T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“To be good and to be cursed, it is not the same thing.”
Source: Clockwork Princess
“To be good and to do good-that is the whole of religion.”
Source: Eternal Platform
“To be good Christians you have to contemplate the suffering humanity of Jesus. "How can we bear witness? Contemplate Jesus. How can we forgive? Contemplate Jesus suffering. How can we not hate our neighbor? Contemplate Jesus suffering. How can we avoid gossiping about our neighbor? Contemplate Jesus suffering. There is no other way". These virtues are the those of the Father, who forgives us always, and Our Lady, Our Mother, shares in these virtues too.”
“To be good is just never to lose it. How does evil begin in a life? How can it begin? Yet we were there once.”
Source: The Italian Girl
“To be good is noble; but to show others how to be good is nobler and no trouble.”
Source: The Jumping Frog: And 18 Other Stories
“To be good is to be forgotten. I'm going to be so bad I'll always be remembered.”
“To be good is to be in harmony with one's self.”
Source: The Picture Of Dorian Gray
“To be good is to be in harmony with oneself. Discord is to be forced to be in harmony with others.”
Source: The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde
“To be good, is to be like God. Our purpose in life is to try and reach that standard. We will always fall short, but in our lifetime if we try our best to make a world where everyone is treated equally with respect, empathy, and compassion, the big payoff is that we will be rewarded with that exact thing in Heaven.”
Source: From A To Theta: Taking The Tricky Subject Of Religion And Explaining Why It Makes Sense In A Way We Can All Understand
“To be good means to give another what he really needs.”
“To be good or bad doesn't count: life out in this world doesn't depend on that. It depends on a relation of forces based on violence. And survival is violence. You'll wear leather shoes because someone has killed a cow and skinned it to make leather.”
“To be good to the vile is to throw water into the sea.”
“To be good to yourself ... Sometimes it seems that takes a special talent all its own.”
Source: Patty Jane's House of Curl
“To be good was more important than to be rich. To be kind was more important than owning a house or a car. To respect one's own word and to do it well, to risk something in life, was more important than being a star. To never sell your soul -- to have self-esteem -- to be true--was most important of all.”
“To be good we must needs have suffered; but perhaps it is necessary to have caused suffering before we can become better.”
Source: Works: The treasure of the humble, tr. by A. Sutro
“To be good you've gotta have a lot of little boy in you. When you see Willie Mays and Ted Williams jumping and hopping around the bases after hitting a home run, and the kissing and hugging that goes on at home plate, you realize they have to be little boys.”
“To be good, according to the vulgar standard of goodness, is obviously quite easy. It merely requires a certain amount of sordid terror, a certain lack of imaginative thought, and a certain low passion for middle-class respectability.”
Source: The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde
“To be good, and do good, is the whole duty of man comprised in a few words.”
“To be good, and to do good, is all we have to do.”
“To be good, we must do good; and by doing good we take a sure means of being good, as the use and exercise of the muscles increase their power.”
Source: The New Dictionary of Thoughts
“To be good, you need to believe in what you're doing.”
“To be governed ... is to be watched, inspected, directed, indoctrinated, numbered, estimated, regulated, commanded, controlled, law-driven, preached at, spied upon, censured, checked, valued, enrolled - by creatures who have neither the right, nor the wisdom, nor the virtue to do so.”
“To be GOVERNED is to be watched, inspected, spied upon, directed, law-driven, numbered, regulated, enrolled, indoctrinated, preached at, controlled, checked, estimated, censured, commanded… noted, registered, counted, taxed, stamped, measured, numbered, assessed, licensed, authorized, admonished, prevented, forbidden, reformed, corrected, punished… drilled, fleeced, exploited, monopolized, extorted from, squeezed, hoaxed, robbed… repressed, fined, vilified, harassed, hunted down, abused, clubbed, disarmed, bound, choked, imprisoned, judged, condemned, shot, deported, sacrificed, sold, betrayed… mocked, ridiculed, derided, outraged, dishonoured. That is government; that is its justice; that is its morality.”
“To be governed is to be watched, inspected, spied upon, directed, law-ridden, regulated, penned up, indoctrinated, preached at, checked, appraised, seized, censured, commanded, by beings who have neither title, nor knowledge, nor virtue. To be governed is to have every operation, every transaction, every movement noted, registered, counted, rated, stamped, measured, numbered, assessed, licensed, refused, authorized, indorsed, admonished, prevented, reformed, redressed, corrected.”
