Quotes of: We-cannot Keyword

We cannot control other people and their actions but we can control how we act and react to them.

Elizabeth George

There is a direct relationship between how we feel about Jesus Christ and how we see ourselves. We cannot increase our devotion to the Savior without also obtaining a greater sense of purpose, identity, and conviction.

Sheri L. Dew

We cannot be kind to each other here for even an hour. We whisper, and hint, and chuckle and grin at our brother's shame; however you take it we men are a little breed.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

We cannot control all the circumstances of our lives, but we can control our attitudes and our actions. If we don’t, someone else will.

Toni Sorenson

Once, we lived to love. Now, we live for power. The world is changing. But we cannot stop the evolution, or everything will come apart.

Love

In the dim background of mind we know what we ought to be doing but somehow we cannot start.

William James

But we cannot rely on memorials and museums alone. We can tell ourselves we will never forget and we likely won't. But we need to make sure that we teach history to those who never had the opportunity to remember in the first place.

Dan Rather

A revolution is coming – a revolution which will be peaceful if we are wise enough; compassionate if we care enough; successful if we are fortunate enough – but a revolution which is coming whether we will it or not. We can affect its character; ...

Robert F. Kennedy

Can we ignore what is going on around us, can we disconnect ourselves, our own material situation, our spiritual selves, who we are, can we disconnect that from history and the social context of our lives? The older I get, the more I'm convinced that...

Martin Donovan

We cannot judge our prayer...by how we feel when we pray, but rather by how we are loving when we live.

Inviting the Mystic, Supporting the Prophet: An Introduction to Spiritual Direction

We cannot know the future. All we can do is face it bravely. We should take heed of those we love and respect. But in the end, we make every decision alone.

Seer of Sevenwaters

The clear and present danger of climate change means we cannot burn our way to prosperity. We already rely too heavily on fossil fuels. We need to find a new, sustainable path to the future we want. We need a clean industrial revolution.

Ban Ki-moon

We can believe we are being self-reliant and independent, and yet there is still clearly an overarching destiny, a Great Maker. So when we say we have faith in ourselves, we cannot really separate the small self from the large self.

Julia Cameron

We in the West do not refrain from childbirth because we are concerned about the population explosion or because we feel we cannot afford children, but because we do not like children.

Germaine Greer

If we desire a society of peace, then we cannot achieve such a society through violence. If we desire a society without discrimination, then we must not discriminate against anyone in the process of building this society. If we desire a society that ...

Bayard Rustin

We all know how we can be turned around by a magic place; that's why we travel, often. And yet we all know, too, that the change cannot be guaranteed. Travel is a fool's paradise, Emerson reminded us, if we think that we can find anything far off tha...

Pico Iyer

We are drawn towards a thing, either because there is some good we are seeking from it, or because we cannot do without it. Sometimes the two motives coincide. Often however they do not. Each is distinct and quite independent. We eat distasteful food...

Waiting for God

Habit is a cable; we weave a thread of it each day, and at last we cannot break it.

Horace Mann

We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves.

Malcolm X

We cannot perform our tasks to the best of our power, unless we think well of our own capacity.

William Godwin

If we cannot now end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.

John F. Kennedy