Famous Quotes & Sayings

Eckhart Tolle

There is only one perpetrator of evil on the planet: human unconsciousness. That realization is true forgiveness. With forgiveness, your victim identity dissolves, and your true power emerges--the power of Presence. Instead of blaming the darkness, you bring in the light.

May Sarton

True power is given to the vulnerable.

Hrithik Roshan

True power and true happiness are when you use your success to make others around you feel even more significant.

Pope Francis

Mercy is the true power that can save humanity and the world from sin and evil.

Terry Tempest Williams

We forget the nature of true power. The power within is abundance. The power without is greed.

Voltaire

True power and true politeness are above vanity.

Charles Simmons

Those who obtain riches by labor, care, and watching, know their value. Those who impart them to sustain and extend knowledge, virtue, and religion, know their use. Those who lose them by accident or fraud know their vanity. And those who experience the difficulties and dangers of preserving them know their perplexities.

Al Pacino

Vanity is my favourite sin.

Al Pacino

Vanity: my favorite sin.

Cherie Lunghi

I am simply not such a slave to my vanity, and I don't want to be, because as you get older you really have to start accepting the inevitable.

Charlotte Lennox

What is called liberality is often no more than the vanity of giving, of which some persons are fonder than of what they give.

Bernard of Clairvaux

There are some who wish to learn for no other reason than that they may be looked upon as learned, which is ridiculous vanity ... Others desire to learn that they may morally instruct others, that is love. And, lastly, there are some who wish to learn that they may be themselves edified; and that is prudence.

Dennis Lehane

Vanity is a weakness. I know this. It's a shallow dependence on the exterior self, on how one looks instead of what one is. I know this well...Vanity and dishonesty may be vices, but they're also the first forms of protection I ever knew.

Benjamin Franklin

I scarce ever heard or saw the introductory words, "Without vanity I may say," etc., but some vain thing immediately followed.

Benjamin Franklin

Scarcely have I ever heard or read the introductory phrase, "I may say without vanity," but some striking and characteristic instance of vanity has immediately followed.

Fanny Burney

such is the effect of true politeness, that it banishes all restraint and embarassment.

Bono

Politeness is, you know, is a wonderful thing. Manners are in fact, really important thing. But remember, Jesus didn't have many manners as we now know.