Dwell Quotes

You can't dwell in your past but move forward, look forward. That's it.

Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.

A person may dwell so long upon a thought that it may take him a prisoner.

A little kingdom I possess, where thoughts and feelings dwell; And very hard the task I find of governing it well.

The soul, which is spirit, can not dwell in dust; it is carried along to dwell in the blood.

Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long.

I wouldn't change one thing about my professional life, and I make it a point not to dwell on my mistakes.

A mistress should be like a little country retreat near the town, not to dwell in constantly, but only for a night and away.

I think I could look back through the past few years at missed opportunities and stuff, but one thing I have learned is not to dwell on missed chances or times where you have failed.

A true critic ought to dwell upon excellencies rather than imperfections, to discover the concealed beauties of a writer, and communicate to the world such things as are worth their observation.

I don't like to dwell all day over one scene as you do in a big feature.

I don't dwell on success. Maybe that's one reason I'm successful.

If I could only remember that the days were, not bricks to be laid row on row, to be built into a solid house, where one might dwell in safety and peace, but only food for the fires of the heart.

I tend not to dwell too much on ultimates.

You must not under any pretense allow your mind to dwell on any thought that is not positive, constructive, optimistic, kind.

Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.

When you read about a car crash in which two or three youngsters are killed, do you pause to dwell on the amount of love and treasure and patience parents poured into bodies no longer suitable for open caskets?

Well may your heart believe the truths I tell; 'Tis virtue makes the bliss, where'er we dwell.

On the subject of emigration, it is not my intention to dwell at any length.

I can't dwell.

Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.

We see things in this material world, wherein our bodies dwell, only because our mind through its attention lives in another world, only because it contemplates the beauties of the archetypal and intelligible world which Reason contains.

We are a people who do not want to keep much of the past in our heads. It is considered unhealthy in America to remember mistakes, neurotic to think about them, psychotic to dwell on them.

A golf course is the epitome of all that is purely transitory in the universe; a space not to dwell in, but to get over as quickly as possible.

In baseball, my theory is to strive for consistency, not to worry about the numbers. If you dwell on statistics you get shortsighted, if you aim for consistency, the numbers will be there at the end.

Terms like that, "Humane Society," are devised with people like me in mind, who don't care to dwell on what happens to the innocent.

You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don't try to forget the mistakes, but you don't dwell on it. You don't let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space.

When all is said and done, the real citadel of strength of any community is in the hearts and minds and desires of those who dwell there.

Though the terror of the sea gives to none security, in the secret of the shell. Self preserving we may dwell.

Humility is not my forte, and whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's characters.