In this post, you will find great Find Quotes from famous people, such as LaToya Jackson, George Michael, George Bernard Shaw, Henri Nouwen, Benjamin Franklin. You can learn and implement many lessons from these quotes.
It is so difficult in the world for people to find love, true love.
So convenient a thing it is to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for every thing one has a mind to do.
It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit.
I find humanism to be the most rational and positive philosophy for life. And it’s not a new thing at all – the history of humanist thought is deep and inspiring.
Natural gas is hemispheric. I like to call it hemispheric in nature because it is a product that we can find in our neighborhoods.
Grace is sufficient even though we huff and puff with all our might to try and find something or someone that it cannot cover. Grace is enough.
I find beauty in imperfection.
You aren’t going to find anybody that’s going to be successful without making a sacrifice and without perseverance.
If you have a positive attitude and constantly strive to give your best effort, eventually you will overcome your immediate problems and find you are ready for greater challenges.
Many people know so little about what is beyond their short range of experience. They look within themselves – and find nothing! Therefore they conclude that there is nothing outside themselves either.
All blame is a waste of time. No matter how much fault you find with another, and regardless of how much you blame him, it will not change you. The only thing blame does is to keep the focus off you when you are looking for… reasons to explain your unhappiness or frustration.
I’m curious. Period. I find everything interesting. Real life. Fake life. Objects. Flowers. Cats. But mostly people. If you keep your eyes open and your mind open, everything can be interesting.
Sometimes you can find peace of mind by transferring yourself to different situations. They’re just reminders to stay… calm.
Don’t believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding, find out what you already know, and you’ll see the way to fly.
Though the sex to which I belong is considered weak you will nevertheless find me a rock that bends to no wind.
I believe if religion brings you to a sense of peace, that’s beautiful. But I also believe if religion’s not your thing, that’s fine, too, just so long as you’re a good person and you find that one thing that leads you to peace and teaches you to have harmony with yourself and other people around you.
What’s meant to be will always find a way.
It took me 13 months just to prepare for ‘M.S. Dhoni’… I started by watching every single video I could find of his, repeatedly. After three months, people who met me started saying that they could see similarities, and I knew I was on the right path.
We can be tired, weary and emotionally distraught, but after spending time alone with God, we find that He injects into our bodies energy, power and strength.
A lot of people like to do certain things, but they’re not that good at it. Keep going through the things that you like to do, until you find something that you actually seem to be extremely good at. It can be anything.
Lead me not into temptation; I can find the way myself.
Only one thing is impossible for God: To find any sense in any copyright law on the planet.
No matter what you’re going through, there’s a light at the end of the tunnel and it may seem hard to get to it but you can do it and just keep working towards it and you’ll find the positive side of things.
Find the autonomy in your work. Autonomy is key to feeling good about the work you do, no matter what kind of work it is.
Your problem is how you are going to spend this one odd and precious life you have been issued. Whether you’re going to spend it trying to look good and creating the illusion that you have power over people and circumstances, or whether you are going to taste it, enjoy it and find out the truth about who you are.
I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself. For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition.
Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.
Basically, if you go looking for trouble, it’ll come find you.
The original ‘Hobbit‘ was never intended to have a sequel – Bilbo ‘remained very happy to the end of his days and those were extraordinarily long’: a sentence I find an almost insuperable obstacle to a satisfactory link.
Find joy in everything you choose to do. Every job, relationship, home… it’s your responsibility to love it, or change it.
The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.
I have a personal philosophy in life: If somebody else can do something that I’m doing, they should do it. And what I want to do is find things that would represent a unique contribution to the world – the contribution that only I, and my portfolio of talents, can make happen. Those are my priorities in life.
Florence is charming, cozy, beautiful, inspiring – it has so many great places to go to and so many unique things to see that you won’t find anywhere else!
It may be that the satisfaction I need depends on my going away, so that when I’ve gone and come back, I’ll find it at home.
We control the world basically because we are the only animals that can cooperate flexibly in very large numbers. And if you examine any large-scale human cooperation, you will always find that it is based on some fiction like the nation, like money, like human rights.
For every failure, there’s an alternative course of action. You just have to find it. When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.
