Devotion Quotes - Page 3

• I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something else - I can give my heart and my devotion to these old islands and to all the peoples of our brotherhood of nations.

  Queen Elizabeth II

  Leadership, Heart, Islands

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• The discipline of daily devotion to God undergirds decisions.

  Edwin Louis Cole

  Inspirational, Discipline, Decision

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• My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

  Love, Funny, Friendship

  "Break of Day". Book by Sidonie Gabrielle Colette, 1928.

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• Let man's soul be a sphere, and then, in this, The intelligence that moves, devotion is.

  John Donne

  Moving, Men, Soul

  'Good Friday, 1613. Riding Westward', published 1635.

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• I have been told by an eminent bookseller, that in no branch of his business , after tracts of popular devotion, were so many books as those on the law exported to the Plantations .

  Edmund Burke

  Book, Law, Branches

  Edmund Burke (1777). “The Political Tracts and Speeches of Edmund Burke”, p.382

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• About Mike the construction worker, friend of Roark: "He worshipped expertness of any kind. He loved his work passionately and had no tolerance for anything save for other single-track devotions. He was a master in his own filed and felt no sympathy except for mastery. His view of the world was simple: there were the able and there were the incompetent; he was not concerned with the latter."

  Ayn Rand

  Friends, Simple, Construction Workers

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• Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Business, Work, Men

  Robert Louis Stevenson (1999). “The Lantern-Bearers and Other Essays”, p.40, Cooper Square Press

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• Whoever benefits his enemy with straightforward intention that man's enemies will soon fold their hands in devotion.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Reality, Men, Hands

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• If a man devotes himself to the instructions of his own unconscious, it can bestow this gift [of renewal], so that suddenly life, which has been stale and dull, turns into a rich unending inner adventure, full of creative possibilities

  Marie-Louise von Franz

  Inspirational, Life, Adventure

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• Cut your morning devotions into your personal grooming. You would not go out to work with a dirty face. Why start the day with the face of your soul unwashed?

  Robert A. Cook

  Morning, Dirty, Cutting

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• A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side.

  Aristotle

  Atheist, Believe, Moving

  "Politics". Book by Aristotle. Book V, 1314b.39,

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• Those who seek to satisfy the mind of man by hampering it with ceremonies and music and affecting charity and devotion have lost their original nature.

  Zhuangzi

  Men, Mind, Charity

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• Devotion is a way of being, it's not something you do. It's dedication to finding awareness and Love. Chanting is like asanas for the mind and the heart.

  Krishna Das

  Heart, Dedication, Mind

  FaceBook post by Krishna Das from Apr 26, 2017

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• Developing a Christian worldview means submitting our entire self to God, in an act of devotion and service to Him.

  Nancy Pearcey

  Christian, Mean, Self

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• Surely the experience of all good men confirms the proposition that without a due measure of private devotions the soul will grow lean.

  William Wilberforce

  Men, Soul, Good Man

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• It is rather for us here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Civil War, Tasks, Lasts

  Gettysburg Address, Gettysburg, Pa., 19 Nov. 1863.

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• The increase of scientific knowledge lies not only in the occasional milestones of science, but in the efforts of the very large body of men who with love and devotion observe and study nature.

  Polykarp Kusch

  Lying, Men, Effort

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• I know without our fans and the devotion of our fans we wouldn't be here. I don't mean to put them down, but I'm just stating a fact that it is hard to play to people that see you all the time and it takes a lot of fun out of it in some ways.

  Roger Daltrey

  Fun, Mean, Play

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• So this is the space during tutoring hours. It's very busy. Same principles: one-on-one attention, complete devotion to the students' work and a boundless optimism and sort of a possibility of creativity and ideas.

  Dave Eggers

  Creativity, Ideas, Space

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• James's expedition to Scotland is wholly imaginary, though there appears to have been space for it during Henry's progress to the North to pay his devotions at Beverley Minster.

  Charlotte Mary Yonge

  Travel, Scotland, Space

  Charlotte Mary Yonge (2015). “Delphi Complete Novels of Charlotte Mary Yonge (Illustrated)”, p.7498, Delphi Classics

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• The territorial state is such an ancient form of society - here in Europe it dates back thousands of years - that it is now protected by the sanctity of age and the glory of tradition. A strong religious feeling mingles with the respect and the devotion to the fatherland.

  Christian Lous Lange

  Religious, Strong, Years

  "Peace: 1991-1995". World Scientific publication, p. 338, 1997.

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• I'm quite sure that most writers would sustain real poetry if they could, but it takes devotion and talent.

  Marguerite Young

  Real, Talent, Ifs

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• I think he had a strange, passionate devotion to the truth and a horror at what he saw going on.

  Ben Bradlee

  Thinking, Passionate, Saws

  "Watergate: 25 Years Later". Online discussion, www.washingtonpost.com. June 17, 1997.

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• God expects from men something more than at such times, and that it were much to be wished for the credit of their religion as well as the satisfaction of their conscience that their Easter devotions would in some measure come up to their Easter dress.

  Robert South

  Easter, Men, Dresses

  Robert South (1727). “Twelve Sermons ...”, p.286

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• To rely upon conviction, devotion, and other excellent spiritual qualities; that is not to be taken seriously in politics.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Spiritual, Taken, Rely Upon

  "The Revolution Betrayed" by Lenin Trotsky, (p. 236), 2006.

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