W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“When we have "second thoughts" about something, our first thoughts don't seem like thoughts at all - just feelings.”
“When we have 13,000 Americans living on the moon, they can petition to become a state.”
“When we have a better, more social, more responsible, less egotistical, less corrupt system, Mexico will be able to give work to the millions of Mexicans who have to build our roads, dams, schools, all the things that are left undone in Mexico while we have the manpower. There is something very bad going on, on both sides of the border in Mexico and the US. But the worker is a worker, not a criminal. So, I am in favor of a solution such as the Kennedy-McCain proposals that make it clear what steps have to be taken to accept the fact that the US needs foreign workers.”
“When we have a brilliant idea, instead of making others think it is ours, why not let them cook and stir the idea themselves.”
Source: How to win friends & influence people
“When we have a choice it is always best to choose kindness. Veganism is simply the kinder choice.”
“When we have a circle of friends, we have more fun. We get more done, we feel and are stronger, and we really do celebrate the power of our 'us.'”
“When we have a clear sense of our destination, we can be flexible in the route we take to reach it.”
“When we have a Deputy Prime Minister who tells people not to drive cars but has two Jags himself, and where the Minister who tells people not to have two homes turns out to have nine himself - no wonder the public believe politicians are hypocrites.”
“When we have a genuine sense that,
no matter how difficult our present
circumstances, we are not alone-that
we are vitally connected with others
and with the world-we will, without
fail, rise up to the challenge of living
again.”
“When we have a good balance between thinking and feeling... our actions and lives are always the richer for it.”
“When we have a great goal we are superior even to justice, not merely to our deeds and our judges.”
“When we have a majority we will do it. I think the days of the Lords are quite genuinely numbered.”
“When we have a new heart, we become new people, and then we have a new society, then we have a new nation.”
“When we have a vision of what we can become, our desire and our power to act increase enormously.”
“When we have accepted Jesus Christ, we have become akin to the Father; having become real children of God, we then have the spirit of sonship by which we can come into His presence and make known our wants in a familiar way.”
“When we have accepted the worst, we have nothing more to lose. And that automatically means we have everything to gain.”
Source: How to stop worrying & start living
“When we have adversity we oftentimes tend to look around and think that we're the Lone Ranger. We tend to believe that we're the only one who has problems. And we always look around and see others who are more talented, taller, smarter, handsomer, or faster. I can assure you, everyone has problems-even football coaches. The ability we have to handle this adversity will determine the degree of success that we will have in life.”
“When we have all data online it will be great for humanity. It is a prerequisite to solving many problems that humankind faces.”
“When we have an effort made at sanctions involving many other nations it has a potential of greater impact on Russia and discouraging Putin.”
“When we have an experience -- hearing a particular sonata, making love with a particular person, watching the sun set from a particular window of a particular room -- on successive occasions, we quickly begin to adapt to it, and the experience yields less pleasure each time. Psychologists call this habituation, economists call it declining marginal utility, and the rest of us call it marriage”
Source: Stumbling on Happiness
“When we have an inner initiation into pure love, we are in contact with our true nature.”
“When we have an inner initiation into pure love, we are in contact with our true nature. Judgment of ourselves and others disappears. Compassionate, discerning wisdom then enters the equation in all of our relationships.”
“When we have an item that has value to the school and the athletic department, we cannot throw it away just to be fair.”
“When we have an understanding that the Lord is all powerful, then we know that we need to trust Him each and every day. This understanding allows us to lay our worries in the Lord's hands. In return, we can focus everything that we do into glorifying Jesus.”
“When we have anger in us, we suffer. When we have discrimination in us, we suffer. When we have the complex of superiority, we suffer. When we have the complex of inferiority, we suffer also. So when we are capable of transforming these negative things in us, we are free and happiness is possible.”
“When we have arrived at the question, the answer is already near.”
Source: Emerson in His Journals
“When we have attained success, we see how inferior it is to the hope, yearning and enthusiasm with which we started forth in life's morning.”
