Accord Quotes

Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.
Socrates

Death, Philosophy, Themselves

A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes but to get into accord with them: they are legitimately what directs his conduct in the world.
Sigmund Freud

Strive, Conduct, Eliminate

I will not attack your doctrines nor your creeds if they accord liberty to me. If they hold thought to be dangerous - if they aver that doubt is a crime, then I attack them one and all, because they enslave the minds of men.
Robert Green Ingersoll

Men, Doubt, Thought

There are two distinct classes of what are called thoughts: those that we produce in ourselves by reflection and the act of thinking and those that bolt into the mind of their own accord.
Thomas Paine

Mind, Thinking, Two

All you have to do is know where you're going. The answers will come to you of their own accord.
Earl Nightingale

The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encouraged.
Ovid

The way of the Creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the Great Harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.
Alexander Pope

Change, Nature, Great

Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord.
Nikolai Gogol

Beauty, Beautiful, Useful

The highest purpose is to have no purpose at all. This puts one in accord with nature, in her manner of operation.
John Cage

Nature, Her, Purpose

Where might is mixed with wit, there is too good an accord in a government.
Elizabeth I

Good, Government, Might

If I decide to be an idiot, then I'll be an idiot on my own accord.
Johann Sebastian Bach

When we look back, the only things we cherish are those which in some way met our original want; the desire which formed in us in early youth, undirected, and of its own accord.
Willa Cather

Youth, Desire, Early

Failure to accord credit to anyone for what he may have done is a great weakness in any man.
William Howard Taft

Great, Failure, May

I've never had a very quiet voice. I tried in choir to make it smaller, and it just didn't work out. And I listened to a lot of soul music when I was growing up on my own accord. But I was mostly into Mama Cass and Gladys Knight, and they all had big voices too; just different than mine.
Beth Ditto

Music, Work, Different

Lying at the root of the social agreements of 1980 are the courage, sense of responsibility, and the solidarity of the working people. Both sides have then recognized that an accord must be reached if bloodshed is to be prevented.
Lech Walesa

Courage, Working, Sense

Celibacy is not a matter of compulsion. Someone is accepted as a priest only when he does it of his own accord.
Joseph Ratzinger

Someone, Matter, Accepted

Thanksgiving is a season that is very much in accord with the themes and teachings of Jesus Christ.
John Clayton

Jesus, Christ, Season

A building or a town will only be alive to the extent that it is governed in a timeless way. It is a process which brings order out of nothing but ourselves; it cannot be attained, but it will happen of its own accord, if we will only let it.
Christopher Alexander

Nothing, Happen, Cannot

What makes you a Christian is whether or not you really are in accord with biblical theology and whether you know Jesus Christ as your Saviour.
Walter Martin

Jesus, Christian, Makes

I still drive my 1977 Honda Accord. The paint is almost all worn off. It's still running.
Larry Wall

Off, Almost, Drive

Command that in no way there be in your household any who make strife, discord or divisions in the hostel, but all shall be of one accord, of one will as of one heart and one soul.
Robert Grosseteste

Heart, Soul, Shall

That is why if Lebanon concludes a peace agreement with Israel and brings that accord to the Parliament our deputies will reject it; Hezbollah refuses any conciliation with Israel in principle.
Hassan Nasrallah

Peace, Why, Israel

My cousin Francis and I are in perfect accord - he wants Milan, and so do I.
Charles V

Perfect, Wants, Cousin

We each have a sixth sense that is attuned to the oneness dimension in life, providing a means for us to guide our lives in accord with our ideas.
Henry Reed

Life, Sense, Means

Public notice does not necessarily accord with internal fulfilment.
Michael Tippett

Public, Notice, Internal

It is a misfortune that necessity has induced men to accord greater license to this formidable engine, in order to obtain liberty, than can be borne with less important objects in view; for the press, like fire, is an excellent servant, but a terrible master.
James F. Cooper

Men, Important, Fire

The movements which I make I cannot possibly repress because, at the time, I am actually the idea I am interpreting, and naturally I picture my players and auditors as in accord with me. I know, of course, that my mannerisms have been widely discussed.
John Philip Sousa

Time, Cannot, Idea

In recent years personal injury attorneys and trial lawyers have attacked the food industry with numerous lawsuits alleging that these businesses should pay monetary damages to those who, of their own accord, consume too much of a legal, safe product.
Bob Ney

Food, Legal, Personal

One month, two months, I am ready to accept any accord on this point that has the approval of the inspectors.
Jacques Chirac

Two, Accept, Point

Business deals are successfully negotiated every day throughout America. The common thread is a mutual desire to reach an accord. And the media business is no different.
Gordon Smith

Business, Different, America

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