Devoted Quotes - Page 21

• Leaders have devoted themselves to politics, little knowing, it seems
  that political independence disappears without economic independence
  that economic independence is the foundation of political independence.

  Booker T. Washington

  Knowing, Leader, Political

  Booker T. Washington, Louis R. Harlan (1984). “The Booker T. Washington Papers: 1914-15”, p.396, University of Illinois Press

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• People err who think my art comes easily to me. I assure you, dear friend, nobody has devoted so much time and thought to compositions as I. There is not a famous master whose music I have not industriously studied through many times.

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  Art, Thinking, People

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• Leo Tolstoy's life has been devoted to replacing the method of violence for removing tyranny or securing reform by the method of non­resistance to evil. He would meet hatred expressed in violence by love expressed in self­suffering.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Self, Evil, Hatred

  Mahatma Gandhi (1963). “Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

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• At the time of his death, Biko had a wife and three children for which he left a letter that stated in one part: “I've devoted my life to see equality for blacks, and at the same time, I've denied the needs of my family. Please understand that I take these actions, not out of selfishness or arrogance, but to preserve a South Africa worth living in for blacks and whites.

  Steven Biko

  Children, Wife, Arrogance

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• There is something you can't fix, can't heal, or can't escape, and all you can do it trust God. Finding ultimate refuge in God means you become so immersed in his presence, so convinced of his goodness, so devoted to his lordship that you find even the cave is a perfectly safe place to be because he is there with you.

  John Ortberg

  Mean, Caves, Safe

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• There, Master Niketas,’ Baudolino said, ‘when I was not prey to the temptations of this world, I devoted my nights to imagining other worlds. A bit with the help of wine, and a bit with that of the green honey. There is nothing better than imagining other worlds,’ he said, ‘to forget the painful one we live in. At least so I thought then. I hadn’t yet realized that, imagining other worlds, you end up changing this one.

  Umberto Eco

  Wine, Night, Other Worlds

  Umberto Eco (2003). “Baudolino”, p.99, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The first half of life is devoted to forming a healthy ego, the second half is going inward and letting go of it.

  Carl Jung

  Inspirational, Letting Go, Healthy

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• A man wants to earn money in order to be happy, and his whole effort and the best of a life are devoted to the earning of that money. Happiness is forgotten; the means are taken for the end.

  Albert Camus

  Happiness, Money, Taken

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.103, Vintage

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• I am a lolita. I don't believe in growing up. No matter how old I get I remain devoted to ruffles and frills

  Novala Takemoto

  Growing Up, Believe, Ruffles

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• The major western democracies are moving towards corporatism. Democracy has become a business plan, with a bottom line for every human activity, every dream, every decency, every hope. The main parliamentary parties are now devoted to the same economic policies - socialism for the rich, capitalism for the poor - and the same foreign policy of servility to endless war. This is not democracy. It is to politics what McDonalds is to food.

  John Pilger

  Dream, War, Party

  "Breaking the great Australian silence". John Pilger's speech at the Sydney Opera House to mark his award of the Sydney Peace Prize, johnpilger.com. November 5, 2009.

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• He wants all or nothing. The thought of a person calling himself a 'Christian' without being a devoted follower of Christ is absurd.

  Francis Chan

  Christian, Followers, Calling

  Francis Chan (2013). “Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless God”, p.85, David C Cook

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• In point of fact I was a perfectly devoted and dutiful little Catholic—until the day I learned that animals have no souls.

  Susan Kay

  Animal, Catholic, Soul

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• Dear and most respected bookcase! I welcome your existence, which has for over one hundred years been devoted to the radiant ideals of goodness and justice.

  Anton Chekhov

  Years, Justice, Welcome

  "The Cherry Orchard". Play by Anton Chekhov, 1904.

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• Like most North Americans of his generation, Hal tends to know way less about why he feels certain ways about the objects and pursuits he's devoted to than he does about the objects and pursuits themselves. It's hard to say for sure whether this is even exceptionally bad, this tendency.

