Dormant Quotes - Page 2

• Education has for its object the formation of character. To curb restive propensities, to awaken dormant sentiments, to strengthen the perceptions, and cultivate the tastes, to encourage this feeling and repress that, so as finally to develop the child into a man of well proportioned and harmonious nature, this is alike the aim of parent and teacher.

  Herbert Spencer

  Teacher, Children, Character

  Herbert Spencer (1873). “Social Statics; Or, The Conditions Essential to Human Happiness Specified, & the First of Them Developed”, p.201

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• I have an unshakable belief that mankind's higher nature is on the whole still dormant. The greatest souls reveal excellencies of mind and heart which their lesser fellows possess-hidden, it is true, but there all the same.

  Helen Keller

  Heart, Soul, Mind

  Helen Keller (1957). “The Open Door”, Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday

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• I have often reflected upon the new vistas that reading has opened to me. I knew right there in prison that reading had changed forever the course of my life. As I see it today, the ability to read awoke inside me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive.

  Malcolm X

  Education, Reading, Long

  Malcolm X (2015). “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”, p.187, Ballantine Books

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• You are fortunate if you have learned the difference between temporary defeat and failure, more fortunate still if you have learned the truth that the very seed of success is dormant in every defeat that you experience.

  Napoleon Hill

  Temporary Defeat, Differences, Stills

  Napoleon Hill (2008). “The Law of Success: The Master Wealth-Builder's Complete and Original Lesson Plan forAchieving Your Dreams”, p.125, Penguin

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• An infinity of forest lies dormant within the dreams on one acorn.

  Wayne Dyer

  Inspirational, Dream, Lying

  Wayne W. Dyer (2009). “Excuses Begone!: How to Change Lifelong, Self-Defeating Thinking Habits”, p.148, Hay House, Inc

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• Woman will ignore precedent and startle civilization with their progress.

  Nikola Tesla

  Civilization, Progress, Precedent

  "When woman is boss". "Colliers" Magazine, January 30, 1926.

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• I have learned that there lies dormant in the souls of all men a penchant for some particular musical instrument an an unsuspected yearning to play on it, which are bound to wake up an demand attention someday. Therefore you who rail at such that disturb your slumbers with unsuccessful and demoralizing attempts to subjugate a guitar, beware! For sooner or later your own time will come.

  Mark Twain

  Music, Lying, Men

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• In the composition of the human frame there is a good deal of inflammable matter, however dormant it may lie for a time.

  George Washington

  Lying, May, Matter

  George Washington (1860). “Recollections and private memoirs of Washington by his adopted son George Washington with a memoir of the author by his daughter; and illustrative and explanatory notes by Benson J. Loosing: With illustrations”, p.42

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• Ability is not something to be saved, like money, in the hope that you can draw interest on it. The interest comes from the spending. Unused ability, like unused muscles, will atrophy. It is tragic to realize that the majority of human beings, even the so-called educated, call upon only the smallest fraction of their potential capacity. They leave many talents dormant. They fail to develop their mental qualities. They are almost unaware of the degree of energy upon which they might call to build a full and rewarding life.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Quality, Might, Energy

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• Books are like seeds. They can lie dormant for centuries and then flower in the most unpromising soil.

  Carl Sagan

  Lying, Flower, Book

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Cosmos”, p.306, Ballantine Books

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• In this age of inventive wonders all men have come to believe that in some genius' brain sleeps the solution of the grand problem of aerial navigation-and along with that belief is the hope that that genius will reveal his miracle before they die, and likewise a dread that he will poke off somewhere and die himself before he finds out that he has such a wonder lying dormant in his brain. We all know the air can be navigated-therefore, hurry up your sails and bladders-satisfy us-let us have peace.

  Mark Twain

  Lying, Believe, Sleep

  Mark Twain, John C. Gerber, Terry Firkins (1983). “Tom Sawyer Abroad ; Tom Sawyer Detective”, p.180, Univ of California Press

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• Enthusiasm is the dynamics of your personality. Without it, whatever abilities you may possess lie dormant; and it is safe to say that nearly every man has more latent power than he ever learns to use. You may have knowledge, sound judgment, good reasoning faculties; but no one-not even yourself-will know it until you discover how to put your heart into thought and action.

  Dale Carnegie

  Inspirational, Attitude, Lying

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• Most of our faculties lie dormant because they can rely upon Habit, which knows what there is to be done and has no need of their services.

  Marcel Proust

  Lying, Rely Upon, Needs

  Marcel Proust (2006). “Remembrance of Things Past”, p.600, Wordsworth Editions

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• In our daily intercourse with men, our nobler faculties are dormant and suffered to rust. None will pay us the compliment to expect nobleness from us. Though we have gold to give, they demand only copper.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Character, Men, Giving

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.111, Penguin

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• Wildness It is perennially within us, dormant as a hard-shelled seed, awaiting the fire or flood that awakes it again.

  Gary Snyder

  Fire, Flood, Seeds

  Gary Snyder (2010). “The Practice of the Wild”, p.14, Counterpoint Press

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• Know that there is often hidden in us a dormant poet, always young and alive.

  Alfred de Musset

  Alive, Poet, Young

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• I think that, regardless of our culture, age, or even personal handicaps, we can still strive for something exceptional. Why not expand our sights instead of restricting our lives and accepting the lowest common denominator of a dormant existence? Faith. . . will permit us to take a chance on a new path, perhaps different from the one we now follow. It may be surprising where it leads.

  Jimmy Carter

  Faith, Thinking, Sight

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• The printed page is a missionary that can go anywhere and do so at minimum cost. It enters closed lands and reaches all strata of society. It does not grow weary. It needs no furlough. It lives longer than any missionary. It never gets ill. It penetrates through the mind to the heart and conscience. It has and is producing results everywhere. It has often lain dormant yet retained its life and bloomed years later.

  Samuel Marinus Zwemer

  Christian, Heart, Years

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• I cannot live or write without music. It stimulates the normally dormant parts of my brain that come in handy when constructing fiction.

  Aleksandar Hemon

  Writing, Brain, Fiction

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• I wanted to turn everything off, too. Just press a button - click - and shut myself down. Turn off my heart, turn off my mind, turn off my body - just lie there, senseless, like a dormant tree in winter, waiting for the spring to return.

  Kevin Brooks

  Spring, Lying, Heart

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• The desire for total happiness and for ultimate freedom lies dormant in everyone. It is in the form of a seed. It is like a seed that contains a tree within it. In the same way, the fulfillment of man's ultimate desire is hidden in his very nature. In its perfectly developed state, it is our nature to be happy, to be free. Our real nature is the only thing that is true, and only perfecting it can bring complete satisfaction.

  Rajneesh

  Happiness, Real, Lying

  Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, Osho, Krishna Prem (Swami.) (1984). “The Long and the Short and the All”, Osho International Foundation

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• There exists in man a mass of sense lying in a dormant state, and which, unless something excites it to action, will descend with him, in that condition,to the grave.

  Thomas Paine

  Lying, Men, Action

  Thomas Paine, John P. Kaminski (2002). “Citizen Paine: Thomas Paine's Thoughts on Man, Government, Society, and Religion”, p.177, Rowman & Littlefield

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• The black church is dormant, much of the community is dormant. If the black church is leaning toward the right, much of the community is leaning toward the right. If it is leaning in the left wing direction having repercussions.

  Cornel West

  Wings, Community, Black

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• We all have the potential to show others love and affection, but as we progress in our materialistic world, these values tend to remain dormant. We can develop them on the basis of common sense, common experience and scientific findings. The response to the recent tragedy in the Philippines is an example of how such values are awakened; people helped simply because others are suffering and in need of support.

  Dalai Lama

  Common Sense, People, Support

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• Women have to summon courage to fulfill dormant dreams.

  Alice Walker

  Dream

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