Definite Quotes - Page 10

• Life means to have something definite to do-a mission to fulfill-and in the measure in which we avoid setting our life to something, we make it empty. Human life, by its very nature, has to be dedicated to something.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Life, Mean, Emptiness

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• It concerns us to know the purposes we seek in life, for then, like archers aiming at a definite mark, we shall be more likely to attain what we want.

  Aristotle

  Life, Archer, Purpose

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• True power is not in trying to gain power; true power is in becoming power. But how to become power? It requires an attempt to make a definite change in oneself, and that change is a kind of struggle with one's false self.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Struggle, True Power, Self

  Hazrat Inayat Khan (1960). “The Sufi Message of Hazrat Inayat Khan: The Alchemy of Happiness”, p.18, Library of Alexandria

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• It has long been known that the chemical atomic weight of hydrogen was greater than one-quarter of that of helium, but so long as fractional weights were general there was no particular need to explain this fact, nor could any definite conclusions be drawn from it.

  Francis William Aston

  Long, Needs, Weight

  Nobel Lecture, 1922.

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• Revelation is the first step to holiness, and consecration is the second. A day must come in our lives, as definite as the day of our conversion, when we give up all right to ourselves and submit to the absolute Lordship of Jesus Christ.

  Watchman Nee

  Jesus, Giving Up, Holiness

  Watchman Nee (2009). “The Normal Christian Life”, p.113, CLC Publications

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• Not only do you have to trust the definite, you must also trust the uncertainty.

  Seo Do-young

  Drama, Uncertainty

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• A player can sometimes afford the luxury of an inaccurate move, or even a definite error, in the opening or middlegame without necessarily obtaining a lost position. In the endgame ... an error can be decisive, and we are rarely presented with a second chance.

  Paul Keres

  Moving, Player, Second Chance

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• A tree, young or old, if admired, remains a definite vision, and when after long absence it is visited again, the meeting place is approached with feelings of pleasure and curiosity as to how one's friend had fared, even with thoughts as to what changes may come to tree or visitor since first they met; this may seem like a foolish sentiment - perhaps it is. But, after all, sentiment is mingled with most that's best in life.

  Charles Eley

  Long, Tree, Feelings

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• A stage set should not make a pretty picture of its own. The empty stage should look formal and pleasing, but should seem to be waiting for the action to complete it; it should not hold definite significance in itself.

  G. Wilson Knight

  Waiting, Theatre, Looks

  G. Wilson Knight (2014). “Shakespearian Production”, p.69, Routledge

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• A person of definite character and purpose who comprehends our way of thought is sure to exert power over us. He cannot altogether be resisted; because, if he understands us, he can make us understand him, through the word, the look, or other symbol.

  Charles Horton Cooley

  Character, Looks, Purpose

  Charles Horton Cooley, Hans-Joachim Schubert (1998). “On Self and Social Organization”, p.96, University of Chicago Press

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• The conditions of a solitary bird are five: The first, that it flies to the highest point; The Second, that it does not suffer for company, not even of its own kind; The Third, that it aims its beak to the skies; The Fourth, that it does not have a definite color; The Fifth, that it sings very softly.

  John of the Cross

  Color, Sky, Bird

  Saint John of the Cross, Antonio T. de Nicolas (1996). “San Juan de la Cruz”, p.34, Weiser Books

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• The combination of an individual[i.e., a client] with a positive idea of living and a good designer is the great force in contemporary decoration. I don't care how good the designer is, I am sure that he [or she] would rahter have a person with definite ideas rahter than have to work with a negative figure as a client.

  Van Day Truex

  Ideas, Design, Negative

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• A definite factor in getting a lie believed is the size of the lie. The broad mass of the people, in the simplicity of their hearts, more easily fall victim to a big lie than to a small one.

  Adolf Hitler

  Freedom, Lying, Fall

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• When conscious activity is wholly concentrated on some one definite purpose, the ultimate result, for most people, is lack of balance accompanied by some form of nervous disorder.

