Make Quotes

Three meals plus bedtime make four sure blessings a day.

It's important that I make a difference in some way. It's not necessarily how I make a difference, but I want to make sure that I do.

Take chances, make mistakes. That's how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave.

A hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation.

An unexamined faith is not worth having, for fundamentalism and uncritical certitude entail the rejection of one of the great human gifts: that of free will, of the liberty to make up our own minds based on evidence and tradition and reason.

Measure what is measurable, and make measurable what is not so.

Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.

But I don't begrudge anybody, because I know how hard it is to have that dream and to make it happen, whether or not it's just to put a roof over your head and food on the table.

There seems to be a law that governs all our actions so I never make plans.

Never make your home in a place. Make a home for yourself inside your own head. You'll find what you need to furnish it - memory, friends you can trust, love of learning, and other such things. That way it will go with you wherever you journey.

I'm incredibly impressed by people who organize to achieve a goal, and believe that they can make a difference and then go ahead and do just that. I think it's incredible.

The New Dealers have all left Washington to make way for the car dealers.

Nothing can make injustice just but mercy.

Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.

You have to spend a lot to make a lot. It's not like I'm sitting on top of a pile of money.

Don't lower your expectations to meet your performance. Raise your level of performance to meet your expectations. Expect the best of yourself, and then do what is necessary to make it a reality.

I tried to make myself as pretty as possible and even then I thought I was ugly. I found it madly difficult to go out, to show myself.

Even in the valley of the shadow of death, two and two do not make six.

Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.

Women are a sisterhood. They make common cause in behalf of the sex; and, indeed, this is natural enough, when we consider the vast power that the law gives us over them.

God hath given you one face, and you make yourselves another.

And the American public was able to make up their own mind whether this verdict was a just verdict or not. So I think there's a lot of value in the public being able to see how the system works or doesn't work, so I think there's a definite value there.

Evil is the product of the ability of humans to make abstract that which is concrete.

You can't make positive choices for the rest of your life without an environment that makes those choices easy, natural, and enjoyable.

Follow your dreams, work hard, practice and persevere. Make sure you eat a variety of foods, get plenty of exercise and maintain a healthy lifestyle.

What another would have done as well as you, do not do it. What another would have said as well as you, do not say it; what another would have written as well, do not write it. Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself-and thus make yourself indispensable.

If you are far from the enemy, make him believe you are near.

What's nice about playing somebody real is that generally there's more information about them, so a lot of the questions that you'd otherwise have to make up the answers to are already there.

Beauty is our weapon against nature; by it we make objects, giving them limit, symmetry, proportion. Beauty halts and freezes the melting flux of nature.

We only acknowledge small faults in order to make it appear that we are free from great ones.