The clear and present danger of climate change means we cannot burn our way to prosperity. We already rely too heavily on fossil fuels. We need to find a new, sustainable path to the future we want. We need a clean industrial revolution.
Just because we can’t find a solution it doesn’t mean that there isn’t one.
Open your refrigerator, your freezer, your kitchen cupboards, and look at the labels on your food. You’ll find ‘natural flavor‘ or ‘artificial flavor’ in just about every list of ingredients. The similarities between these two broad categories are far more significant than the differences.
Poetry and beauty are always making peace. When you read something beautiful you find coexistence; it breaks walls down.
People can hate on you for doing what it is that makes you happy, but ultimately, it has to belong to you. It shouldn’t matter what anyone else thinks. Life is not easy. The road to happiness is not a path well trotted. You have to find your own path to enlightenment.
You just have to find that thing that’s special about you that distinguishes you from all the others, and through true talent, hard work, and passion, anything can happen.
When you know what you want, and want it bad enough, you will find a way to get it.
If you carefully consider what you want to be said of you in the funeral experience, you will find your definition of success.
It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.
Here’s the thing with me and the religious thing. This is the flat-out truth: I find the religiosity and philosophy in the music. I don’t find it anywhere else.
I think diamonds represent luxury, indulgence, and class. So any time you can incorporate a gift that is synonymous with all those attributes, you know the other person will love it. I would challenge someone to find something that better represents Valentine’s Day more than diamonds!
Find new ways to spread the word of God to every corner of the world.
We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.
If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.
Computer science inverts the normal. In normal science, you’re given a world, and your job is to find out the rules. In computer science, you give the computer the rules, and it creates the world.
We are in the society of the teacher-judge, the doctor-judge, the educator-judge, the ‘social-worker’-judge; it is on them that the universal reign of the normative is based; and each individual, wherever he may find himself, subjects to it his body, his gestures, his behavior, his aptitudes, his achievements.
I see dance being used as communication between body and soul, to express what it too deep to find for words.
Whoever doesn’t know it must learn and find by experience that ‘a quiet conscience makes one strong!’
It’s kind of a rule of thumb for me to self-doubt going into any kind of project. I always think that I shouldn’t be doing it and I don’t know how to do it and I’m going to fail and that I fooled them. I always try to find a way out.
When I’m playing, I’m never through. It’s unfinished. I like to find a place to leave for someone else to finish it. That’s where the high comes in.
I have no plan. I will leave it to the good things and good times to find me.
I want to always find new ways of reinventing myself.
I find it difficult to watch myself… I find it boring.
I believe that when you do what you love, you find higher levels of satisfaction that can compensate for lower income.
It is another’s fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.
You cannot find peace by avoiding life.
To be successful you have to be lucky, or a little mad, or very talented, or find yourself in a rapid growth field.
I must say I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a good book.
If you can find something everyone agrees on, it’s wrong.
To live is to find out for yourself what is true, and you can do this only when there is freedom, when there is continuous revolution inwardly, within yourself.
One way or another, we all have to find what best fosters the flowering of our humanity in this contemporary life, and dedicate ourselves to that.
It’s very hard to find your own words – and you don’t actually exist until you have your own words.
Those who find beauty in all of nature will find themselves at one with the secrets of life itself.
I am sometimes sad when I hear the personal stories of Tibetan refugees who have been tortured or beaten. Some irritation, some anger comes. But it never lasts long. I always try to think at a deeper level, to find ways to console.
Curiosity is the essence of human existence. ‘Who are we? Where are we? Where do we come from? Where are we going?’… I don’t know. I don’t have any answers to those questions. I don’t know what’s over there around the corner. But I want to find out.
To me, movies and music go hand in hand. When I’m writing a script, one of the first things I do is find the music I’m going to play for the opening sequence.
The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all.
Great artists are people who find the way to be themselves in their art. Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike.
They would not find me changed from him they knew – only more sure of all I thought was true.
The only solutions that are ever worth anything are the solutions that people find themselves.
I find the whole business of religion profoundly interesting. But it does mystify me that otherwise intelligent people take it seriously.
A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault.
Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by others.
I can find God in nature, in animals, in birds and the environment.
I place a high moral value on the way people behave. I find it repellent to have a lot, and to behave with anything other than courtesy in the old sense of the word – politeness of the heart, a gentleness of the spirit.
