Towards Quotes
Sad Quotes about Towards

Morality is simply the attitude we adopt
towards people whom we personally dislike.
- Oscar Wilde

The first step towards the solution
of any problem is optimism.
- John Baines

We have nearly complete misunderstanding between
people of different faiths in Lake Wobegon,
and that's probably one reason why we get along so very well.
It's when you are trying to convince another person to think
the same way that you do that there is
friction and trouble between people.
But when you feel that the other person is
dumber than dirt, too dumb for words -
why waste your breath - you get along pretty well.
There's no bond between people that's quite so strong as
when people each feel slightly superior towards the other one.
- Garrison Keillor

Self-respect is often mistaken for arrogance
when in reality it is the opposite.
When we can recognize all our good qualities
as well as or faults with neutrality,
we can start to appreciate ourselves
as we would a dear friend
and experience the comfortable inner glow of respect.
To embrace the journey towards our full potential
we need to become our own loving teacher and coach.
Spurring ourselves on to become better human beings,
we develop true regard for ourselves,
and our life will become sacred.
- Osho

Life is a continuity always and always.
There is no final destination it is going towards.
Just the pilgrimage, just the journey in itself is life,
not reaching to some point,
no goal - just dancing and being in pilgrimage,
moving joyously, without bothering about any destination.
- Osho

It is good to have an end to journey towards;
but it is the journey that matters in the end.
- Ursula K. Le Guin

The more powerful and original a mind,
the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.
- Aldous Huxley

Time rushes towards us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics,
even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation.
- Tennessee Williams

I realize that patriotism is not enough.
I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone.
- Edith Cavell

Movies can and do have tremendous influence in shaping
young lives in the realm of entertainment towards the
ideals and objectives of normal adulthood.
- Walt Disney

An angry father is most cruel towards himself.
- Publilius Syrus

Even at our birth, death does but stand aside a little.
And every day he looks towards us and muses somewhat
to himself whether that day or the next he will draw nigh.
- Robert Bolt

Since that first showing of Foolish Wives I have seemed
to walk through vast crowds of people,
their white American faces turned towards me in stern reproof.
- Erich von Stroheim

I write funny.
If I can make my wife laugh, I know I'm on the right track.
But yes, I don't like to get Maudlin.
And I have a tendency towards it.
- Gene Wilder

Your first duty as a writer is to write to please yourself.
And you have no duty towards anyone else.
- Iris Chang

The path towards a free society has not been simple.
There are tragic and glorious pages in our history.
- Vladimir Putin

Our attitude towards others determines their attitude towards us.
- Earl Nightingale

In a balanced organization, working towards a common objective,
there is success.
- Arthur Helps

I am one of the million or more male residents of the United Kingdom,
who a year ago had no special yearning towards military life,
but who joined the army after war was declared.
- Patrick MacGill

Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness;
anger concealed often hardens into revenge.
- Robert Bulwer-Lytton

It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect.
The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we
become towards the defects of others.
- Joseph Addison

Yoga is about compassion and generosity towards others.
It means being mindful of the world around us.
- Christy Turlington

If we fix a goal and work towards it,
then we are never just passing time.
- Anna Neagle

To receive applause for works which do not demand all
our powers hinders our advance towards a perfecting of our spirit.
It usually means that thereafter we stand still.
- Georg C. Lichtenberg

We may never be strong enough to be entirely
nonviolent in thought, word and deed.
But we must keep nonviolence as our goal
and make strong progress towards it.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Our life is what our thoughts make it.
A man will find that as he alters his thoughts toward things and other people,
things and other people will alter towards him.
- James Allen

You can never reach the promised land.
You can march towards it.
- James Callaghan

There's a subterranean impetus towards pornography
so powerful that half the business world is juiced
by the sort of half sex that one finds in advertisements.
- Norman Mailer

When I was growing up in the 1960s, there was starting
to be more books geared towards young adults.
- Alison Bechdel

All serious conversations gravitate towards philosophy.
- Ernest Dimnet

Since I've been in Playboy myself in Australia,
I love it, and I think it's really empowering and positive towards women,
which is not a view that many women hold.
- Dannii Minogue

The main engagement of the writer is towards truthfulness;
therefore he must keep his mind and his judgement free.
- Gabrielle Roy

