In this post, you will find great Without Quotes from famous people, such as Vincent Van Gogh, Shunryu Suzuki, Stephen Hawking, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Helen Keller. You can learn and implement many lessons from these quotes.
Without accepting the fact that everything changes, we cannot find perfect composure. But unfortunately, although it is true, it is difficult for us to accept it. Because we cannot accept the truth of transience, we suffer.
Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourses of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.
Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both.
Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.
Any man worth his salt will stick up for what he believes right, but it takes a slightly better man to acknowledge instantly and without reservation that he is in error.
Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.
A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It’s jolted by every pebble on the road.
Without discipline, there’s no life at all.
Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.
One isn’t necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can’t be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.
Loneliness is my least favorite thing about life. The thing that I’m most worried about is just being alone without anybody to care for or someone who will care for me.
Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what’s going to happen next.
The relationship between commitment and doubt is by no means an antagonistic one. Commitment is healthiest when it’s not without doubt but in spite of doubt.
Without rain, there is no life.
One man with a gun can control 100 without one.
Good can exist without evil, whereas evil cannot exist without good.
I’m obsessed with insects, particularly insect flight. I think the evolution of insect flight is perhaps one of the most important events in the history of life. Without insects, there’d be no flowering plants. Without flowering plants, there would be no clever, fruit-eating primates giving TED Talks.
Hate and force cannot be in just a part of the world without having an effect on the rest of it.
Without mathematics, there’s nothing you can do. Everything around you is mathematics. Everything around you is numbers.
If you want to succeed at any job, make yourself invaluable. Go the extra mile; make them never be able to imagine what life without you there would be like.
It is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.
Religion without morality is a superstition and a curse, and morality without religion is impossible.
Without education, your children can never really meet the challenges they will face. So it’s very important to give children education and explain that they should play a role for their country.
Self-awareness is the ability to take an honest look at your life without any attachment to it being right or wrong, good or bad.
Without tenderness, a man is uninteresting.
Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.
Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.
Life cannot be without relationship, but we have made it so agonizing and hideous by basing it on personal and possessive love. Can one love and yet not possess? You will find the true answer not in escape, ideals, beliefs but through the understanding of the causes of dependence and possessiveness.
The greatest sin is judgment without knowledge.
Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.
There is no love without forgiveness, and there is no forgiveness without love.
A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.
Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold.
People who talk about revolution and class struggle without referring explicitly to everyday life, without understanding what is subversive about love and what is positive in the refusal of constraints, such people have a corpse in their mouth.
I more fear what is within me than what comes from without.
Women, can’t live with them, can’t live without them.
It’s surprising how many persons go through life without ever recognizing that their feelings toward other people are largely determined by their feelings toward themselves, and if you’re not comfortable within yourself, you can’t be comfortable with others.
The triumph can’t be had without the struggle.
Globalisation has made us more vulnerable. It creates a world without borders, and makes us painfully aware of the limitations of our present instruments, and of politics, to meet its challenges.
Courage – you develop courage by doing small things like just as if you wouldn’t want to pick up a 100-pound weight without preparing yourself.
Without translation, I would be limited to the borders of my own country. The translator is my most important ally. He introduces me to the world.
Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.
The human mind is capable of excitement without the application of gross and violent stimulants; and he must have a very faint perception of its beauty and dignity who does not know this.
We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.
Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it. The meaning of life is whatever you ascribe it to be. Being alive is the meaning.
Caesar was a man of great common sense and good taste, meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.
The most obvious characteristic of science is its application: the fact that, as a consequence of science, one has a power to do things. And the effect this power has had need hardly be mentioned. The whole industrial revolution would almost have been impossible without the development of science.
The Indians on board said that thence to Cuba was a voyage in their canoes of a day and a half; these being small dug-outs without a sail. Such are their canoes. I departed thence for Cuba, for by the signs the Indians made of its greatness, and of its gold and pearls, I thought that it must be Cipango.
Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity.
Our world is evolving without consideration, and the result is a loss of biodiversity, energy issues, congestion in cities. But geography, if used correctly, can be used to redesign sustainable and more livable cities.
I wish I had a twin, so I could know what I’d look like without plastic surgery.
Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction.
Without a moral framework, there is nothing left but immediate self-indulgence by some and the path of least resistance by others. Neither can sustain a free society.
I believe that without memories there is no life, and that our memories should be of happy times.
Let the one among you who is without sin be the first to cast a stone.
The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.
Ability is nothing without opportunity.
I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope, For hope would be hope for the wrong thing.
The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.
Agriculture is not crop production as popular belief holds – it’s the production of food and fiber from the world’s land and waters. Without agriculture it is not possible to have a city, stock market, banks, university, church or army. Agriculture is the foundation of civilization and any stable economy.
The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.
You cannot achieve environmental security and human development without addressing the basic issues of health and nutrition.
You can’t forgive without loving. And I don’t mean sentimentality. I don’t mean mush. I mean having enough courage to stand up and say, ‘I forgive. I’m finished with it.’
Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom – and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech.
It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.
When you look at the sun during your walking meditation, the mindfulness of the body helps you to see that the sun is in you; without the sun there is no life at all and suddenly you get in touch with the sun in a different way.
Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.
Without electricity, the air would rot.
Art is the window to man’s soul. Without it, he would never be able to see beyond his immediate world; nor could the world see the man within.
A king without power is an absurdity.
No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude.
Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.
A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.
There can be neither today without yesterday nor tomorrow without today.
To injure an opponent is to injure yourself. To control aggression without inflicting injury is the Art of Peace.
I just don’t want to die without a few scars.
The main foundations of every state, new states as well as ancient or composite ones, are good laws and good arms you cannot have good laws without good arms, and where there are good arms, good laws inevitably follow.
I’m blind without my glasses.
We are approaching a new age of synthesis. Knowledge cannot be merely a degree or a skill… it demands a broader vision, capabilities in critical thinking and logical deduction without which we cannot have constructive progress.
There is no health without mental health; mental health is too important to be left to the professionals alone, and mental health is everyone‘s business.
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
The Rose is without an explanation; She blooms, because She blooms.
Fool! Don’t you see now that I could have poisoned you a hundred times had I been able to live without you.
A revolution is impossible without a revolutionary situation; furthermore, not every revolutionary situation leads to revolution.
A picture is a poem without words.
No one can avoid death; it is inevitable. Therefore, I should create in my mind a kind of willingness and accepting for that event without any fear.
Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and within us.
There is no great genius without some touch of madness.
If cash comes with fame, come fame; if cash comes without fame, come cash.
Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing.
It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.
Journalism without a moral position is impossible. Every journalist is a moralist. It’s absolutely unavoidable.
Without understanding yourself, what is the use of trying to understand the world?
Where there’s marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
It’s not our job to play judge and jury, to determine who is worthy of our kindness and who is not. We just need to be kind, unconditionally and without ulterior motive, even – or rather, especially – when we’d prefer not to be.
There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.
Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation.
Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.
Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
There is no birth of consciousness without pain.
We must listen to the concerns of our people without dismissing them. When people see something wrong, there is something wrong. When our people see corruption, it means there is corruption. When our people see that their resources are being stolen by certain people, it means this is happening, and we should listen.
Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.
Educate men without religion and you make of them but clever devils.
I want a world without war, a world without insanity. I want to see people do well. I don’t even think it’s as much as what I want for myself. It’s more what I want for the people around me. That’s what I want.
If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it.
It’s impossible to move, to live, to operate at any level without leaving traces, bits, seemingly meaningless fragments of personal information.
A bird cannot fly with one wing only. Human space flight cannot develop any further without the active participation of women.
