Splendid Quotes

• Give me the splendid, silent sun with all his beams full-dazzling.

  Walt Whitman

  Inspirational, Garden, Giving

  'Give me the splendid silent sun'

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• Be more splendid, more extraordinary. Use every moment to fill yourself up.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Life, Choices, Use

  Oprah Winfrey (2014). “What I Know for Sure”, p.66, Pan Macmillan

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• Do not be afraid of your difficulties.Do not wish you could be in other circumstances than you are. For when you have made the best of an adversity, it becomes the stepping stone to a splendid opportunity.

  H. P. Blavatsky

  Adversity, Opportunity, Wish

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• This is a brief life, but in its brevity it offers us some splendid moments, some meaningful adventures.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Meaningful, Adventure, Moments

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• Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Inspirational, Life, Happy

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• I like to be surrounded by splendid things.

  Freddie Mercury

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• Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is one elementary truth the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, the providence moves too. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one's favour all manner of unforeseen incidents, meetings and material assistance, which no man could have dreamt would have come his way.

  W. H. Murray

  Inspirational, Commitment, Political

  "The Scottish Himalaya Expedition". Book by W. H. Murray, 1951.

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• Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.

  Bruce Barton

  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

  Bruce Barton (1959). “The Man and the Book Nobody Knows”

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• It was a splendid summer morning and it seemed as if nothing could go wrong.

  John Cheever

  Summer, Morning, Ifs

  John Cheever, Blake Bailey (2009). “John Cheever: Collected Stories and Other Writings”

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• The Moon! Artemis! the great goddess of the splendid past of men! Are you going to tell me she is a dead lump?

  D. H. Lawrence

  Past, Moon, Men

  D. H. Lawrence, Mara Kalnins (2002). “Apocalypse and the Writings on Revelation”, p.53, Cambridge University Press

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• There are, as is known, insects that die in the moment of fertilization. So it is with all joy: life's highest, most splendid moment of enjoyment is accompanied by death.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Joy, Moments, Insects

  "Either/or, Vol. 1". Book by Søren Kierkegaard, Howard Vincent Hong, Edna Hatlestad Hong, Princeton University Press, p. 20, 1987.

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• The splendid discontent of God With chaos made the world. And from the discontent of man The worlds best progress springs.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  God, Spring, Men

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1901). “Every-day Thoughts in Prose and Verse”

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• Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative and creation, there is one elementary truth the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in ones favor all manner of unforeseen incidents, meetings and material assistance which no man could have dreamed would have come his way.

  W. H. Murray

  Inspirational, Moving, Commitment

  "The Scottish Himalaya Expedition". Book by W. H. Murray, 1951.

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• But aesthetics is not religion, and the origins of religion lie somewhere completely different. They lie anyway, these roses smell too sweet and the deep roar of the breaking waves is too splendid, to do justice to such weighty matters now.

  Rudolf Otto

  Sweet, Lying, Smell

  Rudolf Otto (1996). “Autobiographical and Social Essays”, p.73, Walter de Gruyter

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• The second office in the government is honorable and easy; the first is but a splendid misery.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Government, Office, Political

  Bernard Mayo, Thomas Jefferson (1988). “Jefferson Himself: The Personal Narrative of a Many-Sided American”, p.199, University of Virginia Press

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• Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Love, Confusion, Vitality

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• One could not count the moons that shimmer on her roofs, Or the thousand splendid suns that hide behind her walls.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Wall, Moon, Sun

  Khaled Hosseini (2008). “A Thousand Splendid Suns”, p.347, A&C Black

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• I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but the living strength and majesty of the Commonwealth and Empire; of societies old and new; of lands and races different in history and origins but all, by God's Will, united in spirit and in aim.

  Queen Elizabeth II

  Race, Years, Land

  Queen Elizabeth II's Speech on her Coronation Day, www.royal.uk. June 2, 1953.

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• 'No comment' is a splendid expression. I am using it again and again.

  Winston Churchill

  Expression, Quiet, Comment

  Winston Churchill (2001). “The Wicked Wit of Winston Churchill”, Michael O'Mara Books

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• The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?

  Pablo Casals

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Country

  "Joys and Sorrows : Reflections‎ by Pablo Casals as told to Albert E. Kahn". Book by Albert E. Kahn, 1974.

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• Marriage can wait, education cannot.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Inspirational, Marriage, School

  Twitter post from Jan 11, 2015

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• Heat is required to forge anything. Every
  great accomplishment is the story of a flaming
  heart.

  Mary Lou Retton

  Heart, Accomplishment, Stories

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• Individual Moslems may show splendid qualities. Thousands become the brave and loyal soldiers of the Queen: all know how to die: but the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it. No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith. It has already spread throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every step; and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science, the science against which it had vainly struggled, the civilisation of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilisation of ancient Rome.

  Winston Churchill

  Strong, Queens, Fall

  "The River War: An Historical Account of the Reconquest of the Soudan (Volume II)". Book by Winston Churchill, 1899.

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• Behind every trial and sorrow that He makes us shoulder, God has a reason.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Sad, Sorrow, Trials

  Khaled Hosseini (2008). “A Thousand Splendid Suns”, p.36, A&C Black

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• This is the true joy in life: Being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one, being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish little clod of ailments and grievances, complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy. I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it what I can. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got hold of for the moment and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Selfish, True Joy, Long

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