W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Whatever obscurities may involve religious tenets, humility and love constitute the essence of true religion; the humble is formed to adore, the loving to associate with eternal love.”
“Whatever obstacle comes your way, you gotta be prepared to jump over it! And I think that's what separates the legends from the regular artists. It's all in how you manage that success, and how you deal with the controversy when it actually comes.”
“Whatever obstacles appear in your path, put your head down and get past them. Those obstacles aren't real. They're just God's way of testing you. He's asking you, 'Do you want to make it or not?'”
Source: Do You!: 12 Laws to Access the Power in You to Achieve Happiness and Success
“Whatever obstacles you face, remember you can get through anything if you want to badly enough.”
“Whatever obstacles you’re undergoing today,
They are temporary.”
“Whatever of goodness emanates from the soul, gathers its soft halo in the eyes; and if the heart be a lurking place of crime, the eyes are sure to betray the secret. A beautiful eye makes silence eloquent, a kind eye makes contradiction assent, an enraged eye makes beauty a deformity; so you see, forsooth, the little organ plays no inconsiderable, if not a dominant, part.”
“Whatever of true glory has been won by any nation of the earth; whatever great advance his been made by any nation in that which constitutes a high Christian civilization, has been always at the cost of sacrifice; has cost the price marked upon it in God's inventory of national good.”
Source: PLAIN TALKS ON FAMILIAR SUBJECTS
“Whatever one can do by oneself, one must do it — for oneself.”
Source: Roam Within: Macallah and the White World of Light
“Whatever one considers art to be, there is in many people a hunger to express themselves creatively and to feel authentic in doing that.”
“Whatever one cultivates, is what one becomes.”
“Whatever one does cheerfully is good for health.”
Source: Supplementary volume - seven (1903-1947)
“Whatever one does for a living, three questions need to be confronted before it is too late: What really matters to me? What price do my spouse and kids pay for my career success? What price does my soul pay?”
“Whatever one does in this world, he does it out of compulsion; so it is indeed our lack of understanding when we scold someone for what they do. If you scold him, he will do it even more. (Instead) You should explain to him with love. All diseases will disappear with love. You will get pure love either from the Gnani Purush [the enlightened one] or his followers!”
“Whatever one does, someone is always happy...then again, someone else is not pleased”
“Whatever one does without the right belief (samkit - Self-realization) will lead to karmic bondage. Even when he gives to charity or shows kindness; it is all karma bondage.”
“Whatever one intends, the work takes on a life of its own.”
“Whatever one is creating, one has to stick to one's guns and just do it. That is all. Put your foot down and do not let your work be compromised.”
“Whatever one knows, he knows on the basis of his egoism. The ‘Gnani’ [The enlightened one], who doesn’t know how to do anything; has no egoism whatsoever.”
“Whatever one loves most is beautiful.”
“Whatever one man does, it is as if all men did it. For that reason, it is not unfair that one disobedience in a garden should contaminate all humanity; for that reason it is not unjust that the crucifixion of a single Jew should be sufficient to save it.”
Source: Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings
“Whatever one man is capable of imagining, other men will prove themselves capable of realizing.”
“Whatever one may say about the perils of workshops, they help writers internalize an awareness of audience.”
“Whatever one of us asked the other to do - it was assumed the asker would weigh all the consequences - the other would do. Thus one might wake the other in the night and ask for a cup of water; and the other would peacefully (and sleepily) fetch it. We, in fact, defined courtesy as 'a cup of water in the night'. And we considered it a very great courtesy to ask for the cup as well as to fetch it.”
“Whatever one of us blames in another, each one will find in his own heart.”
“Whatever one’s belief arises, he will find tools corresponding to his beliefs. With the belief of the ‘Self’, there is only one ‘tool’ to acquire the Knowledge of the Self, that tool is the ‘Gnani Purush’ (the enlightened one). Contemplation of the Gnani Purush (the enlightened one) is the very tool with which the Soul will continue to manifest.”
Source: Autobiography Of Gnani Purush A.M.Patel
“Whatever one's reaction, it is hard to remain neutral toward a religious tradition that purportedly depicts its most revered of teachers as torching their sacred religious icons, bullying their students into enlightenment, rejecting the value of all the scriptures of Buddhism, even denying the worth of Zen itself.”
