Often Quotes

12289 Often quotes by 6196 unique authors

When we start out on a spiritual path we often have ideals we think we're supposed to live up to. We feel we're supposed to… — Pema Chodron
As base a thing as money often is, yet it can be transmuted into everlasting treasure. It can be converted into food for the hungry… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
If you stop to be kind, you must swerve often from your path. — Mary Webb
I have remarked very clearly that I am often of one opinion when I am lying down and of another when I am standing up... — Georg C. Lichtenberg
No two men see the world exactly alike, and different temperaments will apply in different ways a principle that they both acknowledge. The same man… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The great man is too often all of a piece; it is the little man that is a bundle of contradictory elements. He is inexhaustible.… — W. Somerset Maugham
You have crossbows: Shoot early; shoot often. — Janet Morris
First impressions are often the truest, as we find (not infrequently) to our cost, when we have been wheedled out of them by plausible professions… — William Hazlitt
Great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of illusion. — George Eliot
The shame that arises from praise which we do not deserve often makes us do things we should otherwise never have attempted. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
A strange and somewhat impassive physiognomy is often, perhaps, an advantage to an orator, or leader of any sort, because it helps to fix the… — Charles Horton Cooley
Make a decision! Failure to act is often the biggest failure of all. — John Wooden
We often add to our pain and suffering by being overly sensitive, over-reacting to minor things, and sometimes taking things too personally. — Dalai Lama
A Positive Mental Attitude is the right mental attitude. What is the right mental attitude? It is most often comprised of the "plus" characteristics symbolized… — Napoleon Hill
New beginnings are often disguised as painful endings. — Laozi
Real grief is not healed by time... if time does anything, it deepens our grief. The longer we live, the more fully we become aware… — Henri Nouwen
Sorrow is my own yard where the new grass flames as it has flamed often before but not with the cold fire that closes round… — William Carlos Williams
For often, when one is asleep, there is something in consciousness which declares that what then presents itself is but a dream. — Aristotle
Everything gets old if you do it often enough. — Ellen Burstyn
Poor body, time and the long years were the first tailors to teach you the merciless use of clothes. Though some scold today because you… — Henry Beston
Nature has but one plan of operation, invariably the same in the smallest things as well as in the largest, and so often do we… — Marcello Malpighi
Pity a thing often avowed, seldom felt; hatred is a thing often felt, seldom avowed. — Charles Caleb Colton
We get so little news about the developing world that we often forget that there are literally millions of people out there struggling to change… — Alex Steffen
Poverty is often concealed in splendor, and often in extravagance. It is the task of many people to conceal their neediness from others. Consequently they… — Samuel Johnson
A word of kindness is seldom spoken in vain. It can be and is often treasured by the recipient for life. — George D. Prentice

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