  David Foster Wallace

  Doe, Generations, Way

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• What hinders me from hearing is that I am taken up with other things. It is not that I will not hear God, but I am not devoted in the right place. I am devoted to things, to service, to convictions, and God may say what He likes but I do not hear Him.

  Oswald Chambers

  Taken, May, Hearing

  Oswald Chambers (2011). “The Quotable Oswald Chambers”, p.229, Discovery House

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• An old market had stood there until I'd been about six years old, when the authorities had renamed it the Olde Market, destroyed it, and built a new market devoted to selling T-shirts and other objects with pictures of the old market. Meanwhile, the people who had operated the little stalls in the old market had gone elsewhere and set up a thing on the edge of town that was now called the New Market even though it was actually the old market.

  Neal Stephenson

  Years, People, Gone

  Neal Stephenson (2010). “Anathem”, p.169, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Beware of being obsessed with consistency to your own convictions instead of being devoted to God. The important consistency in a saint is not to a principle but to the divine life. It is easier to be an excessive fanatic than it is to be consistently faithful, because God causes an amazing humbling of our religious conceit when we are faithful to Him.

  Oswald Chambers

  Religious, Consistency, Faithful

  Oswald Chambers (2013). “Utmost: Classic Readings and Prayers from Oswald Chambers”, p.80, Discovery House

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• I walked among Shadows, and found a race of furry creatures, dark and clawed and fanged, reasonably manlike, and about as intelligent as a freshman in the high school of your choice-sorry, kids, but what I mean is they were loyal, devoted, honest, and too easily screwed by bastards like me and my brother. I felt like the dee-jay of your choice.

  Roger Zelazny

  Brother, Sorry, School

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• The hours of the morning between breakfast and lunch were the time which the inhabitants of Riseholme chiefly devoted to spying on each other.

  E.F. Benson

  Morning, Lunch, Breakfast

  E F Benson (2014). “Mapp and Lucia Omnibus: Queen Lucia, Miss Mapp and Mapp and Lucia”, p.43, Random House

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• Often a cold shudder has run through me, and I have asked myself whether I may have not devoted myself to a fantasy.

  Charles Darwin

  Running, May, Evolution

  Charles Darwin (2015). “Darwin on Evolution: Words of Wisdom from the Father of Evolution”, p.36, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• The attraction of a life devoted to sensation, pleasure and self would probably wear thin one day, but there was still plenty of time for that yet.

  David Nicholls

  Self, One Day, Pleasure

  David Nicholls (2009). “One Day”, p.27, Hachette UK

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• Humility is the mother of all virtues; purity, charity and obedience. It is in being humble that our love becomes real, devoted and ardent. If you are humble nothing will touch you, neither praise nor disgrace, because you know what you are. If you are blamed you will not be discouraged. If they call you a saint you will not put yourself on a pedestal.

  Mother Teresa

  Mother, Real, Yoga

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• You will be interested to hear, Hilary, that it [the drug] had a most remarkable effect — even on Selena after a very modest quantity. She cast off all conventional restraints and devoted herself without shame to the pleasure of the moment." I asked for particulars of this uncharacteristic conduct. "She took from her handbag a paperback edition of Pride and Prejudice and sat on the sofa reading it, declining all offers of conversation.

  Sarah Caudwell

  Reading, Pride, Drug

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• I am credited with being one of the hardest workers and perhaps I am, if thought is the equivalent of labour, for I have devoted to it almost all of my waking hours. But if work is interpreted to be a definite performance in a specified time according to a rigid rule, then I may be the worst of idlers.

  Nikola Tesla

  Inspirational, Idlers, May

  "My Inventions" by Nikola Tesla, (Ch. 1), 1919.

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• She could not explain or quite understand that it wasn't altogether jealousy she felt, it was rage. And not because she couldn't shop like that or dress like that. It was because that was what girls were supposed to be like. That was what men - people, everybody - thought they should be like. Beautiful, treasured, spoiled, selfish, pea-brained. That was what a girl should be, to be fallen in love with. Then she would become a mother and she'd be all mushily devoted to her babies. Not selfish anymore, but just as pea-brained. Forever.

  Alice Munro

  Love, Beautiful, Girl

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