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 our own before we can be another's.”
Source: Essays and Lectures
“We must be part of the general staff at the inception, rather than the ambulance drivers at the bitter end.”
“We must be passionate and controlled but not reckless. Truth is not established by shame, guilt, or coercion or tribalism. It must be established by reason, evidence, presentation, compassion, and yes, faith. It cannot be established by ridicule, mocking, or insults of sacred icons or traditions but by disproving them or establishing their lack or veracity or usefulness.”
Source: The Leprechaun Delusion
“We must be patient with the gods
they like to have fun
they like to play with us.
they like to test us.
they like to tell us that we are weak
and stupid, that we are
finished.
the gods need to be amused.
we are their toys.”
Source: sifting through the madness for the word, the line, the way: New Poems
“We must be physicists in order to be creative since so far codes of values and ideals have been constructed in ignorance of physics or even in contradiction to physics.”
“we must be precise with love, its language and its gestures. If it is to save us, we must look at it as clearly as we should learn to look at death”
“We must be prepared to face our responsibilities and be willing to use force if necessary.”
“We must be prepared to keep pace with our leaders, stride for their every lengthened stride.”
“We must be prepared to make the same heroic sacrifices for the cause of peace that we make ungrudgingly for the cause of war.”
Source: The fight against war
“We must be prepared to pay a price for freedom, for no price that is ever asked for it is half the cost of doing without it.”
“We must be prepared to see an Association of Nations in conference growing into an organic system of world controls for world affairs and the keeping of the world’s peace, or we must be prepared for – a continuation of war.”
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“We must be proactive in our love in order for it to change our lives.”
Source: Everyday Grace: Having Hope, Finding Forgiveness, and Making Miracles
“We must be pure. I do not speak merely of the purity of the senses. We must observe great purity in our will, in our intentions, in all our actions.”
“We must be purposely kind and generous or we miss the best part of life's existence.”
“We must be quick to acknowledge our wrongs where possible, and offer amends if our actions have driven a wedge between ourselves and those we care about.”
“We must be quite the sight. Raffe in his red mask with his demon wings spread out in all their scythe-edged glory. A scrawny teenage Daughter of Man brandishing an archangel sword. And a little girl stitched-up to look and behave like a nightmare who is clutching a pair of angel wings.”
Source: World After
“We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God, who will thwart our plans and frustrate our ways time and again, even daily, by sending people across our path with their demands and requests. We can, then, pass them by, preoccupied with our important daily tasks, just as the priest-perhaps reading the Bible-passed by the man who had fallen among robbers. When we do that, we pass by the visible sign of the Cross raised in our lives to show us that God’s way, and not our own, is what counts.”
Source: Life Together: Prayerbook of the Bible
“We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God.”
Source: Life Together
“We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God. God will be constantly crossing our paths and canceling our plans by sending us people with claims and petitions.”
Source: Life Togehter
“We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God... It is a strange fact that Christians and even ministers frequently consider their work so important and urgent that they will allow nothing to disturb them. They think they are doing God a service in this but actually they are disdaining God's "crooked but straight path". It is part of the discipline of humility that we must not spare our hand where it can perform service and that we do not assume that our schedule is our own to manage, but allow it to be arranged by God.”
“We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God.....We must not.....assume that our schedule is our own to manage, but allow it to be arranged by God.”
“We must be ready to learn from one another, not claiming that we alone possess all truth and that somehow we have a corner on God.”
Source: God Is Not a Christian: And Other Provocations
“We must be ready... to take the rough with the smooth. We must have spirits so constant that we can derive from misfortune added strength, and if we are cheered by victory, we are also inspired to greater efforts by rebuffs. We cannot tell how long the road will be. We only know that it will be stony, painful, and uphill, and that we shall march along it to the end.”
“We must be reduced again and again to the limit of all resolution and resources and be compelled to feel the need of Another's help and sufficiency.”
