W Quotes
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“We must face life as it is and understand that diversity is its most essential feature.”
Source: Mary Parker Follett--prophet of management: a celebration of writings from the 1920s
“We must face the appalling fact that we have been betrayed by both the Democratic and Republican Parties.”
Source: The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.:
“We must face the bitter fact that we have forsaken our great dream of a life of, for, and by the people; that the burning passions and ideals of the American dream lie congealed by cold cynicism. Great parts of the masses of our people no longer believe that they have a voice or a hand in shaping the destiny of this nation. They have not forsaken democracy because of any desire or positive action of their own; they have been driven down into the depths of a great despair born of frustration, hopelessness, and apathy. A democracy lacking in popular participation dies of paralysis.”
“We must face the fact that many today are notoriously careless in their living. This attitude finds its way into the church. We have liberty, we have money, we live in comparative luxury. As a result, discipline has disappeared. What would a violin solo sound like if the strings on the musician's instrument were all hanging loose, not stretched tight, not disciplined?”
“We must face the fact that the preservation of individual freedom is incompatible with a full satisfaction of our views of distributive justice.”
“We must face the fact that the United States is neither omnipotent nor omniscient, that we cannot impose our will upon the other 94 percent of mankind, that we cannot right every wrong or reverse every adversity, and that therefore there cannot be an American solution to every world problem.”
“We must face the fact that we are on the brink of times when man may be able to magnify his intellectual and inventive capability, just as in the nineteenth century he used machines to magnify his physical capacity. Again, as then, our innocence is lost. And again, of course, the innocence, once lost, cannot be regained. The loss demands attention, not denial.”
Source: Notes on the Synthesis of Form
“We must face the No. 1 critical issue of our day. It is youth crime in general and black-on-black crime in particular. There is nothing more painful to me at this stage in my life than to walk down the street and hear footsteps and start thinking about robbery. Then look around and see somebody white and feel relieved. After all we have been through, just to think we can't walk down our own streets, how humiliating.”
“We must face the ultimate contradiction that our free and democratic society was made possible by massive slave labor.”
Source: Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World
“We must face what we fear; that is the case of the core of the restoration of health.”
“We must fear God out of love, not love Him out of fear.”
“We must feel everything, everything we can. We are here for that.”
“We must feel the pain before the pleasure, only then can we tell them apart.”
“We must feel toward our people as a father toward his children; yea, the most tender love of a mother must not surpass ours. We must even travail in birth, till Christ be formed in them. They should see that we care for no outward thing, neither liberty, nor honor, nor life, in comparison to their salvation... When the people see that you truly love them, they will hear anything from you...Oh therefore, see that you feel a tender love for your people in your hearts, and let them perceive it in your speech and conduct. Let them see that you spend and are spent for their sakes.”
“We must fervently fast to pray for all nations, to seek divine grace for all people to cope with the crisis.”
“We must fight against negativeness - especially bureaucracy, corruption and wastefulness.”
“We must fight against the spirit of unconscious cruelty with which we treat the animals. Animals suffer as much as we do. True humanity does not allow us to impose such sufferings on them. It is our duty to make the whole world recognize it. Until we extend our circle of compassion to all living things, humanity will not find peace.”
“We must fight all that we dislike in public life. We must substitute better ideas for wrong ideas.”
Source: Economic Policy: Thoughts for Today and Tomorrow
“We must fight as a race for everything that makes for a better country and a better world. We are dreaming idiots and trusting fools to do anything less.”
“We must fight for our hopes, Samuel,
they are too precious to lose.
If we carry enough hope, we can heal the world.
So, let this light carry our hopes
and dress the world in bright colours,
just like this alluring rainbow.”
Source: All the Hope We Carry
“We must fight for the sake of those who are still alive…do not destroy yourself”
Source: The King's Path
“We must fight for what we want or it will be taken from us.”