More and more, as I grow older, I find myself looking for inspiration in painting, illustration, videogames, and old movies.
I really don’t think in the past. I sit down with many friends at dinner, and they like to talk about the good old days. I’m respectful of the good old days, but I find myself spending very little time reminiscing. I’m really looking forward.
Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.
You have to find it. No one else can find it for you.
The way through the world is more difficult to find than the way beyond it.
I find only freedom in the realms of eccentricity.
When we find something new at Giza, we announce it to the world. The Sphinx and the Pyramids are world treasures. We are the guardian‘s of these treasures, but they belong to the world.
We are able to find everything in our memory, which is like a dispensary or chemical laboratory in which chance steers our hand sometimes to a soothing drug and sometimes to a dangerous poison.
I’ll tell you sort of an odd story: My music taste changed on 9/11. And it’s very strange. I actually intellectually find this very curious. But on 9/11, I didn’t like how rock music responded. And country music collectively, the way they responded, it resonated with me.
I know that in life there will be sickness, devastation, disappointments, heartache – it’s a given. What’s not a given is the way you choose to get through it all. If you look hard enough, you can always find the bright side.
You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.
Networking is all about connecting with people. But then again, isn’t that what life is about? The more time you can find to get out of the office and build true friendships, the farther your startup will go. Entrepreneurs need to remember to spend as much time working on their business as they do in their business.
Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.
The best way to find out whether you’re on the right path? Stop looking at the path.
One of the greatest gifts a parent can give a child is to help them find their talents.
If you spend five minutes with your worst enemy – it doesn’t have to be about race, it could be about anything… you will find that you both have something in common. As you build upon those commonalities, you’re forming a relationship and as you build about that relationship, you’re forming a friendship.
There have to be reasons that you get up in the morning and you want to live. Why do you want to live? What’s the point? What inspires you? What do you love about the future? If the future does not include being out there among the stars and being a multi-planet species, I find that incredibly depressing.
Seek not greatness, but seek truth and you will find both.
You will find me standing up to my rack, as the people’s faithful representative, and the public’s most obedient, very humble servant.
A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man.
I didn’t find Jesus. He’s been there the whole time.
I think every girl’s dream is to find a bad boy at the right time, when he wants to not be bad anymore.
I live on an island, and it’s difficult to find.
The best thing to do when you find yourself in a hurting or vulnerable place is to surround yourself with the strongest, finest, most positive people you know.
History is not everything, but it is a starting point. History is a clock that people use to tell their political and cultural time of day. It is a compass they use to find themselves on the map of human geography. It tells them where they are but, more importantly, what they must be.
Living alone makes it harder to find someone to blame.
Where can you look in your daily life and find ways to do it better, to be more thoughtful of the Earth, to be more thoughtful of people?
Music is like a conversation. One person says one thing that speaks with a harmonica, with a bass, with a drum. They’re all conversating, and we’re just trying to find a way to make conversation rather than blah, blah, blah. But it’s not really so hard a thing to do if you know the way to approach it.
People often say that ‘beauty is in the eye of the beholder,’ and I say that the most liberating thing about beauty is realizing that you are the beholder. This empowers us to find beauty in places where others have not dared to look, including inside ourselves.
Am I a liberal or conservative? I’m neither. Like most Americans, I find politics very frustrating. Like most Americans, I’d like to hear from politicians the facts. That is what drives me.
Federalism is no longer the fault line of Centre-State relations but the definition of a new partnership of Team India. Citizens now have the ease of trust, not the burden of proof and process. Businesses find an environment that is open and easy to work in.
Everybody’s a mad scientist, and life is their lab. We’re all trying to experiment to find a way to live, to solve problems, to fend off madness and chaos.
It was like I was in a tunnel. Not only the tunnel under the hotel but the whole circuit was a tunnel. I was just going and going, more and more and more and more. I was way over the limit but still able to find even more.
As you navigate through the rest of your life, be open to collaboration. Other people and other people’s ideas are often better than your own. Find a group of people who challenge and inspire you, spend a lot of time with them, and it will change your life.
No matter what kind of challenges or difficulties or painful situations you go through in your life, we all have something deep within us that we can reach down and find the inner strength to get through them.
