W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“When you choose your land of promise, you choose your own area of greatness”
Source: No One Is Better Than You
“When you choose your life, ignore people, when you make it in life, remember some friends, when you sing a song, praise your source, when predicaments arises, stand your ground.”
“When you choose your own area of calling and purpose, and you are working and converting your life into that your area of calling, you are not being compensated with salary. You become the boss over your own life.”
Source: How To Become Great Through Time Conversion: Are you wasting time, spending time or investing time?
“When you choose your own way, you lose your happiness”
“When you choose your profession, you also choose your own downfall or success. If one chooses to become an artist it is 99% certain that it will go to hell. So you should not become that. If you study economics on Oslo, 99% of all students will do very well and 1% will reach the top.”
“When you chop wood, chips fly.”
“When you chop wood, splinters fly”
“When you chopped logs with the ax and they split open they smelled beautiful, like Christmas. But when you split someone's head open it smelled like abattoir and quite overpowered the scent of the wild lilacs you'd cut and brought into the house only this morning, which was already another life.”
“When you chose independence over relationship, you became a danger to one another. Others became objects to be manipulated or managed for your own happiness. Authority as you usually think of it, is merely the excues the strone ones use to make others conform to what they want.”
“When you chose to follow the way of purity, did you expect it to be easy? When you decided to wait for the best, did you think that waiting would be fun? Did you think that your faith would not be tested? When you decided to take the narrow path, did no one warn you that difficulties, hardship, and tears would be part of the journey, and that you would often face rejection from others and be forced to walk alone? My daughter, that which you wait for the longest you treasure the most, and through much struggle the prize is won.”
Source: Before You Meet Prince Charming: A Guide to Radiant Purity
“When you chronically interrupt your time with whom ever you're with to answer your phone/text you are saying that the caller is more important.”
“When you claim to have the truth, as opposed to the truth as you perceive it, then you move us toward a theocratic view of government.”
“When you claim your amazing, limitless self you are simply owning the highest truth of who you are.”
“When you claim your power and follow your heart, by the time you reach any obstacles you see off in the distance, they will have been removed for you.”
Source: The Pursuit of Dreams: Claim Your Power, Follow Your Heart, and Fulfill Your Destiny
“When you clap for others, you will hear applause for yourself too.”
Source: Blue Hour : A minute below the horizon
“When you clean up a city, you destroy it.”
“When you cleanse yourself of a big victory, you may open yourself up to the opportunity for an even bigger victory”
“When you clench your fist, no one can put anything in your hand.”
Source: Roots: The Saga of an American Family
“When you climb a ladder and arrive on the sixth step and you think that is the highest, then you cannot come to the seventh. So the technique is to abandon the sixth in order for the seventh step to be possible. And this is our practice, to release our views. The practice of nonattachment to views is at the heart of the Buddhist practice of meditation.”
“When you climb mountains, the depth of your soul roars with uncontainable energy. It is a reflection of your indomitable spirit.”
Source: Coming to Grips with the Mountains and Valleys of This World
“When you climb to the top of a mountain and still thinking about your own little problems rather than major universal issues, then you haven't climbed that mountain, you're still in the lower valleys!”
“When you climb up to the highest point of a mountain, the mountain will climb down to your lowest point!”
“When you cling to something from the past, your hands cannot be open to receive the gifts of the future.”
“When you cling, life is destroyed; when you hold on to anything, you cease to live.”
Source: Awareness: Conversations with the Masters
“When you close that door to nowhere throw away the key, we have a tendency to look back and regret”
“When you close the book, does the story end? No! That's such a bland way to read. Every story goes on forever in our imaginations, and its characters live on.”
“When you close the door of your mind to negative thoughts, the door of opportunity opens to you.”
Source: Timeless Thoughts for Today
“When you close your doors, and make darkness within, remember never to say that you are alone, for you are not alone; nay, God is within, and your genius is within. And what need have they of light to see what you are doing?”
Source: The Discourses as Reported by Arrian: The Manual, and Fragments
“When you close your eyes, do you actually stop seeing?
Who is observing the darkness then?”
Source: Buddha's House of Mirrors
“When you close your eyes to tragedy, you close your eyes to greatness.”
Source: Truth and Lies in Literature: Essays and Reviews
“When you close your mouth,
You hear more”
“When you close your mouth, your ears will be bigger!”
“When you close yourself off from people because they might end up hurting you, you shut out not only the hurt, but life itself. You have no control over what will happen to you, but you can choose whether to risk it all, or retreat.”
Source: The Blue Bar
“When you closed up your heart in response to the pain, it took hold of you. Opening up to breathe into it and to contain it completely in fact has the effect of melting it away, leaving the heart refreshed and intact.”
Source: Unlocking the 7 Secret Powers of the Heart: A Practical Guide to Living in Trust and Love
“When you co-operate with an injustice, then a little bit of your spirit dies.”
“When you coach and teach leadership, most people think about them. It's like you're the leader and how do you influence them. Clearly, leaders do take their followers, their flock, their enterprise, their business - whatever - hopefully to a better place. But I think the foundation of what makes really great leaders is they lead themselves, and they're conscious about knowing themselves and coaching and leading themselves in a very profound way. The simplest of us talk to ourselves. The question is, "Do we really lead ourselves?"”
“When you coach as long as I did, you can't help but miss those Saturdays - dealing with the players, the game preparation, the challenges, the excitement”
“When you collaborate, you have to be willing to scrap a lot.”
“When you collapse, shatter, completely fall apart, and have no power left to even pray or hope, you will find yourself sitting in the lap of Supreme Power. Until then you will keep chasing illusions.”
“When you collapse your posture, you collapse your soul.”
Source: Light on Life
“When you collect marine animals there are certain flat worms so delicate that they are almost impossible to capture whole, for they break and tatter under the touch. You must let them ooze and crawl of their own will onto a knife blade and then lift them gently into your bottle of sea water. And perhaps that might be the way to write this book — to open the page and let the stories crawl in by themselves.”
“When you combine a media - bent on exploiting tabloid-type stories to boost ratings and circulation by innuendo and titillation - with unhappy or opportunistic individuals who have nothing going for them in their own lives, you get a bitter brew.”
“When you combine boring with fear, you have fun.”
“When you combine ignorance and leverage, you get some pretty interesting results.”
“When you combine something to say with the skill to say it properly, then you've got a good writer.”
“When you combine the ability to express your unique talent with service to humanity, then you make full use of The Law of Dharma.”
Source: The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success: A Practical Guide to the Fulfillment of Your Dreams
“When you combine the great stories from the comics with the action and visual excitement of the movies, it doesn't get any better!”
“When you combine the judgments of a large group of people to calculate the “wisdom of the crowd” you collect all the relevant information that is dispersed among all those people. But none of those people has access to all that information. One person knows only some of it, another knows some more, and so on.”
Source: Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction
“When you come across an excellent invention, what it should tell you is that someone used most of his sleeping time as his thinking time... and he kept doing the same until his good became better and his better became the best!”
Source: Daily Drive 365
“When you come across difficult mountains, remember that God has given you grace. You can face them with courage.”
Source: Coming to Grips with the Mountains and Valleys of This World