Best Accord Wisdom
295 Accord quotes by 236 unique authors
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People are always willing to follow advice when it accords with their own wishes.
— Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
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Life consists in penetrating the unknown, and fashioning our actions in accord with the new knowledge thus acquired.
— Leo Tolstoy
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It is the will of our heavenly Father that we should come to Him freely and confidently and make known our desires to Him, just…
— Ole Hallesby
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If you practice in accord with your individual capacity, little by little you will find more pleasure and joy in it. As you gain inner…
— Dalai Lama
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Beauty is nothing else but a just accord and mutual harmony of the members, animated by a healthful constitution.
— John Dryden
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Take the birds which you'll have noticed in so many of my recent paintings. I never thought them up, they just materialized of their own…
— Georges Braque
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You are actually doing something. You are getting into this process without making sure that what you're doing is okay. Things are actually taking place,…
— Chogyam Trungpa
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No-one can compel me to be happy in accordance with his conception of the welfare of others, for each may seek his happiness in whatever…
— Immanuel Kant
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No one can stop or control your thought process or your thinking. You can think anything you want. But that doesn't seem to be the…
— Chogyam Trungpa
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The anthropologist respects history, but he does not accord it a special value. He conceives it as a study complementary to his own: one of…
— Claude Levi-Strauss
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If the fruit is green it will not fall to the ground even if you beat it with a sharp stick. When it is ripe…
— Sathya Sai Baba
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My people do not come to me of their own accord; it is I who seek and bring them to me.
— Sathya Sai Baba
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Family members have a personal stake in honoring and mourning their dead and objecting to unwarranted public exploitation that, by intruding upon their own grief,…
— Anthony Kennedy
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Every phenomenon manifests itself of its own accord. This manifestation is always distinct from form, and is the essence of the immediate, the trace of…
— Yves Klein
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If a woman abandoned by her husband, or a widow, of her own accord contracts a second marriage and bears ,a son , he is…
— Guru Nanak
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Lakshmi, the Goddess of wealth, comes of Her own accord where fools are not respected, grain is well stored up, and the husband and wife…
— Chanakya
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By signing the Oslo accords in 1993 he took a giant step towards the realization of this vision. It is tragic that he did not…
— Kofi Annan
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You have much more power when you are working for the right thing than when you are working against the wrong thing. And, of course,…
— Peace Pilgrim
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Flatterers and men of learning do not accord well with each other.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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Not one cent should be raised unless it is in accord with the law.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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The country was made without lines of demarcation, and it is no man's business to divide it... Do not misunderstand me, but understand me fully…
— Chief Joseph
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To be sure, President Clinton reached an accord called "The Agreement" in 1994 that purports to address some of President Reagan's concerns.
— Frank Gaffney
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A little more grace, a motive made pure, a few truths tenderly told, a heart softened, a character subdued, a life consecrated, would restore the…
— Mary Baker Eddy
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I am not engaged to Christianity by decent forms, or saving ordinances; it is not usage, it is not what I do not understand, that…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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[Magna Carta provided] "a system of checks and balances which would accord the monarchy its necessary strength, but would prevent its perversion by a tyrant…
— Winston Churchill
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