W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Whether it is your work, your love, or your life - unless you throw your entire self into it, you will never know what it is.”
“Whether it means having a show, or a movie, or just being on a stage, I need an avenue to say what I have to say.”
“Whether it means prizing the value of lessons learned, building games into your creative process, or getting gifts upon certain milestones of achievement, self-derived rewards make a big difference…You cannot ignore or completely escape the deeply ingrained short-term reward system within you. But you can become aware of what really motivates you and then tweak your incentives to sustain your long-term pursuits.”
Source: Making Ideas Happen: Overcoming the Obstacles Between Vision and Reality
“Whether it's 10 or 30 years away, think about the things that are within your control, like your earnings, spending, savings, education, and quality of family life.”
Source: Wisdom to Be Wealthy: Accelerate to the Top 1% and Create Generational Wealth Using the Family Office Blueprint
“Whether it's a beautiful view, a beautiful poem, a beautiful touch or a beautiful word, anything that makes your head dizzy is a fine wine!”
“Whether it’s a birthday of your ex or of your best friend, find any reason to celebrate. Have a day full of laughter.”
“Whether it’s a hospital or wherever… we can deliver to anyone with a phone book.”
A phone book.
Such a simple and basic answer.
When the chef picked up the phone and said, “Russia Sushi, how can I help you?” did she take him literally?”
Source: Durarara!!, Vol. 3
“Whether it’s a simple hymenoplasty (which guarantees to spill a little blood on the sheets, so your future husband can conclude he married a virgin) or a supervaginoplasty (that promises to leave you as tight as an oyster), the cosmetic surgeon has much to offer. And all that the girl simply needs to do is ask: “Can I have an extra order of virgin to go, please?”
“Whether it’s a team, a company, a classroom, or a family, everything begins to change when excellence becomes the expectation and the mindset. It’s never accidental. It’s always intentional.”
Source: Finish Empty: All You Got. Every Day.
“Whether it's a usurer's usury or an actuary's actuality, they all sail on the liquid of liquidity.”
“Whether it's family, dating, business, or marriage relationship; if you really want to build them, then invest in its friendships.”
“Whether it's forced or invited, change is inevitable.”
“Whether it’s from within or from an outside entity viewing you objectively, it takes some real honest awareness to grow. If you don’t realize that growth needs to occur, then there is a good chance you won’t do the work necessary to do it. Accept that there is deficiency within you and decide to show up the next day to work on it. It may take an effort that is uncomfortable, but there is growth and power this way.”
Source: UNDERR8TED: The Route That Caught an NFL Dream
“Whether it's his training or his natural disposition, Deacon is charming. The kind of charming that makes you feel like you're the only person in the world who matters. Until you don't anymore.”
Source: The Remedy
“Whether it’s ignoring our problems, ignoring negative emotions, ignoring physical or psychological pain, to ignore is the root of ignorance.”
Source: Spiritual Words to Live by : 81 Daily Wisdoms and Meditations to Transform Your Life
“Whether it's just a pesky little annoying behavior you'd like to tweak or a major problem that has you at the end of your rope, you must shift your thinking in order to look at the possible true cause, as well as determine whether its truly a behavior problem or a normal behavior that needs a better alternative.”
Source: Starting from Scratch: How to Correct Behavior Problems in Your Adult Cat
“Whether it's love or drugs, the first time is always the best. After that, you'll be forever chasing the dragon.”
Source: The Four-Year Transform: A Campus Comedy
“Whether it's men, women—it doesn't really matter. The human race is filled with passion and lust. And to coin terms like heterosexuality, homosexuality or even bisexuality makes no sense to me. You are human. You love who you love. You fuck who you fuck. That should be enough—no labels. No stigmas. Nothing. Just be to be.
But life isn't that kind. People will always find things to hate.”
Source: Kiss the Sky
“Whether it’s ourselves, our lovers, bosses, children, local Scrooge, or the political situation, it’s more daring and real not to shut anyone out of our hearts and not to make the other into an enemy. If we begin to live like this, we’ll find that we actually can’t make things completely right or completely wrong anymore, because things are a lot more slippery and playful than that. Everything is ambiguous; everything is always shifting and changing, and there are as many different takes on any given situation as there are people involved. Trying to find absolute rights and wrongs is a trick we play on ourselves to feel secure and comfortable.”
Source: When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times
“Whether it's racism, patriarchy, warmongering, greed, or child trafficking, it's counter to God's Kingdom. But the people caught in those systems are rarely the enemies; often they are just as caught, as longing for a rescue as the rest of us. We don't battle against flesh and blood, not really, but against the powers and principalities that hold us all captive.”
Source: Out of Sorts: Making Peace with an Evolving Faith
“Whether it's something that happened twenty years ago or only yesterday I must start out with an emotion, one that's close to me and that I can understand.”
Source: A Short Autobiography
“Whether it’s the waitress who brings steaming hot food to a table of hungry people or the janitor who keeps an office clean and free of germs, each of us have the power to deliver joy and happiness to the people around us through the work we do.”
Source: Perfectly Ordinary: Buddhist Teachings for Everyday Life
“Whether it’s what we can see, or the invisible, we must trust that there is something greater we are meant to know.”