Without education, we are weaker economically. Without economic power, we are weaker in terms of national security. No great military power has ever remained so without great economic power.
I go without sleep, I just go hard.
To vanquish without peril is to triumph without glory.
Without execution, ‘vision’ is just another word for hallucination.
Beauty without expression is boring.
The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.
Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist.
A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive.
Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting.
The Charter of the United Nations expresses the noblest aspirations of man: abjuration of force in the settlement of disputes between states; the assurance of human rights and fundamental freedoms for all without distinction as to race, sex, language or religion; the safeguarding of international peace and security.
In my view, a corporation is not a person. A corporation does not have First Amendment rights to spend as much money as it wants, without disclosure, on a political campaign.
Without God, democracy will not and cannot long endure.
Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence.
Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.
Faith is the first factor in a life devoted to service. Without it, nothing is possible. With it, nothing is impossible.
A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.
There will always be people who will criticise you without knowing the facts.
For the things of this world cannot be made known without a knowledge of mathematics.
In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.
You can disagree without being disagreeable.
Initiative is doing the right things without being told.
Yet it is in this loneliness that the deepest activities begin. It is here that you discover act without motion, labor that is profound repose, vision in obscurity, and, beyond all desire, a fulfillment whose limits extend to infinity.
No man is good enough to govern any woman without her consent.
To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Courage without conscience is a wild beast.
People ask ‘do you make a conscious effort not to swear?’ – if you’re doing silly stuff you’re not tempted to put swearing in. All the comics from my childhood, who were funny without swearing, were the people that influenced me. What I do is quite traditional anyway.
Better to be a strong man with a weak point, than to be a weak man without a strong point. A diamond with a flaw is more valuable that a brick without a flaw.
Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.
Without faith, nothing is possible. With it, nothing is impossible.
Without revolutionary theory there can be no revolutionary movement.
Criticism, like rain, should be gentle enough to nourish a man’s growth without destroying his roots.
The wide world is all before us – but a world without a friend.
I owe everything to my mom. She definitely got me to where I’m at today. Without her I wouldn’t be able to do the things that I do. She and I are very close.
Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.
Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.
Being self-made means doing things your own way – and doing it without any handouts.
Freedom does not come without a price. We may sometimes take for granted the many liberties we enjoy in America, but they have all been earned through the ultimate sacrifice paid by so many of the members of our armed forces.
For to win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill.
The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.
The success I have achieved in bodybuilding, motion pictures, and business would not have been possible without the generosity of the American people and the freedom here to pursue your dreams.
Without hard work and discipline it is difficult to be a top professional.
Fraternity without absorption, union without fusion.
We cannot, as a country, improve economically, socially, and culturally without quality education.
No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.
Enter every activity without giving mental recognition to the possibility of defeat. Concentrate on your strengths, instead of your weaknesses… on your powers, instead of your problems.
Without a revolutionary theory there cannot be a revolutionary movement.
It is not, of course, complete yet – but some sentences were understood this afternoon… I feel that I have at last struck the solution of a great problem – and the day is coming when telegraph wires will be laid onto houses just like water or gas – and friends converse with each other without leaving home.
I think that you can love people without it being the great love.
Getting all of the nutrients you need simply cannot be done without supplements.
Law, without force, is impotent.
Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.
We all need to work together, because there are no jobs on a dead planet; there is no equity without rights to decent work and social protection, no social justice without a shift in governance and ambition, and, ultimately, no peace for the peoples of the world without the guarantees of sustainability.
Don’t be seduced into thinking that that which does not make a profit is without value.
The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope.
I have matured with the realization that I can live without a man!
I can live without money, but I cannot live without love.
Patriotism is love of country. But you can’t love your country without loving your countrymen and countrywomen. We don’t always have to agree, but we must empower each other, we must find the common ground, we must build bridges across our differences to pursue the common good.
You don’t build a bond without being present.
No business can stay in business without customers. How you treat – or mistreat – them determines how long your doors stay open.
