W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“When you're an addict you think the only person you're hurting is you. And that's not true.”
Source: Trejo: My Life of Crime, Redemption, and Hollywood
“When you're an astronomer, you always have stars in your eyes.”
Source: Anthony T. Hincks: An author of life, Volume 1
“When you're an original it may take time for people to catch on. So keep at it and don't question yourself.”
“When you’re an unskilled empath, other people in the room can seem way more vivid than you. Is it common for you to have one or more of the following experiences while you’re with others?
Wondering what it is like to be someone else.
Experiencing at depth what it feels like to be that person. Finding problems, pain or fears, in others. No trying!
Wishing that things could be better for that other person.
Wishing that somehow you could help.
Observing someone’s conversation (even if it isn’t yours), you automatically notice what’s going on beneath the surface.
When somebody has a negative judgment of you, it may be seem overwhelmingly obvious, no more a secret than if he or she started singing “La Bamba” in a very loud voice.
You might even slide into acting differently, more like the way you’re expected to act.
Come to think of it, you may define yourself in that room much as a bat would. Why? You’re doing a human version of echolocation. Depending on how you sound to others, that’s how you find yourself.”
Source: Empath Empowerment in 30 Days
“When you're ashamed of their action, to ask them the reason of their actions can make you a fool.”
“When you're at the end of your rope, tie a knot and hold on.”
“When you´re at the point you feel you have nothing to live or thrive fo, be like a camera, use your negatives to develop”
“When you're at your lowest point and in bad times, with no one to turn to, the love shown by the one who helps you through those hard times is the true friend. They show you true love and are the good person in your life. Cherish them and never lose them”
“When you’re attacked in a negotiation, pause and avoid angry emotional reactions. Instead, ask your counterpart a calibrated question.”
Source: Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes are High
“When you're awake you can suppress imagination. But you can't suppress dreams.”
Source: Kafka on the Shore
“When you’re aware of your thoughts, you’re able to consciously choose how you behave. When you aren’t aware, you go on autopilot and are likely to act without thinking. But if you can pay attention to what’s going on in your mind—and how it’s affecting the stories you’re telling yourself in any given moment—you can choose to adjust your behavior to get the best outcome. You can identify the choices available to you and focus on what you control, rather than be a victim of your thoughts and circumstances.”
Source: Thoughtfully Fit: Your Training Plan for Life and Business Success
“When you’re being tested the most, is when the breakthrough will come.”
“When you’re bereaved you’re so all over the place that you might find a book heart-warming on a Tuesday and mindless nonsense on a Wednesday.”
Source: Youll Get Over It: The Rage Of Bereavement
“When you're betting for tiles in an archery contest, you shoot with skill. When you're betting for fancy belt buckles, you worry about your aim. And when you're betting for real gold, you're a nervous wreck. Your skill is the same in all three cases - but because one prize means more to you than another, you let outside considerations weigh on your mind. He who looks too hard at the outside gets clumsy on the inside.”
Source: The Complete Works of Chuang Tzu
“When you're birthing something you might experience hurt, pain and discomfort but don't stop "pushing".”
“When you're born a light is switched on, a light which shines up through your life. As you get older the light still reaches you, sparkling as it comes up through your memories. And if you're lucky as you travel forward through time, you'll bring the whole of yourself along with you, gathering your skirts and leaving nothing behind, nothing to obscure the light. But if a Bad Thing happens part of you is seared into place, and trapped for ever at that time. The rest of you moves onward, dealing with all the todays and tomorrows, but something, some part of you, is left behind. That part blocks the light, colours the rest of your life, but worse than that, it's alive. Trapped for ever at that moment, and alone in the dark, that part of you is still alive.”
Source: Only Forward
“When you're born, they (God or little aliens or whoever) should send you into the world with a bunch of free passes.”
Source: The Sun Is Also a Star
“When you're born to a certain kind of mother, you learn very quickly that it is your job to think about death.”
“When you're born to help others sometimes you forget to help yourself.”
“When you're born with an extremely creative mind and soul, the ordinary will never be enough. You aren't tired. You're unexpressed.”
“When you’re busy, avoid taking the quickest action. Instead make the extra effort to truly serve the customer.”
“When you're busy becoming, you don’t have time to broadcast.”
Source: Your Business Venture: The Prep. The Pitch. The Funding.
“When you're buying from me and I'm buying from you and we're all buying from each other, there's flow within the ecosystem. And businesses in our ecosystem can tap into a portion of that flow to facilitate liquidity for their specific business.”
“When you’re comfortable and content with who you are, the voices of others who try and define, control or direct you are not important.”
