W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“We can beat anyone on our day - so long as we score.”
“We can become anything. That is why injustice is impossible here. There may be the accident of birth, there is no accident of death. Nothing forces us to remain what we were.”
Source: Pig Earth
“We can become bitter or better as a result of our experiences.”
“We can become fearless as we let go off our grasp on the fear of failure, because failure too is a perception rather than a reality.”
Source: The Restful Mind
“We can become great in the eyes of others, but we'll never become successful when we compromise our character and show disloyalty toward friends or teammates. The reverse is also true: No individual or team will become great without loyalty.”
Source: Coach Wooden's Pyramid of Success (Large Print 16pt)
“We can become inspired to shape a higher, more ideal future, and when we do, miracles happen.”
Source: Celestine Insights - Limited Edition of Celestine Prophecy and Tenth Insight
“We can become slaves to things we don't understand”
“We can become so insensitive to the Spirit's prodding that we become too idle, too self absorbed and too busy with too many things that in the eyes of God, are worthless.”
“We can become the masters of our own destinies by practicing self-discipline and by setting worthy goals that will lead to higher ground so that we can become what our heavenly father wants us to become.”
“We can become very short-sighted in terms of objectives. The first thing to go during times of economic crisis and budget cuts is funding for things that are essential and not-quantifiable, like the arts. Save Big Bird”
“We can begin a discussion of artmaking by noting that from very early (as long ago as 200,000 years), humans have been naturally attracted to the extraordinary as a dimension of experience and that at some point they seem also to have been moved to make the ordinary extraordinary-that is, to shape or elaborate everyday, mundane reality and thereby transform it into something special, different from the everyday.”
“We can begin by doing small things at the local level, like planting community gardens or looking out for our neighbors. That is how change takes place in living systems, not from above but from within, from many local actions occurring simultaneously.”
“We can begin by practicing Mindfulness every moment of each day, and it will help us stay awake and aware when we even begin to step out of the moment of caring about
one another.”
Source: Live True: A Mindfulness Guide to Authenticity
“We can begin ever so modestly. We can begin with a one week's food supply and gradually build it to a month, and then to three months. I am speaking now of food to cover basic needs. . .I fear that so many feel that a long-term food supply is so far beyond their reach that they make no effort at all. . .Begin in a small way, ... and gradually build toward a reasonable objective.”
“We can begin the restructuring of thought by declaring legitimate what we have denied for so long. Lets us declare Nature to be legitimate. The notion of illegal plants is obnoxious and ridiculous in the first place.”
“We can begin to address the issue of guns by teaching our young people how to deal with situations in nonviolent ways. Someone said to me the other day, "What our adolescents need is not so much health care, but healthy caring," and I agree. Parents and churches need to provide that. Curricula in our schools [need to] provide that.”
“We can begin to let go of the complications that cause us to suffer by cultivating a simple state of awareness. In this process, tiny steps yield big results, in part because simplicity is nature's default position. Suffering and the complications that fuel it are unnatural; it wastes energy to maintain complexity.”
“We can believe as we want, but we should not force our beliefs on others.”
“We can believe in the future and work to achieve it and preserve it, or we can whirl blindly on, behaving as if one day there will be no children to inherit our legacy. The choice is ours; the earth is in balance.”
Source: Earth in the Balance: Forging a New Common Purpose
“We can believe that we know where the world should go. But unless we're in touch with our customers, our model of the world can diverge from reality. There's no substitute for innovation, of course, but innovation is no substitute for being in touch, either.”
“We can believe what we choose. We are answerable for what we choose to believe.”
“We can believe what we want, but it does not change the facts.”
Source: Destiny of Dreams: Time Is Dear
“We can benefit others through our actions by being warm and generous toward them, by being charitable, and by helping those in need.”
“We can best help children learn, not by deciding what we think they should learn and thinking of ingenious ways to teach it to them, but by making the world, as far as we can, accessible to them, paying serious attention to what they do, answering their questions -- if they have any -- and helping them explore the things they are most interested in.”
