that Ove is night. This comparison does not irritate him. Ove is always a sad and unsociable person. However, his wife always amuses herself. Sonja affirms that Ove is night, because he is too stingy to burn the sun. Ove wonders why Sonja wants to be with him. She likes all sorts of abstract things – music, books and all kinds of wonderful words. Ove is a man of action. He likes screwdrivers and oil filters. Despite their dissimilitude and different perception of life, this couple love and support each other, because there is esteem between them.”
Source: A Man Called Ove
“Ove could not in all honesty remember how it all started. It wasn't the sort of dispute where you did remember. It was more an argument where the little disagreements had ended up so entangled that every new word was treacherously booby-trapped, and in the end it wasn't possible to open one's mouth at all without setting off at least four unexploded mines from earlier conflicts. It was the sort of argument that had just run, and run, and run. Until one day it just ran out.”
Source: A Man Called Ove
“Ove felt one should not go through life as if everything was exchangeable. As if loyalty was worthless. Nowadays, people change their stuff so often that any expertise in how to make things last becoming superfluous.”
Source: A Man Called Ove
“Ove’s wife decided on principle that she’d let Ove repaint one of the rooms in their house every six months. Or, to be more exact, she decided she wanted a different color in one of the rooms once every six months. And when she said as much to Ove he told her that she might as well forget it. And then she called a decorator for an estimate. And then she told Ove how much she was going to pay the decorator. And then Ove went to fetch his painting stool.”
“Ovechkin does not play like a Russian. He plays like an NHL player.”
“Over 1 billion people have no access to clean drinking water, and more than 2.9 billion have no access to sanitation services. The reality is that a child dies every eight seconds from drinking contaminated water, and the sanitation trend is getting sharply worse, mostly because of the worldwide drift of the rural peasantry to urban slums.”
“Over 1,057,000 people have been killed by guns in the USA since John Lennon was shot and killed on 8 Dec 1980.”