Toward Quotes
3832 quotes by 2364 authors
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We are never present with, but always beyond ourselves; fear, desire, hope, still push us on toward the future.
— Michel de Montaigne
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Life is given for wisdom, and yet we are not wise; for goodness, and we are not good; for overcoming evil, and evil remains; for…
— Thornton T. Munger
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Your business as a writer is not to illustrate virtue but to show how a fellow may move toward it or away from it.
— Robert Penn Warren
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The Angels are the dispensers and administrators of the Divine beneficence toward us. They regard our safety, undertake our defense, direct our ways, and exercise…
— John Calvin
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Being myself animated by feelings of affection toward my fellowmen, I am saddened by the modern system of advertising. Whatever evidence it offers of enterprise,…
— Joseph Conrad
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Here is my wish for you and every other child, woman, and man on the face of the earth: Spend one week saying only kind,…
— Cheri Huber
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The quickest way to change your attitude toward pain is to accept the fact that everything that happens to us has been designed for our…
— M. Scott Peck
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What anxiety means is it's as though the world is knocking at your door, and you need to create, you need to make something, you…
— Rollo May
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According to Vedanta, there are only two symptoms of enlightenment, just two indications that a transformation is taking place within you toward a higher consciousness.…
— Deepak Chopra
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Just by being ourselves we are borne toward a destiny far beyond anything we could imagine. It is enough to know that the being I…
— Deepak Chopra
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It [would have] been very difficult. As I said, the rules ... but if the rules were put in place back when Michael Jordan was…
— Scottie Pippen
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Women and people of color and young people especially are about to have this amazing opportunity to shift the political conversation in this country for…
— Sandra Fluke
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All of our life is but a mass of small habits - practical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual - that bear us irresistibly toward our destiny.
— William James
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If we put our trust in the common sense of common men and 'with malice toward none and charity for all' go forward on the…
— Henry A. Wallace
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We rush for the stars as we crawl toward our graves.
— Al McGuire
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Ender's Game is set more than a century in the future and has nothing to do with political issues that did not exist when the…
— Orson Scott Card
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Soldiers, Sailors and Airmen of the Allied Expeditionary Force! You are about to embark upon the Great Crusade, toward which we have striven these many…
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Thank you for your kind invitation. However, as a gay man, I must decline. I am deeply troubled by the current attitude toward and treatment…
— Wentworth Miller
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You change the most permanent-seeming conditions of your life constantly through the varying attitudes you have toward them.
— Jane Roberts
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You see something scary, you should stand up and step toward it, not away from it. Instinctively, reflexively, in a raging fury.
— Lee Child
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