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 tremendous success, look for opportunity rather than security.”
“To be a trendsetter is much better and rewarding than a trend follower, both in life and in business.”
Source: Pitch Your Business Like a Pro: Mastering The Art of Winning Investor Support For Business Success: Six Key Steps
“To be a true artist you have to play the way you feel not the way others think you should feel.”
“To be a true comic, you have to have a signature move. You ever watch wrestling? And your favorite wrestler has the one move that he always does to finish his opponent off, right? Like when he climbs on the rope, and he always jumps off the top rope and finishes off his opponent - that's what a comic has.”
“To be a true explorer is to carry on your exploration even if it takes you to a place you didn't particularly plan to go to.”
Source: The Field Updated Ed: The Quest for the Secret Force of the Universe
“To be a true fashionista, you have to be on the best-dressed list and worst-dressed list.”
“To be a true hero you must be a true Christian. To sum up then, heroism is largely based on two qualities- truthfulness and unselfishness, a readiness to put one's own pleasures aside for that of others, to be courteous to all, kind to those younger than yourself, helpful to your parents, even if helpfulness demands some slight sacrifice of your own pleasure. . .you must remember that these two qualities are the signs of Christian heroism.”
“To be a true icon, you have to have style emanating from you. And you have to have figured it out on your own and have a point of view, a perspective, and be able to translate it in some personal way.”
“To be a true Progressive it is not sufficient to stand up and say that one belives in what has been promulgated as progressive principles. One must be progressive in heart and active in promoting the progressive principles of today, tomorrow and always. There is no resting point, for humanity is ever ascending to a higher and better goal.”
Source: Banking and Currency and the Money Trust
“To be a truly great artist, you must learn to combine your observations with your imagination.”
“To be a truly wise person requires that we recognize those domains best served by our intellect versus those best guided by our emotions.”
Source: Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense
“To be a utilitarian means that you judge actions as right or wrong in accordance with whether they have good consequences. So you try to do what will have the best consequences for all of those affected.”
“To be a value investor, you have to be willing [and able] to suffer pain.”
“To be a vampire meant a life that went on forever. To be human means covering that life, cherishing it's temporariness. There was value in such a thing, a certain bittersweet longing that perished with each passing day.”
Source: A Steeping of Blood
“To be a vegetarian is to disagree - to disagree with the course of things today... starvation, cruelty - we must make a statement against these things. Vegetarianism is my statement. And I think it's a strong one.”
“To be a very, very minor, eighth-tier celebrity, you realize, 'Hey, celebrities are just like us.'”
“To be a virtuous person is to display, by acts of will, all or at least most of the six ubiquitous virtues: wisdom, courage, humanity, justice, temperance, and transcendence.”
Source: Authentic Happiness
“To be a visionary parent, we need to keep working on ourselves, becoming forever new and improved.”
“To be a visionary, all you have to do is make decisions based off of your eyes instead of your ears and your memory.”
“To be a warrior is not a simple matter of wishing to be one. It is rather an endless struggle that will go on to the very last moment of our lives. Nobody is born a warrior, in exactly the same way that nobody is born an average man. We make ourselves into one or the other.”
“To be a warrior is to learn to be genuine in every moment of your life.”
Source: Shambhala: The Sacred Path of the Warrior
“To be a well-favoured man is the gift of fortune; but to write and read comes by nature.”
“To be a well-rounded individual and to know how to speak to both audiences of intellect and emotion means something to me. Not trying to be super woman, but I'd like to sit at both tables and on both platforms.”
“To be a well-rounded person and know what's going on in the world around you, to have a perspective outside of your sport, is important for every athlete. I'm blessed that our parents gave us that.”
“To be a winner, all you need to do is refuse to accept reasons to fail.”
“To be a winner of that, and to fall in the long line of traditional great backs at USC, to have your name in perpetuity, the fact that your parents are like icons... that's the greatest thing.”
“To be a winner you must want to win but must know of the chance of losing and must not fear of it.”
“To be a winner, you need to be born. Being a loser is a case in point.”
Source: WHO AM I: Author Hari Krishnan Nair
“To be a witness means to live in such a way that one's life would not make sense if God did not exist.”
Source: Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art
“to be a witness to evil is to be human.”
Source: City of Endless Night
“To be a woman and a writer is double mischief, for the world will slight her who slights "the servile house," and who would rather make odes than beds.”
“To be a woman condemned to a wretched and disgraceful punishment is no impediment to beauty, but it is an insurmountable obstacle to power. Like all persons of real genius, her ladyship well knew what accorded with her nature and her means. Poverty disgusted her -subjection deprived her of two-thirds of her greatness. Her ladyship was only a queen amongst queens: the enjoyment of satisfied pride was essential to her sway. To command beings of an inferior nature, was, to her, rather a humiliation than a pleasure.”
“To be a woman in law enforcement on television, I think, is sort of important. It's a powerful position for a woman to be in, but also to be looking at these new technologies, exploring these new technologies.”
“To be a woman in your forties, I think it's a fantastic decade.”
“To be a woman is a great adventure; To drive men mad is a heroic thing.”
“To be a woman is a horror I can little comprehend.”
Source: Hungerstone
“To be a woman is fated vehemently morbid.”
“To be a woman is something so strange, so confusing and so complicated that only a woman could put up with it.”
“To be a woman is to be a fighter! A woman has to be strong and has to fight every moment of her life - against a society that believes in patriarchy, chauvinism and male privilege!”
“To be a woman is to
harness the power of
the earth below you,
sky above you, and
fire within you.”
Source: The Way She Blooms
“To be a woman, if not a defect, is at least a peculiarity.”
Source: The Second Sex
“To be a working actor in England is a life. I think it's harder in this country. Either you are a superstar or a starving actor.”
“To be a world changer; resolve your own inner conflict”
“To be a writer does not mean to preach a truth, it means to discover a truth.”
“To be a writer is to embrace rejection as a way of life.”
“To be a writer is to feel everything and channel it into words that people can understand.”
Source: In The Now
“To be a writer is to sit down at one's desk in the chill portion of every day, and to write; not waiting for the little jet of the blue flame of genius to start from the breastbone - just plain going at it, in pain and delight. To be a writer is to throw away a great deal, not to be satisfied, to type again, and then again, and once more, and over and over...”
“To be a writer is to throw away a great deal, not to be satisfied, to type again, and then again and once more, and over and over.”
“To be a writer was always my greatest aim. I remember writing a play about Guy Fawkes when I was 10. I suppose it's significant, at least to me, that my first work should be about a historical figure.”
“To be a writer you have to write -- and no academic degree is going to do the writing for you.”