“We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following your methods but by finding new words and creating new methods.”
Source: A Room of One's Own: And, Three Guineas
“We can best serve the cause of Canadian unity and understanding by living first in and through and then beyond our own immediate traditions.”
“We can bet on one thing in our flight, and that's that the Regime will be looking for us. Their maw is likely here in the west, where they know we're strongest. If you linger near the mouth of a predator, you make yourself an easy dish. Sometimes you're safer beneath the belly of the beast.”
Source: Lifemaker
“We can better see what we don't have. The other man's grass is always greener and now we can actually go and visit his grass much more and feel the absence of green in our own lives.”
“We can blame those people, but the only thing a mass murder 'means' is that we've made it too easy to kill.”
Source: A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor
“We can block our blessings with one thought, one decision. Sometimes your blessing may require certain actions on your behalf. You asked for the job? Now, you must get dressed and go to the interview and prove yourself worthy of the position. When you move, you activate your faith. And, suddenly everything falls into place. Faith without works is dead.”
“We can bolster human spirits, clothe cold bodies, feed hungry people, comfort grieving hearts, and lift to new heights precious souls.”
“We can bomb the world to pieces, but we can't bomb it into peace.”
“We can boost our immune systems by strengthening our social networks and decreasing stress.”
“We can both prevent asteroid impacts and address climate change. It's not either-or.”
“We can break news really fast. When an earthquake happens, there are people Twittering about it.”
“We can break the mountains apart; we can drain the rivers and flood the valleys. We can turn the most luxuriant forests into throw-away paper products. We can tear apart the great grass cover of the western plains and pour toxic chemicals into the soil and pesticides onto the fields until the soil is dead and blows away in the wind. We can pollute the air with acids, the rivers with sewage, the seas with oil - all this in a kind of intoxication with our power for devastation at an order of magnitude beyond all reckoning.”
“We can bring a heart of understanding and compassion to a world that needs it so much.”
Source: Bringing Home the Dharma: Awakening Right Where You Are
“We can bring brilliant flowers of victory to bloom in our lives when we weather the hardships of winter and emerge triumphant based on our practice of the Mystic Law. The key to victories lies in how hard we struggle when we are in winter, how wisely we use this time and how meaningful we live each day confident that spring will definitely come.”
“We can bring crews in from other areas, too. If Monterey is hard hit and Bakersfield, for example, is not, we can bring crews in from there.”
“We can bring into being, the things we dream. So much of what we are is, limited or expanded by, what we think.”
“We can bring our spiritual practice into the streets, into our communities, when we see each realm as a temple, as a place to discover that which is sacred.”
“We can bring quality into the details of life if we remember to be and act with precision. If we can consciously be at that point where the horizontal force of active choice meets the vertical force of Being, a certain „something“, larger than life, will be activated. This „something“ can be felt in anything produced by the hands and hearts of a conscious human being – in works of art, in a well-tended garden, in food prepared with love.”
Source: Living Presence: A Sufi Way to Mindfulness & the Essential Self
“We can bring to characters dark and bright sides that nobody even dreams about.”
“We can bring to earth a new world from the ashes of the old because our union transforms us the powerless into the powerful. And I ask you to join together in using all that power-all that strength to make the dreams of all workers and communities around the world come true.”
“We can build a better product than Linux.”
“We can build a collective civic space large enough for all our separate identities, that we can be E Pluribus Unum - Out of One, Many.”
“We can build a new modern electric grid. That's a lot of jobs; that's a lot of new economic activity.”
“We can build a society grounded on friendship and our common humanity - a society founded on tolerance. That is the only road open to us.”
Source: Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations
“We can build an economy that does not destroy its natural support systems, a global community where the basic needs of all the Earth's people are satisfied, and a world that will allow us to think of ourselves as civilized. This is entirely doable.”
“We can build anything in our imagination that's where all creation begins in your life”