  Bertrand Russell

  People, Focus, Balance

  Bertrand Russell (2004). “In Praise of Idleness and Other Essays”, p.22, Psychology Press

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• If the winds of fortune are temporarily blowing against you, remember that you can harness them and make them carry you toward your definite purpose, through the use of your imagination.

  Napoleon Hill

  Wind, Imagination, Purpose

  Napoleon Hill (2008). “The Law of Success: The Master Wealth-Builder's Complete and Original Lesson Plan forAchieving Your Dreams”, p.252, Penguin

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• It is time for the rest of the world to join ... in demanding that ALL the nuclear weapons states -including Israel, India and Pakistan, but above all the US and Russia - negotiate concrete steps on a definite time-table toward the global, inspected abolition of nuclear weapons.

  Daniel Ellsberg

  Russia, Israel, India And Pakistan

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• ....This world needs Utopias as it needs fairy stories. It does not matter so much where we are going, as long as we are making consciously for some definite goal. And a Utopia, however strange or fanciful, is the only possible beacon upon the uncharted seas of the distant future.

  Hendrik Willem van Loon

  Sea, Fairy Stories, Long

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• Winners are people with definite purpose in life.

  Denis Waitley

  People, Purpose, Winner

  Denis Waitley (1996). “Psychology of Success: Developing Your Self-esteem”, McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages

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• Those who wait for God are pilgrim souls that have no tie that will hold them when the definite command is issued; no prejudices that will paralyze their effort when in some strange coming of the light they are commanded to take a pathway entirely different to that which was theirs before; having no interests either temporal or eternal, either material or mental or spiritual, that will conflict with the will of God when that will is made known.

  G. Campbell Morgan

  Spiritual, Light, Ties

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• Although as a sailor I despised politics - for I loved my sailor's life and still love it today - conditions forced me to take up a definite attitude towards political problems.

  Fritz Sauckel

  Attitude, Political, Today

  "Trial of the Major War Criminals Before the International Military Tribunal", Nuremberg, Germany, 1948.

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• Do definite good; first of all to yourself, then to definite persons.

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Firsts, Persons

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• Through experiments over the past few decades physicists have discovered matter to be completely mutable into other particles or energy and vice-versa and on a subatomic level, matter does not exist with certainty in definite places, but rather shows 'tendencies' to exist. Quantum physics is beginning to realise that the Universe appears to be a dynamic web of interconnected and inseparable energy patterns. If the universe is indeed composed of such a web, there is logically no such thing as a part. This implies we are not separated parts of a whole but rather we are the Whole.

  Barbara Brennan

  Past, Discovery, Experience

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• There is a baptism that belongs to Jesus. It is in His supreme control. No angel or man can bestow it. It comes from Him alone. He it is which baptizeth with the Holy Ghost. So the individual who wants the Holy Spirit must come into definite, conscious contact with Jesus Christ Himself.

  John G. Lake

  Jesus, Angel, Men

  "Adventures In God".

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• Freedom does not consist in any dreamt-of independence from natural laws, but in the knowledge of these laws, and in the possibility this gives of systematically making them work towards definite ends.

  Friedrich Engels

  Law, Giving, Independence

  "Anti-Dühring". Book by Frederick Engels, Part I, Chapter XI: "Morality and Law", www.marxists.org. 1877.

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• The transfinite numbers are in a certain sense themselves new irrationalities and in fact in my opinion the best method of defining the finite irrational numbers is wholly disimilar to, and I might even say in priciple the same as, my method described above of introducing trasfinite numbers. One can say unconditionally: the transfinite numbers stand or fall with the finite irrational numbers; they are like each other in their innermost being; for the former like the latter are definite delimited forms or modifications of the actual infinite.

  Georg Cantor

  Fall, Numbers, Finite Number

  "Understanding the Infinite". Book by Shaughan Lavine, 1994.

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