Top 100 Not By Quotes
#1. The body seems to feel beauty when exposed to it as it feels the campfire or sunshine, entering not by the eyes alone, but equally through all one's flesh like radiant heat, making a passionate ecstatic pleasure glow not explainable.
John Muir
#2. We will get growth and affordability in health care not by replicating the expertise of today's physicians in the form of new physicians. We will get it by embodying their expertise in devices and equipment, so expertise becomes widely available, more affordable, and much easier to obtain. This
Clayton M Christensen
#3. Society is endangered not by the great profligacy of a few, but by the laxity of morals amongst all.
Alexis De Tocqueville
#4. the way in which He worked miracles, namely because He worked miracles . . . of His own power, and not by praying (petitioning), as others do. .
Peter Kreeft
#5. The way to conquer sin is not by working hard to change our deeds, but by trusting Jesus to change our desires. Follow Me, pg. 111.
David Platt
#6. I'm happy to have a physical part in 'High Tension,' in 'Hereafter,' and in a lot of French movies and Belgian movies. But its not by chance directors choose me for physical parts. I like to do that. I like to tell a story also with the body. It's important, because you can tell a lot of things.
Cecile De France
#7. Each day befriend a single fear, and the miscellaneous terrors of being human will never join together to form such a morass of vague anxiety that it rules your life from the shadows of the unconscious. We learn to fly not by being fearless, but by the daily practice of courage.
Sam Keen
#8. Civilization is not by means an easy thing to attain to. There are only two ways by which man can reach it. One is by being cultured, the other by being corrupt.
Oscar Wilde
#9. The greatest injustices proceed from those who pursue excess, not by those who are driven by necessity.
Aristotle.
#10. The Self is the one thing you can discover, not by travelling miles, but by being very still inside your own being and saying to the Supreme,
Yes, absorb me.
Mooji
#11. We should ... be able to see that our interest would be best served not by asking the state to promulgate our values but by forbidding the state to promulgate any values at all. If the state can espouse some value that we love, it can, with equal justice, espouse others we do not love.
Richard Mitchell
#12. Be governed by your internal compass, not by some clock on the wall.
Stephen Covey
#13. We are special because we've been united not by a common race or ethnicity. We're bound together by common values. That family is the most important institution in society. That almighty God is the source of all we have.
Marco Rubio
#14. A free society is most threatened not by uses of government that are obviously bad, but by uses of government that seem obviously good.
Charles Murray
#15. The commonest way to cheat an employer is not by stealing his money or loafing on the job, but by refusing to disagree when you feel he is wrong. If he is paying you for your brains, and not just for your body, an employee has an obligation to dissent from decisions he thinks wrong.
Sibichen K. Mathew
#16. You lose your power not by giving it away, but by not giving it away.
Debasish Mridha
#17. We cut ourselves. Not by accident, we do it purposely, and regularly, because physical pain is comforting, and because now it has become a habit.
Shelly Stoehr
#18. It is not by augmenting the capital of the country, but by rendering a greater part of that capital active and productive than would otherwise be so, that the most judicious operations of banking can increase the industry of the country.
Adam Smith
#19. Woman's rights should come by evolution, and not by revolution. I want a little woman's right tried first, and then, if the experience is bad, we can go back on our track; if good, forward.
Joseph Cook
#20. The etiquette of blurbs means it's not hard to not blurb something (if it's not by a friend, or student): everyone knows how many books you're deluged with. You can just say you never got to it.
Jim Shepard
#21. If we as Christians with a faithful witness would set the example, not by way of reaction but by way of reasoned empathy, we might set the tone for more shalom in our world.
Scot McKnight
#22. You see, he knew his own laws just as other people so often know the laws: by words, not by effects. They take a meaning, and get to be very vivid, when you come to apply them to yourself.
Mark Twain
#23. The greatest things are accomplished by individual people, not by committees or companies.
