Definite Quotes - Page 14

• A life that hasn't a definite plan is likely to become driftwood.

  David Sarnoff

  Children, Driftwood, Plans

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• What a different story men would have to tell if only they would adopt a DEFINITE PURPOSE, and stand by that purpose until it had time to become an all-consuming obsession!

  Napoleon Hill

  Men, Different, Purpose

  Dr. Robert C. Worstell, James Breckenridge Jones, Napoleon Hill (2015). “Think and Grow Rich, Updated and Complete - With If You Can Count to Four...”, p.12, Lulu.com

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• Thought is energy.
  Active thought is active energy;
  concentrated thought is a concentrated energy.
  Thought concentrated on a definite purpose becomes power.

  Charles F. Haanel

  Energy, Purpose, Sith

  Charles F. Haanel (2016). “The Master Key System”, p.21, Charles F. Haanel

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• Just, harmonious, temperate as is the spirit of liberty, there is in the name and mere notion of it a vagueness so opposite to the definite clearness of the moral law.

  Augustus William Hare

  Freedom, Names, Law

  Augustus William Hare (1827). “Guesses at Truth”, p.38

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• The awareness of the ambiguity of one's highest achievements, as well as one's deepest failures is a definite symptom of maturity.

  Paul Tillich

  Success, Maturity, Achievement

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• The jack-of-all-trades seldom is good at any. Concentrate all of your efforts on one definite chief aim.

  Napoleon Hill

  Inspirational, Success, Effort

  Napoleon Hill (2015). “Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition”, p.109, CDG Edições e Publicações LTDA

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• IDEAS CAN BE TRANSMUTED INTO CASH THROUGH THE POWER OF DEFINITE PURPOSE, PLUS DEFINITE PLANS.

  Napoleon Hill

  Ideas, Purpose, Cash

  Napoleon Hill (2005). “Think and Grow Rich with Foreword by Lewis Schiff”, p.75, Lulu.com

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• In order that the facts obtained by observation and experiment may be capable of being used in furtherance of our exact and solid knowledge, they must be apprehended and analysed according to some Conceptions which, applied for this purpose, give distinct and definite results, such as can be steadily taken hold of and reasoned from.

  William Whewell

  Taken, Knowledge, Science

  William Whewell (1858). “Novum Organon Renovatum”, p.63

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• Certainly one of the chief guarantees of freedom under any government, no matter how popular and respected, is the right of citizens to keep and bear arms. This is not to say that firearms should not be very carefully used and that definite safety rules of precaution should not be taught and enforced. But the right of citizens to bear arms is just one more guarantee against arbitrary government, and one more safeguard against tyranny which now appears remote in America, but which historically has proved to be always possible.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Gun, America, Government

  "Know Your Lawmaker". Guns magazine, p. 4, February 1960.

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• Learn to limit yourself; to content yourself with some definite work; dare to be what you are and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not; and to believe in your own individuality.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Happiness, Believe, Grace

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• True, I've been a long time making up my mind, but now I'm giving you a definite answer. I won't say yes, and I won't say no - but I'm giving you a definite maybe.

  Samuel Goldwyn

  Funny, Witty, Long

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I used to think the world was divided into good people and bad people, that you could pin responsibility for evil on certain definite people and punish the guilty. I’m still going through the motions.

  Ross Macdonald

  Responsibility, Thinking, People

  Ross Macdonald (1967). “Archer in Hollywood: Three Exciting Novels: The Moving Target, The Way Some People Die [and] The Barbarous Coast”, New York : Knopf

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• All music is nothing more than a succession of impulses that converge towards a definite point of repose.

  Igor Stravinsky

  Music Is, Impulse, Succession

  Igor Stravinsky (1970). “Poetics of Music in the Form of Six Lessons”, p.35, Harvard University Press

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• There isn't a definite right and wrong anyway. Sometimes we do what seems wrong, but we have good reasons for doing it, so it's not wrong after all.

  Carolyn Mackler

  Sometimes, Reason, Seems

  Carolyn Mackler (2011). “Vegan Virgin Valentine”, p.135, Candlewick Press

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• I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual. It is surprising how contented one can be with nothing definite - only a sense of existence. Well, anything for variety.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Thanksgiving, Grateful, Existence

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.373, Penguin

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• Some people asked me if I would be interested in managing the A's. I said a definite no thank you. At night, that place is a graveyard with lights.

  Whitey Herzog

  Thank You, Night, Light

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• First begin between selves, set a definite time, at each at that time put down what the other is doing. Do this 20 days. You shall find you have the key to telepathy.

  Edgar Cayce

  Keys, Self, Insightful

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• There is in St. Paul's definite, soul-stirring assertion of the wrath of God and the reality of the judgment at hand, a truth more profound than any that underlies our somewhat enfeebled ideas of universal benevolence and the determined progress of the race.

  Roland Allen

  Reality, Wrath, Race

  Roland Allen (2016). “Missionary Methods: St. Paul's or Ours?”, p.70, Gideon House Books

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• Yeah, I cut class...I got a D.
  Cause History meant nothing to me
  Except a definite nap.
  That's why I always sat in the back.

  Mike G

  Rap, Cutting, Naps

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• The Jew has always been a people with definite racial characteristics and never a religion.

  Adolf Hitler

  People, Mein Kampf, Characteristics

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• Mere color, unspoiled by meaning, and unallied with definite form, can speak to the soul in a thousand different ways.

  Oscar Wilde

  Color, Soul, Different

  Oscar Wilde (2004). “The Best of Oscar Wilde: Selected Plays and Writings”, p.319, Penguin

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• The dog is the only living being that has found and recognizes an indubitable, tangible and definite god. He knows to whom above him to give himself. He has not to seek for a superior and infinite power.

  Maurice Maeterlinck

  Friendship, Dog, Giving

  Maurice Maeterlinck (2015). “The Double Garden: Works of Maeterlinck”, p.14, 谷月社

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• Subatomic particles do not exist but rather show 'tendencies to exist', and atomic events do not occur with certainty at definite times and in definite ways, but rather show 'tendencies to occur'.

  Fritjof Capra

  Science, Events, Atoms

  Fritjof Capra, Pier Luigi Luisi (2014). “The Systems View of Life: A Unifying Vision”, p.72, Cambridge University Press

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• I have a definite talent for convincing people to try something new. I am a good salesman. When I'm on form, I can sell anything.

  Brian Eno

  People, Trying, Talent

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• The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our ignorance.

  George Eliot

  Ignorance, Acquaintance, Persons

  George Eliot (2016). “Daniel Deronda: Top Novelist Focus”, p.93, 谷月社

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