Us Quotes

We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.

There is a kind of elevation which does not depend on fortune; it is a certain air which distinguishes us, and seems to destine us for great things; it is a price which we imperceptibly set upon ourselves.

I like mathematics because it is not human and has nothing particular to do with this planet or with the whole accidental universe - because, like Spinoza's God, it won't love us in return.

Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.

Unless India stands up to the world, no one will respect us. In this world, fear has no place. Only strength respects strength.

We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.

Our party cannot be all things to all people. It can't be. Our loudest opponents on the left are never going to like us so let's stop trying to curry favor with them.

When you run into someone who is disagreeable to others, you may be sure he is uncomfortable with himself; the amount of pain we inflict upon others is directly proportional to the amount we feel within us.

Ask yourself whether the dream of heaven and greatness should be waiting for us in our graves - or whether it should be ours here and now and on this earth.

There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.

Life is like a ten speed bicycle. Most of us have gears we never use.

The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us.

Words can never adequately convey the incredible impact of our attitudes toward life. The longer I live the more convinced I become that life is 10 percent what happens to us and 90 percent how we respond to it.

God and Nature first made us what we are, and then out of our own created genius we make ourselves what we want to be. Follow always that great law. Let the sky and God be our limit and Eternity our measurement.

One tradition I have with my friends is that when one of us gets married, we have a ton of fragrance oils and pretty bottles at the bachelorette party. Everyone puts a drop or two in a bottle for the bride and makes a wish, and the bride wears our creation on her wedding day.

As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods; they kill us for their sport.

To work with the hands or brain, according to our requirements and our capacities, to do that which lies before us to do, is more honorable than rank and title.

A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds; it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change.

Gangsta to us didn't have anything to do with Al Capone and stuff like that. It's just about living your life the way you want to live it. And you're not going to let nothing stop you.

We might come closer to balancing the Budget if all of us lived closer to the Commandments and the Golden Rule.

Look, the president is elected to lead and to face the country's biggest challenges. The country's biggest challenge domestically speaking, no doubt about it, is a debt crisis, and I'm really hoping that he is going to give us a budget that tackles this debt crisis.

Let us put our minds together and see what life we can make for our children.

Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.

Goals are not only absolutely necessary to motivate us. They are essential to really keep us alive.

Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.

History has taught us over and over again that freedom is not free. When push comes to shove, the ultimate protectors of freedom and liberty are the brave men and women in our armed forces. Throughout our history, they've answered the call in bravery and sacrifice.

Training gives us an outlet for suppressed energies created by stress and thus tones the spirit just as exercise conditions the body.

For you who no longer posses it, freedom is everything, for us who do, it is merely an illusion.

Reason enables us to get around in the world of ideas, but cannot prescribe our thoughts.

Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love everywhere you go.