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Object Quotes and Sayings
Quotes about Object

The moment a person forms a theory,
his imagination sees in every object
only the traits which favor that theory.
- Thomas Jefferson

Related topics: Life Human-Nature Psychology Open Mind

Not every difficult and dangerous thing
is suitable for training,
but only that which is conducive to success
in achieving the object of our effort.
- Epictetus

The object of education is to prepare the young
to educate themselves throughout their lives.
- Robert M. Hutchins

I object to violence because
when it appears to do good,
the good is only temporary;
the evil it does is permanent.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

 

The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction,
is the first and only object of good government.
- Thomas Jefferson

I will far rather see the race of man extinct
than that we should become less than beasts
by making the noblest of God's creation,
woman, the object of our lust.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Objects Quotes and Sayings

The creation of something new
is not accomplished by the intellect
but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity.
The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.
- Carl Jung

I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes
the objects of his creation
and is but a reflection of human frailty.
- Albert Einstein

In Art, man reveals himself and not his objects.
- Rabindranath Tagore

Peace and abstinence from European interferences are our objects,
and so will continue while the present
order of things in America remain uninterrupted.
- Thomas Jefferson

Communists have always played an active role
in the fight by colonial countries for their freedom,
because the short-term objects of Communism
would always correspond with
the long-term objects of freedom movements.
- Nelson Mandela

Objective Quotes and Sayings

We all live with the objective of being happy;
our lives are all different and yet the same.
- Anne Frank

A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor,
mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.
- R. Buckminster Fuller

Like an Owl, I am Alert, Patient, and Objective.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Objection Quotes and Sayings

The objection to Puritans is not that
they try to make us think as they do,
but that they try to make us do as they think.
- H. L. Mencken

Not Quotes and Sayings

Am I not destroying my enemies
when I make friends of them?
- Abraham Lincoln

It's not the size of the dog in the fight,
it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain

Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits
and then complain that he's not the man she married?
- Barbra Streisand

"It's not that important,
don't worry about it" is the answer,
now what was the question?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Live life on the edge, not with an edge.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

A dog is not considered a good dog because he is a good barker.
A man is not considered a good man because he is a good talker.
- The Buddha

If we are not happy and joyous at this season,
for what other season shall we wait and
for what other time shall we look?
- Abdul-Baha

Life is not supposed to be fair.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

When you dance, your purpose is not to get
to a certain place on the floor.
It's to enjoy each step along the way.
- Wayne Dyer

I am not what happened to me,
I am what I choose to become.
- Carl Jung

Experience is not what happens to a man.
It is what a man does with what happens to him.
- Aldous Huxley

If a man is proud of his wealth,
he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
- Socrates

Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

A good traveler has no fixed plans,
and is not intent on arriving.
- Lao Tzu

Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
- Lao Tzu

To achieve success, stay relaxed - not stressed.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
- Rabindranath Tagore

Life will not meet your expectations -
choose joy anyway.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

It's not what happens to you,
but how you react to it that matters.
- Epictetus

I am not the same having seen the moon shine
on the other side of the world.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Collective fear stimulates herd instinct,
and tends to produce ferocity toward
those who are not regarded as members of the herd.
- Bertrand Russell

If one does not understand a person,
one tends to regard him as a fool.
- Carl Jung

Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth
until the hour of separation.
- Khalil Gibran

However many holy words you read, however many you speak,
what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?
- The Buddha

I look only to the good qualities of men.
Not being faultless myself,
I won't presume to probe into the faults of others.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

He is a man of courage who does not run away,
but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.
- Socrates

When dealing with people, remember you are
not dealing with creatures of logic,
but creatures of emotion.
- Dale Carnegie

We will not learn how to live together in peace
by killing each other's children.
- Jimmy Carter

If we want to direct our lives,
we must take control of our consistent actions.
It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives,
but what we do consistently.
- Anthony Robbins

Belief fuels our decisions -
even when we are not clearly aware of those beliefs.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take,
but by the moments that take our breath away.
- Anonymous

The word "happiness" would lose its meaning
if it were not balanced by sadness.
- Carl Jung

We are injured and hurt emotionally,
not so much by other people
or what they say and don't say,
but by our own attitude and our own response.
- Maxwell Maltz

As human beings, our greatness lies
not so much in being able to remake the world -
as in being able to remake ourselves.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Offense comes not from the mouth, but from the ear.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The importance of history is in it's
educational value for our lives today,
not in regret, resentment, or revenge.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains,
but to live in a way that respects
and enhances the freedom of others.
- Nelson Mandela

When one fully lives a life of acceptance,
life's vagaries are not merely tolerated,
but are received as a gift.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Every human life contains a potential,
if that potential is not fulfilled,
then that life was wasted...
- Carl Jung

The world moves, and ideas that were
once good are not always good.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius

The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau

Not until we are lost
do we begin to understand ourselves.
- Henry David Thoreau

Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them.
- Alan Watts

Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life.
- Burton Hills

Stand Tall, Stand Proud.
Know that you are unique and magnificent.
You do not need the approval of others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Life is not a tragedy, it is a comedy.
To be alive means to have a sense of humor.
- Osho

We cannot change anything until we accept it.
Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.
- Carl Jung

Going nowhere faster will not get you somewhere.
- Alan Cohen

We know what a person thinks not when he tells us
what he thinks, but by his actions.
- Isaac Bashevis Singe

Generally speaking, a howling wilderness does not howl:
it is the imagination of the traveler that does the howling.
- Henry David Thoreau

Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not.
- Bono

The mind has exactly the same power as the hands:
not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.
- Colin Wilson

It all depends on how we look at things,
and not how they are in themselves.
- Carl Jung

Prejudice is a two-edged sword.
Like the steel sort of sword, it's very sharp, very useful,
and very dangerous if not properly mastered.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

No persons are more frequently wrong,
than those who will not admit they are wrong.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light,
but by making the darkness conscious.
- Carl Jung


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