Quotes: W

Want to improve your relationships? See love as a verb rather than as a feeling.
- Stephen R. Covey

Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.
- Frank Outlaw

We all die. The goal isn’t to live forever. The goal is to create something that will.
- Chuck Palahniuk

We are all uniquely positioned to influence the world.
- Scott Robinson

We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.
- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

We are not powerless specks of dust drifting around in the wind, blown by random destiny. We are, each of us, like beautiful snowflakes – unique, and born for a specific reason and purpose.
- Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

We are such little men when the stars come out.
- Herman Hagedorn

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
- Aristotle

We don’t see the things the way they are. We see things the way WE are.
- Anais Nin

We each have a choice: to approach life as a creator or a critic, a lover or a hater, a giver or a taker.

We have all been placed on this earth to discover our own path, and we will never be happy if we live someone else’s idea of life.
- James Van Praagh

We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

We live in a universe whose age we can’t quite compute, surrounded by stars whose distances we don’t altogether know, filled with matter we can’t identify, operating in conformance with physical laws whose properties we don’t truly understand.
- Bill Bryson

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give. – Winston Churchill

We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.
- George Orwell

Wealth is difficult to enjoy, if you’ve given up health in the process.
- Dan Miller

What a person praises is perhaps a surer standard, even than what he condemns, of his own character, information and abilities.
- Hare

What if you gave someone a gift, and they neglected to thank you for it…would you be likely to give them another? Life is the same way. In order to attract more of the blessings that life has to offer, you must truly appreciate what you already have.
- Ralph Marston

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

What you hear, see and read will determine your destiny. You’re the same person today that you’ll be five years from now, except for the people you meet and the books you read.

Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality.
- Earl Nightingale

When I hear somebody sigh, “Life is hard,” I am always tempted to ask, “Compared to what?”
- Sydney Harris

When I was a boy, I was told that anybody could become president; I’m beginning to believe it.
- Clarence Darrow

When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.
- Abraham Joshua Heschel

When in doubt, tell the truth.
- Mark Twain

When it’s all over, it’s not who you were…it’s whether you made a difference.
- Robert Dole

When life becomes an extended picnic, with nothing of importance to do…ideas of greatness become an irritant.
- Charles Murray

When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us.
- Alexander Graham Bell

When the Japanese mend broken objects, they aggrandize the damage by filling the cracks with gold. They believe that when something’s suffered damage and has a history it becomes more beautiful.
- Barbara Bloom

When the only tool you have is a hammer…every problem appears to be a nail.

When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

When we come face to face with God, we are going to be judged on how much we loved.
- Mother Teresa

When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.
- Henri Nouwen

When we lose one blessing, another is often, most unexpectedly, given in its place.
- C.S. Lewis

When we recall the past, we usually find that it is the simplest things, not the great occasions that in retrospect give off the greatest glow of happiness.
- Bob Hope

When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost.
- Billy Graham

When you blame others, you give up your power to change.
- Douglas Noel Adams

When you cannot trust God, you cannot trust anything; and when you cannot trust anything, you get the condition of the world as it is today.
- Basil King

When you help someone up a hill, you get that much closer to the top yourself.

When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life in such a way that when you die, the world will cry and you will rejoice.

Whenever you start – give it your best. The opportunities are there to be anything you want to be. But wanting to be someone isn’t enough; dreaming about it isn’t enough; thinking about it isn’t enough. You’ve got to study for it, work for it, fight for it with all your heart and soul, because nobody is going to hand it to you.
- Gen. Colin Powell

Whether it’s the best of times or the worst of times…it’s the only time you’ve got.
- Art Buchwald

While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us.
- Benjamin Franklin

Who does not thank for little will not thank for much.
- Estonian proverb

Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.
- Spanish Proverb

Whoever it was who searched the heavens with a telescope and found no God would not have found the human mind if he had searched the brain with a microscope.
- George Santayana

Why is there never enough time to do it right… but always time to do it over?

Why not go out on a limb? Isn’t that where the fruit is?
- Frank Scully

Wisdom is made up of ten parts… nine of which are silence… the tenth, brevity.

With age come the inner, the higher life. Who would be forever young, to dwell always in externals?
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton

With humility comes wisdom.
- Proverbs 11:2

Words may show a man’s wit, but actions his meaning.
- Benjamin Franklin

Work is love made visible.
- Khalil Gibran

Work willingly at whatever you do, as though you were working for the Lord rather than for people.
- Colossians 3:23

Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength.
- Corrie Ten Boom