(358 quotes found)
“Do more than belong: participate. Do more than care: help. Do more than believe: practice. Do more than be fair: be kind. Do more than forgive: forget. Do more than dream: work.”
William Arthur Ward
“It is better to take what does not belong to you than to let it lie around neglected.”
Mark Twain
“It's the most precious thing...to know absolutely where you belong. There's a whole emotional wrapping-around-of-you-here. You see the same rock, tree, road, clouds, sun – you develop a nice kind of intimacy with the world around you. To be intimate is to grow, to learn... [it] is absolutely fulfilling. Intimacy, that's my magic word for why I live here.”
Tessie Naranjo
“If you are alone you belong entirely to yourself. If you are accompanied by even one companion you belong only half to yourself, or even less, in proportion to the thoughtlessness of his conduct; and if you have more than one companion you will fall more deeply into the same plight.”
Leonardo da Vinci
“You cannot belong to anyone else, until you belong to yourself.”
Pearl Bailey
“I would sort out all the arguments and see which belonged to fear and which to creativeness. Other things being equal, I would make the decision which had the larger number of creative reasons on its side.”
Katharine Butler Hathaway
“Did you ever notice that the first piece of luggage on the carousel never belongs to anyone?”
Erma Bombeck
“Dignity belongs to the conquered”
Kenneth Burke
“You can never lose anything that really belongs to you, and you can't keep that which belongs to someone else.”
Edgar Cayce
“See the things you want as already yours. Think of them as yours, as belonging to you, as already in your possession.”
Robert Collier
