Indulge Quotes

• Criticism of others is futile and if you indulge in it often you should be warned that it can be fatal to your career.

  Dale Carnegie

  Motivational, Careers, Indulge In

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• Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.

  George Washington

  Education, Wisdom, Religious

  Noah Webster, George Washington (1806). “Elements of useful knowledge: containing a historical and geographical account of the United States”, p.217

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• Every once in awhile, a girl has to indulge herself.

  Sarah Jessica Parker

  Girl, Indulge In

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• It is natural for man to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth, and listen to the song of that siren till she transforms us into beasts... For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth, to know the worst, and to provide for it.

  Patrick Henry

  Song, Eye, Men

  Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death, delivered 23 March 1775 at Henrico Parrish Church St, Richmond Virginia, Second Virginia Convention

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• People are distracted by objects of desire, and afterwards repent of the lust they've indulged, because they have indulged with a phantom and are left even farther from Reality than before. Your desire for the illusory is a wing, by means of which a seeker might ascend to Reality. When you have indulged a lust, your wing drops off; you become lame and that fantasy flees. Preserve the wing and don't indulge such lust, so that the wing of desire may bear you to Paradise. People fancy they are enjoying themselves, but they are really tearing out their wings for the sake of an illusion.

  Rumi

  Mean, Reality, Wings

  Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi (2008). “The Pocket Rumi”, p.171, Shambhala Publications

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• You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Motivational, Adventure, Positivity

  Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, Rabindranath Tagore (1968). “Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi, Nehru, Tagore: Being a Treasury of Over Ten Thousand Invaluable and Inspiring Thoughts, Views, and Obervations on about Eight Hundred Subjects of Popular Interest, Collected from the Speeches and Writings of These Three Great Leaders of Modern India”

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• Look I eat really well and I work out, but I also indulge when I want to. I don't starve myself in an extremist way. You're not taking away my coffee or my dairy or my glass of wine because I'd be devastated.

  Jennifer Aniston

  Coffee, Wine, Glasses

  "Jennifer Aniston's Beauty Advice: 'Stop Eating S**t'". UK Harper’s Bazaar Interview, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 31, 2010.

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• You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water. Don't let yourself indulge in vain wishes.

  Laurence J. Peter

  Adventure, Sea, Indulge In

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• Let us with Caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion.

  George Washington

  Religious, Godly, Indulge In

  George Washington, United States. President (1789-1797 : Washington) (1847). “Washington's Farewell Address to the People of the United States of America: Published in September, 1796”, p.9

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• The moment we indulge our affections, the earth is metamorphosed.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Romantic Love, Earth, Affection

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1964). “The Early Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.290, Harvard University Press

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• It is natural to man to indulge in the illusion of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth, till she transforms us into beasts.

  Patrick Henry

  Hope, Truth, Eye

  Speech in the Virginia Convention (March 1775).

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• Never look down on anybody unless you're helping him up.

  Jesse Jackson

  Inspirational, Life, Respect

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• If a man have a strong faith he can indulge in the luxury of skepticism.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Life, Faith, Strong

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (2007). “Twilight of the Idols with the Antichrist and Ecce Homo”, p.54, Wordsworth Editions

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• When public men indulge themselves in abuse, when they deny others a fair trial, when they resort to innuendo and insinuation, to libel, scandal, and suspicion, then our democratic society is outraged, and democracy is baffled. It has no apparatus to deal with the boor, the liar, the lout, and the antidemocrat in general.

  J. William Fulbright

  Liars, Men, Indulge In

  J. William Fulbright's speech in the Senate on McCarthyism (February 2, 1954), as quoted in "Congressional Record", Volume 100 (p. 1105), 1954.

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• Frenchmen have an unlimited capacity for gallantry and indulge it on every occasion.

  Moliere

  Indulge In, Literature, Gallantry

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• We must not indulge in unfavorable views of mankind, since by doing it we make bad men believe they are no worse than others, and we teach the good that they are good in vain.

  Walter Winchell

  Life, Success, Believe

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• Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best; it removes all that is base. All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is the essence of manhood.

  George S. Patton

  Fear, Men, Essence

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• Once you begin to explain or excuse all events on racial grounds, you begin to indulge in the perilous mythology of race.

  James Earl Jones

  Indulge In, Race, Events

  James Earl Jones, Penelope Niven (1993). “James Earl Jones: Voices and Silences”, Scribner Book Company

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• The moment we indulge our affections, the earth is metamorphosed, there is no winter and no night; all tragedies, all ennui s, vanish, all duties even.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Winter, Night, Tragedy

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• Understand this law and you will then know, beyond room for the slightest doubt, that you are constantly punishing yourself for every wrong you commit and rewarding yourself for every act of constructive conduct in which you indulge.

  Napoleon Hill

  Truth, Honesty, Law

  Napoleon Hill (2012). “The Law of Success: The 16 Secrets for Achieving Wealth & Prosperity”, p.545, Courier Corporation

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• Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge.

  George William Curtis

  Anger, Men, Indulge In

  GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS (1868). “PRUE AND I”, p.126

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• Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can exist apart from religious principle.

  George Washington

  Religious, Truth, Freedom

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• It is always better to avenge dear ones than to indulge in mourning. For every one of us, living in this world means waiting for our end. Let whoever can win glory before death. When a warrior is gone, that will be his best and only bulwark.

  Seamus Heaney

  Mean, Warrior, Winning

  Seamus Heaney (2009). “Beowulf”, p.10, Faber & Faber

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• It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she allures us to our death.

  Gertrude Stein

  Eye, Indulge In, Sirens

  Gertrude Stein (1954). “The Yale Edition of the Unpublished Writings of Gertrude Stein: As fine as Melanctha, 1914-1930”

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• I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair.

  Joseph Addison

  Sympathy, Indulge In, Giving

  Mr. Joseph Addison, Mr. James Thomson, Nathaniel Lee, William Shakespeare (1730). “A Collection of the Best English Plays, Chosen Out of All the Best Authors..: Vol. III.”, p.62

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