The true mark of professionalism is the ability to respect everyone else for their styles and always find something positive in every dining experience and highlight it in your thoughts and words.
If you want to change the world, find someone to help you paddle.
Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.
If you want to do something, you find a way.
I must confess that I lead a miserable life. For almost two years, I have ceased to attend any social functions, just because I find it impossible to say to people, ‘I am deaf.’ If I had any other profession, I might be able to cope with my infirmity; but in my profession, it is a terrible handicap.
You can have all the gun control laws in the country, but if you don’t enforce them, people are going to find a way to protect themselves. We need to recognize that bad people are doing bad things with these weapons. It’s not the law-abiding citizens, it’s not the person who uses it as a hobby.
When I wrote the lyrics, melodies, and the first themes of ‘Serendipity,’ I tried to come up with some rare things you find in life, something very special, like the calico, three-striped cat; things that have extraordinary meanings in people’s lives.
The hardest thing to find in life is balance – especially the more success you have, the more you look to the other side of the gate. What do I need to stay grounded, in touch, in love, connected, emotionally balanced? Look within yourself.
Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.
If you are vigilant and make a stern effort to reject every thought when it rises, you will soon find that you are going deeper and deeper into your own inner self, where there is no need for your effort to reject the thoughts.
It’s better to use a curse word than to hurt somebody else, I find.
How delightful to find a friend in everyone.
I think bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are great ideas. They should be allowed to be traded freely and used freely to find their appropriate role in the economy.
If you want to go somewhere, it is best to find someone who has already been there.
Circumstantial evidence is occasionally very convincing, as when you find a trout in the milk, to quote Thoreau’s example.
My attitudes have changed, but somebody would have to read all my books to find out how they have.
Bad people doing bad things is not interesting. What I find interesting is good people doing bad things.
I think that’s the most beautiful thing about being confident – just loving yourself, not caring what everybody else thinks. Because you could be Mother Theresa, and people are still going to try to find some imperfection.
I gave up my struggle with perfection a long time ago. That is a concept I don’t find very interesting anymore. Everyone just wants to look good in the photographs. I think that is where some of the pressure comes from. Be happy. Be yourself, the day is about a lot more.
Go after what you really love and find a way to make that work for you, and then you’ll be a happy person.
You can always find the sun within yourself if you will only search.
What we need is not the will to believe, but the wish to find out.
You can be discouraged by failure, or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes, make all you can. Because, remember that’s where you’ll find success – on the far side of failure.
If at first you don’t succeed, find out if the loser gets anything.
You will find peace not by trying to escape your problems, but by confronting them courageously. You will find peace not in denial, but in victory.
I have a strong belief in God… I find religion to be a very personal thing… I am also very spiritual.
Your fortune is not something to find but to unfold.
Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.
Labor disgraces no man; unfortunately, you occasionally find men who disgrace labor.
We’re never so vulnerable than when we trust someone – but paradoxically, if we cannot trust, neither can we find love or joy.
I’m left-handed, and it’s not very easy to find reasonably priced, high-quality left-handed guitars. But out of all the guitars in the whole world, the Fender Mustang is my favorite. I’ve only owned two of them.
Magnanimous people have no vanity, they have no jealousy, and they feed on the true and the solid wherever they find it. And, what is more, they find it everywhere.
To find a man’s true character, play golf with him.
I’m going to get an MRI to find out whether I have claustrophobia.
The best doctor is the one you run to and can’t find.
I kinda live where I find myself.
You’ve got to invest in the world, you’ve got to read, you’ve got to go to art galleries, you’ve got to find out the names of plants. You’ve got to start to love the world and know about the whole genius of the human race. We’re amazing people.
My lyrics aren’t offensive. Some people find everything offensive.
What attracted me to Jimmy Bulger were the various facets of his personality and his humanity because I felt that the only way I could approach playing a character like him was to find his human side first and then map that out to see where it took the turn. He was a very complicated man.
Instead of getting married again, I’m going to find a woman I don’t like and just give her a house.
No person, no place, and no thing has any power over us, for ‘we’ are the only thinkers in our mind. When we create peace and harmony and balance in our minds, we will find it in our lives.