Source: The Darkest Pleasure
“We must fight inequality and poverty if we want to re-establish peace and security. Seven million Mexicans live in extreme poverty, which is why I have launched a crusade against hunger. We also have to improve our educational system and stimulate economic growth.”
“We must fight our way to victory on a sea of blood and a horizon of fire.”
“We must fight to carry out his radical and bold vision for America.”
“We must find a way to replace yearning for what life has withheld from us with gratitude for what we have been given.”
Source: Calm Surrender: Walking the Path of Forgiveness
“We must find new lands from which we can easily obtain raw materials and at the same time exploit the cheap slave labor that is available from the natives of the colonies. The colonies would also provide a dumping ground for the surplus goods produced in our factories.”
“We must find opportunities to make change happen - we must not tire, we must not give up, we must persist.”
“We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.”
Source: Daniel Deronda - Volume 2 of 2
“We must find our way back to true nature. We must set ourselves to the task of revitalizing the earth. Regreening the earth, sowing seeds in the desert--that is the path society must follow.”
Source: Sowing Seeds in the Desert: Natural Farming, Global Restoration, and Ultimate Food Security
“We must find out for ourselves that inside us is a god or goddess in embryo that wants to be born so that we can express our divinity.”
Source: The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success: A Practical Guide to the Fulfillment of Your Dreams
“We must find out for ourselves, otherwise it wouldn't be discovery.”
“We must find out what words are and how they function. They become images when written down, but images of words repeated in the mind and not of the image of the thing itself.”
“We must find out where the roots of terrorism lie.”
“We must find the way of love rather than that of being loved.”
Source: Everyday Suchness: Buddhist Essays on Everyday Living
“We must find time to stop and thank the people who make a difference in our lives.”
“We must find what we really love in this life and do it to the fullest in order to keep that love around forever.”
“We must firmly grasp management. Just making things isn't enough. We need to raise the quality.”
“We must first get over the myth that older workers can’t innovate.”
“We must first learn from experience what we desire and what we can do. Till then we know it not, we are without character, and must often be driven back to our own way by hard blows from without. But if we have finally learnt it, then we have attained to what in the world is called character, the acquired character. This is accordingly nothing but the most perfect knowledge possible of our own individuality.”
“We must first note that economic factors are taken into account in a world in which ignorance, prejudice, and mental confusion, encouraged rather than dispelled by the political organization, exert a strong influence on policy making.”
“We must first peer into the darkness, feel strangled and entombed in the hopelessness of living without God, before we are ready to feel the presence of His living light.”
Source: God in Search of Man: A Philosophy of Judaism
“We must first pray, that God would make us wise; before we can wish, he would make us happy.”
Source: The Works: Now First Collected : with Some Account of His Life and Sufferings. Devotional works
“We must first realize that dancing is an absolutely independent art, not merely a secondary accompanying one. I believe that it is one of the great arts. . . . The important thing in ballet is the movement itself. A ballet may contain a story, but the visual spectacle . . . is the essential element. The choreographer and the dancer must remember that they reach the audience through the eye. It's the illusion created which convinces the audience, much as it is with the work of a magician.”
“We must fix our broken education system. Every parent deserves a choice as to how to best educate their children so that every child has a chance to fulfill their potential.”
“We must focus on people as people, regardless of race, creed, color or gender.”
“We must focus on prayer as the main thrust to accomplish God's will and purpose on earth. The forces against us have never been greater, and this is the only way we can release God's power to become victorious”
“we must focus only on what we require, not on what we detest. By emphasizing what we need in our mind, we are, in a way, getting closer to realizing our ideas and desires.”
“We must follow nonviolence and love.”
“We must follow our "airy voices," follow them through bitter suffering and discouragement and darkness, through doubt and disbelief, through valleys of humiliation and over delectable hills where sweet things would lure us from our quest, ever and always must we follow, if we would reach the "far-off divine event" and look out thence to the aerial spires of our City of Fulfilment.”
Source: The Alpine Path: The Story of My Career