Behooves Quotes

32 quotes by 28 authors

It behooves us then to humble ourselves before the offended Power to confess our national sins and to pray for clemency and forgiveness... — Abraham Lincoln
Life is just a short walk from the cradle to the grave - and it sure behooves us to be kind to one another along… — Alice Childress
[I]f in other sciences we should arrive at certainty without doubt and truth without error, it behooves us to place the foundations of knowledge in… — Roger Bacon
It behooves our citizens to be on their guard, to be firm in their principles, and full of confidence in themselves. We are able to… — Thomas Jefferson
It behooves us to avoid archaisms. Never use a long word when a diminutive one will do. — William Safire
It behooves us unanimously and inviolably to observe the ecclesiastical traditions, whether codified or simply retained by the customary practice of the Church. — Peter Canisius
It behooves our citizens to be on their guard, to be firm in their principles, and full of confidence in themselves. We are able to… — Grace Lee Boggs
In the face of this approaching disaster, it behooves men and women not yet overcome by war madness to raise their voice of protest, to… — Emma Goldman
It behooves us to accomplish what God requires of us, even when we are in the greatest despair respecting the results. — John Calvin
At this point in history when all things which concern man and the structure and elements of history itself are suddenly revealed to us in… — Karl Mannheim
We usually do pay attention to our outer appearance, typically noticing whatever part of our bodies we are unhappy about. It behooves us, however, to… — Jean Shinoda Bolen
You will probably have but a short time to live. Before you launch into eternity, it behooves you to improve the time that may be… — Thomas McKean
There are great truths at the foundation of Freemasonry, truths which it is its mission to teach and which is constituting the very essence of,… — Albert Pike
It behooves us always to bear in mind, that while actions are always to be judged by the immutable standard of right and wrong, the… — Robert Southey
In a world that has so largely engaged in a mad and often brutally harsh race for material gain by means of ruthless competition, it… — John Dewey
Above all, it behooves us to repress, and if possible to extinguish once and for all, our inveterate tendency to judge others by the extent… — George F. Kennan
The habit some writers indulge in of perpetual quotation is one it behooves lovers of good literature to protest against, for it is an insidious… — Ethel Smyth
It is a governing principle of nature, that the agency which can produce most good, when perverted from its proper aim, is most productive of… — James F. Cooper
It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others: or their case may,… — Thomas Jefferson
It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance, and that, in the end, progress is accomplished… — Theodore Roosevelt

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