Fay Weldon
#24. There is no scientific reason to think that we, even with space travel, are going to survive as a species for ever, certainly not by biting off the hand that feeds us, which is exactly what we are doing.
Lynn Margulis
#25. Character is formed, not by laws, commands, and decrees, but by quiet influence, unconscious suggestion and personal guidance.
Marion LeRoy Burton
#26. A country is made not by policy alone, but by its music, its entertainment shows, all of it.
Glenn Beck
#27. I shall ever repeat it, that mankind are governed not by extremes, but by principals of moderation.
Baron De Montesquieu
#28. ... the owl is skeptical of her possessions. She understands that in many circumstances, power can be measured not by what she has, but by what she is able to do without.
Frank Rivers
#29. The world is ruled by such dreams, dreams of impassioned hearts, and improvisations of warm lips, not by cold words linked in chains of iron sequence,
not by logic. The heart with its passions, not the understanding with its reasoning, sways, in the long run, the actions of mankind.
William Kirby
#30. When I see the crumbling roads and bridges, or the dilapidated airports, or the factories moving overseas to Mexico, or to other countries, I know these problems can all be fixed, but not by Hillary Clinton - only by me.
Donald Trump
#31. A valiant man Ought not to undergo, or tempt a danger, But worthily, and by selected ways, He undertakes with reason, not by chance. His valor is the salt t' his other virtues, They're all unseason'd without it.
Ben Jonson
#32. For I am aware what ability is requisite to persuade the proud how great is the virtue of humility, which raises us, not by a quite human arrogance, but by a divine grace, above all earthly dignities that totter on this shifting scene.
Augustine Of Hippo
#33. We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other's happiness, not by each other's misery.
Charlie Chaplin
#34. A life-whether seamstress or poet, farmer or king-is measured not by length, but by the worth of its deeds, and the power of its dreams.
T.A. Barron
#35. You can't go wrong with some nuts. The key word is 'some.' Eat them one at a time, not by the handful.
Summer Sanders
#36. I have frequently experienced myself the mood in which I felt that all is vanity; I have emerged from it not by any philosophy, but owing to some imperative necessity of action.
Bertrand Russell
#37. Every year in this country, people are evicted from their homes not by the tens of thousands or even the hundreds of thousands but by the millions.
Matthew Desmond
#38. Communication is defined not by what is being said but by what is being heard. For this reason, it is vital that you gain a good appreciation of how other people will listen - interpret, process, and assign meaning - to what you have to say before you can influence them effectively.
Margie Warrell
#39. Science progresses not by convincing the adherents of old theories that they are wrong, but by allowing enough time to pass so that a new generation can arise unencumbered by the old errors.
Max Planck
#40. Often a performance can be judged not by a movie's strongest moment but by its weakest, especially when it's the picture's crucial scene.
Steve Erickson
#41. If you put on weight it's not by chance. You put on weight because you eat compulsively.
Pierre Dukan
#43. When you find a man you wish to marry, Tessa, remember this: You will know what kind of man he is not by the things he says, but by the things he does.
Cassandra Clare
#44. Because I'm a man who works, who knows what a human being is like inside, who knows that every human being has his worth, and who wants the world to be governed by work and not by opinions about work.
Wilhelm Reich
#45. A balanced education consists of knowledge in the mind, honesty in the heart, and strength in the body ... a true human being is an educator not by words alone but by being an example.
Jhoon Goo Rhee
#46. The other thing I felt was that the philosophical concept behind the experiences also looked like it had been designed by technicians and not by entertainers. I felt I needed to grab hold of it and try and push the envelope as much as I possibly could right now.
Thomas Dolby
#47. If you want to conquer pride, do not say that your deed was done by your hands and might; say that with God's help and guidance it was done, not by my power and efforts.
Vladimir Aleksandrovich Antonov
#48. In a modern democracy, he said, people are beset not by a lack of opportunity, but by a dizzying abundance of it.
Dan Ariely
#49. So I wouldn't run too far, Freckles," Bash added, his voice a blend of frustration and determination. "Because we're not finished. Not by a fucking long shot.
Julie Johnson
#50. Judge the Catholic Church not by those who barely live by its spirit, but by the example of those who live closest to it.
Fulton J. Sheen
#51. The way kids learn to make good decisions is by making decisions, not by following directions.
Alfie Kohn
#52. Our democracy is not a product but a continual process. It is preserved not by monuments but deeds. Sometimes it needs refining; sometimes it needs amending; sometimes it needs defending. Always, it needs improving.
Lee H. Hamilton
#53. You are not by any manner of means the sort of woman I am in search of as a wife, and I am in a totally different universe from the husband you hope to find. But I feel a powerful urge to kiss you, for all that.
Mary Balogh
#54. Performance of management should be measured by potential to stay in business, to protect investment, to ensure future dividends and jobs through improvement of product and service for the future, not by the quarterly dividend.
W. Edwards Deming
#55. Wealth (among the Dagara) is determined not by how many things you have, but by how many people you have around you.
Malidoma Patrice Some
#56. In large commercial cities, the money power is, I fear irresistible. It is not by open corruption that it always, or even most generally, operates.
Roger B. Taney
#57. Men are disturbed not by the things that happen, but by their opinion of the things that happen.
Epictetus
#58. It is not by blood, anyhow, that man's true continuity is established: Alexander's direct heir is Caesar, and not the frail infant born of a Persian princess in an Asiatic citadel; Epaminondas, dying without issue, was right to boast that he had Victories for daughters.
Marguerite Yourcenar
#59. I'm intrigued. If not by beauty, how then does one spot the garden-variety nobleman?"
"Easily," she said. "One need only look for the promise of beauty not quite fulfilled, a nose too large, eyes a bit too closer together, or ears ready to set sail.
Kristen Callihan
#60. One important idea is that science is a means whereby learning is achieved, not by mere theoretical speculation on the one hand, nor by the undirected accumulation of practical facts on the other, but rather by a motivated iteration between theory and practice.
George E.P. Box
#61. One learns by doing, not by learning to do.
Marty Rubin
#62. We are defined not by our borders but by our bonds.
Barack Obama
#63. You get the best effort from others not by lighting a fire beneath them, but by building a fire within.
Bob Nelson
#64. the proper way to elicit information from a group is not by starting with a public discussion but by confidentially collecting each person's judgment. This procedure makes better use of the knowledge available to members of the group than the common practice of open discussion.
Daniel Kahneman
#65. When you see no present advantage, walk by faith and not by sight. Do God the honor to trust Him when it comes to matters of loss for the sake of principle.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#66. How would I think, breathe, digest, grow, sleep, dream, and exist, if not by the will of God? Can't you see that God is making you be?
Steven Colborne
#67. Not by blood, or even by marriage, but family is more than that. You find people you love and keep them close to you. That's what a family is.
Jay Bell
#68. The building of a just and peaceful world order, the aim of the United Nations, is hampered not by a dearth of ideas, resources, and manpower but by the lack of will on the part of governments to take the required steps ...
Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
#69. Freedom means the power to act by soul guidance, not by the compulsions of desires and habits. Obeying the ego leads to bondage; obeying the soul brings liberation.
Paramahansa Yogananda
#70. May I beg you carefully to judge every preacher, not by his gifts, not by his elocutionary powers, not by his status in society, not by the respectability of his congregation, not by the prettiness of his church, but by this - does he preach the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation?43
Steven J. Lawson
#71. The broad mass of a nation will more easily fall victim to a big lie than a small one. The greater the lie, the greater chance that it will be believed. All epoch-making events have been produced not by the written, but the spoken word.
Adolf Hitler
#72. Man does not by nature wish to earn more and more money.
Max Weber
#73. They moved in dance steps too intricate for the noninitiated eye to imitate or understand. Clearly they were of one soul. Handsome, rangy, wildly various, they were bound in total loyalty, not by oath, but by the simple, unquestioning belongingness of part of one organism.
