Consists Quotes

Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.
Plutarch

Courage, Fear, Cause

It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art consists.
John Ruskin

Power, Art, Nothing

Faith consists in being vitally concerned with that ultimate reality to which I give the symbolical name of God. Whoever reflects earnestly on the meaning of life is on the verge of an act of faith.
Paul Tillich

Life, Faith, God

In the discharge of the duties of this office, there is one rule of action more important than all others. It consists in never doing anything that someone else can do for you.
Calvin Coolidge

Important, Someone, Others

Our entire life - consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are.
Jean Anouilh

Life, Ourselves, Accepting

The true and solid peace of nations consists not in equality of arms, but in mutual trust alone.
Pope John XXIII

Peace, Trust, Equality

A nation' s strength ultimately consists in what it can do on its own, and not in what it can borrow from others.
Indira Gandhi

Strength, Others, Nation

I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.
Anna Quindlen

Children, Enough, Content

Leadership consists not in degrees of technique but in traits of character; it requires moral rather than athletic or intellectual effort, and it imposes on both leader and follower alike the burdens of self-restraint.
Lewis H. Lapham

Leadership, Character, Leader

True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.
Ben Jonson

Happiness, True, Friends

True politeness consists in being easy one's self, and in making every one about one as easy as one can.
Alexander Pope

True, Self, Easy

A woman's chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of coats.
Nathaniel Hawthorne

Woman, Series, Chastity

Health consists with temperance alone.
Alexander Pope

Health, Alone, Temperance

The highest manifestation of life consists in this: that a being governs its own actions. A thing which is always subject to the direction of another is somewhat of a dead thing.
Thomas Aquinas

Life, Another, Dead

True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.
James Russell Lowell

True, Mean, Knowing

Fanaticism consists of redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim.
George Santayana

Effort, Aim, Forgotten

Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.
Jean Paul

Courage, Danger, Seeing

Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.
John Kenneth Galbraith

Politics, Art, Between

Good management consists in showing average people how to do the work of superior people.
John D. Rockefeller

Work, Good, Management

Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.
Lin Yutang

Life, Art, Wisdom

The art of pleasing consists in being pleased.
William Hazlitt

Art, Pleasing, Pleased

Tact is the discrimination of differences. It consists in conscious deviations.
Theodor Adorno

Conscious, Tact

Now this relaxation of the mind from work consists on playful words or deeds. Therefore it becomes a wise and virtuous man to have recourse to such things at times.
Thomas Aquinas

Work, Wise, Mind

The world still consists of two clearly divided groups: the English and the foreigners. One group consists of less than 50 million people; the other of 3,950 million. The latter group does not really count.
George Mikes

Two, Group, Less

I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.
Anna Quindlen

Children, Enough, Content

America is not anything if it consists of each of us. It is something only if it consists of all of us.
Woodrow Wilson

Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible.
Eric Hoffer

Good, Wise, Living

Knowledge is two-fold, and consists not only in an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is false.
Charles Caleb Colton

Knowledge, True, False

The experience of life consists of the experience which the spirit has of itself in matter and as matter, in mind and as mind, in emotion, as emotion, etc.
Franz Kafka

Life, Experience, Mind

There's one Baldessari work I genuinely love and would like to own, maybe because of my Midwestern roots and love of driving alone. 'The backs of all the trucks passed while driving from Los Angeles to Santa Barbara, California, Sunday, 20 January 1963' consists of a grid of 32 small color photographs depicting just what the title says.
Jerry Saltz

Love, Work, Alone

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