The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.
Power without a nation’s confidence is nothing.
Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever puts one down without the feeling of disappointment.
Money without brains is always dangerous.
Without forgiveness life is governed by… an endless cycle of resentment and retaliation.
A well adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous.
Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers.
A person needs at intervals to separate himself from family and companions and go to new places. He must go without his familiars in order to be open to influences, to change.
Thanks to the Interstate Highway System, it is now possible to travel across the country from coast to coast without seeing anything.
Not all chemicals are bad. Without chemicals such as hydrogen and oxygen, for example, there would be no way to make water, a vital ingredient in beer.
I think the iPhone is the best consumer product ever. That’s what I feel about it. And it’s become so integrated and integral to our lives, you wouldn’t think about leaving home without it.
You can compromise without violating your principles, but it is nearly impossible to compromise when you turn principles into ideology.
How vain, without the merit, is the name.
Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of things within, as on the state of things without and around us.
One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often.
It is not possible to eat me without insisting that I sing praises of my devourer?
Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.
Scientific discovery and scientific knowledge have been achieved only by those who have gone in pursuit of it without any practical purpose whatsoever in view.
Without perestroika, the cold war simply would not have ended. But the world could not continue developing as it had, with the stark menace of nuclear war ever present.
A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.
Nature doesn’t need people – people need nature; nature would survive the extinction of the human being and go on just fine, but human culture, human beings, cannot survive without nature.
I have learned the hard way to mind my business, without judging who people are and what they do. I am more troubled by the lack of space being provided for the truth to unfold. Humans cannot seem to wait for or honor the truth. Instead, we make it up based on who we believe people should or should not be.
I’ve known my best friend since I was a baby, and I don’t know what I would do without her. She is always straight with me and can make me laugh hysterically. Everyone should have someone like that in their life.
Without prayer, without faith in the Almighty, the civil rights movement would have been like a bird without wings.
Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.
Science never solves a problem without creating ten more.
Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Good psychology should include all the methodological techniques, without having loyalty to one method, one idea, or one person.
Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.
In order to excel, you must be completely dedicated to your chosen sport. You must also be prepared to work hard and be willing to accept constructive criticism. Without one-hundred percent dedication, you won’t be able to do this.
I cannot live without books.
It was my fortune, or misfortune, to be called to the office of Chief Executive without any previous political training.
Success makes so many people hate you. I wish it wasn’t that way. It would be wonderful to enjoy success without seeing envy in the eyes of those around you.
I discovered that no revival comes if we don’t preach the Word of God under the anointing of the Holy Spirit. If we only have the Great Commission and only the Holy Spirit, we have power without purpose, or purpose without power. It is a package deal, and that is what God honors.
Being a father has been, without a doubt, my greatest source of achievement, pride and inspiration. Fatherhood has taught me about unconditional love, reinforced the importance of giving back and taught me how to be a better person.
Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one.
To win without risk is to triumph without glory.
I’m not an old, experienced hand at politics. But I am now seasoned enough to have learned that the hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning.
Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about.
Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can’t practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.
Freedom without limits is just a word.
If you use your mind to study reality, you won’t understand either your mind or reality. If you study reality without using your mind, you’ll understand both.
Intuition and concepts constitute… the elements of all our knowledge, so that neither concepts without an intuition in some way corresponding to them, nor intuition without concepts, can yield knowledge.
All things will be produced in superior quantity and quality, and with greater ease, when each man works at a single occupation, in accordance with his natural gifts, and at the right moment, without meddling with anything else.
Leadership is not a popularity contest; it’s about leaving your ego at the door. The name of the game is to lead without a title.
Human misery is too great for men to do without faith.
No man is good enough to govern another man without the other’s consent.
Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.
What has become clear from the science is that we cannot burn all of the fossil fuels without creating a very different planet.
Fear is excitement without breath.
You’re not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on.
