949 private quotes tagged alone

“War alone brings up to their highest tension all human energies and imposes the stamp of nobility upon the peoples who have the courage to make it.” — Benito Mussolini

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“To live alone is the fate of all great souls.” — Arthur Schopenhauer

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“To dare to live alone is the rarest courage since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet.” — Charles Caleb Colton

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“I was a little doubtful about the propriety of going to the Mammoth Cave without a gentleman escort, but if two ladies travel alone they must have the courage of men.” — Maria Mitchell

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“Faith, mighty faith, the promise sees, And looks to God alone Laughs at impossibilities, And cries it shall be done.” — Charles Wesley

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“Without strength and courage it's really hard to perform at the highest levels of international figure skating, because you're alone on the ice and you only have seven minutes over two nights to prove yourself.” — Scott Hamilton

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“Men was formed for society, and is neither capable of living alone, nor has the courage to do it.” — William Blackstone

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“Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.” — Marcel Proust

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“If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology must go.” — John Burroughs

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“Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.” — Pericles

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“Fashion is always of the time in which you live. It is not something standing alone. But the grand problem, the most important problem, is to rejeuvenate women. To make women look young. Then their outlook changes. They feel more joyous.” — Coco Chanel

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“Leadership is the other side of the coin of loneliness, and he who is a leader must always act alone. And acting alone, accept everything alone.” — Ferdinand Marcos

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“The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it. You and you alone make me feel that I am alive. Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough.” — George Edward Moore

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“Let me alone, and go in search of someone else.” — Ali ibn Abi Talib

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“Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.” — Martin Luther

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“If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.” — Samuel Johnson

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“The best of artists has no conception that the marble alone does not contain within itself.” — Michelangelo

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“No one can arrive from being talented alone, work transforms talent into genius.” — Anna Pavlova

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“The rewards of virtue alone abide secure.” — Sophocles

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“The strong man is strongest when alone.” — Friedrich Schiller

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“The man who goes alone can start today but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“No one ever said on their deathbed, 'Gee, I wish I had spent more time alone with my computer'.” — Danielle Berry

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“I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense.” — Robert Frost

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“A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.” — Yoko Ono

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“Show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen, and 8 times out of 9 I'll show you a man with detestable spiritual qualities.” — Charles Bukowski

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