The events in our lives happen in a sequence in time, but in their significance to ourselves they find their own order the continuous thread of revelation.
I’ve realized through the years that I just find happiness in other things, whether it’s my dogs or my friends or, like, looking at the sunset. So if I were to wish for something else, it would just to be happy all the time, to have a superpower of not letting things affect me, and to be true to who I am, always.
One must look for one thing only, to find many.
I like gardening – it’s a place where I find myself when I need to lose myself.
Find out who you are and be that person. That’s what your soul was put on this Earth to be. Find that truth, live that truth and everything else will come.
Nothing would be done at all if one waited until one could do it so well that no one could find fault with it.
In contradiction and paradox, you can find truth.
Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.
If man does find the solution for world peace it will be the most revolutionary reversal of his record we have ever known.
Well I do find the beauty in animals. I find beauty everywhere. I find beauty in my garden.
It’s important to find your tribe.
The heart and soul of good writing is research; you should write not what you know but what you can find out about.
Everything’s got a moral, if only you can find it.
The beautiful part of writing is that you don’t have to get it right the first time, unlike, say, a brain surgeon. You can always do it better, find the exact word, the apt phrase, the leaping simile.
For me, I like to be different. I didn’t want to imitate another wrestler. I always try to find something from other genres, like movies, books, art, and musicals. That’s how I made my style.
When you find peace within yourself, you become the kind of person who can live at peace with others.
We should have a State in which we could live and breathe as free men and which we could develop according to our own lights and culture and where principles of Islamic social justice could find free play.
Man, so long as he remains free, has no more constant and agonizing anxiety than find as quickly as possible someone to worship.
Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.
Whoever marries the spirit of this age will find himself a widower in the next.
In less than a hundred years, we have found a new way to think of ourselves. From sitting at the center of the universe, we now find ourselves orbiting an average-sized sun, which is just one of millions of stars in our own Milky Way galaxy.
Nothing is worse than a beautiful girl fishing for compliments by saying how gross she is. On the flip side, I find genuine humility and modesty attractive.
We really have the power to illuminate all negative things in our life, but we have to find that light source inside of us and really tap in with it and reconnect with it.
I think my whole identity is formed around not knowing where I’m from. It might even be that I find comfort in that confusion.
Time travel and teleportation will have to wait. It may take centuries to master these technology. But within the coming decades, we will understand dark matter, perhaps test string theory, find planets which can harbor life, and maybe have Brain 2.0, i.e. our consciousness on a disk which will survive even after we die.
The secret of happiness is: Find something more important than you are and dedicate your life to it.
A lot of times I find that people who are blessed with the most talent don’t ever develop that attitude, and the ones who aren’t blessed in that way are the most competitive and have the biggest heart.
One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn’t do.
I think I have an inner confidence that my tastes are pretty simple, that what I find funny finds a wide audience. I’m not particularly intellectual or clever or minority-focused in my creative instincts. And I’m certainly not aware of suppressing more sophisticated ambitions.
Modernism was born in part out of the need to find fresh ways of expression, to describe a new world that was unlike anything that had gone before.
I used to find that I could get mental serenity surrounded by chaos.
The best place to find God is in a garden. You can dig for him there.
The Tao teaches us to let go of things. Use the 80/20 rule. If you take all your clothes, you’ll find out that you only wear 20 percent of them. Take what you have and don’t use and circulate it. Give stuff to people who truly need it. After all, we come into this world with nothing; we leave this world with nothing.
There’s a way to do it better – find it.
One way or the other, if you want to find reasons why you shouldn’t keep on, you’ll find ’em. The obstacles are all there; there are a million of ’em.
The older I get the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first. A process which often reduces the most complex human problem to a manageable proportion.
I just always wanted to study human behavior because every psychologist that I would talk to would tell me I was bipolar, and I know I’m not bipolar, so I had to perform a psychoanalysis on myself to find out that I have unresolved grief.
There is no better way to manage than by walking around. Autocracy doesn’t work. Talk to people in their offices, find out what’s on their minds.
Myths can’t be translated as they did in their ancient soil. We can only find our own meaning in our own time.
I always find beauty in things that are odd and imperfect – they are much more interesting.