If it is nothingness that awaits us, let us make an injustice of it; let us fight against destiny, even though without hope of victory.
True happiness is… to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
Without failure there is no achievement.
Trust me, you can’t change anything without causing some degree of disruption. It’s impossible, that is exactly what change is. Some people are uncomfortable with the disruption that change causes, but the disruption is necessary if anything is going to change.
A room without books is like a body without a soul.
Kindness is really important to me in finding my own prince – so are patience and a sense of humor. Without those qualities he’s no Prince Charming!
No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.
Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.
Exercise is labor without weariness.
I believe that economics is based on scarcity of markets. And it’s possible to monetize your art without compromising the integrity of it for commerce.
One ought never to turn one’s back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!
To know what that true self is without social pressure is to know your true nature.
A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding them with books, if he has the means to buy them.
True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island… to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing.
Maturity is the ability to reap without apology and not complain when things don’t go well.
Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.
To fight and conquer in all our battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy’s resistance without fighting.
I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be.
Without obsession, life is nothing.
Vision without power does bring moral elevation but cannot give a lasting culture.
One could not pluck a flower without troubling a star.
I am a strong believer that without justice, there is no peace. No lasting peace, anyway.
Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.
If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation.
A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
You can’t live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you.
I have no fear that the result of our experiment will be that men may be trusted to govern themselves without a master.
Football is a game you cannot play without making mistakes.
Equality is the soul of liberty; there is, in fact, no liberty without it.
Every day without fail one should consider himself as dead. There is a saying of the elders that goes, ‘Step from under the eaves and you’re a dead man. Leave the gate and the enemy is waiting.’ This is not a matter of being careful. It is to consider oneself as dead beforehand.
Capitalism without bankruptcy is like Christianity without hell.
Charm is a way of getting the answer ‘Yes’ without asking a clear question.
Without reflection, we go blindly on our way, creating more unintended consequences, and failing to achieve anything useful.
Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served. But all other pleasures and possessions pale into nothingness before service which is rendered in a spirit of joy.
Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.
There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail.
Never forget that no military leader has ever become great without audacity.
There is no coming to consciousness without pain.
The right to a quality education is, I believe, the perfect path to bridge the gap between different cultures and to reconcile various civilizations. Without such a right, the values of liberty, justice and equality will have no meaning. Ignorance is by far the biggest danger and threat to humankind.
There are no better cosmetics than a severe temperance and purity, modesty and humility, a gracious temper and calmness of spirit; and there is no true beauty without the signatures of these graces in the very countenance.
Some people awaken spiritually without ever coming into contact with any meditation technique or any spiritual teaching. They may awaken simply because they can’t stand the suffering anymore.
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it.
You cannot win an election without a fight.
Nuclear power will help provide the electricity that our growing economy needs without increasing emissions. This is truly an environmentally responsible source of energy.
Music is life itself. What would this world be without good music? No matter what kind it is.
Three conditions are necessary for Penance: contrition, which is sorrow for sin, together with a purpose of amendment; confession of sins without any omission; and satisfaction by means of good works.
To be without guile is to be free of deceit, cunning, hypocrisy, and dishonesty in thought or action.
There is no such thing as perpetual tranquillity of mind while we live here; because life itself is but motion, and can never be without desire, nor without fear, no more than without sense.
He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it.
He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good.
Living is no laughing matter: you must live with great seriousness like a squirrel for example – I mean without looking for something beyond and above living, I mean living must be your whole occupation.
If there is a meaning in life at all, then there must be a meaning in suffering. Suffering is an ineradicable part of life, even as fate and death. Without suffering and death, human life cannot be complete.
It is an awfully sad misconception that librarians simply check books in and out. The library is the heart of a school, and without a librarian, it is but an empty shell.
Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and instruction are useful so far as they go, but, without the discipline of real life, they remain of the nature of theory only.
