Heed Quotes

• Children don’t heed the life experiences of their parents, and nations ignore history. Bad lessons always have to be learned anew.

  Albert Einstein

  Children, Memorable, Parent

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.175, Princeton University Press

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• Look not for refuge to anyone beside yourself. Heed fast to the truth as a lamp.

  Gautama Buddha

  Lamps, Looks, Philosopher

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• It is almost an intellectual tradition to pay heed to the insane. In my case those that I most respect are the morons.

  Henri Michaux

  Intellectual, Insane, Pay

  Henri Michaux, Robin Magowan (2001). “Ecuador”, p.57, Northwestern University Press

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• It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.

  Bill Gates

  Inspirational, Success, Motivation

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• If at first you don't succeed, try, try, try again.

  William Edward Hickson

  Inspirational, Success, Perseverance

  "Try and Try Again". Poem by William Edward Hickson,

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• In June as many as a dozen species may burst their buds on a single day. No man can heed all of these anniversaries; no man can ignore all of them.

  Aldo Leopold

  Anniversary, Nature, Spring

  Aldo Leopold, Michael Sewell (2001). “A Sand County Almanac”, p.82, Oxford University Press

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• Nobody heeds danger when they're making money.

  James Cook

  Making Money, Danger

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• The state of our civilization manifests itself both in the non-problems that terrify us beyond all reason - rising sea levels - and in the real problems we pay no heed to [population decline]...In reality, much of the planet will be uninhabited long before it's uninhabitable

  Mark Steyn

  Real, Sea, Civilization

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• At times God puts us through the discipline of darkness to teach us to heed Him. Song birds are taught to sing in the dark, and we are put into the shadow of God’s hand until we learn to hear Him.

  Oswald Chambers

  Song, Dark, Hands

  Oswald Chambers (2011). “My Utmost for His Highest Classic Edition”, p.100, Discovery House

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• Our spontaneous action is always the best. You cannot, with your best deliberation and heed, come so close to any question as your spontaneous glance shall bring you.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Action, Spontaneity, Spontaneous

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.148

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• Reason and emotion counsel and supplement each other. Whoever heeds only the one, and puts aside the other, recklessly deprives himself of a portion of the aid granted us for the regulation of our conduct.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Reason And Emotion, Regulation, Granted

  Jean de La Bruyère, Luc de Clapiers marquis de Vauvenargues (1903). “La Bruyère and Vauvenargues: Selections from the Characters, Reflexions and Maxims”

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• These infinitesimal distinctions between man and man are too paltry for an Omnipotent Being. How these madmen give themselves away! The real God taketh heed lest a sparrow fall. But the God created from human vanity sees no difference between an eagle and a sparrow.

  Bram Stoker

  Real, Fall, Men

  Bram Stoker, Eleanor Bourg Nicholson (2012). “Dracula”, p.151, Ignatius Press

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• Pay no heed to the passing religious vogue. Go back to the grass roots. Open your hearts and search the Scriptures. Bear your cross, follow your Lord. The masses are always wrong. In every generation the number of the righteous is small. Be sure you are among them.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Religious, Heart, Roots

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• Please pass me the peace weed, and take some heed. Throw away all that mixed up speed.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Weed, Alcohol, Drug

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• If at first you don't succeed, try management.

  Stephen Hawking

  Success, Perseverance, Persistence

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• If at first you don't succeed, try hard work.

  William Feather

  Success, Perseverance, Hard Work

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• Further, Take heed that you faithfully perform the business you have to do in the world, from a regard to the commands of God; and not from an ambitious desire of being esteemed better than others.

  David Brainerd

  Desire, Ambitious, World

  David BRAINERD, Horatius Bonar (1853). “The Life of David Brainerd ... Chiefly Taken from His Own Diary, and Other Private Writings. By Jonathan Edwards. With Preface, by the Rev. Horatius Bonar”, p.255

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• All that Our Lord heeds in a man's life is the relationship of worth to His Father.

  Oswald Chambers

  Father, Men, Life Is

  Oswald Chambers (2011). “My Utmost for His Highest Classic Edition”, p.496, Discovery House

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• Give diligent heed to the things that are spoken from the Word of God.

  George Whitefield

  Giving, Word Of God, Diligent

  George Whitefield, G. B. (1829). “The Revived Puritan. Select Works of ... G. W., ... Containing a Memoir of His Life, Etc. [Edited by G. B.]”, p.550

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• It seems as if the day was not wholly profane in which we have given heed to some natural object.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Improvement, Natural, Given

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt McLaughlin (2010). “The Laws of Nature: Excerpts from the Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.53, North Atlantic Books

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• I do not understand why any poet or writer would run for office; that's a different sense of who you are. I'm just a poet. I am as truthful as I can be. That makes me an artist. I heed the people; I do not lead the people.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Running, Artist, Office

  "Nikki Giovanni - Celebrity Guest Author Interview". Interview with Cheryl Holloway, www.cherylholloway.net. February 14, 2014.

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• Come Senators, Congressman, please heed the call, don't stand in the doorway, don't block the hall.

  Bob Dylan

  Block, Doorways, Politics

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• Let those who think that the Church pays too much attention to Mary give heed to the fact that Our Blessed Lord Himself gave ten times as much of His life to her as He gave to His Apostles.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Religious, Blessed, Thinking

  Fulton J. Sheen (2010). “The World's First Love”, p.103, Ignatius Press

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• The weak are always anxious for justice and equality. The strong pay no heed to either.

  Aristotle

  Being Strong, Justice, Pay

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• I will do today that which is of today and pay no heed to the tomorrow; nor waste regrets on that which was yesterday.

  Walter Russell

  Regret, Yesterday, Secret

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