W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“When others panic, pray! When others play, pray! When others prioritize other things, prioritize prayer! In everything you do, pray! Prayer will help you become powerful. You will look back and be grateful.”
Source: Prayer: An Antidote for the Inner Man
“When others praise you, keep a smile on your face, when others ridicule you, still keep a smile on your face.”
Source: Mucize Insan: When The World is Family
“When others put you down for who you are or what you're doing, it just means that you're going in the right direction.”
“When others repulse you, it’s a definite message from God that "He/She" will pave a way for you even when there seems none.”
“When others see us for who we truly are and love us still, we discover the purest form of happiness. Life's supreme bliss lies in being loved unconditionally — a blessed privilege that only a few ever truly experience.”
“When others see you at peace, they’re reminded of the value of tranquility - that is, you inspire them to be at peace.”
“When others seem to take advantage of you, do not retaliate by trying to take advantage of them. Use your power in improving yourself, so that you can do better and better work. That is how you are going to win in the race. Later on, those who tried to take advantage of you will be left in the rear. Remember, those who are dealing unjustly with you or with anybody are misusing their mind. They are therefore losing their power, and will, in the course of time, begin to lose ground; but if you, in the mean time, are turning the full power of your mind to good account, you will not only gain more power, but you will soon begin to gain ground. You will gain and continue to gain in the long run, while others who have been misusing their minds will lose mostly everything in the long run. That is how you are going to win, and win splendidly regardless of ill treatment or opposition.”
“When others sit, a #StaticJedi is found standing—even standing along, with a message not in hand but secure in heart!”
Source: Static Jedi: The Art of Hearing God Through the Noise
“When others sought to bring us down, God's favor lifted us up. The enemy's plans were no match for divine elevation. The Angel of the Lord stood guard, protecting us from harm. God's goodness and mercy pursued us, shielding us from those who wished us ill. In the face of adversity, we found strength in His presence. He turned our struggles into triumphs, and our doubts into testimonies. Through it all, God's protection and elevation proved His love and faithfulness.”
“When others spoke of the fear of war, you spoke of the need for warriors and peace through strength. When others bewailed the failure of big government to provide for the collective good, you spoke of self-reliance, of personal responsibility, of individual pride and integrity. When others preached compromise - when others demanded compromise, you, Ronald Reagan, preached conviction.”
“When others stood idly by, you and your families gave your all, in defence of a risen people and in pursuit of Irish freedom and unity.”
Source: An Irish Eye
“When others sway with the wind, he chooses tranquillity—a man who fully understands the magic of loyalty. His loyalty enables him to make history.”
Source: A Man of Valour: Idioms and Epigrams
“When others try to send humiliation your way, work on your self-validation. Put your attention on your vision and let it be your motivation.”
Source: 365 Motivational Life Lessons
“When others uproot you from their greener pastures, as a weed, don't forget that you take the ones in the streets high and heal the real ones.”
“When others walk away from a lost cause, then that is the time you can step in and seize success.”
“When our actions create discord in another person, we, ourselves, in this lifetime or another, will feel that discord. Likewise, if our actions create harmony and empowerment in another, we also come to feel that harmony and empowerment.”
Source: The Seat of the Soul
“When our actions do not, our fears make us traitors.”
“When our ancestors picked up weapons in the jungle, it was necessity - when their children picked up weapons, it was tradition - but when we pick up weapons, it is stupidity.”
Source: Monk Meets World
“When our ancestors were attacked at Pearl Harbor, they called it a day that would live in infamy. The day the Partials attacked us with the RM Virus will not live in anything, because there will be none of us left to remember it." -President David R. Cregan, March 21, 2065, in a press conference at the White House. Three hours later he hanged himself.”
“When our assists lead to baskets, that's us playing our best, and we begin knocking down shots.”
“When our atheistically dominated Supreme Court removed the Ten Commandments from our halls, not a whimper was heard from the 95 million Christians in this country, who still don't realize that their religious freedoms are being systematically removed without a fight.”
Source: Faith of Our Founding Fathers: A Comprehensive Study of America's Christian Foundations
“When our attention is on the present, our life is constantly renewed.”
“When our attitude towards ourselves is big, and our attitude toward others is generous and merciful, we attract big and generous portions of success.”
Source: Success Through A Positive Mental Attitude
“When our backs are against the wall, we must turn around and march forward.”
“When our bed is made, it's covered in 40 pillows-like we're stockpiling ammo for the global pillow fight.”
“When our beliefs are based on our own direct experience of reality and not on notions offered by others, no one can remove these beliefs from us.”
Source: Living Buddha, Living Christ 10th Anniversary Edition
“When our body decides to get into the action before our brain consents, we must ask who calls the shots. Are we still in control of ourselves, or are we still trustworthy? We have to summon ourselves, question what might be wrong, and challenge the soul-searching subcurrent of our inner self. (“The infinite Wisdom of Meditation“)”
“When our brain feels too weak to deal with our opponent's objections, our heart answers by casting suspicion on their underlying motives.”
