Us Quotes
47542 Us quotes by 14169 unique authors
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Half of us are blind, few of us feel, and we are all deaf.
— William Osler
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Remorse turns us against ourselves.
— Nicolas Chamfort
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If we put the emphasis upon the right things, if we live the life that is worth while and then fail, we will survive all…
— Orison Swett Marden
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We should strive to keep our hearts open to the sufferings and wretchedness of other people, and pray continually that God may grant us that…
— Vincent de Paul
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The highest principles for our aspirations and judgments are given to us in the Jewish-Christian religious tradition.
— Albert Einstein
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Chance works for us when we are good captains.
— George Meredith
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Many a happiness in life, as many a disaster, can be due to chance, but the peace within us can never be governed by chance.
— Maurice Maeterlinck
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Progress, under whose feet the grass mourns and the forest turns into paper from which newspaper plants grow, has subordinated the purpose of life to…
— Karl Kraus
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Here is the answer which I will give to President Roosevelt. Give us the tools, and we will finish the job.
— Winston Churchill
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Whatever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves... how we can turn it into good. So shall we take occasion, from one bitter root,…
— Leigh Hunt
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One of the great penalties those of us who live our lives in full view of the public must pay is the loss of that…
— Mary Pickford
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There is nothing that Nature seems to have inclined us to as much as society.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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An aspiration is a joy forever, a possession as solid as a landed estate, a fortune which we can never exhaust and which gives us…
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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We may well be the ones Proverbs warns when it reminds us: "Kings take pleasure in honest lips; they value the one who speaks the…
— Joan D. Chittister
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The good four. Honest with ourselves and with whatever is friend to us; courageous toward the enemy; generous toward the vanquished; polite-always that is how…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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A man's a man for a' that. . . . . A prince can mak a belted knight, A marquis, duke, and a' that; But…
— Robert Burns
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The notion of saving the planet has nothing to do with intellectual honesty or science. The fact is that the planet was here long before…
— Lynn Margulis
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Let us again clothe ourselves with these proved and sterling virtues - honesty, truthfulness, chastity, sobriety, temperance, industry, and thrift; let us discard all covetousness…
— J. Reuben Clark
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If we will be true and faithful to our principles, committed to a life of honesty and integrity, then no king or contest or fiery…
— Howard W. Hunter
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God help us, ma'am! Do you see what we saw? We saw that we'd been given a law to live by, a moral law, they…
— Ayn Rand
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You will gain more by receiving scorn peacefully than if you fasted for a week on bread and water. It is good to humble ourselves;…
— Alphonsus Liguori
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It takes strong ears indeed to hear ourselves judged frankly, and because there are few who can endure criticism without being stung by it, those…
— Michel de Montaigne
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Most of us who aspire to be tops in our fields don't really consider the amount of work required to stay tops.
— Althea Gibson
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Trials and tribulations offer us a chance to make reparation for our past faults and sins. On such occasions the Lord comes to us like…
— Saint Augustine
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Why should we defend ourselves when we are misunderstood and misjudged? Let us leave that aside. Let us not say anything. It is so sweet…
— Therese of Lisieux
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