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 united, we must be undaunted, we must be inflexible. Our qualities and deeds must burn and glow through the gloom oEurope until they become the veritable beacon oits salvation.”
“We must be very careful not to assign this deliverance the attributes of a victory. Wars are not won by evacuations”
Source: Their Finest Hour
“We must be very careful when we give advice to younger people; sometimes they follow it!”
“We must be very deliberate in choosing what is meaningful to us and provide a stable path for long-term growth.”
“We must be very suspicious of the deceptions of the element of time. It takes a good deal of time to eat or to sleep, or to earn ahundred dollars, and a very little time to entertain a hope and an insight which becomes the light of our life.”
Source: The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson
“We must be vigilant, even of each other, but mostly of ourselves. What my time in the cave taught me is that the ultimate life-and-death struggle is with ourselves. Foreign invaders might kill my body, but only I could kill my spirit.”
Source: The Sympathizer
“We must be vigilant in our actions towards criminals, and innovative in our approach towards solving crime.”
“We must be vigilant that we don't sink into the morass of sectarianism, mixing, pettiness etc. We must not get involved in unprincipled slagging matches etc or into positions that are sectarian, anti-revolutionary, morally damaging that give succour to the enemy & that confuse & divide the working class”
“We must be warriors in the struggle against ignorance”
“We must be what we are, or we become our enemies.”
“We must be willing to accept the bitter truth that, in the end, we may have to become a burden to those who love us. But it is necessary that we face this also. The full acceptance of our abjection and uselessness is the virtue that can make us and others rich in the grace of God. It takes heroic charity and humility to let others sustain us when we are absolutely incapable of sustaining ourselves. We cannot suffer well unless we see Christ everywhere, both in suffering and in the charity of those who come to the aid of our affliction.”
Source: No Man Is an Island
“We must be willing to be completely ordinary people, which means accepting ourselves as we are without trying to become greater, purer, more spiritual, more insightful. If we can accept our imperfections as they are, quite ordinarily, then we can use them as part of the path. But if we try to get rid of our imperfections, then they will be enemies, obstacles on the road to our ‘self-improvement’.”
Source: The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa: Volume Three: Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism; The Myth of Freedom; The Heart of the Bud dha; Selected Writings
“We must be willing to be guided of God, not merely now and then, but as a life proposition.”
“We must be willing to begin with positive teaching, not with negative prohibitions, and be content to wait and to watch whilst the native Christians slowly recreate their own customs as the Spirit of Christ gradually teaches them.”
“We must be willing to change chairs if we want to grow. There is no permanent compatibility between a chair and a person. And there is no one right chair. What is right at one stage may be restricting at another or too soft. During the passage from one stage to another, we will be between two chairs. Wobbling no doubt, but developing.”
Source: Passages: Predictable Crises of Adult Life
“We must be willing to encounter darkness and despair when they come up and face them, over and over again if need be, without running away or numbing ourselves in the thousands of ways we conjure up to avoid the unavoidable.”
Source: Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life
“We must be willing to fail and to appreciate the truth that often "Life is not a problem to be solved, but a mystery to be lived.”
“We must be willing to follow the road less traveled, for exploration will yield a richer and more fulfilling life experience.”
“We must be willing to forgive without limit even as God forgives; otherwise we cannot be forgiven.”
“We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.”
“We must be willing to get rid of
the life we’ve planned, so as to have
the life that is waiting for us.
The old skin has to be shed
before the new one can come.
If we fix on the old, we get stuck.
When we hang onto any form,
we are in danger of putrefaction.
Hell is life drying up.”
Source: A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living
“We must be willing to learn the lesson that cooperation may imply compromise, but if it brings a world advance it is a gain for each individual nation.”
Source: The Eleanor Roosevelt Papers: The human rights years, 1945-1948
“We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.”
“We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.”
“We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.”
Source: Prejudices Fourth Series
“We must be willing to pay inspiring math and science teachers, who have high paying alternatives in industry, more to teach and reward students who take more challenging courses in high school.”
“We must be willing to say what the Bible says.”
“We must be willing to surrender the ego, to our higher self, our higher existence. When we refuse this surrendering we make the choice to go through painful experiences that are heartbreaking and frustrating until we make the choice to surrender and come into alignment with our higher
self...”
Source: Learning To Love: And The Power of Sacred Sexual Spiritual Partnerships
“We must be willing to take an honest look at ourselves and step out beyond our judgmental mind. It is here that we will have a life-altering shift in perception, an opening of our heart.”
“We must be wise taskmasters and not require of ourselves what we cannot possibly perform. Recreation we must have. Otherwise, the strings of our soul, wound up to an unnatural tension, will break.”
Source: Stepping Heavenward, and Aunt Jane's hero
“We must be young to do great things.”
Source: Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann
“We must bear in mind that imperialism is a world system, the last stage of capitalism-and it must be defeated in a world confrontation. The strategic end of this struggle should be the destruction of imperialism. Our share, the responsibility of the exploited and underdeveloped of the world, is to eliminate the foundations of imperialism: our oppressed nations, from where they extract capital, raw materials, technicians, and cheap labor, and to which they export new capital-instruments of domination-arms and all kinds of articles, thus submerging us in an absolute dependence.”
Source: Guerrilla Warfare
“We must bear in mind the possibility that the greater opportunities open in the twentieth century to women may be quite withdrawn, and that we may return to stricter regimentation of women.”
“We must bear in mind, then, that there is nothing more difficult and dangerous, or more doubtful of success, than an attempt to introduce a new order of things in any state. For the innovator has for enemies all those who derived advantages from the old order of things, whilst those who expect to be benefited by the new institutions will be but lukewarm defenders.”
“We must bear in recollection that the sentiment of the picture is that of solemnity, not gaiety & nothing garish, but the contrary - yet it must be bright, clear, alive fresh, and all the front seen.”
Source: John Constable's Correspondence
“We must bear what Heaven sends.”
“We must beat the Gospel into peoples' heads incessantly because it's the one thing we're prone to forget.”
“We must beat the iron while it is hot, but we may polish it at leisure.”
“We must become acquainted with our emotional household: we must see our feelings as they actually are, not as we assume they are. This breaks their hypnotic and damaging hold on us.”
“We must become bigger than we have been: more courageous, greater in spirit, larger in outlook. We must become members of a new race, overcoming petty prejudice, owing our ultimate allegiance not to nations but to our fellow men within the human community.”
“We must become children again if we wish to achieve the best.”
“We must become expressions of, not consumers of, realization.”
“We must become free. We are free; the work is to know it. We must give up all slavery, all bondage of whatever kind. We must not only give up our bondage to earth and everything and everybody on earth, but also to all ideas of heaven and happiness.”
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
“We must become holy, not because we want to feel holy, but because Christ must be able to live his life fully in us.”
Source: Mother Teresa: Essential Writings
“We must become just be doing just acts.”
Source: Aristotle's Ethics: Writings from the Complete Works
“We must become masters of our own actions and attitudes. To let another person determine whether we will be rude or gracious, elated or depressed is to give control of ourselves. The only true possession is self possession.”
“We must become more comfortable with probability and uncertainty.”
Source: The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail-but Some Don't
“We must become so alone, so utterly alone, that we withdraw into our innermost self. It is a way of bitter suffering. But then our solitude is overcome, we are no longer alone, for we find that our innermost self is the spirit, that it is God, the indivisible. And suddenly we find ourselves in the midst of the world, yet undisturbed by its multiplicity, for our innermost soul we know ourselves to be one with all being.”
“We must become the change we want to see.”
“We must become the people we want our children to be.”