Baseball is a game based on adversity. It’s a game that’s going to test you repeatedly. It’s going to find your weaknesses and vulnerabilities and force you to adjust. That adversity, in the big picture, is a really good thing because it shows you where your weaknesses are. It gives you the opportunity to improve.
A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune’s inequality exhibits under this sun.
Find out who you are. And do it on purpose.
I have found you an argument; I am not obliged to find you an understanding.
The people recognize themselves in their commodities; they find their soul in their automobile, hi-fi set, split-level home, kitchen equipment.
Find your voice and inspire others to find theirs.
Find people who will make you better.
Fate will find a way.
The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique.
It is important to feel the anger without judging it, without attempting to find meaning in it. It may take many forms: anger at the health-care system, at life, at your loved one for leaving. Life is unfair. Death is unfair. Anger is a natural reaction to the unfairness of loss.
It’s not possible to experience constant euphoria, but if you’re grateful, you can find happiness in everything.
Pitch me outside, I will hit .400. Pitch me inside, and you will not find the ball.
Work, look for peace and calm in work: you will find it nowhere else.
We define family in many different ways: not just by blood but by people with whom we find a common ground and a common bond.
Whenever you go to Kashmir, you find people who are very gentle and soft-spoken.
Find something that you’re really interested in doing in your life. Pursue it, set goals, and commit yourself to excellence. Do the best you can.
The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.
I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating… because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition.
I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.
If you live in the elite world of dance, you find yourself in a world rife with racism. Let’s face it.
We are biological creatures. We are born, we live, we die. There is no transcendent purpose to existence. At best we are creatures of reason, and by using reason we can cure ourselves of emotional excess. Purged of both hope and fear, we find courage in the face of helplessness, insignificance and uncertainty.
The biggest thing is the heart. If you find the heart in what you do, if it’s stage work, set work, modeling, you find the heart of it, that’s where the truth actually stems from. Our true personality shines from within.
If we knew each other’s secrets, what comforts we should find.
One can find women who have never had one love affair, but it is rare indeed to find any who have had only one.
It is rare to find a business partner who is selfless. If you are lucky it happens once in a lifetime.
You know people talk about federal money as if it falls from heaven. You know we thank heaven for it, but it came out of people’s pockets – and I’ve driven all over Washington, D.C., I cannot find the money tree.
To be always intending to make a new and better life but never to find time to set about it is as to put off eating and drinking and sleeping from one day to the next until you’re dead.
I’m more comfortable writing traditional protagonists. But ‘Steve Jobs‘ and ‘The Social Network’ have antiheroes. I like to write antiheroes as if they’re making their case to God about why they should be allowed into heaven. I have to find something in that character that is like me and write to that.
Isn’t it the moment of most profound doubt that gives birth to new certainties? Perhaps hopelessness is the very soil that nourishes human hope; perhaps one could never find sense in life without first experiencing its absurdity.
There is never going to be a substitute for face-to-face communication, but we have seen since the alphabet, to the telephone and now the Internet, that whenever people find a new way to communicate, they will flock to it.
Let us begin by committing ourselves to the truth to see it like it is, and tell it like it is, to find the truth, to speak the truth, and to live the truth.
Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong.
Thrift shopping is all about going into the thrift shop and having no expectation of what you might find.
I’m always thinking about creating. My future starts when I wake up every morning… Every day I find something creative to do with my life.
When you are asked if you can do a job, tell ’em, ‘Certainly I can!’ Then get busy and find out how to do it.
No man ever achieved worth-while success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure.
One of the things that has to be faced is the process of waiting to change the system, how much we have got to do to find out who we are, where we have come from and where we are going.
One of the many interesting and surprising experiences of the beginner in child analysis is to find in even very young children a capacity for insight which is often far greater than that of adults.
If you do not expect the unexpected you will not find it, for it is not to be reached by search or trail.
Where can we go to find God if we cannot see Him in our own hearts and in every living being.
Give light and people will find the way.
Instead of getting married again, I’m going to find a woman I don’t like and give her a house.
The beauty comes with the balance. Everyone should find his own balance in his personal as well as his professional life. Once you do so, you will feel and look beautiful.
In the last analysis, the individual person is responsible for living his own life and for ‘finding himself.’ If he persists in shifting his responsibility to somebody else, he fails to find out the meaning of his own existence.