Source: How To Feel Good About Yourself - Boost Your Confidence & Tackle Low Self Esteem. Packed with Self Improvement Techniques, Positive Thinking Tips & Inspirational Quotes
“When you're comfortable within yourself, you don't care about others' problems or the challenges they face in life. However, when you're in distress, the memories of those you've abandoned leaving in dire situations, come back to haunt you. How selfish humans are!”
Source: अर्को देशमा [Arko Deshma]
“When you're completely free, you're also completely on your own.”
Source: Pandemonium
“When you're completely lost, when you have no idea what comes next or why things are happening, faith is what gets you through. Even if you're not sure what you believe, you keep doing the things you know in your heart are the right things. That is faith, Carter. It's not the absence of questions. It's continuing, day in and day out, in spite of those questions.”
Source: Light of Dawn
“When you’re confident in what you have to say, you don’t need to add effect.”
Source: 500 Relationships And Life Quotes: Bite-Sized Advice For Busy People
“When you're conscious of what you're permitting to germinate inside you, the weeds in your life will wither away of their own accord.”
“When you’re constantly abused, you don’t understand how emotionally and mentally draining it is. You’re truly immune and it feels like you need it.”
“When you’re constantly barreling forward, you’re not really paying attention to what’s happening around you.” A small smile played around Olivia’s lips. “Not really giving yourself a chance to change course.”
Source: This Time Could Be Different
“When you’re constantly taking care of the emotions of others, you avoid having to face your own.”
“when you're cool for twenty,
you get paid for twenty-one.”
“When you're covered in notes, music is a way of life.”
“When you're crying, your tears may be watering the seeds of your come-back.”
Source: Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
“When you're dead, everybody else is just going to carry on regardless, so keep that in mind when you're giving way to traffic.”
Source: Grace - A Funny Book For Women
“When you're dead everything stops ... You don't have a soul, because what you thought of as your soul was just electricity in your brain. You only exist while the machine thinks you do.”
Source: The Gaps
“When you're dead, they really fix you up. I hope to hell when I do die somebody has sense enough to just dump me in the river or something. Anything except sticking me in a goddam cemetery. People coming and putting a bunch of flowers on your stomach on Sunday, and all that crap. Who wants flowers when you're dead? Nobody.”
Source: THE CATCHER IN THE RYE
“When you're dead you're dead.”
Source: Mother Night
“When you're deluded to rushing into it, bear in mind that the 'S' would be your 'Stupidity' while the 'EX' shall be the next line of action."#Staykool”
Source: How to Make Your Relationship Worth Its Weight In Gold
“When you're depressed, you don't feel like taking a bath or cleaning the room. But you feel good after doing it. Same with meditation. You must do it when you don't feel like doing it.”
“When you're depressed you retreat and you go into a smaller world. This is why Brighton worked well for the story, because it's a smaller world than London.”
“When you're devoted to someone's heart, you either paint it or pain it.”
“When you're dissatisfied with an aspect of your relationship, it is critical that you say something rather than sweep it aside. But there's a difference between speaking the way most of us do in this culture and speaking in a manner that might actually get you heard. You can start by pulling your accusatory finger away from your partner's face. ... Stay on your side of the street. Don't accuse them - talk about yourself. Not "Liz, you're avoidant," but rather, "Liz, I don't feel met.”
Source: Us: Getting Past You and Me to Build a More Loving Relationship
“When you're doing good everybody wants to be your best friend, he said. When you're doing bad nobody wants to know you. That's in any business in any part of life. If you live long enough, you'll see what I mean.”
Source: Lay the Favorite: A Memoir of Gambling
“When you're doing something for God, learn early not to take things personal.
For every Nehemiah, there's a Sanballat.
For every Esther, there's a Haman.
For every David, there's a Saul.
For every Joseph, there's kin.
It's not personal, it's spiritual.”
“When you're doing your best, at deeper level you will have total acceptance about the present situation and the outcome of your efforts. Prayer and divine intervention happens at that level.”
“When you're done with being used, you become desperate to fight back and it doesn't matter how far you go, as long as you go. It's like a bomb that's ticking inside you and the longer you keep it in, the louder the explosion and the greater the damage.”
Source: Seven Sins
“When you're doubting the Universe's master plan, take a peek at your surroundings. See those dreams turned into reality? That's the Universe's way of saying, "I got you." It's like a cosmic wink, a nod from the stars that says, "I heard you, and I delivered." It’s like a sneak peek into your own past prayers. So, next time you’re doubting the Universe’s plan, just look at your life – it’s the proof that magic is real, dreams do come true, and the universe has always been secretly rooting for you.”
“When you’re down in the bunker, you discover what truly holds you up.”