W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“We must be conscious of this; one day, the life we have, will be gone.”
Source: Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
“We must be content to grow slowly. Most of us will still barely be at the beginning of our recovery by the time we die. But that is better than killing ourselves pretending to be healthy.”
“We must be contented to amuse, when we cannot inform.”
Source: Memoir, correspondence, and miscellanies from the papers of T. Jefferson
“We must be convinced that abundance is the natural state of the Universe. To experience and accept abundance in our life, we must be convinced that as we conceive and believe, the Universe handles the details.”
“We must be courageous but also reasonable. The world admires us for walking a tightrope without falling off. It asks us to keep our balance.”
“We must be cruel as well as compassionate: let us guard against becoming poorer than nature is!”
“We must be devoted to sound principles in word and deed: principle above party, principle above pocketbook, principle above popularity.”
Source: God, family, country: our three great loyalties
“We must be diligent today. To wait until tomorrow is too late. Death comes unexpectedly. How can we bargain with it?”
“We must be doing something to be happy.”
Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)
“We must be drawn by the idea of where we want to go more than we dislike the idea of all the work it is going to take to get there.”
Source: Lessons from the Castle: My Journey From Prince Charming to Executive Level Leader and How You Can Find The Legendary Leader Within
“We must be educated in inner human modesty, so we can recognize that we are not, even for a moment, complete as human beings. Instead, we continue to develop from birth until death. We must recognize that every day of life has a special value, that it is not without purpose that we must learn to live through our thirties right after we have just gone through our twenties. We need to learn that each new day and each new year offers continual revelation.”
Source: Education as a Force for Social Change
“We must be ever courteous and patient with those who do not see eye to eye with us. We must resolutely refuse to consider our opponents as enemies.”
Source: The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi
“We must be ever on the search for some persons whom we shall love and who will love us in return. If good will and affection are taken away, every joy is taken from life.”
Source: Cicero in twenty-nine volumes
“We must be extremely cautious in inviting others directly into our sub-consciousnesses in order to avoid falling under their spells unknowingly.”
Source: Treatise Upon The Misconceptions of Narcissism
“We must be faithful to the present moment or we will frustrate the plan of God for our lives.”
“We must be firm but not rough in our guidance and avoid an insipid kind of meekness, which is ineffective.”
“We must be firm but not rough in our guidance and avoid an insipid kind of meekness, which is ineffective. We will learn from Our Lord how our meekness should always be accompanied by humility and grace so as to attract hearts to Him and not cause anyone to turn away from Him.”
“We must be for ourselves in the long run; the mild and generous are only more justly selfish than the domineering.”
Source: The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
“We must be forewarned that only rarely does a text easily lend itself to the reader's curiosity... the reading of a text is a transaction between the reader and the text, which mediates the encounter between the reader and writer. It is a composition between the reader and the writer in which the reader "rewrites" the text making a determined effort not to betray the author's spirit.”
“We must be free for the truth; and conversely, to be able to be open toward the truth may be our deepest freedom as human creatures.”
Source: The illusion of technique: a search for meaning in a technological civilization
“We must be free inside to make a difference outside.”
Source: The Book that Made Your World: How the Bible Created the Soul of Western Civilization
“We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.”
Source: Essays, Speeches & Public Letters
“We must be free or die, who speak the tongue
That Shakespeare spake; the faith and morals hold
Which Milton held.”
“We must be free, but to have real freedom, you must be wild and free yourself.”
“We must be full reservoirs in order to let our water spill out without becoming empty, and we must possess the spirit with which we want them to be animated, for no one can give what he does not have.”
Source: Correspondence, Conferences, Documents: Apr. 1650-July 1653
“We must be fully committed, but we must also be aware at the same time that we might possibly be wrong. People who claim to be absolutely convinced that their stand is the only right one...is a dead giveaway of unconscious doubt. Commitment is healthiest when it is not without doubt, but in spite of doubt.”
“We must be gentle now we are gentlemen.”
Source: A Select British Theatre: Containing All the Plays Formerly Adapted to the Stage
“We must be global Christians with a global vision because our God is a global God.”
“We must be good consumers of capital – using it to create maximum value for ourselves, our family, our customers – that’s productivity.”
Source: Business for Beginners: Getting Started
“We must be governed by the force of law, not by the law of force.”
Source: Letters to a Young Doubter
“We must be greater than God, for we have to undo His injustice.”
“We must be holy, because this is the only sound evidence that we have a saving faith in our Lord Jesus Christ.”
Source: Holiness: It's Nature, Hindrances, Difficulties, and Roots
“We must be honest in acknowledging that neither Germany nor the US has the luxury of assuming that we can skate by on half-measures in Afghanistan and Pakistan and not risk suffering the consequences.”
“We must be instruments of God's compassion to those who are suffering.”
“We must be kind and forgive one another or we won't survive. But even among the most religious there seems to be a great blind spot covering the world, an inability to learn from past experience. Civilization is as precarious as a sand castle. All the care and effort it took to create it can be knocked down in a second by some bully or another. And the world is full of bullies.”
Source: Welcome to the World, Baby Girl!
“We must be kind and gentle gardeners with people and nature.”
“We must be laid like a brand in the fire ... if we would gain immortal youth.”
“We must be learning if we are to feel fully alive, and when life, or love, becomes too predictable and it seems like there is little left to learn, we become restless - a protest, perhaps, of the plastic brain when it can no longer perform its essential task.”
Source: The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science
“We must be like the fountain or spring that is continually emptying itself of all that it has and is continually being refilled from an invisible source. To be continually giving out for the good of our fellows undeterred by fear of poverty and reliant on the unfailing bounty of the Source of all wealth and all good -- this is the secret of right living.”
“We must be listened to: above and beyond our personal experience, we have collectively witnessed a fundamental unexpected event, fundamental precisely because unexpected, not foreseen by anyone. It happened, therefore it can happen again: this is the core of what we have to say. It can happen, and it can happen everywhere.”
“We must be loyal to the forum of our government.”
“We must be mad, literally mad, as a nation to be permitting the annual inflow of some 50,000 dependents, who are for the most part the material of the future growth of the immigrant-descended population. It is like watching a nation busily engaged in heaping up its own funeral pyre.”
Source: Freedom and reality
“We must be making a scene."
"Oh, who cares. Anyway, you don't need to worry, because I'm the one making a scene. Everyone'll think I brought my sculpture to the boardwalk so I could sit there hugging it.”
Source: Seasparrow
“We must be more and more to each other, my dear wife.' -Charles Darwin to wife Emma upon loss of daughter Annie”
Source: Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith
“We must be moving, working, making dreams to run toward; the poverty of life without dreams is too horrible to imagine.”
Source: The Journals of Sylvia Plath
“We must be neither cowardly nor rash but courageous.”
“We must be on our guard against giving interpretations which are hazardous or opposed to science, and so exposing the word of God to the ridicule of unbelievers.”
“We must be open to our mistakes and grow. Growth isn't based on being perfect, but moving toward the best we can be by being honest.”
“We must be optimistic about the future because it's a self-fulfilling prophecy. If we are creative and ambitious, intelligent machines will liberate us and be as profound a boon to our prosperity as electricity. If we are fearful, and fail to press ahead, we could be overwhelmed by automation and inequality.”
“We must be our own authentically unique truth, and question who we are, what created us, and what processes within us are alien and externally created.”