“We must be resolute in ascertaining and pursuing prudent personal goals. How freeing it would be not to want, not to need, and not to covet anything, except for an opportunity to work to my fullest mental, physical, and emotional capacity for people who I respect and care for. I wish to surrender my naked ambition and sense of self-importance in exchange for edifying other people’s lives. I desire to work towards developing a deep affection for the world that surrounds me; exhibit in a more wholesome fashion that I cherish my family; broaden the sphere of personal interest; and labor to expand and explore my creative nature.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“We must be ruthless with ideas, but gentle with people.”
“We must be satisfied with the soup that is set before us, and not desire to see the bones of the ox out of which it has been boiled.”
Source: The Monsters and the Critics and Other Essays
“We must be sceptical even of our scepticism.”
Source: Sceptical Essays
“We must be silent before we can listen. We must listen before we can learn. We must learn before we can prepare. We must prepare before we can serve. We must serve before we can lead.”
Source: Thoughts of a Christian Optimist: The Words of William Arthur Ward
“We must be skeptical even of our skepticism.”
“We must be steady enough in ourselves, to be open and to let the winds of life blow through us, to be our breath, our inspiration . . .”
Source: Centering in Pottery, Poetry, and the Person
“We must be still before God.”
Source: The Secret of Guidance
“We must be strong at home if we are going to be strong abroad. We understand that. So we want to be strong at home in our morale or in our spirit, we want to be strong intellectually, in our education, in our economy and, where necessary, militarily.”
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1956
“We must be sure to be governed by inner principle and not outer pressure.”
“We must be suspicious of the fact that we are still hearing about Trump and his trial, while more important cases, like that of Assange, are shrouded with secrecy and no time was wasted to throw him in jail. The reason for that is that Assange did in fact expose the lies, manipulation, and corruption of the U.S. and world elites, whereas Trump has been doing nothing but serving their interests. Same can be applied to Snowden who is still in exile. The key point here is that it’s time for Trump supporters themselves to begin questioning how they, too, are being co-opted and exploited to keep the nation divided and to crush any possibility of wider resistance in which people see each other as allies fighting for similar causes not divided enemies fighting each other like sardines trapped in a can, while the unlimited wealth and power of the few at the top remain unchecked.
[From “The Trump Age: Critical Questions” published on CounterPunch on June 23, 2023]”
“We must be talented, powerful and resilient creatures indeed given how much we manage to produce despite the constant undercutting, ridicule and needless censorship we aim at ourselves.”
“We must be the compassion we wish to see in others!”
“We must be the great arsenal of Democracy.”
“We must be the great arsenal of democracy. For us this is an emergency as serious as war itself. We must apply ourselves to our task with the same resolution, the same sense of urgency, the same spirit of patriotism and sacrifice as we would show were we at war.”
“We must be the same person in private and in public. Only the Christian worldview gives us the basis for this kind of integrity.”
Source: How Now Shall We Live?
“We must be the world we want to create.”
“We must be trained to clarify minds, heal broken hearts, and create homes where sunshine will make an environment in which mental and spiritual health may be nurtured. Our schooling must not only teach us how to bridge the Niagara River gorge, or the Golden Gate, but must teach us how to bridge the deep gaps of misunderstanding and hate and discord in the world.”
Source: The Teachings of Spencer W. Kimball, Twelfth President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
“We must be true ambassadors of Christ on the earth in order to be able to put an end to the plague of ignorance in our society.”
Source: The Mountain of Ignorance
“We must be true inside, true to ourselves, before we can know a truth that is outside us. But we make ourselves true inside by manifesting the truth as we see it.”
Source: No Man Is an Island
“We must be true to each other.”
“We must be true to ourselves. And we must be true to others, whether they believe we are or not.”
Source: Character Is Destiny: Inspiring Stories Every Young Person Should Know and Every Adult Should Remember
“We must be truthful and fair in the ordinary affairs of life before we can be truthful and fair in patriotism and religion.”
“We must be trying to learn who we really are rather than trying to tell ourselves who we should be.”
Source: Will the Real Me, Please Stand Up?: Twenty-Five Guidelines for Good Communication
“We must be unafraid to be utterly honest, to honor our gut feelings, and to say and do the unpopular when necessary. We have to give up our addiction to other people's opinions and surrender to the freedom of acting with strength and courage.”
“We must be unanimous; there must be no pulling different ways; we must hang together.”