949 private quotes tagged alone

“Being an actor is the loneliest thing in the world. You are all alone with your concentration and imagination, and that's all you have.” — James Dean

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“A man content to go to heaven alone will never go to heaven.” — Boethius

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“No enterprise can exist for itself alone. It ministers to some great need, it performs some great service, not for itself, but for others or failing therein, it ceases to be profitable and ceases to exist.” — Calvin Coolidge

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“When I decided to be a singer, my mother warned me I'd be alone a lot. Basically we all are. Loneliness comes with life.” — Whitney Houston

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“If you make friends with yourself you will never be alone.” — Maxwell Maltz

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“I finally faced the fact that it isn't a crime not having friends. Being alone means you have fewer problems.” — Whitney Houston

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“The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others it is in yourself alone.” — Orison Swett Marden

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“We are not to give credit to the many, who say that none ought to be educated but the free but rather to the philosophers, who say that the well-educated alone are free.” — Epictetus

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“Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, and the society of thyself.” — Thomas Browne

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“He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.” — Baruch Spinoza

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“Man's ultimate concern must be expressed symbolically, because symbolic language alone is able to express the ultimate.” — Paul Tillich

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“I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.” — Elizabeth I

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“If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.” — Jean-Paul Sartre

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“It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.” — Jean de la Bruyere

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“Grief can't be shared. Everyone carries it alone. His own burden in his own way.” — Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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“The most boring scenes are the scenes where a character is alone.” — Chuck Palahniuk

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“By all means use some time to be alone.” — Edward Young

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“Don't ever let economic alone determine your career or how you spend the majority of your time.” — Denis Waitley

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“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.” — Anne Hathaway

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“Belief is nothing but a more vivid, lively, forcible, firm, steady conception of an object, than what the imagination alone is ever able to attain.” — David Hume

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“And I find - I'm 63, and my capacity to be by myself and just spend time by myself hasn't diminished any. That's the necessary part of being a writer, you better like being alone.” — John Irving

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“I have no time for those who say there is no way Scotland could go it alone. I know first-hand the contribution Scotland and Scots make to Britain's success - so for me there's no question about whether Scotland could be an independent nation.” — David Cameron

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“Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them.” — Adlai E. Stevenson

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“If I was writing songs just for me I'd only play them in my living room, alone.” — Tori Amos

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“The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions.” — James Russell Lowell

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