W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“When we kissed, it didn't matter that I had been a wolf hours ago, or that I would be a wolf again. It didn't matter that a thousand snares were laid for us as soon as we left this moment. All that mattered was this: our noses touching, the softness of his mouth, the ache inside me.”
Source: Forever
“When we know about our ancestors, when we sense them as living and as supporting us, then we feel connected to the genetic life-stream, and we draw strength and nourishment from this.”
Source: Druid Mysteries: Ancient Wisdom for the 21st Century
“When we know and love the best we are content to lack the approval of the many.”
Source: Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion
“When we know as much about people as hog specialists know about hogs, we'll be better off.”
“When we know better, we do better.”
“When we know beyond any doubt that we already speak the feeling language of prayer, we awaken that part of us that can never be stolen, lost, or taken away. This is the secret mode of prayer.”
Source: Secrets of the Lost Mode of Prayer
“When we know Christ, we always know how things are going to go...always for our good and always for His glory.”
“When we know deep down that we're acting with integrity despite impulses to do otherwise, we feel gates of higher energy and inspiration open inside of us.”
Source: The Life You Were Born to Live: A Guide to Finding Your Life Purpose
“When we know exactly all a man's views and how he comes to speak and act so and so, we lose any respect for him, though we may love and admire him.”
Source: London Journal, 1762-1763, as First Published in 1950 from the Original Manuscript
“When we know God to be our Father, should we not desire that he be known as such by all? And if we do not have this passion, that all creatures do him homage, is it not a sign that his glory means little to us?”
“When we know Love, fear has no value in our presence. There is no pressure to perform and mask our humanity. We can BE and when we BE. We can inspire others to BE.”
“When we know not we are inhuman, there is no question of being human.”
Source: Giants in Jeans: 100 Sonnets of United Earth
“When we know our own strength, we shall the better know what to undertake with hopes of success.”
Source: An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
“When we know our strengths, we're more likely to use them.”
“When we know our value and can express our value, we're able to teach others how to honour what we bring to the table.”
Source: Heart Talk: Poetic Wisdom for a Better Life
“When we know ourselves to be connected to all others, acting compassionately is simply the natural thing to do.”
“When we know someone’s full story, we can no longer judge them. Judgment blocks our understanding.”
Source: The Unfolding: A Journey of Involution
“When we know something and rest in that knowing we limit our vision. We will only see what our knowing will allow us to see. In this way experience can be our enemy.”
“When we know something that needs to be done but isn't currently getting done, we often say, I just need more discipline. Actually, we need the habit of doing it. And we need just enough discipline to build the habit.”
“When we know that educating a girl can change the world, why wait?”
“When we know that the cause of something is in ourselves, and that we (ourselves) are one of the few things in the universe that we have the right and ability to change, we begin to get a sense of the choices we really do have, an inkling of the power we have, a feeling of being in charge... of our lives, of our future, of our dreams.”
“When we know to read our own hearts, we acquire wisdom of the heartsof others.”
“When we know we can get to each other, that is when it can strike home.”
“When we know we've got it, we don't need to make up for it - it's only when we believe we do, that we're always trying to make up for it.”
“When we know what God is, we shall be gods ourselves.”
“When we know what we are trying to achieve, we are less likely to be swayed by uninformed opinions and more inclined to make principled and ethical decisions.”
Source: The Lighthouse Effect: How Ordinary People Can Have an Extraordinary Impact in the World
“When we know what we want to prove, we go out and find our facts. They are always there.”
Source: God's Men: A Novel
“When we know where the hungry, the homeless and the sick exist, then we can help.”
“When we know who we are and what we are supposed to do, it is easier to make important decisions about education, careers, and marriage. It is easier to shine our light in our families, with our friends, and in all other places.”
“When we know why we're here as individuals and leaders, when our people know why they're here, a sense of purpose carries us forward, and we can do what needs to be done. People want to work on big ideas that matter to them and make a difference. When they do, they find gold.”
“When we label anyone 'bad', we will have more trouble dealing with him than if we could have settled for a lesser label.”
“When we lack confidence, living life becomes more complex. However, the fear of failure most likely reduces our confidence and thus makes problem solving more difficult; when you accept failure as a learning experience, your confidence evolves.”
“When we lack etiquette, we trash things. We trash each other. We trash the environment. We lose sight of the value of things. We suffer alienation when our spirit is disconnected from our physical awareness.”
“When we lack faith, God is not surprised by it. When we lack faith, God can supply it. When we receive the faith He gives us, God is honored by it.”
Source: Faith Adventures: Stories of Learning with an Unseen God
“When we lack integrity, we use power to control. When we lead with integrity, we use power to bless.”
Source: Uprising: A Revolution of the Soul
“When we land against the enemy, don't forget to hit him and hit him hard. When we meet the enemy we will kill him. We will show him no mercy.”
“When we laugh we temporarily give ourselves over to the person who makes us laugh.”
Source: 2400 Jokes to Brighten Your Speeches
“When we launched If WeRanTheWorld, I said to my team, I want us to innovate in every aspect of how we design and operate this as a business venture, as much as the web platform itself - because I want us to design our own startup around the working lives that we would all like to live. Women and men alike.”
“When we launched our [ Vogue] site around five years ago, I had already started this process on paper. We are now building an enormous portfolio of photos, we've uploaded two million photos and we have three people that review them.”
“When we launched the WineLibrary website in 1996, I didn't even own a computer yet. I just understood that there was an opportunity here to market in a different way.”
“When we lavish our money we rob our heir; when we merely save it we rob ourselves.”
“When we lay the soil of our hard lives open to the rain of grace and let joy penetrate our cracked and dry places, let joy soak into our broken skin and deep crevices, life grows. How can this not be the best thing for the world? For us?”
“When we lay together, she showed me her soul, and I showed her mine, and they were the same. As you can imagine, mine was battered and bruised, tarnished like ancient metal. She scrubbed it clean. I cannot deny my own soul any more than I can deny she held it in her hands for a time.”
Source: Something Wicked
“When we lead worship we should be looking for the activity of God...our response is also a partaking of the worship that is going on in heaven.”
“When we leap, we must leap as though the net will appear. A leap in life, however big or small, is an act of commitment with the expectation of success.”
Source: It's Okay to Miss the Bed on the First Jump: And Other Life Lessons I Learned from Dogs
“When we learn about ourselves, we can evolve.”
“When we learn from experience, the scars of sin can lead us to restoration and a renewed intimacy with God.”
“When we learn from our cause and effect we increase our positives, we chip away and hopefully eliminate our negatives, so we can be beneficial to everyone else. It's not about being good for me, it's about being the best that I can be so I can be a good husband, father, and neighbor.”
“When we learn how to store electricity, we will cease being apes ourselves; until then we are tailless orangutans. You see, we should utilize natural forces and thus get all of our power. Sunshine is a form of energy, and the winds and the tides are manifestations of energy. Do we use them? Oh, no! We burn up wood and coal, as renters burn up the front fence for fuel. We live like squatters, not as if we owned the property.”
“When we learn new behaviors and break through to higher levels of consciousness and love, we can fulfill the deeper spiritual hunger within.”