William Godwin Quotes

Duty is that mode of action on the part of the individual which constitutes the best possible application of his capacity to the general benefit.

William Godwin

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• I lose film roles because I'm a person who doesn't keep quiet about certain things. But if my heart tells me something is wrong, I'm going to go and do something about it.

  

  Q'orianka Kilcher
  • Film
  • Person
  • Certain

• Obstacles are like wild animals. They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can. If they see you are afraid of them... they are liable to spring upon you; but if you look them squarely in the eye, they will slink out of sight.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Eye
  • Spring
  • Obstacles

• Interior design is a business of trust.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Business
  • Trust
  • Design

• I'm an Oscar nominee. I love saying that. Whatever happens, I'm going to sing that 'I'm an Oscar nominee' part.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Love
  • Happens
  • Saying

• For me, playwriting is and has always been like making a chair. Your concerns are balance, form, timing, lights, space, music. If you don't have these essentials, you might as well be writing a theoretical essay, not a play.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Space

• I keep trying to convince people that I'm OK to wrestle, and I think that's probably the hard part. A lot of times I'm trying to convince myself, too, that I can wrestle. It's really hard, because the concussion issue is very subjective, and that's the part that a lot of people don't understand.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • People
  • Trying
  • Myself

• I've never worked in advertising - my experience was as an editorial designer for magazines - but you could say, in the bigger picture, that magazines are vehicles for colour advertising.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • Experience
  • Picture
  • Advertising

• My wife and I have very deep roots in Colorado, and we can't see ourselves living anywhere else.

  

  Victor Mitchell
  • Wife
  • Deep
  • Roots

• When I first started out in cycling, if there were two girls there, that was successful; but now, if there are 20 girls there, it's just unbelievable. The growth of the sport is just incredible.

  

  Laura Trott
  • Growth
  • Successful
  • Now

• Dead men tell no tales.

  

  Haniel Long
  • Men
  • Dead
  • Tell

• If you have drive and energy, everything is possible.

  

  Maelle Gavet
  • You
  • Energy
  • Drive

• I can never sit still. I wanna hurl myself into life.

  

  Madi Diaz
  • Life
  • Myself
  • I Can

• If you are in banking and lending, surprise outcomes are likely to be negative for you.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • You
  • Negative
  • Surprise

• I'd much rather be liked because people realize that I'm standing up for myself.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • People
  • Up
  • Myself

• That's sort of what we wanted to do: conquer from the margins, sort of find our place in the middle based on the fact that we were creatures of the margin and of alienation.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Find
  • Place
  • Conquer

• Negligence is the rust of the soul, that corrodes through all her best resolves.

  

  Owen Feltham
  • Soul
  • Best
  • Her

• Ummm, there is not just one good thing about being a VJ, it is a package deal. It is a fun job and you get paid to party and have a good time and make people have a good time, which is great.

  

  Nafisa Joseph
  • People
  • Time
  • Good

• There is only one thing people like that is good for them; a good night's sleep.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • People
  • Good
  • Night

• I love the stage more than the studio.

  

  Dinah Jane Fifth Harmony
  • Stage
  • I Love
  • Studio

• When I started writing, I was reading people such as Tom Clancy or Michael Crichton, who did 'Jurassic Park,' which is possibly the most action-filled book you'll read, apart from mine, and I said to myself, 'Why aren't these guys doing big-scale action like you would see in a movie?'

  

  Matthew Reilly
  • People
  • Writing
  • Why

• Action is the fundamental key to success.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Success
  • Action

• Dear God, Please teach me to forgive myself and others. Remove the walls that keep love out, behind which I am a prisoner. Heal my guilt and remove my anger, that I might be reborn. Make gentle my heart and strong my spirit and show me how to love. Please show me how to honor myself. Please teach me how to listen to myself. "Please program my mind to know itself, that I might at last be free. Teach me to appreciate your spirit that lives within me. Show me how to be good to myself, that I might know more fully the goodness of life. Amen.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • God
  • Love
  • Spirit

• [T]he small is great, the great is small; all is in equilibrium in necessity.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Great
  • Small
  • Equilibrium

• Duty is that mode of action on the part of the individual which constitutes the best possible application of his capacity to the general benefit.

  

  William Godwin
  • Action
  • Individual
  • Duty