Source: The Zen Monastic Experience
“Whatever one says on the air is bound to be misunderstood; for people take from the heard or printed discourse that which they are predisposed to hear or read, not what is there- all that TV can do is to increase the number of misunderstanders by many thousandfold – and at the same time to increase the range of misunderstanding by providing no objective text to which the voluntarily ignorant can be made to refer.”
Source: Moksha: Writings on Psychedelics and the Visionary Experience
“Whatever one thing we give to God's needy for the sake of his love, he will repay us for it a hundredfold in the life to come.”
Source: Winters in the World: A Journey through the Anglo-Saxon Year
“Whatever one thinks of the feminist critique in particular, it underscores an important general lesson. For those who feel and are marginalized, the idea of a single national will, to be somehow revealed in a special election, is likely to be threatening. It deemphasizes—many would say silences—those in a minority who have competing [political or ideological] orientations. This point is reinforced by the fact that different groups and individuals do have diverse conceptions of the good life. To assume without doubt that a system of political interaction culminates in some unitary expression of national will to which the government must be "accountable" is to fail to grapple with the underlying societal complexity.”
Source: The Limits of the Parliamentary Critique of the Separation of Powers
“Whatever one wishes to say, there is one noun only by which to express it, one verb only to give it life, one adjective only which will describe it. One must search until one has discovered them, this noun, this verb, this adjective, and never rest content with approximations, never resort to trickery, however happy, or to vulgarism, in order to dodge the difficulty.”
“Whatever one's religion in his private life may be, for the officeholder, nothing takes precedence over his oath to uphold the Constitution and all its parts - including the First Amendment and the strict separation of church and state.”
“Whatever open-border libertarians think about immigration law, once the immigration scofflaw steals, trespasses, or vandalizes private property, said alien is guilty of crimes. To say, moreover, that the state's laws made masses of men and women commit such crimes is to voice the philosophy of determinism, not individualism.”
“Whatever opens us is not as important as what it opens.”
“Whatever opposes prayer opposes the whole work of ministry.”
Source: Brothers, We Are Not Professionals: A Plea to Pastors for Radical Ministry
“Whatever oppressions man has suffered, they have invariably fallen more heavily on woman. Whatever new liberties advancing civilization has brought to man, ever the smallest measure has been accorded to woman, as a result of church teaching. The effect of this is seen in every department of life.”
“Whatever or whoever controls your time controls your life”
Source: No One Is Better Than You
“Whatever organisation we try to create, it always ends up looking like the Communist Party.”
“Whatever other children learn in a year, let Bahá’í children learn in a month. The heart of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá longeth, in its love, to find that Bahá’í young people, each and all, are known throughout the world for their intellectual attainments. There is no question but that they will exert all their efforts, their energies, their sense of pride, to acquire the sciences and arts.”
“Whatever others around you think, don't you ever be ashamed of being a Christian.”
Source: PRACTICAL RELIGION
“Whatever others may say, they say it to deceive and comfort themselves, not help you.”
“Whatever others think or do, lower not your standard of purity, morality and love of God.”
Source: Vivekananda Reader
“Whatever our background, culture or race, what rewards us most powerfully and consistently are the most deceptively simple abilities of all: the ability to be kind.”
Source: Choosing Happiness: Life & Soul Essentials
“Whatever our bedtime was as kids, we could stay up an extra half hour if we were reading. My parents didn't care as long as I was under the spell of a Stephen King or a Douglas Adams. Now I read in bed. I read at work. I read standing in line. It's like, 'Hello, my name is Nathan and I am a reader.'”
“Whatever our calling, regardless of our fears or anxieties, let us pray and then go and do.”
“Whatever our creed or belief, we all know that there is no way back, that we must fight our way through.”
“Whatever our creed, we feel that no good deed can by any possibility go unrewarded, no evil deed unpunished.”
Source: Pushing to the Front: Or Success Under Difficulties, a Book of Inspiration and Encouragement to All who are Struggling for Self-elevation Along the Paths of Knowledge and of Duty
“Whatever our creed, we stand with admiration before the sublime character of Jesus.”
“Whatever our destiny is or may be, we have made it ourselves, and we do not complain of it.”
Source: ANNA KARENINA
“Whatever our destiny is, whatever our Karma is, if we simply accept the mercy of Guru, "Guru Kripa", it can completely liberate us from all of our previous Karmic bondage.”
“Whatever our dreams, ideas, or projects, we plant a seed, nurture it -- and then reap the fruits of our labors.”