T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“The surest sign that God is alive in you is joy.”
“The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us.”
“The surest sign that two people no longer speak the same language is that both say ironic things to one another but that neither senses the irony.”
“The surest sign that you haven't any sense is to argue with one who hasn't.”
Source: Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Times
“The surest sign that you're working with the life-affirming kind of discipline, rather than the spirit-depressing kind, is that you don't complain very much about doing what it takes.”
Source: The Desire Map: A Guide to Creating Goals with Soul
“The surest source of destruction to men is to obey themselves.”
Source: Obtaining the Grace of Christ: Institutes of The Christian Religion (Book 3)
“The surest step toward joy in the morning is virtue in the evening.”
“The surest test if a person be sane, is if she accepts life whole, as it is.”
“The surest test of discipline is its absence.”
“The surest thing about me is that I will change my mind.”
“The surest thing in the world is not death and taxes, it's death and eternity. Yet, we're so unconcerned.”
“The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.”
Source: Memoirs of the Life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan: In Two Volumes
“The surest way of being considered eccentric is just to be yourself. So few of us have the nerve.”
“The surest way of concealing from others the boundaries of one s own knowledge is not to overstep them.”
Source: Leopardi: Poems and Prose
“The surest way of finding peace of mind is that which helps the greatest number of others to find it”
Source: Grow Rich! With Peace of Mind
“The surest way of making a dupe is to let your victim suppose you are his.”
“The surest way of ruining a youth is to teach him to respect those who think as he does more highly than those who think differently from him.”
Source: Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality
“The surest way of spoiling a pleasure [is] to start examining your satisfaction.”
“The surest way of winning love is to look as if you didn't need it.”
Source: Works
“The surest way to a child's heart is to spend time with them”
“The surest way to arouse and hold the attention of the reader is by being specific, definitive, and concrete. The greatest writers - Homer, Dante, Shakespeare - are effective largely because they deal in particulars and report the details that matter. Their words call up pictures.”
“The surest way to be alone is to get married.”
“The surest way to be deceived is to consider oneself cleverer than others.”
“The surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others.”
“The surest way to be late is to have plenty of time”
“The surest way to become a pacifist is to join the infantry.”
“The surest way to become Tense, Awkward, and Confused is to develop a mind that tries too hard - one that thinks too much.”
“The surest way to bring goodness to yourself is to make it your intention to do good for somebody else.”
“The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.”
Source: The Portable Nietzsche
“The surest way to damage society is to call for a "great man" to lead it. The surest way to improve society is to become a great man to lead oneself and convince others to do likewise.”
“The surest way to deny our purpose is to search for it outside ourselves — or worse, to let others define it for us. The moment we look outward for something that can only be felt inward, we turn away from the very source we seek.
Trying to fit purpose into a sentence is like taking something alive — something ever-flowing, ever-changing — and freezing it into a monument of words. No matter how beautiful or precise, it becomes a still image of what was once moving. At best, it is a snapshot of a moment in time, a reflection that has already passed.
But life’s purpose is not meant to be carved in stone. It is a living current, flowing and evolving in rhythm with our life. To define it is to risk stripping it of its aliveness — we would barter something wild and sacred for something safe and fixed.
Purpose is to be lived, embodied, and surrendered to. It is something we meet anew in every moment we choose to show up in alignment with what stirs our soul.”
“The surest way to determine whether one possesses the love of God is to see whether he or she loves his or her neighbor. These two loves are never separated. Rest assured, the more you progress in love of neighbor the more your love of God will increase.”
“The surest way to ensure career extinction is to resist change and adaptation.”
Source: Becoming Generation Flux: Why Traditional Career Planning is Dead: How to be Agile, Adapt to Ambiguity, and Develop Resilience
“The surest way to escape anxiety and defeat despair is action. Do, don't dwell.”
“The surest way to find an actively managed fund that will have top-quartile returns is to look for a fund that has bottom-quartile expenses.”
“The surest way to get a bunch of queers to do anything is to make a rule nonsensically forbidding us from doing it.”
Source: The Remedy: Queer and Trans Voices on Health and Health Care
“The surest way to get a job done is to give it to a busy man. He'll have his secretary do it.”
Source: Speaker's desk book of quips, quotes, & anecdotes
“The surest way to get a thing in this life is to be prepared for doing without it, to the exclusion even of hope.”
Source: I Too Am Here: Selections from the Letters of Jane Welsh Carlyle
“The surest way to get a VC interested is to say that you're not interested in taking VC money.”
“The surest way to get what you need is to communicate.”
“The surest way to heal an eco-system is to connect it to more of itself.”
“The surest way to health, say what they will, Is never to suppose we shall be ill; Most of the ills which we poor mortals know From doctors and imagination flow.”
“The surest way to hurt yourself is to give up on love, just because it didn’t
work out the first time.”
Source: The Summer of Skinny Dipping
“The surest way to identify those who won't succeed at weight loss is that they tend to say things like "My goal is to lose ten pounds." Weight targets often work in the short run. But if you need willpower to keep the weight off, you're doomed in the long run. The only way to succeed in the long run is by using a system that bypasses your need for willpower.”
“The surest way to keep a secret is to make people believe they already know the answer.”
“The surest way to know our gold, is to look upon it and examine it in God's furnace, where he tries it that we may see what it is. If we have a mind to know whether a building stands strong or not, we must look upon it when the wind blows. If we would know whether a staff be strong, or a rotten, broken reed, we must observe it when it is leaned on and weight is borne upon it. If we would weigh ourselves justly we must weigh ourselves in God's scales that he makes use of to weigh us.”
“The surest way to learn is by doing it, but often, the lesson is: Don't do it!”
“The surest way to lose at any endeavor is to quit.”
“The surest way to lose democracy is to take it for granted. Every citizen must contribute to its advancement in some way. No nation or culture can long survive the absence of transcendent values and absolutes.”
“The surest way to lose sight of who you are is to constantly compare yourself to others.”