Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I'm not a good Quaker, really I'm not, but it's a lovely thing to aspire to. — Sheila Hancock Copy Share Image
My parents were Quaker, and they were part of that old self-improving working class. — David Starkey Copy Share Image
There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“... her Quaker instincts led her to apologize for wrongs not her own to minimize conflict.” — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
The likeness we bear to Jesus is more essential than our notions of him. — Lucretia Mott Copy Share Image
My luck is getting worse and worse. Last night, for instance, I was mugged by a quaker. — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
To Turn all the treasures we possess into the channel of universal love becomes the business of our lives. — John Woolman Copy Share Image
Words may help and silence may help, but the one thing needful is that the heart should turn to its Maker as… — Caroline Emelia Stephen Copy Share Image
There has never been a time in my life when I felt that I could take a gun and shoot down a… — Dwight L. Moody Copy Share Image
With our sympathy for the wrongdoer we need the old Puritan and Quaker hatred of wrongdoing; with our just tolerance of men… — John Greenleaf Whittier Copy Share Image
Whether in times of war or times of peace the Quaker is under peculiar obligation to assist and to forward movements and… — Rufus Jones Copy Share Image
I'm teaming up with Quaker and PLAY 60 to encourage kids to eat right, stay active and do something outside for at… — Andrew Luck Copy Share Image
I am still looking for the modern equivalent of those Quakers who ran successful businesses, made money because they offered honest products… — Anita Roddick Copy Share Image
My activism did not spring from my being gay, or, for that matter, from my being black. Rather, it is rooted fundamentally… — Bayard Rustin Copy Share Image
Only the inner vision of God, only the God-blindedness of unreservedly dedicated souls, only the utterly humble ones can bow and break… — Thomas Raymond Kelly Copy Share Image
Thus He whose tender mercies are over all His works hath placed a principle in the human mind, which incites to exercise… — John Woolman Copy Share Image
Speak the truth. Speak it loud and often, calmly but insistently, and speak it, as the Quakers say, to power. Material accumulation… — Donella Meadows Copy Share Image
I was maybe 5 or 6, and my grandmother would begin sitting me in the Quaker meeting house. I asked my grandmother,… — James Turrell Copy Share Image
All writers who can claim to be called 'living' must be political in a sense. They must have what the Quakers call… — Storm Jameson Copy Share Image
I'm a lapsed Quaker. I don't go to meetings any more. But I'm very drawn to Catholicism - all that glitter. I'd… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
But as there is a keeping back, and quietly waiting, and a keeping out of willing or running, and haste, the spirit… — Francis Howgill Copy Share Image
For while this year it may be a Catholic against whom the finger of suspicion is pointed, in other years it has… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
I hope we shall prove how much happier for man the Quaker policy is, and that the life of the feeder is… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
However, ironically, I was baptized Presbyterian, and went to a Quaker school for twelve years — Brian De Palma Copy Share Image
“He inherited some good instincts from his Quaker forebearers, but by diligent hard work, he overcame them.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Paradoxically, life is worth living for those who have something for which they will gladly give up life. — A. J. Muste Copy Share Image
There is no way to find yourself until you discover how utterly to lose yourself. — Rufus Jones Copy Share Image
Men not living to what they know, cannot blame God, that they know no more. — William Penn Copy Share Image
By background I'm both a Quaker and a Yorkshireman, which I like to call double jeopardy. — Jeremy Grantham Copy Share Image
I come of Quaker stock. My ancestors were persecuted for their beliefs. Here they sought and found religious freedom. By blood and… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
On landing at New York I caught the yellow fever. The kind man who commanded the ship that brought me from France… — John James Audubon Copy Share Image
I wasn't really aware they were a religious organization for quite some time. But my grandparents were very devout and ran a… — Charlie Brooker Copy Share Image
... my convictions led me to adhere to the sufficiency of the light within us, resting on truth as authority, rather than… — Lucretia Mott Copy Share Image
Part of the reason I had such a drive to be an activist, and support other activists, is because I was raised… — Bonnie Raitt Copy Share Image
As a lifelong pacifist, Quaker, and a gay man, I despair that gays and lesbians are expending energy trying to get into… — Ned Rorem Copy Share Image
I was influenced by my children's education in Quaker schools in the Philadelphia area. I experienced a spiritual awakening and became a… — Mike Berenstain Copy Share Image
The kids go to a Quaker school. Their father and I believe a lot in community, social responsibility, making sure you give… — Julianne Moore Copy Share Image
The only way to seek God is to seek God first. Deny the nayward, affirm the yeaward, be true to those stirrings… — Jean Toomer Copy Share Image
“Why, just what the Quaker said to the Duchess of Buckingham, when he found her, two years after her husband's death, in… — Emily Eden Copy Share Image
