P Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with P. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Put First Things First! These four words cover an entire philosophy which can be applied with profit by every business leader, by every executive and by every employee.”
“Put forth the necessary concentrated effort and you will be wonderfully helped form sources unknown to you.”
“Put forth thy hand, reach at the glorious gold.”
“Put forth thy leaf, thou lofty plane, East wind and frost are safely gone; With zephyr mild and balmy rain The summer comes serenely on; Earth, air, and sun and skies combine To promise all that's kind and fair: But thou, O human heart of mine, Be still, contain thyself, and bear.”
Source: Poems: With a Memoir
“Put four fingers back in baby, please.”
Source: Summer Vacation
“Put from you the belief that 'I have been wronged', and with it will go the feeling. Reject your sense of injury, and the injury itself disappears.”
“Put glibly:
In science if you know what you are doing you should not be doing it.
In engineering if you do not know what you are doing you should not be doing it.
Of course, you seldom, if ever, see either pure state.”
“Put God and me in a cage, what do you think who will win. God, because I created him.”
“Put God behind everything-human beings, animals, food, and work. Make this a habit.”
“Put God first and guard your health—He is the ‘1’ in your life. Everything else—money, family, friends, possessions—are just zeros. Add as many zeros as you want, they only gain value when the ‘1’ stands firm. Lose the ‘1’, and everything else becomes nothing. (Moni, 2026)
Reference list: Moni, M.F., 2026. Put God first and protect your health—the ‘1’ that gives value to all your zeros.”
“Put God first in everything you do ... Everything that I have is by the grace of God, understand that. It's a gift ... I didn't always stick with Him, but He stuck with me.”
“Put God first in everything you do.”
“Put God first in your life, and you will live joyfully!”
“Put God in your debt. Every stroke shall be repaid. The longer the payment is with-held, the better for you; for compound interest on compound interest is the rate and usage of this exchequer.”
Source: THE AMERICAN SCHOLAR SELF-RELIANCE COMPENSATION
“Put God to work for you and maximize your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.”
“Put good energy out. Get good energy back.”
“Put great car and value into what you do, and that value grows far more valuable as it spreads out beyond.”
“Put him in there and chain him up," he ordered curtly. "Yes, that chain, you fool - do you see any other chain in that cell? Peaceable Sherwood? I'm tired of hearing about Peaceable Sherwood! Turn him loose in the cell for the night. - Which one of you said 'Where'll he be by morning?' Where does he look like he's going to be by morning, I ask you - a hundred and fifty miles away?" I was, to be exact, only seven and a half miles away by morning.”
“Put hot triggers in the path of motivated people.”
“Put in an honest day's work. It is the building block of a spiritual life.”
“Put in enough that we prosper, not insufficient that we're impoverished.”
“Put in every joke that's not a dud and then let's just start pulling the ones that work the least. You're just constantly sifting until you're left with the biggest chunks of gold. The audience also tells you what some of those chunks are. You can have your own favorites, and then, once you screen it for an audience, the audience tells you what they're entertained by. I feel like that's a big part of it.”
“Put in hours and hours of planning, figure everything down to the last detail, then what? Burglar alarms start going off all overthe place for no sensible reason. A gun fires of its own accord and a man is shot. And a broken-down old house no good for anything but chasing kids has to trip over us. Blind accidents. What can you do against blind accidents?”
“Put in my place by these words, I jumped to my feet and bowed before the peasant. How could I, a minor element in God's vast circle of creation, belittle another element in the circle, be it an animal or a human being?
"I apologize to you and your ox," I said. "Please forgive me.”
Source: The Forty Rules of Love
“Put in the superlatives yourselves, I'm running out. Money doesn't thrill me or make me play better because there are benefits to being wealthy.”
“Put in the time. To position yourself as an expert, practice, apply, experiment, volunteer, and work within your area of knowledge to deepen your own understanding as you build real-life experience.”
Source: The Art of Preparation: 8 Ways to Plan with Purpose & Intention for Positive Impact
“Put in the work. Sustainable culture change takes time, patience, persistence, know-how and passion, but it’s not impossible and it’s completely worthwhile.”
Source: Leadership That Rocks
“Put in your mind Death and here After ,
Advisable like you put money in your mind.”
“Put into motion what you discover in YOUR inner potential and shape performance with high knowledge.”
“Put it away or use it."
I chuckled at Butch's threat. Flipping the sword in the air, I caught it with ease.
"Show off," he muttered swabbing at the wood around my chair.”
Source: Inherited
“Put it back in the horse!”
“Put it before them briefly so they will read it, clearly so they will appreciate it, picturesquely so they will remember it and, above all, accurately so they will be guided by its light.”
“Put it down in capital letters: SELF-DEVELOPMENT IS A HIGHER DUTY THAN SELF-SACRIFICE. The thing that most retards and militates against women’s self development is self-sacrifice.”
“Put it off for a bit. All life is putting off. Well, not entirely.”
Source: Earthly Powers
“Put it out of the power of truth to give you an ill character. If anybody reports you not to be an honest man let your practice give him the lie.”
“Put it out of your mind. In no time, it will be a forgotten memory.”
“Put it this way, George,” he suggested, when he had savoured the night air for a moment. “You traveling on business, or for pleasure in this thing? Which is it?
Smiley’s reply was also slow in coming, and as indirect: “I was never conscious of pleasure,” he said. “Or perhaps I mean: of the distinction.”
Source: Smiley's People
“Put it this way. If you or I were to build a machine, we'd go about it logically, with the fewest necessary parts moving in clean, efficient ways. But living nature doesn't work that way at all. It builds via the most fantastic redundancies and curlicues, millions of little variations around a theme, so that if three-quarters go haywire, life survives. The results are Rube Goldberg devices, but sturdy Rube Goldberg devices, unimaginably weird and densely layered Rube Goldberg devices, literally unimaginable in that our brains aren't adequate to comprehend the sort of microscopic megacities hidden within the tiniest cell. I thought that was neat.”
Source: All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me
“Put it this way: Jazz is a good barometer of freedom... In its beginnings, the United States of America spawned certain ideals of freedom and independence through which, eventually, jazz was evolved, and the music is so free that many people say it is the only unhampered, unhindered expression of complete freedom yet produced in this country.”
“Put it this way: singing is not my day job.”
“Put Karate into your everyday living, that is how you will see true beauty.”
“Put least trust in him who is foremost to praise you, nor judge of a road till it draw to the end.”
Source: Songs, Legends and Ballads
“Put legs to your prayers”
“Put life first and build systems to support life instead of putting money (work) first and having your family support your career.”
“Put life into living, and do it with enthusiasm!”
“Put light against light - you have nothing. Put dark against dark - you have nothing. It's the contrast of light and dark that each give the other one meaning.”
“Put me anywhere on God's green earth, I'll triple my worth.
Motherf--. I, will, not, lose.”
“Put me down, I’m too heavy.”
“You’re small enough to fit in my pocket.”
Source: The Last Goodbye
“Put me down.”
Of course, the man couldn’t hear her. She barely heard the scratchy whisper.
“I said—”
“I heard you, Mrs. McBride, but I’m not putting you down.”
Source: Hattie of Crooked Creek
“Put me down.”
Of course, the man couldn’t hear her. She barely heard the scratchy whisper.
“I said—”
“I heard you, Mrs. McBride, but I’m not putting you down.”
—Carson and Hattie in “Hattie of Crooked Creek”
Source: Hattie of Crooked Creek