Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes

The spirit in which a thing is given determines that in which the debt is acknowledged; it's the intention, not the face-value of the gift, that's weighed.

Seneca the Younger

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• I do think that tonal element of Trump's is attractive, but I don't know if I would go so far as to say the confrontational element of his rhetoric is necessarily attractive.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • Think
  • Know
  • Trump

• Picture yourself in your minds eye as having already achieved this goal. See yourself doing the things you'll be doing when you've reached your goal.

  

  Earl Nightingale
  • Picture
  • Eye
  • Goal

• We make a ladder for ourselves of our vices, if we trample those same vices underfoot.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Same
  • Vices
  • Ladder

• Rock Hudson wasn't my type. He's a great guy and had a great sense of humor.

  

  Tab Hunter
  • Great
  • Guy
  • Rock

• If I wished to do something, even if I couldn't find anyone who wanted to make the effort with me, I would go out solo climbing. I did find solo climbing very challenging and a little frightening. You knew that you were completely on your own, and you had to overcome all the problems and possible dangers.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • Me
  • Effort
  • Problems

• The Supreme Court has insulted you over and over again, Lord. They've taken your Bible away from the schools. They've forbidden little children to pray. They've taken the knowledge of God as best they can, and organizations have come into court to take the knowledge of God out of the public square of America.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • God
  • Children
  • America

• I had the lunchbox that cleared the cafeteria. I was very unpopular in the early grades. Because I hung out with my grandfather, I started to bring my lunchbox with sardine sandwiches and calamari that I would eat off my fingers like rings. I was also always reeking of garlic.

  

  Rachael Ray
  • Always
  • Grandfather
  • Grades

• Appointments to the higher judiciary must be through transparent processes, which ensure that persons of impeccable integrity and high competence are appointed to these positions.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • High
  • Integrity
  • Transparent

• You have to be careful how you're using the word boycott.

  

  Vernon Jordan
  • You
  • Word
  • Be Careful

• I think Picasso is more feminine than Matisse.

  

  Gary Hume
  • Think
  • More
  • I Think

• A faithful person is revealed by those who hate him or her. Are you hated for your faith or ethics? If nobody hates you, maybe you have not displayed Christ openly enough.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • Faith
  • Hate
  • Person

• I look for our freshmen to contribute a lot in the relays. We also need them to get into the finals in their respective events, to knock other people out of position to score. Some of the younger athletes, like Lauren Scott , Steven Bach and Terrell Thompson , have the ability to do that. At the Big Ten meet, I tell all of our athletes to focus on beating bodies, not on jumping a certain distance or running a certain time. If you focus on beating people, those things will come.

  

  Jack Warner
  • People
  • Running
  • Focus

• For who can stop the heart from breaking?

  

  Alan Paton
  • Heart
  • Stop
  • Breaking

• I even scored Monaco's goal too. Please, put it down as an own goal for me!

  

  Alessandro Del Piero
  • Goal
  • Monaco

• The way you motivate a football team is to eliminate the unmotivated ones.

  

  Lou Holtz
  • Team
  • Football
  • Sports

• I crave your mouth, your voice, your hair. Silent and starving, I prowl through the streets. Bread does not nourish me, dawn disrupts me, all day I hunt for the liquid measure of your steps.

  

  Pablo Neruda
  • Hair

• Visualize and think about yourself as you would ideally like to be, not just as you are.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Thinking
  • About Yourself

• But the basic principle that we’re going to have to see some of this debt written down, that the government is going to have to support some banks, that others that are not viable, essentially that we’re going to have to do something with those assets.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Support
  • Government
  • Principles

• Only necessity understood, and bondage to the highest is identical with true freedom.

  

  William James
  • Freedom
  • Understood
  • Bondage

• You want your kids to grow with the right culture and values, and the toughest part would be finding out how to instill those values in your kids.

  

  Madhuri Dixit
  • Kids
  • Culture
  • Values

• The spirit in which a thing is given determines that in which the debt is acknowledged; it's the intention, not the face-value of the gift, that's weighed.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Values
  • Faces
  • Intention