W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“We can neither heal nor build if, on the one hand the rich in our society see the poor as hordes of irritants or if on the other hand the poor sit back, expecting charity. All of us must take responsibility for the upliftment of our conditions, prepared to give our best to the benefit of all”
Source: Nelson Mandela: from freedom to the future : tributes and speeches
“We can neither hurry nor hasten the works of God.”
“We can neither put back the clock nor slow down our forward speed, and as we are already flying pilotless, on instrument controls, it is even too late to ask where we are going.”
Source: Themes and episodes
“We can never accomplish great things in the universe by focusing on our infinite smallness within the universe! What we have to do is feel confident in ourselves by knowing that we have an infinite mind that is greater than the infinite size of the universe!”
“We can never achieve absolute truth but we can live hopefully by a system of calculated probabilities.”
“We can never adequately prepare our children for what the world will throw at them. Their lives deviate from ours in unfathomable ways and in the end, all we can do is hope that the strength we have nurtured within them is greater than the weaknesses we have inflicted upon them.”
Source: Sins of the Mother
“We can never at any time absorb more love than we're ready for.”
“We can never attain to perfection while we have an affection for any imperfection.”
Source: The Spiritual Maxims of Saint Francis de Sales
“We can never be a nation of snobs so long as we are willing to poke fun at ourselves.”
“We can never be angry with the people we love for long, then why do we think that God can be angry with us.
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“We can never be born enough.”
Source: AnOther E.E. Cummings
“We can never be certain about the future and therefore we must continue to be flexible and adaptable so that we can react quickly to the needs of our clients and our market place.”
“We can never be certain of our courage until we have faced danger.”
“We can never be entirely original, as artists or as people. The genius and vision of those who came before us is too great for us to digress from entirely. Though, as creatures that are compelled to test and surpass our own creative abilities, we must always strive for that originality in everything we do in order to move the world forward.”
“We can never be gods, after all--but we can become something less than human with frightening ease.”
Source: The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms
“We can never be grieved for their miseries who are thoroughly wicked, and have thereby justly called their calamities on themselves.”
Source: The art of painting of Charles Alphonse Du Fresnoy
“We can never be happy forever in this materialistic world if we don’t achieve the highest level of consciousness in our body, because we human beings are born on Earth for an extraordinary purpose: to fulfill the goal of universal consciousness.”
Source: Enter Heaven
“We can never be like it was at Penn State with Joe Paterno. That was an anomaly in an of itself.”
“We can never be like lillies in the garden unless we have spent time as bulbs in the dark, totally ignored.”
“We can never be prepared for everything. No one person can anticipate all of life. In fact, overpreparation is yet another way to wall ourselves in from life.”
Source: The Book of Awakening: Having the Life You Want by Being Present to the Life You Have (Gift Edition)
“We can never be quite clear whether we are referring to the world as it is or to the world as we see it.”
Source: Communication: The Social Matrix of Psychiatry
“We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.”
“We can never bring anything to us unless we are GRATEFUL for what we have. In fact, if somebody was completely and utterly GRATEFUL for everything, they would never have to ask for anything, because it would be given to them before they even asked. That is the power of GRATITUDE!”
Source: How The Secret Changed My Life: Real People. Real Stories.
“We can never catch up with life ... we shall always be eating the soft part of our melting ice and meanwhile the nice hard part is rapidly melting too.”
“We can never cease to be ourselves.”
Source: Joseph Conrad The Dover Reader
“We can never control truth. We can only control ourselves to be deceptive, and deny being aware of the truth.”
Source: Spirituality, Evolution and Awakened Consciousness: Getting Real About Soul Maturity and Spiritual Growth
“We can never do the right thing as long as we are out to please someone else.”
Source: The Body Never Lies: The Lingering Effects of Cruel Parenting
“We can never establish with certainty what part of our relations with others is the result of our emotions - love, antipathy, charity, or malice - and what part is predetermined by the constant power play among individuals.”
“We can never establish with certainty what part of our relations with others is the result of our emotions—love, antipathy, charity, or malice—and what part is determined by the constant power play among individuals.
True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has no power. Mankind's true moral test, its fundamental test (which lies deeply buried from view), consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals. And in this respect mankind has suffered a fundamental debacle, a debacle so fundamental that all others stem from it.”
Source: The Unbearable Lightness of Being
“We can never expect to grow in the likeness of our Lord unless we follow His example and give more time to communion with the Father. A revival of real praying would produce a spiritual revolution.”
Source: Purpose in Prayer
“We can never experience sensuality beyond our capacity to conceive and receive. As much sensuality as we can accept, that much we can demonstrate.”
“We can never fall short when it comes to recruiting, hiring, maintaining and growing our workforce. It is the employees who make our organization’s success a reality.”
Source: Wired Differently
“We can never flee the misery that is within us.”
“We can never found the soul, just as we can never wound God, but we become imprisoned by our memories, and that makes our lives wretched, even when we have everything we need in order to be happy.”
“We can never fully know what it’s like to be in other people's shoes until we experience it ourselves, so it’s important that we learn to empathize with others when they act on their emotions.”
“We can never fully repay the debt of our proud nation to those who have laid down their lives for our country. The best we can do is honor their memory, ensure that their sacrifice is not in vain, and help provide for their families.”
“We can never get a re-creation of community and heal our society without giving our citizens a sense of belonging.”
“We can never give up the belief that the good guys always win. And that we are the good guys.”
Source: The Popcorn Report: Faith Popcorn on the Future of Your Company, Your World, Your Life
“We can never go back again, that much is certain. The past is still close to us. The things we have tried to forget and put behind us would stir again, and that sense of fear, of furtive unrest, struggling at length to blind unreasoning panic - now mercifully stilled, thank God - might in some manner unforeseen become a living companion as it had before.”
“We can never go back.”
“We can never grasp the extent of our depravity until we recognize the excellencies of our created dignity”
Source: Recovering Redemption: A Gospel-Saturated Perspective on How to Change
“We can never have enough of that which we really do not want.”
“We can never have enough startups that are pursuing unique solutions to important problems.”
“We can never have Knowledge (Gnan) without worship (bhakti). Such knowledge would be considered shushka-gnan [unproductive knowledge]. It cannot be considered True Knowledge.”
“We can never have too much preparation and training. We must be a strong competitor. We must adhere staunchly to the basic principle that anything less than full equality is not enough. If we compromise on that principle our soul is dead.”
“We can never judge a soul above the high water mark of our own.”
“We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation.”
Source: By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
“We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation. It's one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it's another to think that yours is the only path.”
“We can never know a person completely as there is only one thing changeless and that is change itself.”
“We can never know anything.”