Lest Quotes

Do not be too hard, lest you be broken; do not be too soft, lest you be squeezed.

A man should live with his superiors as he does with his fire: not too near, lest he burn; nor too far off, lest he freeze.

Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.

The poor man wishes to conceal his poverty, and the rich man his wealth: the former fears lest he be despised, the latter lest he be plundered.

Some men love truth so much that they seem to be in continual fear lest she should catch a cold on overexposure.

Submit to the present evil, lest a greater one befall you.

Man must shape his tools lest they shape him.

I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair.

Lest Arab governments be tempted out of sheer routine to rush into impulsive rejection, let me suggest that tragedy is not what men suffer but what they miss.

That's the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over, lest you should think he never could recapture the first fine careless rapture!

We Americans are world leaders and we must lead by example - particularly in times that require careful deliberation before any precipitous action - lest we fail to walk in the shoes of those we might injure.

Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you.

One of the cruelest things you can do to another person is pretend you care about them more than you really do.

If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if the simplest things of nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive.

Lest those islands still seem to you too remote in space and time to be relevant to our modern societies, just think about the risks... of our increasing globalization and increasing worldwide economic interdependence.

Judge not, lest you be so fearful of judgment that you can hardly breath.

Even the simplest things, I'm guilty of making really bad decisions a lot of the time.

Indeed it is better to postpone, lest either we complete too little by hurrying, or wander too long in completing it.

To the American people I say, awaken to what is happening. It is the duty of each citizen to be vigilant, to protect liberty, to speak out, left and right and disagree lest be trampled underfoot by misguided zealotry and extreme partisanship.

To be compared to Will Smith is probably one of the coolest things because that's who I came up admiring.

If, amid the multitude of contending counsel, you have hesitated and doubted; if, when a great measure suggested itself, you have shrunk from the vast responsibility, afraid to go forward lest you should go wrong, what wonder?

Mars, when guilty of homicide, and set free from the charge of murder by the Athenians through favour, lest he should appear to be too fierce and savage, committed adultery with Venus.

But let us not too hastily triumph in the shame of Sparta, lest we aggravate our own condemnation.

Whatever we have of this world in our hands, our care must be to keep it out of our hearts, lest it come between us and Christ.

Do not fear lest you should meditate too much upon Him and speak of Him in an unworthy way, providing you are led by faith. Do not fear lest you should entertain false opinions of Him so long as they are in conformity with the notion of the infinitely perfect Being.

Mind your speech a little lest you should mar your fortunes.

For an entire populace, change, growth, and spontaneity were dangerous. Acting upon a personal desire, whispering a hidden longing, revealing your true feelings - all the human actions we think of as essential to a character - had be censored by the self lest they be punished by the state.

Truth is a good dog; but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out.

Monkeys who very sensibly refrain from speech, lest they should be set to earn their livings.

So far as hypotheses are concerned, let no one expect anything certain from astronomy, which cannot furnish it, lest he accept as the truth ideas conceived for another purpose, and depart from this study a greater fool than when he entered it.