949 private quotes tagged alone

“I was a little doubtful about the propriety of going to the Mammoth Cave without a gentleman escort, but if two ladies travel alone they must have the courage of men.” — Maria Mitchell

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“Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.” — Marcel Proust

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“Faith, mighty faith, the promise sees, And looks to God alone Laughs at impossibilities, And cries it shall be done.” — Charles Wesley

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“Fashion is always of the time in which you live. It is not something standing alone. But the grand problem, the most important problem, is to rejeuvenate women. To make women look young. Then their outlook changes. They feel more joyous.” — Coco Chanel

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“Leadership is the other side of the coin of loneliness, and he who is a leader must always act alone. And acting alone, accept everything alone.” — Ferdinand Marcos

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“Without strength and courage it's really hard to perform at the highest levels of international figure skating, because you're alone on the ice and you only have seven minutes over two nights to prove yourself.” — Scott Hamilton

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“The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it. You and you alone make me feel that I am alive. Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough.” — George Edward Moore

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“Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.” — Martin Luther

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“Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.” — Samuel Johnson

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“The rewards of virtue alone abide secure.” — Sophocles

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“The best of artists has no conception that the marble alone does not contain within itself.” — Michelangelo

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“No one can arrive from being talented alone, work transforms talent into genius.” — Anna Pavlova

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“If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.” — Samuel Johnson

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“We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even alone in genders.” — Maya Angelou

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“No one ever said on their deathbed, 'Gee, I wish I had spent more time alone with my computer'.” — Danielle Berry

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“The strong man is strongest when alone.” — Friedrich Schiller

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“The man who goes alone can start today but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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“Show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen, and 8 times out of 9 I'll show you a man with detestable spiritual qualities.” — Charles Bukowski

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“All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change.” — Gilbert K. Chesterton

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“Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.” — Octavio Paz

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“This, then, is the test we must set for ourselves not to march alone but to march in such a way that others will wish to join us.” — Hubert H. Humphrey

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“It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company.” — George Washington

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“A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.” — Yoko Ono

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“Unconditional war can no longer lead to unconditional victory. It can no longer serve to settle disputes... can no longer be of concern to great powers alone.” — John F. Kennedy

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