949 private quotes tagged alone

“Work alone is noble.” — Thomas Carlyle

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“Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. No man will admire her the more, no woman will like her the better for it. Neatness and fashion are enough for the former, and a something of shabbiness or impropriety will be most endearing to the latter.” — Jane Austen

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

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“Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality; man, alone, can dream and make his dreams come true.” — Napoleon Hill

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“As for style, there is something about the way musicians dress-they seem to be able to create their own world within their fashion alone.” — Nicole Richie

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“To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, One clover, and a bee, And revery. The revery alone will do, If bees are few.” — Emily Dickinson

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“And if you don't believe the sun will rise, stand alone and greet the coming night in the last remaining light.” — Chris Cornell

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“You can't fake it when you're alone with God, you know.” — Jim Bakker

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“Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.” — Arthur Schopenhauer

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“For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.” — Audrey Hepburn

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“I have to be alone very often. I'd be quite happy if I spent from Saturday night until Monday morning alone in my apartment. That's how I refuel.” — Audrey Hepburn

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“Earth teach me to forget myself as melted snow forgets its life. Earth teach me resignation as the leaves which die in the fall. Earth teach me courage as the tree which stands all alone. Earth teach me regeneration as the seed which rises in the spring.” — William Alexander

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“Look at the sky. We are not alone. The whole universe is friendly to us and conspires only to give the best to those who dream and work.” — Abdul Kalam

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“Time alone reveals the just man but you might discern a bad man in a single day.” — Sophocles

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“Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in springtime.” — Martin Luther

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“Talent alone won't make you a success. Neither will being in the right place at the right time, unless you are ready. The most important question is: 'Are your ready?'” — Johnny Carson

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“I have never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“He travels the fastest who travels alone.” — Rudyard Kipling

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“Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

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“Down to Gehenna or up to the Throne,
He travels the fastest who travels alone.” — Rudyard Kipling

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“Sensual love deceives one as to the nature of heavenly love it could not do so alone, but since it unconsciously has the element of heavenly love within it, it can do so.” — Franz Kafka

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“I cannot live under pressures from patrons, let alone paint.” — Michelangelo

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“Wisdom alone is the science of other sciences.” — Plato

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“To the press alone, chequered as it is with abuses, the world is indebted for all the triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.” — James Madison

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“This is the highest wisdom that I own: freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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