Definite Quotes

423 Definite quotes by 340 unique authors

Life means to have something definite to do-a mission to fulfill-and in the measure in which we avoid setting our life to something, we make… — Jose Ortega y Gasset
It concerns us to know the purposes we seek in life, for then, like archers aiming at a definite mark, we shall be more likely… — Aristotle
True power is not in trying to gain power; true power is in becoming power. But how to become power? It requires an attempt to… — Hazrat Inayat Khan
It has long been known that the chemical atomic weight of hydrogen was greater than one-quarter of that of helium, but so long as fractional… — Francis William Aston
Revelation is the first step to holiness, and consecration is the second. A day must come in our lives, as definite as the day of… — Watchman Nee
Not only do you have to trust the definite, you must also trust the uncertainty. — Seo Do-young
A player can sometimes afford the luxury of an inaccurate move, or even a definite error, in the opening or middlegame without necessarily obtaining a… — Paul Keres
A tree, young or old, if admired, remains a definite vision, and when after long absence it is visited again, the meeting place is approached… — Unknown Author
A stage set should not make a pretty picture of its own. The empty stage should look formal and pleasing, but should seem to be… — G. Wilson Knight
A person of definite character and purpose who comprehends our way of thought is sure to exert power over us. He cannot altogether be resisted;… — Charles Horton Cooley
The conditions of a solitary bird are five: The first, that it flies to the highest point; The Second, that it does not suffer for… — John of the Cross
The combination of an individual[i.e., a client] with a positive idea of living and a good designer is the great force in contemporary decoration. I… — Van Day Truex
A definite factor in getting a lie believed is the size of the lie. The broad mass of the people, in the simplicity of their… — Adolf Hitler
When conscious activity is wholly concentrated on some one definite purpose, the ultimate result, for most people, is lack of balance accompanied by some form… — Bertrand Russell
If the winds of fortune are temporarily blowing against you, remember that you can harness them and make them carry you toward your definite purpose,… — Napoleon Hill
It is time for the rest of the world to join ... in demanding that ALL the nuclear weapons states -including Israel, India and Pakistan,… — Daniel Ellsberg
....This world needs Utopias as it needs fairy stories. It does not matter so much where we are going, as long as we are making… — Hendrik Willem van Loon
Winners are people with definite purpose in life. — Denis Waitley
Those who wait for God are pilgrim souls that have no tie that will hold them when the definite command is issued; no prejudices that… — G. Campbell Morgan
Although as a sailor I despised politics - for I loved my sailor's life and still love it today - conditions forced me to take… — Fritz Sauckel
Make definite assertions. Avoid tame, colorless, hesitating, non-committal language. — William Strunk, Jr.
Through experiments over the past few decades physicists have discovered matter to be completely mutable into other particles or energy and vice-versa and on a… — Barbara Brennan
There is a baptism that belongs to Jesus. It is in His supreme control. No angel or man can bestow it. It comes from Him… — John G. Lake
Science always has its origin in the adaptation of thought to some definite field of experience. — Ernst Mach
Each simian had a much different body suit, so besides trying to define class across species, there was a definite attempt to dress each group… — Colleen Atwood

Who Wrote These Definite Quotes

340 authors contributed a total of 423 Definite Quotes, led by these top contributors: