Top 100 Emmet's Quotes
#1. The emmet's inch and eagle's mile
Make lame philosophy to smile.
He who doubts from what he sees
Will ne'er believe, do what you please.
- "Auguries of Innocence
William Blake
#2. Auguries of innocence
The emmet's inch and eagle's mile
Make lame philosophy to smile.
He who doubts from what he sees
Will ne'er believe, do what you please.
William Blake
#3. When things are going wrong declare constantly that you are not going to be afraid or intimidated by any outer condition.
Emmet Fox
#4. The tyrant is asleep to beauty and awake to ugliness.
Joshua Emmet
#5. Why should the constitution of a peaceful individual hold less weight than the constitution of a nation?
Joshua Emmet
#6. a small spark can start a great fire
Emmet Fox
#7. To become proficient in any field you must practise. There is simply no achievement without practice and the more practice, provided it is done intelligently, the greater will the proficiency be and the sooner will it be attained.
Emmet Fox
#8. To radiate any quality, that quality must be within yourself.
Emmet Fox
#9. Suppose your whole world seems to rock on its foundations. Hold on steadily, let it rock, and when the rocking is over, the picture will have reassembled itself into something much nearer to your heart's desire
Emmet Fox
#10. I'm impressed with how professional they are and what they can get an animal to do. I mean, dogs and cats - that's one thing. But when you get into the larger animals, that's a different thing all together.
M. Emmet Walsh
#11. We grow into that which we admire.
Emmet Fox
#12. Affirm for yourself that you are a success. Affirm that you are successful in getting rid of your clutter. If you are having a hard time getting started, be grateful that you are such a successful clutterer. Who else could have amassed such a collection of stuff?
Emmet Fox
#13. Claim your divine, glorious selfhood. Think it, talk it, live it and it will demonstrate itself in your life.
Emmet Fox
#14. The great difference between the two feelings is that love is always creative, and fear is always destructive.
Emmet Fox
#15. If you want to dismiss a negative thought, the only way to do so is to think of something positive and constructive.
Emmet Fox
#16. You cannot expect to reach port if you are faithful in your prayers and meditations for a time, and then for a time you forget God.
Emmet Fox
#18. We tremble at the feelings we experience as our sense of wholeness is reorganized by what we see.
Emmet Gowin
#19. Let us be merciful in our mental judgments of our brothers and sisters, for, in truth, we are all one, and the more deeply they seem to err, the more urgent is the need for us to help them with the right thought, and so make it easier for them to get free.
Emmet Fox
#20. If one truly believes in freedom, how can one welcome the notion of slavery from either traditional masters or temperance-wielding masters disguised as servants?
Joshua Emmet
#21. When you are in difficulties, look upon the overcoming of them as a great adventure.
Emmet Fox
#22. Photography is a tool for dealing with things everybody knows about but isn't attending to. My photographs are intended to represent something you don't see.
Emmet Gowin
#23. Whatever you experience in your life is really but the outpicturing of your own thoughts and beliefs. Now, you can change these thoughts and beliefs, and then the outer picture must change too. The outer picture cannot change until you change your thought.
Emmet Fox
#24. It is not that accepting and rejecting are great actions within themselves. But the right to accept or reject, now that is everything.
Joshua Emmet
#25. Look where you are going because you will inevitably go where you are looking.
Emmet Fox
#26. Whatever you think rightly concerning will go well. Whatever you think wrongly concerning, will go ill.
Emmet Fox
#27. I am pessimistic about a picture's power to be the emissary of just one thing. What I hope is that the picture says, "Here I am, this is what I am like," and the person seeing the picture says in return, 'You know a lot but you don't know half of what I know.'
Emmet Gowin
#28. If you seem to yourself to be lacking in certain necessary qualities, if your character seems to lack strength, ask God to give you what you need - and He will. You can build any quality into your mentality by meditating upon that quality every day.
Emmet Fox
#29. You're always working at the margin of what you don't understand, that's the only exhilarating place to be. To just illustrate what you already know is condescending, and a waste of your time.
Emmet Gowin
#30. Emmet Fox was one of the world's greatest metaphysical teachers. His works have contributed profoundly to the spiritual understanding of millions of people, including myself.
Marianne Williamson
#31. Next door to the Bensons is Emmet Frag, a retired pacemaker who is credited with inventing the notion of happiness. He's currently working on a method for categorising ducks based on their singing voice. He's also the owner of the world's largest collection of tenor geese.
St John Morris
#32. Stop thinking about your difficulties, whatever they are, and start thinking about God instead.
Emmet Fox
#33. Man does not live by bread alone, but he certainly does not live without the bread.
Emmet Larkin
#35. Photography is such an important instrument in the education of our feelings and perception because of its duality. Photography represents the world we know, and suggests a world beyond what we can see. Creativity is the gap between perception and knowledge.
Emmet Gowin
#36. The story of your life is really the story of the relations between yourself and God.
Emmet Fox
#37. When you recklessly mine the depths of your imagination, universal truths are freed to surface.
Joshua Emmet
#38. When you resist a difficulty you antagonize it, and it bites back.
Emmet Fox
#39. Let no man dare, when I am dead. to charge me with dishonor; let no man attaint my memory by believing that I could have engaged in any cause but that of my country's liberty and independence, or that I could have become the pliant minion of power in the oppression or the miseries of my countrymen.
Robert Emmet
#40. I pray that if a god watches over us, it will have the decency to avoid the tasteless maneuver of voyeuristic trespass.
Joshua Emmet
#41. Where you stand today does not matter; it is the direction in which your are moving, and the rate at which you travel, that count.
Emmet Fox
#42. Calumniators are those who have neither good hearts nor good understandings. We ought not to think ill of any one till we have palpable proof; and even then we should not expose them to others.
Robert Emmet
#43. Was it for this the wild geese spread The gray wing upon every tide; For this that all that blood was shed, For this. Edward Fitzgerald died, And Robert Emmet and Wolfe Tone, All that delirium of the brave? Romantic Ireland's dead and gone, It's with O'Leary in the grave.
William Butler Yeats
#44. If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.
Emmet Fox
#45. Twentieth-century art has allowed me to see things in a cryptic way. I love the butterfly's wings, which disappear when folded and when open leave this brilliant, intense pronouncement of nature, 'Here I am.'
Emmet Gowin
#46. What about the virtue of letting others be themselves? Is this not the greatest virtue of all?
Joshua Emmet
#47. It is the food which you furnish to your mind that determines the whole character of your life.
Emmet Fox
#48. The art of life is to live in the present moment and to make that moment as perfect as we can by the realization that we are the instruments and expression of God himself.
Emmet Fox
#49. I feel that whatever picture an artist makes it is in part a picture of himself - a matter of identity.
Emmet Gowin
#50. I need to say to you. There are things in your life that only you will see, stories that only you will hear. If you don't tell them or write them down, if you don't make the picture, these things will not be seen, these things will not be heard.
Emmet Gowin
#51. Let there be no inscription upon my tomb; let no man write my epitaph: no man can write my epitaph.
Robert Emmet
#52. No, I'm not a horse better. Every once in a while somebody will give me a sure thing and of course it's not.
M. Emmet Walsh
#53. The picture is like a prayer, an offering, and hopefully an opening through which to seek what we don't know, or already know and should take seriously.
Emmet Gowin
#54. In the spiritual life you must practice. And the only way to practice is by trying to solve your problems with prayer. This develops your spiritual power and it also trains you to use that spiritual power in the most effective way.
Emmet Fox
#55. A man dies daily, only to be reborn in the morning, bigger, better and wiser.
Emmet Fox
#56. You are provided with hands, but you decide how to employ them. Some use their hands to provide a lover's caress, chisel a sculpture, plant seeds; others use their hands to tighten a noose, pull a gun trigger, turn a prison key on innocent souls.
Joshua Emmet
#57. Did you ever notice you always attack monsters with sticks? You need to start carrying a bazooka in that backpack of yours," Emmet complained.
Spradlin, Michael P.
Michael P. Spradlin
#59. You can never solve a problem on the same level as the problem.
Emmet Fox
#60. Medicine is not a science; it is empiricism founded on a network of blunders.
Emmet Densmore
#61. The authentic thing is to follow your heart, your instincts, your emotions. If you located yourself in an idea, your life would be lived very sadly.
Emmet Gowin
#62. You must not under any pretense allow your mind to dwell on any thought that is not positive, constructive, optimistic, kind.
Emmet Fox
#63. There are as many universes as there are individuals to form them through thinking.
Emmet Fox
#64. It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.
Emmet Fox
#65. I will not entertain or dwell on negative things.
Emmet Fox
#66. Make friends with nature by working in harmony with her and she will make friends with you.
Emmet Fox
#67. The universe is run exactly on the lines of a cafeteria. Unless you claim - mentally - what you want, you may sit and wait forever.
Emmet Fox
#68. We don't tell everything we know about ourselves. We tell those things that we feel have a chance poetically of fitting back into life and that means fitting back into the feelings of other people.
Emmet Gowin
#69. This is the gift of the landscape photograph, that the heart finds a place to stand.
Emmet Gowin
#70. We build in thought the conditions that will later come into manifestation on the physical plane.
Emmet Fox
#71. Your fixed convictions concerning the things that really matter mold your destiny.
Emmet Fox
#72. Some day (when we have enough spiritual growth) we will come to see that the seemingly disjointed happenings, the apparent accidents, are really part of an orderly pattern.
Emmet Fox
#73. Hell, I'm an old man. I'm 70 years old. I'm supposed to be sitting on a rocking chair watching the sunset.
M. Emmet Walsh
#74. I imagine there are things I wouldn't do, but I haven't been offered those recently either.
M. Emmet Walsh
#75. I want my photographs to say: "Look-there's this thing you haven't seen that you should see."
Emmet Gowin
#76. Chosen to hold; and therefore they are of our own ordering; and therefore there is perfect justice in the universe. No suffering for another man's original sin, but the reaping of a harvest that we ourselves have sown. We have free will, but our free will lies in our choice of thought.
Emmet Fox
#77. Ready for sex, but my body had been so receptive to his touch. Was it like that for everyone else? I wish I could ask Emmy without bringing suspicion upon myself. She had been to third base more times than some baseball players. I snickered out loud at my joke. Emmet looked at me with one eyebrow
L.D. Davis
#78. Attention is the key to life. Whatever you really give your attention to, you become. Whatever you really concentrate upon will come into your life. We grow into the thing that fills our thoughts as inevitably as the stream merges into the ocean at last.
Emmet Fox
#79. Supply yourself with a mental equivalent, and the thing must come to you.
Emmet Fox
#80. Not only does American corn syrup run deep in our food - it also runs deep in our propaganda.
Joshua Emmet
#81. As a good picture would come, I would never know exactly what I had done. When you did see it, it would strike you as a great surprise - who did that? How did it happen? Being surprised by your own work makes you both less serious and have serious reverence.
Emmet Gowin
#82. I was going round the world searching for an interesting place, when I realized that the place that I was in was already interesting.
Emmet Gowin
#83. If you have no time for prayer and meditation, you will have lots of time for sickness and trouble.
Emmet Fox
#84. A philosopher's house is always more tuneful than a disciplinarian's.
Joshua Emmet
#85. In a legitimate democracy, all have an equal say.
Joshua Emmet
#86. You must not allow yourself to dwell for a single moment on any kind of negative thought.
Emmet Fox
#88. I made 10 times as many images as the other students," he says of the early years. "I destroyed all those negatives except a few. I did it as a reminder that you can't afford to waste time: take it seriously.
Emmet Gowin
#89. Whenever you are afraid of something you are worshipping it. Whatever you fear, you bow down to and give it power.
Emmet Fox
#90. The root of all difficulties is a lack of the sense of the Presence of God.
Emmet Fox
#91. You cannot be healthy; you cannot be happy; you cannot be prosperous; if you have a bad disposition.
Emmet Fox
#92. We are no petty people. We are one of the great stocks of Burke; we are the people of Swift, the people of Emmet, the people of Parnell. We have created most of the modern literature of this country. We have created the best of its political intelligence.
William Butler Yeats
#93. Recognize success with thanksgiving and build more success on that.
Emmet Fox
#94. The letter of the law should bend; and this bending should be with the winds of freedom rather than toward the lifelessness of still punishment.
Joshua Emmet
#95. Your Heart's Desire is the Voice of God, and that Voice must be obeyed sooner or later.
Emmet Fox
#96. What we experience is our own concept of things. That is why no two people see quite the same world, and why, in many cases, different people see such different worlds. To put it another way, we make our own world by the way in which we think; for we really do live in a world of our own thoughts.
Emmet Fox
#97. Fall down again, Bella?'
No, Emmett, I punched a werewolf in the face.
Stephenie Meyer
#98. ANT (ANT) n.s.[aemett, Sax. which Junius imagines, not without probability, to have been first contracted to aemt, and then softened to ant.]An emmet; a pismire. A small insect that lives in great numbers together in hillocks.
Samuel Johnson
#99. Welcome any change that comes into any phase in your life; insist that it is going to turn out for the better - and it will. See the Angel of God in it, and the Angel of God will make all things new.
Emmet Fox
#100. Live in the present moment and find your interest and happiness in the things of today.
Emmet Fox
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