Source: Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion
“When we have become free, we need not go mad and throw up society and rush off to die in the forest or the cave; we shall remain where we were but we shall understand the whole thing. The same phenomena will remain but with a new meaning.”
Source: Practical Vedanta Philosophy
“When we have been hurt, slighted, or wounded unfairly, we are not left alone to bear it. We can get on our knees and ask for the Lord's help to forgive.”
“When we have been to Holy Communion, the balm of love envelops the soul as the flower envelops the bee.”
“When we have begun to take charge of our lives, to own ourselves, there is no longer any need to ask permission of someone.”
“When we have blamed the wind we can blame love.”
Source: Later Poems
“When we have broken our god of tradition, and ceased from our god of rhetoric, then may God fire the heart with His presence.”
Source: The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson
“When we have but the will to do it, that very moment will Justice be done: that very instant the tyrants of the Earth shall bite the dust.”
“When we have ceased to love the stench of the human animal, either in others or in ourselves, then are we condemned to misery, and clear thinking can begin.”
“When we have clarity on our destination and are grounded in our current reality, we are equipped to make the best decisions possible.”
Source: Living Forward: A Proven Plan to Stop Drifting and Get the Life You Want
“When we have communion with God in the doctrine we contend for-then shall we be garrisoned by the grace of God against all the assaults of men.”
Source: The works ...
“When we have company, you’re my princess. But behind closed doors, you’re my queen.”
Source: The Smitten Sky: An Enemies to Lovers Dark Fantasy Romance
“When we have complements or oppositions, change occurs.”
“When we have completed all the journeys and adventures through our variety of lives we are supposed to return to the creator with our accumulation of knowledge. It is then absorbed. In this way we are considered cells in the body of God.”
“When we have dealt with bin Laden and his network we will then broaden the campaign to go after other terrorists all around the world.”
“When we have difficulties, we might start to practice zazen to find a way out. Some people seek worldly success with meditation, using it as training in concentration, spontaneity, or bravery. Others aspire to be released from everyday life by some kind of enlightenment experience. Either way, we search because we feel a lack.
When we practice zazen with this attitude, what happens in our minds is the same as when we struggle for fame and profit. As long as we practice zazen with seeking mind, we create samsara within our practice.”
Source: The Zen Teaching of Homeless Kodo
“When we have discovered a continent, or crossed a chain of mountains, it is only to find another ocean or another plain upon the further side. . . . O toiling hands of mortals! O wearied feet, travelling ye know not whither! Soon, soon, it seems to you, you must come forth on some conspicuous hilltop, and but a little way further, against the setting sun, descry the spires of El Dorado. Little do ye know your own blessedness; for to travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.”
“When we have disorderly lives, it makes it difficult for our minds to be orderly and for us to be at ease with disorder.”
“When we have done our best, we should wait the result in peace.”
Source: The Pleasures of Life
“When we have done our best, we can, as a united people, take whatever may befall with calm courage and confidence that this old nation will survive and if death should come to many of us, death is not the end.”
“When we have done our very, very best, papa, and that is not enough, then I think the right time must have come for asking help of others.”
Source: The Mystery of Edwin Drood and Other Stories
“When we have entered into divine covenants, the Holy Ghost is our comforter, our guide, and our companion. The fruits of the Holy Spirit are "the peaceable things of immortal glory; the truth of all things; that which quickeneth all things, which maketh alive all things; that which knoweth all things, and hath all power according to wisdom, mercy, truth, justice, and judgment" (Moses 6:61). The gifts of the Holy Spirit are testimony, faith, knowledge, wisdom, revelations, miracles, healing, and charity, to name but a few.”
“When we have faith and discipline everything becomes easier. Patience is the mother of all virtues. With anxiety all our lives become worse.”
“When we have faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, we must have trust in him. We must trust him enough that we are content to accept his will, knowing that he knows what is best for us.”