W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Without courage there are no true heroes. We live around many anonymous heroes who may act when there is a real need; but they do not have the courage to make that decision.”
“Without courage there cannot be truth, and without truth there can be no other virtue.”
Source: Life of Sir Walter Scott, bart
“Without courage, there is no conquering.”
“Without courage we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency.”
“Without courage we will simply accumulate a collection of good ideas and regrets.”
Source: Next Generation Leader
“Without courage we would coward at the slightest sight of our darkest thoughts.”
Source: Boost Your Brainpower 365
“Without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently.”
“Without courage you cannot practice any of the other virtues.”
Source: Conversations with Maya Angelou
“Without courage, all other virtues are useless.”
Source: Desert Solitaire
“Without courage, honor, compassion, pity, love and sacrifice, as William Faulkner pointed out, we know not of love, but lust. We debase our audience. But we can ennoble and enrich our viewers and ourselves in our journey through this good time, this precious time, this great and wonderful experience we call life.”
“Without courage, it doesn't matter how good the leader's intentions are.”
“Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.”
“Without courage, you cannot practice any other virtue. You have to have courage - courage of different kinds: first, intellectual courage, to sort out different values and make up your mind about which is the one which is right for you to follow. You have to have moral courage to stick up to that - no matter what comes in your way, no matter what the obstacle and the opposition is.”
“Without courageous action, Hope is a Universal liar.”
Source: Is Hope is for Sissies
“Without craft, art remains private. Without art, craft is merely hackwork.”
Source: The Faith of a Writer: Life, Craft, Art
“Without craftsmanship, inspiration is a mere reed shaken in the wind.”
“Without craziness, there is no courage.”
“Without creation, what are we but stalled in life?”
“Without creative, independently thinking and judging personalities the upward development of society is as unthinkable as the development of the individual personality without the nourishing soil of the community.”
Source: The World As I See It
“Without credible communication, and a lot of it, the hearts and minds of others are never captured.”
“Without criticism and reliable and intelligent reporting, the government cannot govern.”
“Without criticism of Islam, Islam will remain unassailed in its dogmatic, fanatical, medieval fortress; ossified, totalitarian and intolerant. It will continue to stifle thought, human rights, individuality, originality and truth.”
“Without cruelty there is no festival: thus the longest and most ancient part of human history teaches and in punishment there is so much that is festive!”
Source: Friedrich Nietzsche: His Life and Thought
“Without cultural indoctrination, all of us would be atheists. Or, more specifically, while many may dream up their own gods as did our ancestors, they would certainly not be ‘Christian’ or ‘Jewish’ or ‘Muslim’ or any other established religion. That’s because, without the texts and churches and familial instruction, there are no independent evidences that any specific religion is true. Outside of the Bible, how would one hear of Jesus? The same goes for every established religion.”
“Without culture there can be no growth; without exertion, no acquisition; without friction, no polish; without labor, no knowledge; without action, no progress; and without conflict, no victory. The man who lies down a fool at night, hoping that he will waken wise in the morning, will rise up in the morning as he laid down in the evening.”
“Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future.”
Source: The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays
“Without cunning, there is no innovation. Without ambition, there is no accomplishment.”
“Without curiosity a writer is dead.”
“Without curiosity and passion, the world will seem to lack possibility and everything in life will appear pre-ordained. It is important for a person to spend the majority of the day pursuing their passionate interests and enlisting their innate inquisitiveness. Life is so much sweeter when we contemplate pleasant as opposed to distasteful thoughts. We feel most alive when we create an apt channel for our creative impulses, and engage in thoughtful discourse relating to our concordant values.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“Without curiosity, all doors remain closed!”
“Without curiosity, there will never be any innovation.”
“Without dance, a man can do nothing.”
“Without dancing you can never attain a perfectly graceful carriage, which is of the highest importance in life.”
Source: Contarini Fleming: A Romance
“Without danger I cannot be great. That is how I pay for Abel's blood. Danger and fear follow my steps everywhere. Without them courage would have no sense. And it is courage, courage, courage that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor.”
Source: The Collected Plays of George Bernard Shaw (Illustrated): Including Renowned Titles like Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, The Inca Of Perusalem, Macbeth Skit, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion
“Without dark clouds in our lives, we would never know the joy of sunshine. We can become callous and unteachable if we do not learn from pain.”
Source: Billy Graham in Quotes
“Without darkness, how could we have appreciated the light?”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“Without darkness, light loses its significance. रोशनी की तलाश करते है जो, वो जानते है कि रोशनी के लिए तो अंधेरे मे हो कर इंतज़ार होता है।”
“Without darkness, there is no night, and without night, there is no sleep, and without sleep, there are no dreams.' The King of the Moon stood and raised his fist to the sky. 'And without dreams, everything dies.”
Source: Kaleidoscope
“Without darkness, there will be no discovery of light.”
“Without darkness, nothing comes to birth, As without light, nothing flowers.”
Source: A House of Gathering: Poets on May Sarton's Poetry
“Without David Bowie, popular music as we know it pretty much wouldn't exist.”
“Without deadlines and restrictions I just tend to become preoccupied with other things.”
“Without death and decay, how could life go on?”
Source: The Art of Seeing Things: Essays
“Without death in the world, existence in it would soon become, through over-population, the most frightful of curses.”
“Without death, life is meaningless. It is a story that can never be told. A song that can never be sung. For how would one finish it?”
“Without death there is little innovation. Extinction - death of a species - is part and parcel of evolutionary change. In the absence of this kind of extinction new developments would not prosper. In our own history, periods when ideas have been perpetuated by dogma, preventing the replacement of old by new ideas, have also been times of stultifying stagnation. The Dark Ages in western society were the most static, least innovative of times. So the fact that trilobites were replaced by batches of successive species through their long history was a testimony to their evolutionary vigour.”
Source: Trilobite: Eyewitness to Evolution
“Without death there would be no awareness of life, and the recurring selection and renewal that has caused life's progress would be ended.”
Source: Autobiography of values
“Without death there would be very little progress.”
“Without death, our lives would have no meaning. Death frames our end for us and also puts a value on things.”
Source: Claiming Your Place at the Fire: Living the Second Half of Your Life on Purpose
“Without death,' he answered, 'life is meaningless. It is a story that can never be told. A song that can never be sung. For how would one finish it?”
Source: Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter