W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“We can build influence by self promotion, but God will only promote those who do not promote themselves. That which is built on self-promotion will have to be maintained by human striving. Those who allow God to build the house have taken a yoke that is easy and a burden that is light.”
“We can build new housing while preserving the quality and character of adjacent residential districts and ensuring infill development strengthens the surrounding neighborhood.”
“We can build up a significant life story of our own and enjoy the richness and depth of its plot if we don’t want to surrender to external forces to shape our lives and don’t yield to a lack of mindpower. ("Everybody his story")”
“We can build upon foundations anywhere if they are well and firmly laid.”
“We can, but should we?”
Source: KRISPR
“We can buy you one of those books they have for little kids 'Timmy Has Two Dads'. Except I don't think they have one called 'Timmy Has Two Dads and One of Them Was Evil'. That part you're just going to have to work through on your own.”
Source: Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (4 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels
“We can call it Isratine.”
“We can call this "the progress principle": Pleasure comes more from making progress toward goals than from achieving them. Shakespeare captured it perfectly: "Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing."”
Source: The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom
“We can carry the burden of hurt throughout our lives. We can make the hurt that we have experienced the defining aspect of our stories of ourselves. That means that somebody else gets to say who we are, somebody else gets to decide how we feel, and somebody else gets to decide how we see the world. Forgiveness not only frees us from the burden of someone else's opinion of us, but it allows us the opportunity to really write a story of ourselves that we can love, enjoy, relish, and live into.”
“We can carve time out of thin air, or we can fill up even infinite stretches of time with nothingness. These are our choices.”
Source: The Creativity Book: A Year's Worth of Inspiration and Guidance
“We can certainly be on the same side and the same front with the workers and with the oppressed people of Iran. We can certainly be on the same front with them.”
“We can certainly defuse the intensity of the anti-immigrant feeling if we can bring some reality to the discussion by showing that they are not using that many resources.”
“We can certainly go further than cats, but why should it be that our brains are somehow so suited to the universe that our brains will be able to understand the deepest workings?”
“We can certainly see contemporary examples of people who radically change. As long you believe your spouse will never change and you keep telling yourself that, then you live with no hope. But if you understand that that's a myth, then you open up the door to hope.”
“We can change in one day. We can fall in love in one day. Anything can happen in one day.”
Source: Just One Day
“We can change our circumstances by a mere change of our attitude.”
“We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish.”
“We can change our own life and ultimately change the world.”
Source: Journey to One: A Woman's Story of Emotional Healing and Spiritual Awakening
“We can change our rewards. It just takes a shift in out thought patterns and being gentle and patient with ourselves.”
Source: That Sugar Book
“We can change our thinking. Rather than viewing the chemical adulteration of our environment and our bodies as the inevitable practice of convenience and progress, we can decide that cancer is inconvenient and toxic pollution archaic and primitive. We can start seeing the creation of carcinogens as the result of outmoded technologies. We can demand green engineering and green chemistry. We can let our systems of industry and agriculture know that they are suffering from a design flaw.”
“We can change our whole life and the attitude of people around us simply by changing ourselves.”
“We can change our wives,” he said. “We can change our jobs, our nationalities and even our religions, but we can never change our team.”
Source: The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims
“We can change people only by becoming their friends, not by becoming their enemies! Make friends with people so that you may be able to change them!”
“We can change. People say we can't, but we do when the the stakes or the pain is high enough.”
Source: Almost Everything: Notes on Hope
“We can change so many times in our lives. We're born into a family, and it's the only life we can imagine, but it changes. Buildings collapse. Fires burn. And the next second we're someplace else entirely, going through different motions and trying to keep up with this new person we've become.”
Source: Sever
“We can change society, change humanity by changing ourselves as individuals. By cultivating inner values, we can change our own lives and those of our families. This is how we can create a more peaceful world.”
“We can change South Africa on the rugby field”
“We can change the brain by changing the mind.”
“We can change the course of events if we go to our knees in believing prayer.”
“We can change the destiny of our nation through the Power of making right choices at this very right time.”
“We can change the expression of more than 70 percent of the genes that have a direct bearing on our health and longevity.”
Source: Grain Brain: The Surprising Truth about Wheat, Carbs, and Sugar - Your Brain's Silent Killers
“We can change the lives of autistic children. We can make a difference. There are hundreds of families in Florida who can't afford the therapists.”
“We can change the narrative about Africa with content.”
“We can change the world and make it a better place. It is in your hands to make a difference.”
“We can change the world, but we can't change ourselves...”
“We can change the world one laugh at a time.”
“We can change the world one thought at a time, one child at a time, one family at a time, one community at a time, one city, one state and one country at a time.”
“We can change the world with every thought we have and every word we speak.”
“We can change who we are. We can improve ourselves in various ways, and we can give ourselves possibilities.”
“We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which has led to the present.”
“We can check the police station back in Phoenix," Chill suggests. "See if he's in custody."
Marie rolls her eyes, dragging a cigarette from behind her ear. "Give Julio a little credit, will you?”
Source: Seasons of the Storm
“We can choose a future where we export more products and outsource fewer jobs. After a decade that was defined by what we bought and borrowed, we're getting back to basics, and doing what America has always done best: We're making things again.”
“We can choose between the future and the past, between reason and ignorance, between true compassion and mere ideology.”
“We can choose how we present ourselves to the world—and we should. From a sales perspective, who would you rather work with? Someone who is friendly and amiable or someone who is stiff and unyielding?”
Source: The Art of Connection: 8 Ways to Enrich Rapport & Kinship for Positive Impact
“We can choose our beliefs. We can choose to believe in ourselves. We can choose to believe in any higher power or powers we want. We can choose to believe it will all work out. We just have to believe that we can believe.”
Source: Spiritual Words to Live by : 81 Daily Wisdoms and Meditations to Transform Your Life
“We can choose our family. We can't choose our relatives.”
“We can choose our friends, but we can't choose our neighbors.”
“We can choose the attitude that says, I have been wronged. People have hurt me, but with the help of God, I am going to learn how to return good for evil, and I am going to make a difference in this world.”
“We can choose the courage to put ourselves in the vicinity of the things we fear over and over again until we grow more comfortable and then confident.”
Source: [Motivation Manifesto] The Motivation Manifesto;The Motivation Manifesto:The Motivation Manifesto
“We can choose the narrative we tell about our lives. We're born into cultures, nations and languages that we didn't choose. We're born with certain brain chemicals and genetic predispositions that we can't control. We're sometimes thrust into social conditions that we detest. But among all the things we don't control, we do have some control over our stories. We do have a conscious say in selecting the narrative we will use to organize perceptions.”
Source: The Social Animal: The Hidden Sources of Love, Character, and Achievement