“To be governed is, under pretext of public utility and in the name of the general interest, to be laid under contribution, drilled, fleeced, exploited, monopolized, extorted from, exhausted, hoaxed and robbed; then, upon the slightest resistance, at the first word of complaint, to be repressed, fined, vilified, annoyed, hunted down, pulled about, beaten, disarmed, bound, imprisoned, shot, judged, condemned, banished, sacrificed, sold, betrayed, and, to crown all, ridiculed, derided, outraged, dishonored.”
“To be granite and to doubt! To be the statue of Chastisement cast in one piece in the mould of the law, and suddenly to become aware of the fact that one cherishes beneath one's breast of bronze something absurd and disobedient which almost resembles a heart! To come to the pass of returning good for good, although one has said to oneself up to that day that that good is evil! To be the watch-dog, and to lick the intruder's hand! To be ice and melt! To be the pincers and to turn into a hand! To suddenly feel one's fingers opening! To relax one's grip,—what a terrible thing!”
“To be granted some kind of usable talent and to be able to use it to the fullest extent of which you are capable - this, to me, is a kind of joy that is almost unequaled.”
Source: Wunnerful, Wunnerful: The Autobiography of Lawrence Welk
“To be grateful for the little that you have is better than to be dissatisfied for the plenty that you don't.”
“To be grateful is to recognize the Love of God in everything He has given us - and He has given us everything. Every breath we draw is a gift of His love, every moment of existence is a grace, for it brings with it immense graces from Him. Gratitude therefore takes nothing for granted, is never unresponsive, is constantly awakening to new wonder and to praise of the goodness of God. For the grateful person knows that God is good, not by hearsay but by experience. And that is what makes all the difference.”
“To be grateful is to recognize the love of God in everything.”
Source: Thoughts In Solitude
“To be Grateful/Thankful to Almighty, Universe, Parents, Teachers/Gurus, Relatives, Friends, everybody/anybody whether known or unknown to me whether living or non-living is the source of immense energy, strength and happiness in life.”
Source: MEET THE REAL YOU: A Recipe To Find Meaning, Purpose...Everlasting Peace, Love, Joy...Success, Growth And Happiness in Life...
“To be great at a few things and experience it, you'll have to say no to many things.”
Source: It: How Churches and Leaders Can Get It and Keep It
“To be great at whatever it is that you do, it's going to take some discipline to separate yourself from the average.”
“To be great, be whole; exclude
Nothing, exaggerate nothing that is you.
Be whole in everything. Put all you are
Into the smallest thing you do.
The whole moon gleams in every pool,
Because it rides so high.”
Source: Poemas de Fernando Pessoa
“To be great in any endeavor, passion is not negotiable.”
“To be great in life, you must be determined. You can only discover yourself when you are self motivated .”
“To be great in our times too often means to have great prosperity and no moral magnanimity at all.”
“To be great is to assume great concerns.”
“To be great we need to win games we aren't supposed to win.”
“To be great you need to have faith, In self”
“To be great, art has to point somewhere.”
Source: Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
“To be great, be whole; Exclude nothing, exaggerate nothing that is not you. Be whole in everything. Put all you are Into the smallest thing you do. So, in each lake, the moon shines with splendor Because it blooms up above.”
“To be great, be whole; Exclude nothing. Be whole in everything.”
“To be great, truly great, you have to be the kind of person who makes the others around you great.”
“To be gret is to be misunderstood.”
“To be grown up is to sit at the table with people who have died.”
Source: The Collected Poetry of Edna St. Vincent Millay
“To be grown up is to sit at the table with people who have died, who neither listen nor speak.”
Source: Collected Poems
“To be guilty of the sin of prayerlessness is to be guilty of the worst form of practical atheism. It is actually saying we can get along without His help while the evidence is very clear on every hand that we cannot. Could it be that the sin of prayerlessness steams from our unbelief that he is a living God who exercises direct influence on the affairs of men?”
“To be half a century plus is wonderfully exciting, because I haven't lost any of my past, and I am free to stand on the rock of all that the past has taught me as I look to the future.”
Source: A Circle of Quiet
“To be happy - that's all that matters.”