Voice Quotes

• Compassion leads to freedom of discovering your voice, your gifts, and your purpose.

  Robert V. Taylor

  Compassion, Purpose, Discovering

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• Healing of the world's woes will not come through this or that social or political theory; not through violent changes in government, but in the still small voice that speaks to the conscience and the heart.

  Arthur James Moore

  Healing, Heart, Government

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• The experience of the ages that are past, the hopes of the ages that are yet to come, unite their voices in an appeal to us;– they implore us to think more of the character of our people than of its numbers; to look upon our vast natural resources, not as tempters to ostentation and pride, but as means to be converted by the refining alchemy of education into mental and spiritual treasures; ...and thus give to the world the example of a nation whose wisdom increases with its prosperity, and whose virtues are equal to its power.

  Horace Mann

  Education, Spiritual, Character

  "Report of an Educational Tour in Germany, and Parts of Great Britain and Ireland: Being Part of the Seventh Annual Report of Horace Mann".

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• Advice, as it always gives a temporary appearance of superiority, can never be very grateful, even when it is most necessary or most judicious. But for the same reason everyone is eager to instruct his neighbours. To be wise or to be virtuous is to buy dignity and importance at a high price; but when nothing is necessary to elevation but detection of the follies or faults of others, no man is so insensible to the voice of fame as to linger on the ground.

  Samuel Johnson

  Wise, Grateful, Men

  The Rambler, No 87, January 15, 1751.

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• When there is a voice in a piece of music, we tend to focus on the voice. That is probably something from when we were babies and we depended on hearing our mother's voice.

  Robert Wyatt

  Music, Mother, Baby

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• Reading enables us to see with the keenest eyes, to hear with the finest ears, and listen to the sweetest voices of all time.

  James Russell Lowell

  Reading, Eye, Thought Provoking

  James Russell Lowell (1889). “Books and Libraries: Democracy, and Other Papers”

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• They don't understand what it is to be awake, / To be living on several planes at once / Though one cannot speak with several voices at once.

  T. S. Eliot

  Speak, Awareness, Planes

  T. S. Eliot (2014). “The Complete Plays of T. S. Eliot”, p.97, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• God has not changed; and His ear is just as quick to hear the voice of real prayer, and His hand is just as long and strong to save; as it ever was.

  R. A. Torrey

  Christian, Strong, Prayer

  R.A. Torrey (2012). “Rewards Of Prayer: 5-in-1 Anthology”, p.209, Whitaker House

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• My father told me that some voices are so true they can be used as weapons, can maneuver the weather, change time. He said that a voice that powerful can walk away from the singer if it is shamed. After my father left us, I learned that some voices can deceive you. There is a top layer and there is a bottom, and they don't match.

  Joy Harjo

  Powerful, Father, Weather

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• When the voice and the vision on the inside is more profound, and more clear and loud than all opinions on the outside, you've begun to master your life.

  Dr. John

  Profound, Vision, Opinion

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• We can hear the silent voice of the spiritual universe within our own hearts.

  Ruth St. Denis

  Spiritual, Heart, Denial

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• Pay attention to the voice within. . . . Sometimes the voice of your conscience gets drowned out by crowd noise or by the pep rally of temptations. And your mind may put some selfish spin on the ball, rationalizing that it's okay to veer away from the ethical route. When we run into conflicts between ethical "shoulds" and our selfish "wants," we all argure out ways to con our conscience. But take pains to listen, because it has your best interests at heart.

  Price Pritchett

  Running, Pain, Selfish

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• Do not surrender your grief so quickly Let it cut more deeply Let it ferment and season you As few human or divine ingredients can Something is missing in my heart tonight That has made my eyes so soft And my voice so tender And my need of God so absolutely clear.

  Hafez

  Spiritual, Wisdom, Grief

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• My surroundings have always been conducive to achieving what you want and believing in self 100 per cent; not being afraid to stand up and voice your opinion.

  Poppy King

  Wisdom, Business, Believe

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• The voice is certainly important and you can hear if it's beautiful or not, it's the gods who decide; it's more a question of what you do with the voice, which is the mysterious element. It's the personality behind the voice which makes the artist. The voice is a gift of God, but if you're not able to use this gift, what's left? Nothing but a beautiful voice, without nuance or color.

  Cecilia Bartoli

  Beautiful, Artist, Personality

  OperaNet Interview, www.culturekiosque.com.

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• In thinking about miracles, I believe that our frame of reference has been too dramatic. We have been looking for the burning bush, the parting of the sea, the bellowing voice from heaven. Instead we should be looking at the ordinary day-to-day events in our lives for evidence of the miraculous, maintaining at the same time a scientific orientation.

  M. Scott Peck

  Believe, Thinking, Ordinary Days

  M. Scott Peck (2001). “Wisdom from the Road Less Traveled”, p.148, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• They who humble themselves before knowledge of any kind generally end up the wiser and as voices with something meaningful to say.

  Haki R. Madhubuti

  Meaningful, Humble, Kind

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• How do you listen? Do you listen with your projections, through your projection, through your ambitions, desire, fears, anxieties, through hearing only what you want to hear, only what will be satisfactory, what will gratify, what will give comfort, what will for the moment alleviate your suffering? If you listen through the screen of your desires, then you obviously listen to your own voice.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Healing, Ambition, Giving

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• I believe we all have the Voice of Reason inside us...to gently lead us out of our own self-created hells.

  Bill Hicks

  Believe, Self, Hell

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• The Voice of Reason is in us all...and everyone can recognize it because it makes sense and everyone benefits from it equally.

  Bill Hicks

  Benefits, Reason, Make Sense

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• The amazing thing now is that most of those so-called critics who were telling me to find my own voice seem to have lost theirs.

  Brian Lumley

  Lost, Critics, My Own

  "Life Under the Necroscope: An Interview with Brian Lumley". Amazon Interview, www.brianlumley.com.

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• Only after all the noise has spent itself do we begin to hear in the silence of our heart, the still, small, mighty voice of God.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Heart, Silence, Noise

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• The world is waiting to hear an authentic voice, a voice from God- not an echo of what others are doing and saying, but an authentic voice.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  God, Religious, Echoes

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• Urban public space is a stage for viewing the field of graphic design in its diversity. A mix of voices, from advertising to activism, compete for visibility.

  Ellen Lupton

  Space, Diversity, Design

  Ellen Lupton, Cooper-Hewitt Museum (1996). “Mixing Messages”, p.13, Princeton Architectural Press

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• I feel that it is vital that we all re-open our spiritual gifts and open up to the voice of the Divine.

  Doreen Virtue

  Spiritual, Divine, Feels

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