Knowing Quotes - Page 6

This is part of what a family is about, not just love. It's knowing that your family will be there watching out for you. Nothing else will give you that. Not money. Not fame. Not work.

We're all born into this river without knowing how to swim, And eventually we learn how to keep this water under our chins

I am attracted to people who make this effort in knowing what suits them - they are individual and stylish.

I don't know what I'm doing and it's the not knowing that makes it interesting.

I do not know if you remember the tale of the girl who saves the ship under mutiny by sitting on the powder barrel with her lighted torch... and all the time knowing that it is empty? This has seemed to me a charming image of the women of my time. There they were, keeping the world in order... by sitting on the mystery of life, and knowing themselves that there was no mystery.

You have to be very focused and work very hard, but it is not about working hard without knowing what your aim is!

He who has learned how to obey will know how to command.

God is not in a hurry to fix us. Our behavior is not his first priority. We are his first priority. Loving us, knowing us, affirming us, protecting us. That is his top goal and his main concern.

I will not give you counsel, saying do this, or do that. For not in doing or contriving, nor in choosing between this course and another, can I avail; but only in knowing what was and is, and in part also what shall be.

If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it.

But I like to know that someone is stronger than I am. I want to be able to know that if I get tired, somebody is there to hold up the fort. I like knowing that I can't pick a refrigerator alone. God did not make me strong enough to do that.

You could probably get through life without knowing how to roast a chicken, but the question is, would you want to?

In these times I don't, in a manner of speaking, know what I want; perhaps I don't want what I know and want what I don't know.

The world doesn't want you to know. They want you to believe. But there is a big difference between believing and knowing. Should you believe in yourself or should you know yourself?

The greatest satisfaction is not the decoration. It is knowing that I am able to help someone who needs help.

God put us here, on this carnival ride. We close our eyes never knowing where it'll take us next.

I show up knowing exactly who I was and never leave as myself.

Freedom can exist only in the society of knowledge. Without learning, men are incapable of knowing their rights.

I'd rather live my life knowing that I'm not perfect than spend my whole life pretending to be.

Tactics is knowing what to do when there is something to do. Strategy is knowing what to do when there is nothing to do.

The secret to happiness, at least to peace of mind, is knowing how to separate sex from love. And, if possible, eliminating romantic love from your life, which is the love that makes you suffer. That way, I assure you, you live with greater tranquility and enjoy things more.

You know, doing what is right is easy. The problem is knowing what is right.

Whenever vanity and gaiety, a love of pomp and dress, furniture, equipage, buildings, great company, expensive diversions, and elegant entertainments get the better of the principles and judgments of men and women, there is no knowing where they will stop, nor into what evils, natural, moral, or political, they will lead us.

Professional courage is the steel fiber that makes an NCO unafraid and willing to tell it like it is. The concept of professional courage does not always mean being as tough as nails, either. It also suggests a willingness to listen to the soldiers' problems, to go to bat for them in a tough situation and it means knowing just how far they can go. It also means being willing to tell the boss when he is wrong.

Knowing thyself is the height of wisdom.