W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“We must become the United States of America that represents every community, that represents every individual. And we will ultimately become a stronger nation, but right now we are a divided nation.”
“We must become what we were
Before we were born”
“We must become what we wish to teach.”
“We must begin by acknowledging a hard truth. We will not eradicate violent conflict in our lifetimes. There will be times when nations, acting individually or in concert, will find the use of force not only necessary but morally justified.”
“We must begin by acknowledging that there is a complete absence of two things in Indian Society. One of these is equality. On the social plane we have an India based on the principles of graded inequality, which means elevation for some and degradation for others. On the economic plane we have a society in which there are some who have immense wealth as against many who live in abject poverty.”
“We must begin by admitting that people and situations do not cause us to speak as we do. Our hearts control our words. People and situations simply provide the occasion for the heart to express itself.”
“We must begin by purifying ourselves before purifying others; we must be instructed to be able to instruct, become light to illuminate, draw close to God to bring him close to others, be sanctified to sanctify, lead by the hand and counsel prudently.”
“We must begin looking at each other as brothers and sisters...and not walking brochures. We must see each other's strengths and encourage those strengths....We must see each others weaknesses and be patient with those weaknesses... sometimes even look beyond what we see as "weaknesses" and move on with compassion and love and respect. That takes true faith.”
“We must begin our practice by walking the narrow path of simplicity, the hinayana path, before we can walk upon the open highway of compassionate action, the mahayana path.”
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 begin thinking like a river if we are to leave a legacy of beauty and life for future generations.”
“We must begin to believe that God, in the mystery of prayer, has entrusted us with a force that can move the Heavenly world, and can bring its power down to earth.”
Source: Reaching Your World For Christ
“We must begin to inculcate our children against militarism by educating them in the spirit of pacifism. Our schoolbooks glorify war and conceal it's horror. I would teach peace rather than war.”
“We must begin to make what I call "conscious choices," and to really recognize that we are the same. It's from that place in my heart that I write my songs.”
“We must begin to train lawyers the minute they walk into law school to tell the truth. They must immediately begin to learn the business of representing people. They must be assigned cases the first day.”
“We must begin to understand that the gospel deconstructs a man before it reconstructs him. First it teaches him he is entitled to nothing, and then it give him everything.”
Source: Look and Live: Behold the Soul-Thrilling, Sin-Destroying Glory of Christ
“We must believe in a sense of life renewed by the theater, a sense of life in which man fearlessly makes himself master of what does not yet exist, and brings it into being. And everything that has not been born can still be brought to life if we are not satisfied to remain mere recording organisms.”
Source: The Theater and Its Double
“We must believe in Christ and pattern our lives after him. We must be baptized as he was baptized. We must worship the Father as he did. We must do the will of the Father as he did. We must seek to do good and work righteousness as he did. He is our Exemplar, the great Prototype of salvation. . . . we must so live as to acquire the attributes of godliness and become the kind of people who can enjoy the glory and wonders of the celestial kingdom.”
“We must believe in free will - we have no choice.”
“We must believe in love, always!”
“We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like?”
“We must believe in ourselves as no one else will believe in us, we must match our expectations with the competence, courage and determination to succeed.”
“We must believe in ourselves or no one will believe in us.”
“We must believe in the gods no longer if injustice is to prevail over justice.”
Source: Ten Plays by Euripides
“We must believe in the power and strength of our words. Our words can change the world.”
“We must believe in the power of education. We must respect just laws. We must love ourselves, our old and or young, our women as well as our men.”
“We must believe that "emotion recollected in tranquillity" is an inexact formula. For it is neither emotion, nor recollection, nor without distortion of meaning, tranquillity. It is a concentration, and a new thing resulting from the concentration of a very great number of experiences which to the practical and active person would not seem to be experiences at all; it is a concentration which does not happen consciously or of deliberation. These experiences are not "recollected" and they finally unite in an atmosphere which is "tranquil" only in that it is a passive attending upon the event.”
“We must believe that He is able to do what He will, wise to do what is best, and good, according to His promise, to do what is best for us, if we love Him, and serve Him.”
Source: The NIV Matthew Henry Commentary in One Volume: Based on the Broad Oak Edition
“We must believe that He permits it [this war] for some wise purpose of his own, mysterious and unknown to us; and though with ourlimited understandings we may not be able to comprehend it, yet we cannot but believe, that he who made the world still governs it.”
Source: The collected works of Abraham Lincoln
“We must believe that it is the darkest before the dawn of a beautiful new world. We will see it when we believe it.”
“We must believe the things We teach our children”
“We must believe then, that as from hence we see Saturn and Jupiter; if we were in either of the Two, we should discover a great many Worlds which we perceive not; and that the Universe extends so in infinitum.”
Source: A Voyage to the Moon: Souls Needed for You
“We must believe we are capable of transcending evil, of not needing to hide in the darkness or surrender to our basest fears.”
Source: Once Upon A Lie
“We must believe what is good and true about the prophets, that they were sages, that they did understand what proceeded from their mouths, and that they bore prudence on their lips.”
“We must believe, but we can't believe. Perhaps this is the tragedy that some of us see in Obama: a change we can believe in and the crushing realisation that nothing will change.”
“We must beware of falling into the fatally common error of supposing that what we see is all there is to see.”
Source: The Life After Death and How Theosophy Unveils It
“We must beware of one who is in a passion against us as of one who has once sought our life; for the fact that we still live is due to the absence of power to kill, - if looks could kill, we should have been dead long ago.”
Source: Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two
“We must beware of the Past, mustn't we? I mean that any fixing of the mind on old evils beyond what is absolutely necessary for repenting our own sins and forgiving those of others is certainly useless and usually bad for us. Notice in Dante that the lost souls are entirely concerned with their past! Not so the saved.”
Source: Letters to an American Lady
“We must beware of trying to build a society in which nobody counts for anything except a politician or an official, a society where enterprise gains no reward and thrift no privileges”
Source: War Speeches: From June 25, 1941 to September 6, 1943
“We must beware of yielding to the pressure of a spirit of cowardly conformity which proclaims itself everybody's friend in the hope that everybody will obligingly return the compliment.”
Source: The Intellectual Life: Its Spirit, Conditions, Methods
“We must beware the revenge of the starved senses, the embittered animal in its prison.”
“We must break out of this limited circle of sounds and conquer the infinite variety of noise-sounds.”
Source: The art of noises
“We must break out of this mindset in Australia that we are a small nation on the other side of the world from the main, great Western nations. Australia is the twelfth largest economy in the world. We are a not insignificant player in commerce, in geopolitics and we must be in culture as well and we are.”
“We must break problems down into small, digestible bits. We must define the concepts that we use and explain what components they consist of. We must tackle small problems.”
“We must break the evil habit of ignoring the spiritual. We must shift our interest from the seen to the unseen.”
“We must break through the provincial crust if we are to reach the core of all-India nationalism.”
Source: India of My Dreams
“We must break up the eurozone. We must set those Mediterranean countries free.”
“We must breathe time as fishes breathe water.”
Source: Selected poems
“We must bring a message of solidarity, of mutual respect and, above all, of hope. Business cannot afford to be seen as the problem.”
“We must bring back dignity to hard work.”
“We must bring light to as many people as possible. Who has time to indulge in self-pity or guilt? In advanced self-giving you have no time for this. You just push these emotions out.”