Well Quotes: Inspiring Words for Mindful Living (Page 10)

"Act well your part, there all the honour lies"

Alexander Pope, Poet

"Every one speaks well of his own heart, but no one dares speak well of his own mind"

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Writer

"There are heroes in evil as well as in good"

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Writer

"Some counterfeits reproduce so very well the truth that it would be a flaw of judgment not to be deceived by them"

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Writer

"In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge"

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Writer

"Well you can't teach the poetry, but you can teach the craft"

David Hockney, Artist

"I made a photograph of a garden in Kyoto, the Zen garden, which is a rectangle. But a photograph taken from any one point will not show, well it shows a rectangle, but not with ninety degree angles"

David Hockney, Artist

"But, I would always be thinking of how pictures are constructed and colour, how to use it, I mean you're using it for constructing, makes you think about it, the place did as well"

David Hockney, Artist

"And then I went round the corner and there's a Van Gogh portrait, and you just think, well, this is another level. A higher level, actually. I love the Sargent, but it's not the level of Van Gogh"

David Hockney, Artist

"Royalty is either going to do very well with cloning, or it's going to disappear completely"

Doug Coupland, Author

"The Divinity could be invoked as well in the English language as in the French"

Wilfrid Laurier, Statesman

"Figure out what it is in life you don't do well, and then don't do it"

Doug Coupland, Author

"He who can believe himself well, will be well"

Ovid, Poet

"The burden which is well borne becomes light"

Ovid, Poet

"Majesty and love do not consort well together, nor do they dwell in the same place"

Ovid, Poet

"Liberty doesn't work as well in practice as it does in speeches"

Will Rogers, Actor

"To know anything well involves a profound sensation of ignorance"

John Ruskin, Writer

"Nearly all the powerful people of this age are unbelievers, the best of them in doubt and misery, the most in plodding hesitation, doing as well as they can, what practical work lies at hand"

John Ruskin, Writer

"Death unites as well as separates; it silences all paltry feeling"

Honore de Balzac, Novelist

"Whether for life or death, do your own work well"

John Ruskin, Writer

"The first duty of a state is to see that every child born therein shall be well housed, clothed, fed and educated till it attains years of discretion"

John Ruskin, Writer

"No person who is well bred, kind and modest is ever offensively plain; all real deformity means want for manners or of heart"

John Ruskin, Writer

"My dad was a ham, too. He could sell those women anything. Of all his sons, I was the only one he could trust to sell as well as he could. I was proud of that"

Paul Lynde, Comedian

"Bob Dylan impresses me about as much as... well, I was gonna say a slug but I like slugs"

Don Van Vliet, Artist

"The body politic, as well as the human body, begins to die as soon as it is born, and carries itself the causes of its destruction"

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Philosopher

"Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well"

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Philosopher

"The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues"

Rene Descartes, Mathematician

"All of my misfortunes come from having thought too well of my fellows"

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Philosopher

"If the opposition disarms, well and good. If it refuses to disarm, we shall disarm it ourselves"

Joseph Stalin, Leader

"The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do without thought of fame. If it comes at all it will come because it is deserved, not because it is sought after"

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Poet

"Each of us has been put on earth with the ability to do something well. We cheat ourselves and the world if we don't use that ability as best we can"

George Allen, Sr., Coach

"A young woman has young claws, well sharpened. If she has character, that is. And if she hasn't so much the worse for you"

Henri Matisse, Artist

"This revolution, the information revoultion, is a revolution of free energy as well, but of another kind: free intellectual energy. It's very crude today, yet our Macintosh computer takes less power than a 100-watt bulb to run it and it can save you hours a day. What will it be able to do ten or 20 years from now, or 50 years from now?"

Steve Jobs, Businessman

"The design of the Mac wasn't what it looked like, although that was part of it. Primarily, it was how it worked. To design something really well, you have to get it. You have to really grok what it's all about. It takes a passionate commitment to really thoroughly understand something, chew it up, not just quickly swallow it"

Steve Jobs, Businessman

"For you to sleep well at night, the aesthetic, the quality, has to be carried all the way through"

Steve Jobs, Businessman

"Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries or dies, is sure of being kindly spoken of"

Jane Austen, Writer

"Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody"

Jane Austen, Writer

"The most beautiful as well as the most ugly inclinations of man are not part of a fixed biologically given human nature, but result from the social process which creates man"

Erich Fromm, Psychologist

"I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible"

Jane Austen, Writer

"We never do anything well till we cease to think about the manner of doing it"

William Hazlitt, Critic

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