Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, and the society of thyself.
If you're going to put yourself above everybody else, you might end up alone.
There are places and moments in which one is so completely alone that one sees the world entire.
I'm single, footloose and fancy free, I have no responsibilities, no anchors. Work, friendship and self-improvement, that's me.
I think the greatest amount of pressure is the pressure I place on myself. So in a way I chose to be alone.
We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.
For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.
Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.
Before the throne of the Almighty, man will be judged not by his acts but by his intentions. For God alone reads our hearts.
Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another.
Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not the world is full of educated failures. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.
I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.
We can be tired, weary and emotionally distraught, but after spending time alone with God, we find that He injects into our bodies energy, power and strength.
Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories.
It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.
The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it. You and you alone make me feel that I am alive. Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough.
Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in springtime.
I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered at the White House - with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.
Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.
Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.
Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.
A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.
You are capable of more than you know. Choose a goal that seems right for you and strive to be the best, however hard the path. Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure. Persist! The world needs all you can give.
You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.
Unconditional war can no longer lead to unconditional victory. It can no longer serve to settle disputes... can no longer be of concern to great powers alone.
Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than in bad company.