One can state, without exaggeration, that the observation of and the search for similarities and differences are the basis of all human knowledge.
I asked long ago,’What must I do to be saved?’ The Scripture answered, ‘Keep the commandments, believe, hope, love.’ I was early warned against laying, as the Papists do, too much stress on outward works, or on a faith without works, which as it does not include, so it will never lead to true hope or charity.
The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher.
Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world.
You can’t get anywhere in life without taking risks.
It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.
What is a fish without a river? What is a bird without a tree to nest in? What is an Endangered Species Act without any enforcement mechanism to ensure their habitat is protected? It is nothing.
Blessed are those who give without remembering and take without forgetting.
The world calls for, and expects from us, simplicity of life, the spirit of prayer, charity towards all, especially towards the lowly and the poor, obedience and humility, detachment, and self-sacrifice. Without this mark of holiness, our word will have difficulty in touching the heart of modern man.
You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end, each of us must work for his own improvement and, at the same time, share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think we can be most useful.
Reject hatred without hating.
Inflation is taxation without legislation.
You cannot carry out fundamental change without a certain amount of madness.
Faith and prayer are the vitamins of the soul; man cannot live in health without them.
Everybody is a hypocrite. You can’t live on this planet without being a hypocrite.
You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast. Those who once inhabited the suburbs of human contempt find that without changing their address they eventually live in the metropolis.
I have recommended in my writings the study of civic virtues, without which there is no redemption. I have written likewise (and repeat my words) that reforms, to be beneficial, must come from above, that those which come from below are irregularly gained and uncertain.
Not everybody‘s journey is easy, and it wouldn’t be worthwhile if you can’t see what you gained without realizing what kind of battles you’ve been through, what kind of scars you have.
A categorical imperative would be one which represented an action as objectively necessary in itself, without reference to any other purpose.
There is no love without suffering.
Women – always in trouble with them, but can’t live without them.
You can be young without money but you can’t be old without it.
Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.
Make it a habit to tell people thank you. To express your appreciation, sincerely and without the expectation of anything in return. Truly appreciate those around you, and you’ll soon find many others around you. Truly appreciate life, and you’ll find that you have more of it.
There is no stability without solidarity and no solidarity without stability.
A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within.
I think people just like seeing friendship. I think people like seeing people who just drive each other up the wall, but at same time, can’t live without each other.
In South Africa, we could not have achieved our freedom and just peace without the help of people around the world, who through the use of non-violent means, such as boycotts and divestment, encouraged their governments and other corporate actors to reverse decades-long support for the Apartheid regime.
There can be no knowledge without emotion. We may be aware of a truth, yet until we have felt its force, it is not ours. To the cognition of the brain must be added the experience of the soul.
Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause.
Society cannot exist without law. Law is the bond of society: that which makes it, that which preserves it and keeps it together. It is, in fact, the essence of civil society.
Just as food eaten without appetite is a tedious nourishment, so does study without zeal damage the memory by not assimilating what it absorbs.
I think this life is hard without assistance from others.
We cannot hold a torch to light another’s path without brightening our own.
A multicultural society does not reject the culture of the other but is prepared to listen, to see, to dialogue and, in the final analysis, to possibly accept the other’s culture without compromising its own.
Words, without power, is mere philosophy.
You cannot open a book without learning something.
It is impossible to reason without arriving at a Supreme Being.
Life without dreams is like a bird with a broken wing – it can’t fly.
Our object should be peace within, and peace without. We want to live peacefully and maintain cordial friendly relations with our immediate neighbours and with the world at large.
We cannot accomplish all that we need to do without working together.
Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
If women feel they are able to go from partner to partner without feeling emotionally invested and ultimately hurt, they should go for it.
It is possible to fly without motors, but not without knowledge and skill.
To me, there’s no great chef without a great team.
A people without a positive history is like a vehicle without an engine.
Talent is nothing without dedication and discipline, and dedication and discipline is a talent in itself.