You can just drift unhappily towards this vision of heaven on earth,
and ultimately that is what architecture is a vision of:
Heaven on earth,
at it's best.
- Ben Nicholson

Yeah, yeah I think that's one of the biggest misconceptions towards the band.
The biggest one is that we're Satan worshippers,
but next to that just the fact that we're normal.
- Tom Araya

After you've done it for so many years,
you have to find a new direction.
You have to find something in your soul that's going to push you towards -
to find your inspiration.
- Elvis Stojko

I have had friends who have acted kindly towards me,
and it has been my good fortune to have it in my power
to give them substantial proofs of my gratitude.
- Giacomo Casanova

What is wonderful about great literature is that it
transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.
- E. M. Forster

The service of philosophy, of speculative culture,
towards the human spirit, is to rouse,
to startle it to a life of constant and eager observation.
- Walter Pater

The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man's heart.
One must imagine Sisyphus happy.
- Albert Camus

Since an early age I was taught to be very politically
aware and knew from childhood that the process was
something I wanted to contribute towards if I could.
- Adam Rickitt

There is only one valid species of voyage,
which is walk towards the men.
- Ella Maillart

O my brethren, my heart is enlarge towards you.
I trust I feel something of that hidden,
but powerful presence of Christ, whilst I am preaching to you.
- George Whitefield

The age we live in is a busy age; in which knowledge
is rapidly advancing towards perfection.
- Jeremy Bentham

It's difficult to have any animosity towards someone
if you recognize that on so many levels they're exactly the same as you.
- Jonathan Taylor Thomas

The lessons of the past should steer us towards ensuring
lasting legacies for generations yet to be born.
- Hun Sen

All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music.
- Walter Pater

We must stop posing as victims of the West and behaving
negatively towards the West.
We must participate with the West on an equal footing
in the reconstruction of the world.
- Tahar Ben Jelloun

In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness:
To believe in the indestructible element within one,
and not to strive towards it.
- Franz Kafka

I can't talk to a man who bears an undeserved animosity towards ferrets.
- Graham Chapman

Everyone has a responsibility towards this larger family of man,
but especially if you're privileged,
that increases your responsibility.
- Susan Sarandon

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

Henceforth, language studies were no longer directed
merely towards correcting grammar.
- Ferdinand de Saussure

My feelings towards Scott Card are pretty mixed.
Politically, he and I are pretty far apart.
- Cory Doctorow

Many people think that virtue consists of severity towards others.
- Alphonse Karr

Happiness comes when we test our skills towards some meaningful purpose.
- John Stossel

But I've gravitated more towards the drum set.
- John Otto

There is a firm, clear commitment to provide resources
and ideas to enable us to organize the Afghans towards
starting the process of rehabilitation and reconstruction.
- Lakhdar Brahimi

Modem science, then, maintains on the one hand that nature,
both organic and inorganic, strives towards a state
of order and that man's actions are governed by the same tendency.
- Rudolf Arnheim

My attitude is that if you push me towards something
that you think is a weakness,
then I will turn that perceived weakness into a strength.
- Michael Jordan

In those days, slavery was not looked upon,
even in Quaker Philadelphia, with the shudder and abhorrence
one feels towards it now.
- John Sergeant Wise

I certainly was an actor and then I drifted more towards writing and directing.
- Thomas Haden Church

Until Genevieve I had tended towards the more dramatic type of role.
- Dinah Sheridan

We're in a giant car heading towards a brick wall and
everyone's arguing over where they're going to sit.
- David Suzuki

You can have a laugh in Los Angeles,
or you can weep in Los Angeles,
depending on your attitude towards it.
- Miranda Richardson

Too many athletes don't have the ability to set a goal
and then carefully go towards it.
- Bill Toomey

Only towards the end of this process are any of the
chapters in fully readable condition,
a state of affairs that used to alarm my wife.
But Joan's got used to it.
- Fred Saberhagen

He who exercises government by means of his virtue
may be compared to the north polar star,
which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it.
- Confucius

At my age, you are naturally inclined towards teaching.
- James Levine

I am confident that the vast majority of teachers will
work with us towards achieving that goal.
- Estelle Morris

Science, which is not so attached to 'truth' as it once was,
ut more to immediate 'effectiveness',
is now drifting towards a decline, it's civic fall from grace.
- Paul Virilio

Our attitude toward life determines life's attitude towards us.
- John N. Mitchell