Source: Mindfulness and Mysticism: Connecting Present Moment Awareness with Higher States of Consciousness
“Whether it’s your relationship with your spouse or Guru or God, trust is the root. It can only be watered by spending silent time together. Talking is like watering the leaves. When trust dries up, everything you say will be misunderstood and all the sweet talks you have had in the past will only cause pain and tears. They can’t build or rebuild trust.”
“Whether it seems like it or not, even one man against the world, when backed by Christ, possesses the strength of the majority, and for that, he should expect persecution from the darkness that which his light oppresses.”
“Whether it was a song, a person, or a story, there was a lot you couldn’t know from just an excerpt, a glance, or part of a chorus.”
Source: Just Listen
“Whether it was brief
moments shared or being connected through
his thoughts, he couldn't release himself from
thoughts of her. Even as years passed and his
hope and desire waned, memories of their
shared experiences lingered vividly in his
mind.”
Source: I Saw The Devil
“Whether it was butterflies, or paper planes, or kites. She was always chasing after something. And I was always chasing after her.”
Source: Card of Truth
“Whether it was by someone volunteering to be an extra in our show, or part of the crew, or someone buying a DVD at a convention, or a superfan who tattooed our characters' faces on her calf, my career has been built fan by fan. I wouldn't trade that relationship, or collection of dolls of myself, for all the money and fame in the world.”
Source: You're Never Weird on the Internet
“Whether it was fate that made them family or the dumb luck of the universe, they are here now, and they are going to go forward together.”
Source: Any Other Family
“Whether it was good or bad, that was the day, and you have to let it go.”
“Whether it was hunting, fishing, or playing sports, my children were going to grow up outside. They weren't going to be sitting on the couch inside. At least they didn't grow up to be nerds.”
Source: Happy, Happy, Happy: My Life and Legacy as the Duck Commander
“Whether it was making my bed or making a movie, my mother and father never hesitated to say how proud they were of me, and that means so very much to a child.”
“Whether it was power they sought, or revenge, or love-well, those were all just different forms of hunger. The bigger the hole inside you, the more desperate you became to fill it.”
Source: The Storyteller
“Whether it was the power of suggestion or whether her eyes really hadn't deceived her, I began noticing too that my face was occasionally going rogue the rest of the afternoon, smiling when I had little reason to smile. Maybe my facial nerves were developing a neurological condition; I resolved to keep a close eye on it.”
Source: The Other Guy
“Whether it was work, marriage, or family, I've always been a late bloomer.”
“Whether it's 18 years old or 40 years old, we think we know what's going on. But if you're lucky enough to continue the journey, its amazing how we keep learning how much we didn't know.”
“Whether it's a big dinner party or people just coming over to hang out, I just love to spend time with them.”
“Whether it's a blatant homage or unconscious mimicry, the Rolling Stones have permanently, indelibly influenced how rock stars look and behave.”
“Whether it's a bright shoe or a clutch or a lipstick, I've had a lot of fun using color contacts as an accessory.”
“Whether it's a Christian or a non-Christian, there's nothing like suffering to show us how small, needy, and not in control we are. Suffering has a way of sobering us up to the realization that we can't make it on our own, that we need help, that we're broken.”
“Whether it's a designer or a musician, I think the most important thing for people who express things are to be unique. There should be something unique only to them.”
“Whether it's a friendly match, or for points, or a final, or any game - I play the same. I'm always trying to be my best, first for my team, for myself, for the fans, and to try and win.”
“Whether it's a fully enlightened Christ or Buddha, or just a more aware Martin Luther King, Kennedy or Gandhi, what did they do with them here? They shoot them, crucify them, and get them out of the way because people are afraid of truth.”
“Whether it's a good thing or a bad thing, the higher your profile, the more castable you are in TV dramas.”
“Whether it's a guy living in an airport like Viktor Navorski in The Terminal, or Anvil in Toronto, or Alfred Hitchcock who's imprisoned by his success; there is a common thread to all these characters. I don't know why I'm particularly drawn to it. It's been pointed out to me, and I don't understand it myself.”
“Whether it's a letter, song lyrics, part of a novel, or instructions on how to fix a kitchen sink, it's writing. You keep your craft honed, you acquire the discipline to finish things. You turn into a self-taskmaster.”
“Whether it's a lower or higher budget project, a TV show or a film, the words on the page are the same to me and I approach the work in the same way. My job is to lift the character from the page, whether it's a TV or film script.”
“Whether it's a painter finding his way each morning to the easel, or a medical researcher returning daily to the laboratory, the routine is as much a part of the creative process as the lightning bolt of inspiration, maybe more.”
“Whether it's a pebble in a riverbed or a soaring mountain peak, I see everything in the world as the handiwork of the Lord. When I paint, I try to represent the beauty of God's creation in my art. Many modern painters see the world as a jumble of random lines and shapes with no divine beauty or order, and their works reflect their viewpoint. Because I see God's peacefulness, serenity, and contentment, I work to capture those feelings on the canvas. My vision of God defines my vision of the world.”