Crow Quotes - Page 6

The soul that has been enriched by communion with God will not be dismayed by isolation but will welcome solitude. He will seek not the crowd but the closet, and emerging will never walk alone, for he has unseen companionship.

Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.

Never follow the crowd. Go where it's empty.

Trading has taught me not to take the conventional wisdom for granted. What money I made in trading is testimony to the fact that the majority is wrong a lot of the time. The vast majority is wrong even more of the time. I've learned that markets, which are often just mad crowds, are often irrational; when emotionally overwrought, they're almost always wrong.

How can he [today's writer] be honored, when he does not honor himself; when he loses himself in the crowd; when he is no longer the lawgiver, but the sycophant, ducking to the giddy opinion of a reckless public.

We didn't invent the Grateful Dead, the crowd invented the Grateful Dead. We were just in line to see what was going to happen.

If two people are meant to be together, nothing can keep them apart.

You cannot be Christ’s servant if you are not willing to follow him, cross and all. What do you crave? A crown? Then it must be a crown of thorns if you are to be like him. Do you want to be lifted up? So you shall, but it will be upon a cross.

It is better to fall among crows than flatterers; for those devour only the dead - these the living.

Nature does not compromise; a pelican is not a compromise between a crow and otter, it is just a pelican. Nature makes no compromises; any inefficient products are recalled to the manufacturer!

No competence is required to be a scarecrow!

The man that walks wit crowd, will get no farther than the crowd. The man that walks alone, will reach places unknown.

No matter what cause one defends, it will suffer permanent disgrace if one resorts to blind attacks on crowds of innocent people.

We must wake ourselves up! Or somebody else will take our place, and bear our cross, and thereby rob us of our crown.

It's possible to dazzle a crowd if you really work at it. But that is no qualification for leadership. Hitler was a master of crowds.

All other swindlers upon earth are nothing to the self-swindlers, and with such pretences did I cheat myself. Surely a curious thing. That I should innocently take a bad half-crown of somebody else's manufacture, is reasonable enough; but that I should knowingly reckon the spurious coin of my own make, as good money!

It is this simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences-makes them, as the poets tell us, 'charm the crowd's ears more finely.' Educated men lay down broad general principles; uneducated men argue from common knowledge and draw obvious conclusions.

Once you place that crown of liar on your head, you can take it off again, but it leaves a stain for all time.

The New Age? Its just the old age stuck in a microwave oven for fifteen seconds.

Today, do just a little bit more. Turn going the extra mile into a habit - it is what lifts most successful people above the crowd.

It is best to live with honor for just a day than with dishonor for many decades; better a short lived celestial swan than a century-lived crow.

Abash'd the Devil stood, And felt how awful goodness is.

Though it has no thought of keeping watch, it's not for naught that the scarecrow stands in the grain field.

We must all make do with the rags of love we find flapping on the scarecrow of humanity.

The well dressed man never stands out in a crowd; his elegance sets him apart.