Conditions Quotes

• We are the creative force of our life, and through our own decisions rather than our conditions, if we carefully learn to do certain things, we can accomplish those goals.

  Stephen Covey

  Self Esteem, Creativity, Accomplishment

  Interview With Kyra Phillips, www.cnn.com. January 9, 2003.

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• Man is a special being, and if left to himself, in an isolated condition, would be one of the weakest creatures; but associated with his kind, he works wonders.

  Daniel Webster

  Men, Giving, Special

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• God's promises are all on condition of humble obedience.

  Ellen G. White

  Humble, Promise, Obedience

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• Providence has nothing good or high in store for one who does not resolutely aim at something high or good. A purpose is the eternal condition of success.

  Thornton Wilder

  Inspirational, Success, Doe

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• Blind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice. Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition.

  E. O. Wilson

  Science, Religion, Tests

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• Absolute identity with one's cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Inspirational, Leadership, Successful

  Woodrow Wilson, Mario R. DiNunzio (2006). “Woodrow Wilson: Essential Writings and Speeches of the Scholar-president”, p.72, NYU Press

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• Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition, is not only a waste of energy but the worst habit you could possibly have.

  Dale Carnegie

  Success, Sorry, Life And Love

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• You should feel that, under the right conditions, all women would be available.

  Helmut Newton

  Would Be, Should, Feels

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• Hard conditions of life are indispensable to bringing out the best in human personality.

  Alexis Carrel

  Character, Personality, Indispensable

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• If we are to have such a discipline we must have standards, and to get our standards under existing conditions we must have criticism.

  Irving Babbitt

  Discipline, Criticism, Standards

  Irving Babbitt (2005). “On Literature, Cultures, and Religion”, p.114, Transaction Publishers

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• While the law [of competition] may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it insures the survival of the fittest in every department. We accept and welcome, therefore, as conditions to which we must accommodate ourselves, great inequality of environment, the concentration of business, industrial and commercial, in the hands of a few, and the law of competition between these, as being not only beneficial, but essential for the future progress of the race.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Science, Race, Hands

  1889 'The Gospel of Wealth', in the North American Review, Jun.

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• It won't do away with hierarchy totally, but the principal leader will be the person who most exemplifies the kind of organization and behavior required who is best able to create the conditions such organizations require.

  Dee Hock

  Organization, Leader, Hierarchy

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• The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life - knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live.

  Aristotle

  Wise, Wisdom, Men

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• Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health, knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.

  Roger Babson

  Inspirational, Money, Character

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• Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Inspirational, Happiness, Happy

  Thomas Jefferson (2004). “Light and Liberty: Reflections on the Pursuit of Happiness”, p.10, Modern Library

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• You cannot find it anywhere, because it is located inside you... happiness is your natural state.

  Russell Simmons

  Inspirational, Happiness, Happy

  Twitter post from Sep 15, 2016

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• I love existing in pre big bang conditions.

  Joe Rogan

  Bangs, Bigs

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• [With my photographs] you have a [single, forever fixed] moment and my particular angle of vision. My tyrannical condition, as it were, is that I prescribe your vision.

  Thomas Demand

  Forever, Vision, Moments

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• Are we like late Rome, infatuated with past glories, ruled by a complacent, greedy elite, and hopelessly powerless to respond to changing conditions?

  Camille Paglia

  Past, Rome, Hopeless

  "Welcome to the Revolution: Universalizing Resistance for Social Justice and Democracy in Perilous Times". Book by Charles Derber, p. 12, 2017.

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• Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.

  Hannah Arendt

  Women, Thinking, Tyrants

  In W. H. Auden A Certain World (1970) p. 369

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• We shouldn't be saying 'Save the planet'; we should be saying: 'Save viable conditions in which people can live.' That's what we're dealing with here.

  Margaret Atwood

  People, Should, Planets

  "Margaret Atwood interview: 'Go three days without water and you don't have any human rights. Why? Because you're dead'" by Robert McCrum, www.theguardian.com. November 27, 2010.

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• Every successful person I have heard of has done the best he could with the conditions as he found them, and not waited until next year for better.

  E. W. Howe

  Success, Business, Teaching

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• Florence Nightingale was an amazing figure. She created the American Red Cross. She saw the suffering from bad health conditions on the battlefield and in the military hospitals, and she fought like crazy to change the conditions; to make sure that the doctors washed their hands and practiced sanitary measures. She put herself at great risks.

  Sharon Lawrence

  Crazy, Military, Doctors

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Profound sadness is always the result of an unhealthy condition of the body. ... We [should] say, 'I am sad; everything looks black to me; but external events are in no way responsible. It's my body that insists on reasoning. These are the opinions of my stomach.'

  Emile Chartier

  Sadness, Profound, Black

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• I think that laziness in many ways is the human condition, and that's what has led us to this place where, as we've developed technology.

  Nick Offerman

  Technology, Thinking, Laziness

  "Nick Offerman on Parks And Recreation and his comically oversized penis". Interview with Sean O'Neal, www.avclub.com. July 18, 2012.

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