In getting older, I find myself becoming progressively more ineffectual in a lot of different ways, and part of that is down to no longer having the youthful feeling that what you’re doing has any true impact.
It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one’s life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than ‘try to be a little kinder.’
All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner.
Either I will find a way, or I will make one.
You only find what you are looking for, really, if the truth be known.
It was on my fifth birthday that Papa put his hand on my shoulder and said, ‘Remember, my son, if you ever need a helping hand, you’ll find one at the end of your arm.’
O sweet, delusive Noon, Which the morning climbs to find, O moment sped too soon, And morning left behind.
Marriage is miserable unless you find the right person that is your soulmate and that takes a lot of looking.
I don’t talk to old people; they try to find ways to stay static. Young folks are the ones with the ideas and constantly moving forward.
Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they find?
Where can I find a man who has forgotten words so I can have a word with him?
To find a prince, you gotta kiss some toads.
Marriage is the most natural state of man, and… the state in which you will find solid happiness.
For a beginner, find a trainer that you trust and set some goals.
Every time you think of a city, you have to think green, green, green. Every time you see concrete jungle, you must find open spaces. And when you find open spaces, make it so people can get to them.
The most amazing thing is when you find yourself watching someone in the cafe or something doing something weird. It’s amazing what people do, isn’t it, when you just look at them, when you take the time to look.
Take all the courses in your curriculum. Do the research. Ask questions. Find someone doing what you are interested in! Be curious!
My story of success and failure is not just about music and being famous. It’s about living and loving and trying to find purpose in this crazy world.
A certain number of people seek power over other people in a desperate attempt to find themselves. They fail, for self-discovery is spiritual in nature, not social or political. Authoritatively telling other people what to do is their distraction from an inner emptiness they can never fill.
I am politically incorrect, that’s true. Political correctness to me is just intellectual terrorism. I find that really scary, and I won’t be intimidated into changing my mind. Everyone isn’t going to love you all the time.
Don’t keep a man guessing too long – he’s sure to find the answer somewhere else.
I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself.
It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory.
A lot of people quit looking for work as soon as they find a job.
I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
I don’t want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.
To find fault is easy; to do better may be difficult.
Don’t look at someone else and want to be them. Search within yourself and find out who you are and be someone positive.
I will always find a way to find a positive from things.
Everywhere I go I find that a poet has been there before me.
The more we are filled with thoughts of lust the less we find true romantic love.
Sometimes you’re trying your best and you still can’t find a solution, but I try not to waste my life living in a dark place.
The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on.
If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.
It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility; they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.
I usually find myself hiking in a place that not a lot of people go hiking, just trying to find some solitude. I like being out in the middle of nowhere. Not always, but it’s a good place to go to just reflect and think, and it’s something I really enjoy.
I find beauty in the grotesque, like most artists.
Being a philosopher is to think, seek wisdom, and have principles that guide and influence what you do. It’s to give meaning to things, find your way in the world, believe that in the end, in every instance, good will overcome evil, even if there’s a bit of suffering along the way.
The solution as consumers is – perhaps surprisingly – to take adverts very, very seriously. We should ask ourselves what it is that we find lovely in them – the visions of friendship, togetherness, repose, or whatever. And then consider what would actually help us find these qualities in our lives.
Find your place on the planet. Dig in, and take responsibility from there.
If we could just find out who’s in charge, we could kill him.
A lot of people think that addiction is a choice. A lot of people think it’s a matter of will. That has not been my experience. I don’t find it to have anything to do with strength.
When we recall the past, we usually find that it is the simplest things – not the great occasions – that in retrospect give off the greatest glow of happiness.
Heaven finds an ear when sinners find a tongue.
To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one’s family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one’s own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.
Globalization has changed us into a company that searches the world, not just to sell or to source, but to find intellectual capital – the world’s best talents and greatest ideas.
He who seeks does not find, but he who does not seek will be found.
I think everyone is ticklish. You just gotta find the right spots.
You learn about equality in history and civics, but you find out life is not really like that.
We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature – trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence… We need silence to be able to touch souls.
What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite.
I am trying to find myself. Sometimes that’s not easy.
