Alone Quotes

Before the throne of the Almighty, man will be judged not by his acts but by his intentions. For God alone reads our hearts.


It's often just enough to be with someone. I don't need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes between you both. You're not alone.


Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories.


I restore myself when I'm alone.


It's better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone - so far.


It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.


One travels more usefully when alone, because he reflects more.


We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even alone in genders.

To Follow by faith alone is to follow blindly.


I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered at the White House - with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.

Unconditional war can no longer lead to unconditional victory. It can no longer serve to settle disputes... can no longer be of concern to great powers alone.


For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.


A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.

Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.


The doer alone learneth.


I don't want to be alone, I want to be left alone.


I have to be alone very often. I'd be quite happy if I spent from Saturday night until Monday morning alone in my apartment. That's how I refuel.


Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.


If it's true that our species is alone in the universe, then I'd have to say the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little.


Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.

A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.


I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.


I have never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.


The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.


There is danger that we lose sight of what our friend is absolutely, while considering what she is to us alone.


No face which we can give to a matter will stead us so well at last as the truth. This alone wears well.


You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with.


Wisdom alone is the science of other sciences.


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.


It is better to be alone than in bad company.


It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company.


Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company.


Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.


Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.


Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone.


Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality; man, alone, can dream and make his dreams come true.


Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.


We are rarely proud when we are alone.


Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.


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

This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.

God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, and in the flowers and clouds and stars.


Blood alone moves the wheels of history.


Grant that I may not pray alone with the mouth; help me that I may pray from the depths of my heart.


Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in springtime.


Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.


Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. No man will admire her the more, no woman will like her the better for it. Neatness and fashion are enough for the former, and a something of shabbiness or impropriety will be most endearing to the latter.


Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another.


The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.


Your most precious, valued possessions and your greatest powers are invisible and intangible. No one can take them. You, and you alone, can give them. You will receive abundance for your giving.

It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning.

I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.


A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.


To the press alone, chequered as it is with abuses, the world is indebted for all the triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.


You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.


What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.


Can anyone understand how it is to have lived in the White House and then, suddenly, to be living alone as the President's widow?


I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.


Often we can help each other most by leaving each other alone; at other times we need the hand-grasp and the word of cheer.


If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.

The two operations of our understanding, intuition and deduction, on which alone we have said we must rely in the acquisition of knowledge.


Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.


There are two types of poor people, those who are poor together and those who are poor alone. The first are the true poor, the others are rich people out of luck.


A man can be himself only so long as he is alone.


To live alone is the fate of all great souls.


All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.


It is the fight alone that pleases us, not the victory.


The struggle alone pleases us, not the victory.


No woman can be handsome by the force of features alone, any more that she can be witty by only the help of speech.


Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.

I believe that man will not merely endure. He will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.


Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.


It is very easy to love alone.


When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that.


Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us.

A man is born alone and dies alone; and he experiences the good and bad consequences of his karma alone; and he goes alone to hell or the Supreme abode.


It is in moments of illness that we are compelled to recognize that we live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom, whole worlds apart, who has no knowledge of us and by whom it is impossible to make ourselves understood: our body.


Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.


You that would judge me, do not judge alone this book or that, come to this hallowed place where my friends' portraits hang and look thereon; Ireland's history in their lineaments trace; think where man's glory most begins and ends and say my glory was I had such friends.


The light of lights looks always on the motive, not the deed, the shadow of shadows on the deed alone.