Famous Quotes and Proverbs
If you are looking for famous quotes and proverbs, you've come to the right place! Browse our largest database, which contains over 150,000 quotations, proverbs and sayings by the most renowned poets, artists, authors, inventors and researchers both living and deceased. Use our famous quotes and proverbs to support the content of your essay, term paper, research paper or dissertation. Be inspired by our quotes, proverbs and sayings now!
Search our collection by author, topic or keyword. It's completely FREE!
Browse Keywords:
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z
(Click a letter to view the keywords)
(Click a letter to view the keywords)
Letter "A" » approving
«If you want to reach a state of bliss, then go beyond your ego and the internal dialogue. Make a decision to relinquish the need to control, the need to be approved, and the need to judge. Those are the three things the ego is doing all the time. It's very important to be aware of them every time they come up.»
Author: Deepak Chopra
(Author, Physician)
| Keywords:
all the time, approved, approving, aware, beyond, beyond control, bliss, come up, control, decision, dialogue, dialogues, ego, internal, judge, reach, relinquish, relinquished, relinquishing, state, The three, The Time, well aware
«'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.»
Author: Thomas Paine
(Writer)
| About:
Principles
| Keywords:
approves, approving, conduct, firm, pursue, shrink, shrinks, The Business, Tis
«A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting on his past actions and their motives - of approving of some and disapproving of others»
Author: Charles Darwin
(Author, Naturalist)
| About:
Action
| Keywords:
approving, disapproves, disapproving, motives, reflecting
«My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care? A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking for others!»
«(For he saith, I have heard thee in a time accepted, and in the day of salvation have I succoured thee: behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.) / Giving no offence in any thing, that the ministry be not blamed: / But in all things approving ourselves as the ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses, / In stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labours, in watchings, in fastings; / By pureness, by knowledge, by longsuffering, by kindness, by the Holy Ghost, by love unfeigned, / By the word of truth, by the power of God, by the armour of righteousness on the right hand and on the left, / By honour and dishonour, by evil report and good report: as deceivers, and yet true; / As unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and, behold, we live; as chastened, and not killed; / As sorrowful, yet alway rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things.»
Author: Bible
| Keywords:
afflictions, approving, armour, Armour of God, blamed, chastened, deceivers, dishonour, longsuffering, ministers, ministry, necessities, offence, pureness, rejoicing, right hand, sorrowful, stripes, tumults, unfeigned, well known
«Approve not of him who commends all you say»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
| Keywords:
approve, approving, commending, commends
«The highest order of mind is accused of folly, as well as the lowest. Nothing is thoroughly approved but mediocrity. The majority has established this, and it fixes its fangs on whatever gets beyond it either way.»
Author: Blaise Pascal
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Physicist)
| Keywords:
accused, accuses, accusing, approved, approving, as well, either, established, fang, fangs, fixes, fixing, fix it, fix up, folly, gets, highest, high and low, lowest, majorities, majority, order, Order of, The Accused, thoroughly
«How quick come the reasons for approving what we like!»
«I never approve, or disapprove, of anything now. It is an absurd attitude to take towards life. We are not sent into the world to air our moral prejudices. I never take any notice of what common people say, and I never interfere with what charming pe»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
absurd, air, aired, airing, airs, Air In, air out, approve, approving, attitude, charmed, charming, common, commoner, common people, disapprove, disapproves, disapproving, interfere, interfered, interfering, moral, notice, now, On the air, P.E., pe, prejudiced, prejudices, say, send for, send in, send out, Send Up, sent, take notice, take the air, up in the air
«Question with boldness even the existence of God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| About:
Questioning
| Keywords:
approve, approving, blindfold, blindfolded, boldness, existence, existence of God, homage, question, the existence of God, with boldness
Research our database of free Biographies. Sign-up for the database of college sample papers for only $14.95/month. Buy a custom written essay, term paper, research paper or dissertation on any topic and get a discount!