I find that the best way to do things is to constantly move forward and to never doubt anything and keep moving forward, if you make a mistake say you made a mistake.
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
I find that music makes people just sit and listen, firstly. Then, they seem to interpret their own emotions with the music and it makes them ponder their own life a lot. And then they start to question: Am I happy in my work? Am I happy in my relationships? What am I striving for?
Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think.
If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.
Everywhere I go I find that people… both leaders and individuals… are asking one basic question, ‘Is there any hope for the future?’ My answer is the same, ‘Yes, through Jesus Christ.’
Healing takes courage, and we all have courage, even if we have to dig a little to find it.
The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can’t find them, make them.
The lover of life makes the whole world into his family, just as the lover of the fair sex creates his from all the lovely women he has found, from those that could be found, and those who are impossible to find.
A wise ruler, when he makes his laws, is bound to find himself in conflict with the world.
Inspiration is hard to come by. You have to take it where you find it.
Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.
If you love someone truly, just look into her eyes. You will find your soul in her.
Get up early and go to the local produce markets. In Latin America and Asia, those are usually great places to find delicious food stalls serving cheap, authentic and fresh specialties.
I rise to taste the dawn, and find that love alone will shine today.
I tried to find a solution to the problem that I had, tried to find a way to start playing better.
I’m happy being myself, which I’ve never been before. I always hid in other people, or tried to find myself through the characters, or live out their lives, but I didn’t have those things in mine.
We hear only those questions for which we are in a position to find answers.
The best marriages are the ones where we can go out in the world and really put ourselves out there. A lot of times we’ll fail, and sometimes we’ll pull it off. But good marriages are when you can go home and know that your vulnerability will be honored as courage, and that you’ll find support.
Wicked people are always surprised to find ability in those that are good.
I’ve always followed my heart and pursued my dreams, and I imagine that people find that inspiring. I hope that is the effect I have on my fans and people in general. I definitely want to project a positive energy out into the world.
When a man comes to me for advice, I find out the kind of advice he wants, and I give it to him.
I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
We find comfort among those who agree with us – growth among those who don’t.
If everybody is doing it one way, there’s a good chance you can find your niche by going exactly in the opposite direction.
What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?
We all strive for balance, often moving to extremes to find ourselves somewhere in the middle where we can sustainably exist in optimal inspiration. Working toward balance takes a lot of ingredients. We need courage, reflection, attention, action, and a push-and-pull relationship between effort and relaxation.
It must not be forgotten in fairness to the National Government that apartheid is not just a policy of oppression but an attempt – in my opinion an attempt doomed to failure – to find an alternative to a policy of racial integration which is fair to both white and black.
I find, in being black, a thing of beauty: a joy; a strength; a secret cup of gladness.
To find out your real opinion of someone, judge the impression you have when you first see a letter from them.
You find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.
One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived.
By polluting clear water with slime you will never find good drinking water.
Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.
I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.
I’ve been heartbroken. I’ve broken hearts. That’s part of life, and its part of figuring out who you are so you can find the right partner.
Generation Alpha has very different expectations for the entire world. Everything that’s going to happen in their lives needs to be visual, on demand, adaptive, in demand, and we have to find a way to embed that into our toy experiences.
It’s in responsibility that most people find the meaning that sustains them through life. It’s not in happiness. It’s not in impulsive pleasure.
It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.
When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.
I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn’t, than live as if there isn’t and to die to find out that there is.
The World Trade Center is a living symbol of man’s dedication to world peace… a representation of man’s belief in humanity, his need for individual dignity, his beliefs in the cooperation of men, and, through cooperation, his ability to find greatness.
Dishonesty is all about the small acts we can take and then think, ‘No, this not real cheating.’ So if you think that the main mechanism is rationalization, then what you come up with, and that’s what we find, is that we’re basically trying to balance feeling good about ourselves.
Anybody who succeeds is helping people. The secret to success is find a need and fill it; find a hurt and heal it; find a problem and solve it.
Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.
Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength.
If you want to be successful, find someone who has achieved the results you want and copy what they do and you’ll achieve the same results.
Where ever I am I always find myself looking out the window wishing I was somewhere else.
Seek not good from without: seek it within yourselves, or you will never find it.