Louise Erdrich
#74. All mothers breed dead children.
They shall, perhaps, live later.
When no longer dead, they are born
Not - by coincidence, by choice.
Mie Hansson
#75. My enemies defeated, and yet the sorrow remained, keener, more true, more clean, for I had always owned it. It echoed back to the thorns, the tone of a bell resounding through the years. We're fashioned by our sorrows - not by joy - they are the undercurrent, the refrain. Joy is fleeting.
Mark Lawrence
#76. It is by acts (actions) and not by ideas (mere thoughts) that people [really] live.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
#78. And Rumi tells us, 'Soul receives from soul that knowledge, therefore not by book nor from tongue'.
Idries Shah
#79. The way of creating believable characters is not by conforming to a set of PC rules.
Mark Haddon
#80. I want to provoke people with thoughts, not by taking my clothes off. It's time to move on from Stripperville.
Marina And The Diamonds
#81. The man of science has learned to believe in justification, not by faith, but by verification.
Thomas Henry Huxley
#82. It is by being fully involved with every detail of our lives, whether good or bad, that we find happiness, not by trying to look for it directly.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
#83. As Plato insisted two thousand years ago, it is not by means of the image that moral, ethical, or political knowledge is produced.
Abigail Solomon-Godeau
#84. People today ... it seems they are good, or sometimes evil, mostly by inertia, not by choice.
Brandon Sanderson
#86. When I ask the angels for answers to the human mystery, I find they guide me to a sense of peace and comfort in my soul. The angels do this not by bringing me answers and intricate theories, but by bringing me creative ways of responding to life with light in my heart.
Terry Taylor
#87. Our hope in life beyond death is a hope made possible, not by some general sentimental belief in life after death, but by our participation in the life of Christ.
Stanley Hauerwas
#88. No one doubts that poison gas was used in Syria. But there is every reason to believe it was used, not by the Syrian Army, but by opposition forces to provoke intervention by their powerful foreign patrons, who would be siding with the fundamentalists.
Vladimir Putin
#89. If I had in me something that inspires people towards the good and raises them one step on the ladder of mental and spiritual progress, I want to show it by example, indication, and deduction, not by preaching, threatening, and conspiring.
Ameen Rihani
#90. Whatever work he does, beyond what is sufficient to purchase his own maintenance, can be squeezed out of him by violence only, and not by any interest of his own.
Adam Smith
#91. We are stimulated to emotional response, not by works that confirm our sense of the world, but by works that challenge it.
Joyce Carol Oates
#92. Even though you're not by me side, Night, you will forever be my first man, my Zettai Kareshi
Yuu Watase
#93. You see, evil men, the likes of whom have sought to enslave their fellow man since the dawn of creation, took America not by might or strength of arms, but by deception and guile.
Eric J. Martindale
#94. The breath must be enticed or cajoled, like catching a horse in a field, not by chasing after it, but by standing still with an apple in one's hand.
B.K.S. Iyengar
#95. It is not by change of place that we can come nearer to Him who is in every place, but by the cultivation of pure desires and virtuous habits.
Saint Augustine
#96. The thinking is that we started evolving language not by speaking but by gesturing.
Frans De Waal
#97. You can always improve your situation. But you do so by facing it, not by running away.
Brad Warner
#98. Let us measure ourselves by our Master, and not by our fellow-servants, then pride will be impossible.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#99. But you know, General, Jesus never came to establish a government upon the people by force. He did not even talk about political systems. He came to rule in the hearts of people, and not by the establishment of political power. He asks to live in you, not to control your state.
Ravi Zacharias
#100. I believe that horses bring out the best in us. They judge us not by how we look, what we're wearing or how powerful or rich we are, they judge us in terms of sensitivity, consistency, and patience. They demand standards of behavior and levels of kindness that we, as humans, then strive to maintain.
Clare Balding