“When our burdens are grievous to be borne, when we face a world in which it seems that there is only struggle and no rest, I hope we can remember the immense strength of our sisterhood, the reservoirs that we have within us, and the unfailing wellspring of the Savior’s love for us, even in the midst of adversity.”
“When our cause is young, we feel so intensely that it seems wrong to take it slow. This is our inability to see that burning ourselves out isn’t going to hurry the journey along.
The critical work that you want to do will require your deliberation and consideration. Not passion. Not naïveté.
It’d be far better if you were intimidated by what lies ahead - humbled by its magnitude and determined to see it through. Leave passion for the amateurs. Make it about what you feel you *must* do or say, not what you care about and wish to be. Then you will do great things. Then you will stop being your old, good-intentioned, but ineffective self.”
Source: Ego Is the Enemy
“When our center is strong, everything else is secondary.”
“When our challenge persists, returning in different forms, it may be a sign for us to accepted it as a valuable lesson.”
“When our children and grandchildren look back on this period, one question will overwhelm all the rest: Did we do everything in our power to fight and to win the war on terror? That's the fundamental question this generation faces.”
“When our children are old enough, and if we can afford to, we send them to college, where ... the point is to acquire the skills not of positive thinking but of critical thinking.”
“When our children have our intention, they don’t need to get our attention. Andy Crouch explained the phenomenon this way: “An awful lot of children born in 2007 . . . have been competing with their parents’ screens their whole lives.”
Source: The 40-Day Social Media Fast: Exchange Your Online Distractions for Real-Life Devotion
“When our children see us expressing our emotions, they can learn that their own feelings are natural and permissible, can be expressed, and can be talked about. That's an important thing for our children to learn.”
“When our children were very small, I started to write down a few things about what happened every day….I wrote down a few lines every day for years. I never missed a day no matter how tired I was or how early I would have to start the next day. Before I would write, I would ponder this question: “Have I seen the hand of God reaching out to touch us or our children or our family today?” As I kept at it, something began to happen. As I would cast my mind over the day, I would see evidence of what God had done for one of us that I had not recognized in the busy moments of the day.'
I would suggest that you keep a paper and pencil you your side as you read this book, particularly the stories and examples shared here. I am confident that as you read the stories of others, you will be reminded of times in your life when the Lord has given you special blessings. Or perhaps thoughts will come that will teach you what to do to have your own tender mercies. Write them down, and, if appropriate, share them with your families.”
“When our choices seem to be taking us nowhere close to our dreams; great minds defend their dreams, analyze their choices, choose to become encouraged and better. Small minds defend their choices, analyze their dreams, choose to get discouraged and break down. Show what you are made of. Success comes to those who can still hope”
“When our commitment is diminished for any reason, part of the solution is repentance. Commitment and repentance are closely intertwined.”
“When our commitment is wavering, the best way to stay on track is to consider the progress we've already made. As we recognize what we've invested and attained, it seems like a waste to give up, and our confidence and commitment surge.”
Source: Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World
“When our communication supports compassionate giving and receiving, happiness replaces violence and grieving.”
“When our conscience bothers us, whether we admit it or not, we often try to justify it by correcting others, or by finding fault with them. The readiness to believe evil about others is in large part ammunition for a thousand scandals in our own hearts.”
“When our consciousness has become a haven of illusions, our mind may have a hard time to fight the maze in our thinking. Only anchor points from our past and the innocence of our childhood might give back the core of what we are. (“Not without the past”)”
“When our consciousness is quiet, the waves of thought cease and we see clearly enough to relate back to our spirit. we connect with who we really are.”
“When our content hits the right notes, it's like music to their ears!”
“When our conversations become constrained, when we avoid topics that might cause upset, when we accept comments or behavior that are hurtful, we no longer aim for harmony but rather toward a sort of deafness that allows us to stay in a relationship longer than we should. Our senses have become dulled and we end up settling, even when we are anguished.”
Source: Fierce Love: Creating a Love that Lasts---One Conversation at a Time
“When our country was erupting in protests and marches, asking for the end of injustice against African American men and women, I was somewhat chastised by many of my followers for not speaking out against systemic racism.
That was the first time it really occurred to me that I had a voice on this new platform.
I had a strong voice. A voice that people wanted to hear...There is an old Southern expression: "I don't got a dog in that fight." But I immediately realized that was never going to be the case when it comes to standing up to racial injustice. We all "got a dog in that fight.”
Source: How Y'all Doing?: Misadventures and Mischief from a Life Well Lived
“When our culture shifts, it tends to overcorrect, throwing out everything associated with an era we've moved past, rather than saving what was good and combining it with what is new.”
“When our days become dreary with low hovering clouds of despair, and when our nights become darker than a thousand midnights, let us remember that there is a creative force in this universe, working to pull down the gigantic mountains of evil, a power that is able to make a way out of no way and transform dark yesterdays into bright tomorrows. Let us realize the arc of the moral universe is long but it bends toward justice.”
“When our days become dreary with low-hovering clouds and our nights become darker than a thousand midnights, we will know that we are living in the creative turmoil of a genuine civilization struggling to be born.”
Source: The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: