Commendable Quotes - Page 2

• At key crossroads in his life, Vernon Davis has continued to make a conscious choice to grow as a person and player. His determination through adversity since his childhood days is commendable.

  Hannah Storm

  Determination, Adversity, Player

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• Business in a certain sort of men is a mark of understanding, and they are honored for it. Their souls seek repose in agitation, as children do by being rocked in a cradle. They may pronounce themselves as serviceable to their friends as troublesome to themselves. No one distributes his money to others, but every one therein distributes his time and his life. There is nothing of which we are so prodigal as of those two things, of which to be thrifty would be both commendable and useful.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Business, Children, Men

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• For once you rise to a level of God consciousness you will understand that you are not responsible for any other human soul, and that while it is commendable to wish every soul to live in comfort, each soul must choose - is choosing - its own destiny this instant.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Inspirational, Religious, Destiny

  "Conversations with God". Book by Neale Donald Walsch, December 1998.

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• Forgiveness is commendable, but apply not ointment to the wound of an oppressor.

  Saadi

  Forgiveness, Oppressors, Wounds

  Saadi, Francis Gladwin, Eric Serejski (2016). “Gulistan or Rose Garden”, p.150, Innovations and Information

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• Apart from a commendable determination to discomfit Trump and members of his inner circle (select military figures excepted, at least for now), journalism remains pretty much what it was prior to November 8th of last year: personalities built up only to be torn down; fads and novelties discovered, celebrated, then mocked; "extraordinary" stories of ordinary people granted 15 seconds of fame only to once again be consigned to oblivion - all served with a side dish of that day's quota of suffering, devastation, and carnage. These remain journalism's stock-in-trade.

  Andrew Bacevich

  Determination, Military, People

  "Tomgram: Andrew Bacevich, What Obsessing About You-Know-Who Causes Us To Miss". www.tomdispatch.com. May 7, 2017.

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• The idea of suicide, understandable as it is, does not seem commendable to me. We live in order to gain the greatest possible amount of spiritual development and self-awareness. As long as life is possible, even if only in a minimal degree, you should hang onto it, in order to scoop it up for the purpose of conscious development. To interrupt life before its time is to bring to a standstill an experiment which we have not set up. We have found ourselves in the midst of it and must carry it through to the end.

  Carl Jung

  Suicide, Spiritual, Self

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• All that is good and commendable now existing would continue to exist if all marriage laws were repealed tomorrow . . .

  Victoria Woodhull

  Law, Tomorrow, Ifs

  Victoria Claflin Woodhull (1872). “A Speech on the Principles of Social Freedom”, p.18

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• I believe that even 'returning-to-nature' and anti pollution activities, no matter how commendable, are not moving toward a genuine solution if they are carried out solely in reaction to the over development of the present age.

  Masanobu Fukuoka

  Believe, Moving, Age

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• Anthony: Now lower your dress a little- Roslynn: Anthony! Anthony: This is no time for offended modesty... You're the distraction. Roslynn: Och, well, in that case. Anthony: That's quite low enough, my dear... Roslynn: I was only trying to help, Anthony: Commendable, but we want the chap to ogle you, not bust his breeches.

  Johanna Lindsey

  Trying, Dresses, Want

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• It is as commendable to think well of oneself when alone, as it is ridiculous to speak well of oneself among others.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Thinking, Ridiculous, Speak

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• The Libertarians, of whom I'm rather fond, are running Harry Browne. Libertarians are, just as they claim, principled and consistent - they believe in individual liberty. Commendable as they are, and despite their reliability as allies in civil liberties struggles, you may notice that Libertarians sometimes prove that a foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, and that there is a difference between logic and wisdom.

  Molly Ivins

  Running, Believe, Struggle

  Fort Worth Star-Telegram, September 7, 1996.

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• Let your conversation be without malice or envy, for it is a sign of a tractable and commendable nature; and in all cases of passion admit reason to govern.

  George Washington

  Passion, Envy, Brilliant

  George Washington (2010). “George Washington's Rules of Civility & Decent Behavior”, p.20, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Exploring Ecclesiology is true to its subtitle, being both vibrantly evangelical and admirably ecumenical; it is commendable for its depth, breadth, and erudition. Harper and Metzger's sympathetic engagement with Catholic ecclesiology is challenging and reciprocal. I especially appreciate how the authors emphasize and explore the vital connection between ecclesiology and eschatology, something very beneficial to readers seeking to better appreciate how living the Faith in community today relates to the hope of entering fully into Trinitarian communion in the life to come.

  Carl E. Olson

  Appreciate, Community, Catholic

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• Many able Gardeners and Husbandmen are yet Ignorant of the Reason of their Calling; as most Artificers are of the Reason of their own Rules that govern their excellent Workmanship. But a Naturalist and Mechanick of this sort is Master of the Reason of both, and might be of the Practice too, if his Industry kept pace with his Speculation; which were every commendable; and without which he cannot be said to be a complete Naturalist or Mechanick.

  William Penn

  Practice, Ignorant, Pace

  Benjamin Franklin, William Penn (2012). “Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims”, p.21, Courier Corporation

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• A thought may be very commendable as a thought, but I value it chiefly as a window through which I can obtain insight on the thinker.

  Alexander Smith

  May, Window, Insight

  Alexander Smith (1863). “Dreamthorp: A Book of Essays Written in the Country”, p.190

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• Neutrality in things good or evil is both odious and prejudicial; but in matters of an indifferent nature is safe and commendable. Herein taking of parts maketh sides, and breaketh unity. In an unjust cause of separation, he that favoreth both parts may perhaps have least love of either side, but hath most charity in himself.

  Joseph Hall

  Evil, Unity, Neutrality

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• It struck me that the chief obstacle to marital contentment was this perpetual gulf between the well-founded, commendable pessimism of women and the sheer dumb animal optimism of men, the latter a force more than any other responsible for the lamentable state of the world.

  Michael Chabon

  Animal, Men, Optimism

  Michael Chabon (2011). “Wonder Boys”, p.366, Open Road Media

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• Self-exposure is commendable in art only when it is of a quality and complexity that allows other people to learn about themselves from it.

  Susan Sontag

  Art, Self, People

  Susan Sontag (2013). “Against Interpretation and Other Essays”, p.150, Penguin UK

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• I am among those who believe that our Western civilization is on its way to perishing. It has many commendable qualities, most of which it has borrowed from the Christian ethic, but it lacks the element of moral wisdom that would give it permanence. Future historians will record that we of the twentieth century had intelligence enough to create a great civilization but not the moral wisdom to preserve it.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Christian, Believe, Civilization

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• The confidence that we Indians are suddenly infused with while doing something wrong is absolutely commendable.

  Kailash Kher

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• The pursuit of perfection is frustrating and a waste of time, because nothing is ever perfect.
  The pursuit of excellence is commendable and worthwhile. Therefore strive for excellence not perfection.

  Alan Kulwicki

  Frustration, Perfect, Excellence

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• How many does it take to metamorphose wickedness into righteousness? One man must not kill. If he does, it is murder.... But a state or nation may kill as many as they please, and it is not murder. It is just, necessary, commendable, and right. Only get people enough to agree to it, and the butchery of myriads of human beings is perfectly innocent. But how many does it take?

  Adin Ballou

  Religious, War, Men

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• Ambition is a commendable attribute, without which no man succeeds. Only inconsiderate ambition imperils.

  Warren G. Harding

  Ambition, Men, Presidential

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• Books bend space and time. One reason the owners of those aforesaid little rambling, poky secondhand bookshops always seem slightly unearthly is that many of them really are, having strayed into this world after taking a wrong turning in their own bookshops in worlds where it is considered commendable business practice to wear carpet slippers all the time and open your shop only when you feel like it.

  Terry Pratchett

  Book, Practice, Space

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “Guards! Guards!: (Discworld Novel 8)”, p.100, Random House

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• So-called Western Civilization, as practised in half of Europe, some of Asia and a few parts of North America, is better than anything else available. Western civilization not only provides a bit of life, a pinch of liberty and the occasional pursuance of happiness, it's also the only thing that's ever tried to. Our civilization is the first in history to show even the slightest concern for average, undistinguished, none-too-commendable people like us.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Average, Europe, Civilization

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