True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart.
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
Material things ain’t nothing. You feel me? At the end of the day, it’s who you is. You wasn’t born with it; you gon’ die without it.
Most businesses think that product is the most important thing, but without great leadership, mission and a team that deliver results at a high level, even the best product won’t make a company successful.
To live without Hope is to Cease to live.
We cannot attribute to fortune or virtue that which is achieved without either.
Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice, without constraint.
Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and man cannot live without love.
A coach is someone who can give correction without causing resentment.
Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.
Those who give themselves to prayer should in a special manner have always a devotion to St. Joseph; for I know not how any man can think of the Queen of the angels, during the time that she suffered so much with the Infant Jesus, without giving thanks to St. Joseph for the services he rendered them then.
A life without fame can be a good life, but fame without a life is no life at all.
Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people’s lives without having to pay the price.
Feeding the world will be one of the greatest challenges of the 21st century. It will be impossible without using scientific advancements and biotechnology.
For the creation of a masterwork of literature two powers must concur, the power of the man and the power of the moment, and the man is not enough without the moment.
Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.
Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist.
An army without culture is a dull-witted army, and a dull-witted army cannot defeat the enemy.
The most important thing that parents can teach their children is how to get along without them.
There are many things that are essential to arriving at true peace of mind, and one of the most important is faith, which cannot be acquired without prayer.
To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing.
Not without hope we suffer and we mourn.
True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.
I couldn’t wait for success, so I went ahead without it.
Along the way, let’s never forget that once we were children and that we were all playing together without distinction of skin color, society level, or where people come from. Adults need to remember to play and to be more childlike in our behavior. We’ve forgotten what that childlike experience was like.
Life is not an easy matter… You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness.
No man or woman who tries to pursue an ideal in his or her own way is without enemies.
Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
You aren’t going to find anybody that’s going to be successful without making a sacrifice and without perseverance.
Gambling with cards or dice or stocks is all one thing. It’s getting money without giving an equivalent for it.
He who created us without our help will not save us without our consent.
Without deviation progress is not possible.
To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.
Nobody can hurt me without my permission.
I believe that the real expression of your religious beliefs is shown in the daily pattern of your life, in what you contribute to your surroundings and what you take away without infringing on the rights of other people.
For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions.
Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith.
Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don’t think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other.
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
Jesus is the God whom we can approach without pride and before whom we can humble ourselves without despair.
The basic thing nobody asks is why do people take drugs of any sort? Why do we have these accessories to normal living to live? I mean, is there something wrong with society that’s making us so pressurized, that we cannot live without guarding ourselves against it?
Food is your body‘s fuel. Without fuel, your body wants to shut down.
So then, the relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself.
The truth is a snare: you cannot have it, without being caught. You cannot have the truth in such a way that you catch it, but only in such a way that it catches you.
The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
As an atheist, I am angry that we live in a society in which the plain truth cannot be spoken without offending 90% of the population.
Without forgiveness, there’s no future.
Without hope we are lost.
It goes without saying that when survival is threatened, struggles erupt between peoples, and unfortunate wars between nations result.
There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it.
To attempt seeing Truth without knowing Falsehood. It is the attempt to see the Light without knowing the Darkness. It cannot be.
I speak not for myself but for those without voice… those who have fought for their rights… their right to live in peace, their right to be treated with dignity, their right to equality of opportunity, their right to be educated.
Perseverance is also key to success in any endeavor, but without perseverance in combat, there can be no victory.
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. You may have to work for it, however.
Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.
To put meaning in one’s life may end in madness, But life without meaning is the torture Of restlessness and vague desire-It is a boat longing for the sea and yet afraid.
There is no love of life without despair of life.
A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad.
Nothing is possible without men, but nothing lasts without institutions.
Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.
A dream without ambition is like a car without gas… you’re not going anywhere.
Without music, life would be a mistake.
