949 private quotes tagged alone

“Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.” — Swami Vivekananda

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“The struggle alone pleases us, not the victory.” — Blaise Pascal

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“I have never been able to grasp the meaning of time. I don't believe it exists. I've felt this again and again, when alone and out in nature. On such occasions, time does not exist. Nor does the future exist.” — Thor Heyerdahl

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“To Follow by faith alone is to follow blindly.” — Benjamin Franklin

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

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“Picture yourself vividly as winning, and that alone will contribute immeasurably to success.” — Harry Emerson Fosdick

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

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“The longer one is alone, the easier it is to hear the song of the earth.” — Robert Anton Wilson

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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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“The lonely become either thoughtful or empty.” — Mason Cooley

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“You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.” — Dr. Seuss

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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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“Often we can help each other most by leaving each other alone at other times we need the hand-grasp and the word of cheer.” — Elbert Hubbard

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“I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone.” — Lord Byron

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“The daily act of writing remains as demanding and maddening as it was before, and the pleasure you get from writing - rare but profound - remains at the true heart of the enterprise. On their best days, writers all over the world are winning Pulitzers, all alone in their studios, with no one watching.” — Jeffrey Eugenides

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“Can anyone understand how it is to have lived in the White House and then, suddenly, to be living alone as the President's widow?” — Jackie Kennedy

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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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“Saving faith is an immediate relation to Christ, accepting, receiving, resting upon Him alone, for justification, sanctification, and eternal life by virtue of God's grace.” — Charles Spurgeon

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“There is danger that we lose sight of what our friend is absolutely, while considering what she is to us alone.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“Better be alone than in bad company.” — Thomas Fuller

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“Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.” — Thomas Carlyle

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“Victims always feel alone and helpless.” — Deepak Chopra

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“We can only know one thing about God - that he is what we are not. Our wretchedness alone is an image of this. The more we contemplate it, the more we contemplate him.” — Simone Weil

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“The devil had as good have let Paul alone, for he no sooner comes into prison but he falls a preaching, at which the gates of Satan's prison fly open, and poor sinners come forth.” — William Gurnall

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