T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“To learn something, to master something, anything, is as sweet as first love.”
Source: A Day at the Beach: Recollections
“To learn that happiness is what brings success, and not the other”
“To learn the lessons of the past is to break the chains that would seek to hold us there.”
“To learn the worth of a man's religion, do business with him.”
Source: Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion
“To learn to be charming is fairly easy - you can teach somebody to be charming and to learn human emotions - or to learn the behaviors that go with human emotions. A sociopath, a smart one, will study the way we emote, and will learn how to do that quite effectively.”
“To learn to concentrate we must choose a prayer or meditation and follow this path with commitment and steadiness, a willingness to work with our practice day after day, no matter what arises.”
Source: Bringing Home the Dharma: Awakening Right Where You Are
“To learn to die is an heroic work.”
Source: Poems, dramatic and miscellaneous
“To learn to die is to learn to live. Death is the giver of life.”
Source: The Age of Absurdity: Why Modern Life makes it Hard to be Happy
“To learn to draw is to draw and draw and draw.”
“To learn to get along without, to realize that what the world is going to demand of us may be a good deal more important than what we are entitled to demand of it - this is a hard lesson.”
“To learn to live from the heart it doesn't just change our feeling about life, it actually changes our life.”
“To learn, to love, to walk in the light, that is all there is.”
“To learn to play seriously is one of the great secrets of spiritual exploration.”
Source: The Forest of Souls: A Walk Through the Tarot
“To learn to read, after all, is a descent into silence.”
Source: Silence: A Social History of One of the Least Understood Elements of Our Lives
“To learn to read is to light a fire.”
Source: Hugo's Works: Les Miserables (St. Denis)
“To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.”
Source: Les Misérables
“To learn to see- to accustom the eye to calmness, to patience, and to allow things to come up to it; to defer judgment, and to acquire the habit of approaching and grasping an individual case from all sides. This is the first preparatory schooling of intellectuality. One must not respond immediately to a stimulus; one must acquire a command of the obstructing and isolating instincts.”
Source: The complete works of Friedrich Nietzsche: The first complete and authorized English translation
“To learn to succeed, you must first learn to fail.”
“To learn true humility, we need more than a redefinition of greatness; we need even more than Jesus' personal example of humble service. What we need is His death.”
Source: Humility: True Greatness
“To learn what I know I have burned more midnight oil than you have drunk wine.”
“To learn which questions are unanswerable, and not to answer them: this skill is most needful in times of stress and darkness.”
“To learn without thinking is labour in vain, to think without learning is desolation.”
Source: Le Lun Yü en français
“To learn you need a certain degree of confidence, not too much and not too little. If you have too little confidence, you will think you can't learn. If you have too much, you will think you don't have to learn.”
“To learn your artistry and to be able to perfect that, is overwhelming. Especially when you are exuding love. The human emotion is a very delicate thing, so you have to be careful about how you present it because it can be kind of scary, or too overwhelming if you're not careful. So I try to just keep it love.”
“To learn, you have to listen. To improve, you have to try.”
“To leave a book is like leaving the better part of oneself.”
Source: The Silent Duchess
“To leave a friend is like a death and calls for grieving.”
Source: A Ring of Endless Light
“To leave a man's ego bigger, retweet him. To leave his faculty of reasoning better, challenge his tweet.”
“To leave a place, you'd best leave everything behind; all your possessions, including memory. Traveling's not as easy as it's made out to be.”
Source: M. C. Higgins, the Great
“To leave Afghanistan as a playground for terrorists and adventurers was simply not possible anymore.”
“To leave behind what was in reality a hell, and immediately have this good green earth revealed in more glory than most men ever see it, was one of the compensating privileges which make me feel that my suffering was worthwhile.”
“To leave her, us, our love, made no sense apart from the divine doing of God. She was both my woman and my idol. An unqualified god without an ounce of deity. She was the eye Jesus said to gouge out and the right hand He commanded me to cut off (Matthew 5:29-30). Though it was as painful as the extreme act of removing a part of the body, it was better for me to lose her than to lose my soul.”
Source: Gay Girl, Good God: The Story of Who I Was and Who God Has Always Been
“To leave home. It’s gotta be worth leaving.”
“To leave in search of yourself, of your real needs, is easier when you don't have to justify yourself to anyone, when there are not too many people bestowing you their attention.”
“To leave Italy at 17 without money and go to a country like England is very rare; Italians stay with the family until 30, 35. But I couldn't stand to live in this box anymore. I was getting bigger, and the box was getting smaller.”
“To leave no interval between the sentence and the fulfillment of it doth beseem God only, the Immutable!”
Source: The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an Introductory Essay Upon His Philosophical and Theological Opinions
“To leave out beautiful sunsets is the secret of good taste.”
“To leave positions of great responsibility and authority is to die a little, but the time comes when that must be faced.”
“To leave someone because their choices demand that we do so is not to give up on them. For even though I may never see them again, dear God you see them every minute of every day. And in the seeing, I ask that You see what I could not, and be what I cannot.”
“To leave the comforts of home, the mother world, one must have some place to go.”
Source: Under Saturn's Shadow: The Wounding and Healing of Men
“To leave the comforts of home, the mother world, one must have some place to go. Admittedly, the rites of passage of traditional cultures were to initiate the youth into a simpler society, a more homogenous culture than ours. As well, their interest lay not in the individuation of the person but in the integration of the unformed person into the collective definition of tribal masculinity. Still, take away such psychically charged images of identity, take away the wisdom of the elders, take away the community of men, and one has the modern world.”
Source: Under Saturn's Shadow: The Wounding and Healing of Men
“To leave the marriage behind is to step out of the spotlight. It means fading into normalcy, returning to ordinary life, perhaps an impossible admission for women who have built their egos on being one member of a powerful team. To divorce might be to admit defeat for women who have come to see themselves as extraordinary and who circulate with other famous and history-making figures.”
Source: Why They Stay: Sex Scandals, Deals, and Hidden Agendas of Eight Political Wives
“To leave the number of births unrestricted, as is done in most states, inevitably causes poverty among the citizens, and poverty produces crime and faction.”
“To leave the world a little better than you found it. That's the best a man can ever do.”
Source: Timbuktu: A Novel
“To leave the world better than you found it, sometimes you have to pick up other people's trash.”
“To leave the world richer—that is the ultimate success.”
Source: You learn by living
“To leave this life, to me, is a sweet prospect. When you read this I will be quite dead and no answer will be possible. All I can say is that I offered you love, and the best I could. All I got in return in the end was a kick in the teeth. Thus I die alone and unloved. As you sowed, so shall you reap.”
“To leave this world a better person, and for me to not be the only one who knows it.”
“To leave Venice felt as foreign as flying to the stars.”
Source: The Virgins of Venice
“To leave, after all, was not the same as being left.”
Source: The Pilot's Wife