949 private quotes tagged alone

“Music should probably provide answers in terms of lyrical content, and giving people a sense of togetherness and oneness, as opposed to being alone in their thoughts and dilemmas or regrets or happiness or whatever.”— Peabo Bryson

“It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.”— Thomas Jefferson

“Success comes when people act together; failure tends to happen alone.”— Deepak Chopra

“God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, and in the flowers and clouds and stars.”— Martin Luther

“The doer alone learneth.”— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.”— Sigmund Freud

“It is not necessary that you leave the house. Remain at your table and listen. Do not even listen, only wait. Do not even wait, be wholly still and alone. The world will present itself to you for its unmasking, it can do no other, in ecstasy it will writhe at your feet.”— Franz Kafka

“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.”— Charles Stanley

“Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.”— Confucius

“The power of a book lies in its power to turn a solitary act into a shared vision. As long as we have books, we are not alone.”— Laura Bush

“The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.”— Albert Camus

“Before the throne of the Almighty, man will be judged not by his acts but by his intentions. For God alone reads our hearts.”— Mahatma Gandhi

“Grant that I may not pray alone with the mouth; help me that I may pray from the depths of my heart.”— Martin Luther

“We are rarely proud when we are alone.”— Voltaire

“It's better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone - so far.”— Marilyn Monroe

“The happiness of one's own heart alone cannot satisfy the soul one must try to include, as necessary to one's own happiness, the happiness of others.”— Paramahansa Yogananda

“Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company.”— George Washington

“You that would judge me, do not judge alone this book or that, come to this hallowed place where my friends' portraits hang and look thereon Ireland's history in their lineaments trace think where man's glory most begins and ends and say my glory was I had such friends.”— William Butler Yeats

“All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.”— Blaise Pascal

“The best artist has that thought alone Which is contained within the marble shell The sculptor's hand can only break the spell To free the figures slumbering in the stone.”— Michelangelo

“Take a course in good water and air and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own. Go quietly, alone no harm will befall you.”— John Muir

“Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.”— Carl Jung

“Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.”— Voltaire

“The secret to being a writer is that you have to write. It's not enough to think about writing or to study literature or plan a future life as an author. You really have to lock yourself away, alone, and get to work.”— Augusten Burroughs

“Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.”— Voltaire