Providence Quotes
397 quotes by 262 authors
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Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative and creation, there is one elementary…
— W H Murray
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The moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too. Whatever you think you can do, or believe you can do, begin it. Action has…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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God's providence is on the side of clear heads.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Now nature is not at variance with art, nor art with nature; they being both the servants of his providence. Art is the perfection of…
— Thomas Cole
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I go the way that Providence dictates with the assurance of a sleepwalker.
— Adolf Hitler
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The Hand of providence has been so conspicuous in all this, that he must be worse than an infidel that lacks faith, and more than…
— George Washington
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No country upon earth ever had it more in its power to attain these blessings than United America. Wondrously strange, then, and much to be…
— George Washington
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[T]he foundation of a great Empire is laid, and I please myself with a persuasion, that Providence will not leave its work imperfect.
— George Washington
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Can it be, that Providence has not connected the permanent felicity of a Nation with its virtue? The experiment, at least, is recommended by every…
— George Washington
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The promulgation of the great doctrines of religion, the being, and attributes, and providence of one Almighty God: the responsibility to him for all our…
— Joseph Story
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Since it has pleased Providence to place me in this station, I shall do my utmost to fulfil my duty towards my country; I am…
— Queen Victoria
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If Germany is to become a colonizing power, all I say is, God speed her! She becomes our ally and partner in the execution of…
— William E. Gladstone
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Providence has ordained that I should be the greatest liberator of humanity. I am freeing man from the restraints of an intelligence that has taken…
— Adolf Hitler
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Let us hope, I prayed, that a kind Providence will put a speedy end to the acts of God under which we have been laboring.
— Peter De Vries
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One has freedom as the principal means of action; the other has servitude. Their . . . paths [are] diverse; nevertheless, each seems called by…
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights, among…
— Thomas Jefferson
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I have so much faith in the general government of the world by Providence that I can hardly conceive a transaction of such momentous importance…
— Benjamin Franklin
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I have only been an instrument in the hands of Providence.
— George Washington
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As I have heard, since my arrival at this place, a circumstantial account of my death and dying speech, I take this early opportunity of…
— George Washington
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Occasional war is one of the rigorous instruments in the hands of Providence to give tone to the character of nations.
— John Quincy Adams
Who Wrote These Providence Quotes
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