T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“To be a good sportsman, one must be a stoic and never show rancor in defeat, or triumph in victory, or irritation, no matter what annoyance is encountered. One who can not help sulking, or explaining, or protesting when the loser, or exulting when the winner, has no right to take part in games or contests.”
Source: Etiquette: In Society, in Business, in Politics and at Home
“To be a good storyteller one must be gloriously alive. It is not possible to kindle fresh fires from burned-out embers. I have noticed that the best of the traditional storytellers whom I have heard have been those who live close to the heart of things-to the earth, the sea, wind and weather. They have been those who knew solitude, silence. They have been given unbroken time in which to feel deeply, to reach constantly for understanding. They have come to know the power of the spoken word. These storytellers have been sailors and peasants, wanderers and fisherman.”
“To be a good student teach. To be a great master learn.”
“To be a good trader, you need to trade with your eyes open, recognize real trends and turns, and not waste time or energy on regrets and wishful thinking.”
Source: The New Trading for a Living: Psychology, Discipline, Trading Tools and Systems, Risk Control, Trade Management
“To be a good writer, become a good listener.”
Source: The Adventures of Lily and Leon
“To be a good writer, you not only have to write a great deal but you have to care. You do not have to have a complicated moral philosophy. But a writer always tries, I think, to be a part of a solution, to understand a little about life and to pass this on.”
Source: Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
“To be a good writer... read a lot and write every day.”
“To be a good Zen Buddhist it is not enough to follow the teaching of its founder; we have to experience the Buddha's experience.”
“To be a gourmet you must start early, as you must begin riding early to be a good horseman. You must live in France, your father must have been a gourmet. Nothing in life must interest you but your stomach.”
Source: La bonne table
“To be a great actor you just need to comprehend, so that's why I became a writer.”
“To be a great artist, you have to be willing to take risks and to do things that no one would ever pay you for - at first.”
“To be a great artist, you need to know yourself as best as you possibly can. I live my life and delve into my own psyche. Its more about exploring how I feel rather than making pale imitations of something that came before. We are unique beings, and the way we look at things is our own.”
“To be a great autocrat you must be a great barbarian.”
Source: The Mirror of the Sea
“To be a great band it's like you have that telepathy. You know when the bass player's in back of you without even looking. You know when your guitar player's coming up to you to lean up to you and sing into your microphone. You just know these things. You feel it. You feel the energy of it.”
“To be a great blessing and peacemaker in this world, one needs to know the contents of the Word, which teaches compassion and reconciliation. On its pages are the keys to unity and peacebuilding.”
Source: The Infallible Word of God: 365 Inspirational Quotes
“To be a great champion, you must believe you are the best. If you aren't, pretend you are.--Muhammad Ali”
Source: The Right Stiff
“To be a great champion you must believe you are the best. If you’re not, pretend you are.”
“To be a great composer requires immense experience... One acquires this by listening not only to other men's work, but above all to one's own!”
“To be a great digital marketing strategist, you must always be one step ahead. Understanding trends, staying curious, and embracing innovation is key to staying relevant in the digital age.”
“To be a great director, what does it mean exactly? It's not only about a great director, but also about being able to rely on the very special chemistry that goes between them. It not only has to be a great director, but the great director has to make his relationship to you, the actor, very special.”
“To be a great fast bowler, you need a big heart and a big bottom.”
“To be a great game, one of the teams has to score first.”
“To be a great leader of people - inspire them to follow you, not your rules.”
“To be a great leader, first become a great person.”
Source: The Leader Who Had No Title: A Modern Fable on Real Success in Business and in Life
“To be a great leader, you must be a great listener”
“To be a great man and a saint to oneself, that's the only important thing.”
“To be a great man it is necessary to know how to profit by the whole of our good fortune.”
“To be a great man it is necessary to turn to account all opportunities.”
“To be a great motorbike racer, the most important thing is passion for the bike.”
“To be a great offensive rebounder, you have to think like a defensive rebounder and battle for position while also being in the flow of your offense. And then it's just being determined.”
“To be a great pilot you have to make a pact with the devil, but don't let him swallow you up.”
“To be a great player, you have to
affect the entire unit.”
“To be a great teacher, you can't simply be looking at how to earn your income. And with a priest or spiritual leader - there's another relationship that makes those lives what they are. And in each of these cases you'll find elements of gift exchange thriving, and you'll also find a tension around it.”
“To be a hacker - when I use the term - is somebody who is creative and does wonderful things.”
“To be a head boy, you have to be very clever, you have to be a scholar, and I was never a scholar in any shape or form.”
“To be a healthy person, you have to be sympathetic to the child you once were and maintain the continuity between you as a child and you as an adult.”
“To be a hegemon is inherently ambiguous, usually implying some mixture of dominance and legitimacy, that is, being seen as contributing global leadership in a generally benevolent manner.”
“To be a heretic to-day is almost a human obligation.”
“To be a hero is to move a little action every day, to fight for your rights, your family, your acquaintances, knowing that the truth will prevail, to be hero is to look at the torn underpants and say they are doing well.”
“To be a hero means being the author of your own myth.”
Source: The Four Insights: Wisdom, Power, and Grace of the Earthkeepers (Easyread Large Edition)
“To be a hero or a heroine, one must give an order to oneself.”
“To be a hero you have to learn to be a deviant — because you're always going against the conformity of the group.”
“To be a heroine is to be outgoing and strong willed”
“To be a highflier and a name to conjure with, you must decide your dimension, plan your path, master the moment, focus on the future, determine your degree, push your persistence and lead
your life.”
“To be a holy person means that the elements of our natural life experience the very presence of God as they are providentially broken in His service. We have to be placed into God and brought into agreement with Him before we can be broken bread in His hands. Stay right with God and let Him do as He likes, and you will find that He is producing the kind of bread and wine that will benefit His other children.”
Source: My Utmost for His Highest
“To be a housewife is a difficult, a wrenching, sometimes an ungrateful job if it is looked on only as a job. Regarded as a profession, it is the noblest as it is the most ancient of the catalogue. Let none persuade us differently or the world is lost indeed.”
Source: Sixpence in Her Shoe
“To be a housewife is to be a member of a very peculiar occupation, one with characteristics like no other. The nature of the duties to be performed, the method of payment, the form of supervision, the tenure system, the market in which the workers find jobs, and the physical hazzards are all very different from the way things are in other occupations.”
“To be a human being among people and to remain one forever, no matter in what circumstances, not to grow despondent and not to lose heart — that’s what life is all about, that’s its task.”
Source: Letters of Fyodor Dostoevsky to his family and friends
“To be a human being is to be in a state of tension between your appetites and your dreams, and the social realities around you and your obligations to your fellow man.”
“To be a human being is to suffer. But it's the unnecessary suffering, it's the suffering that we visit upon one another, that really should be stopped.”