Top 24 Not For Naught Quotes
#1. Though it has no thought of keeping watch, it's not for naught that the scarecrow stands in the grain field.
Dogen
#2. Drink not from this cup unless you forget the past and the future, for happiness is naught but the moment." And
Kahlil Gibran
#3. Wasn't she scared?" Isabeau asked, her voice naught but a whisper. "To go with death?"
"No." I reach over and tuck her hair behind her ear. "For death is not scary or evil or even unmerciful; it is simply death.
Robin LaFevers
#4. For common instinct of our race declares
That body of itself exists: unless
This primal faith, deep-founded, fail us not,
Naught will there be whereunto to appeal
On things occult when seeking aught to prove
By reasonings of mind.
Lucretius
#5. O, the things we kill for our dreams, forgetting all the while we shall wake up to find them naught but dust and ash!
What fools we are to pretend that when we walk to war, we do not bring our loved ones with us.
Robert Jackson Bennett
#6. Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself, Love possesses not nor would it be possessed: For love is sufficient unto love.
Kahlil Gibran
#7. I would not have thee believe in what I say nor trust in what I do - for my words are naught but thy own thoughts in sound and my deeds thy own hopes in action.
Khalil
#8. So they crucified their Messiah? Well can I believe it. That He was a Son of the Living Spirit would be naught to them, if indeed He was so ... They would care little for any God if he came not with pomp and power.
H. Rider Haggard
#9. Dead calm, then a murmur, a name, a murmured name, in doubt, in fear, in love, in fear, in doubt, wind of winter in the black boughs, cold calm sea whitening whispering to the shore, stealing, hastening, swelling, passing, dying, from naught come, to naught gone
Samuel Beckett
#11. Persist in that invocation until the unity of the world is subsumed for you in a single sphere, so that with the eye of your heart you will see naught in the two worlds save the One.
Ibn Ata Allah
#12. Prayer is naught but a rising desire of the heart into God by withdrawing of the heart from all earthly thoughts.
Walter Hilton
#14. Once it's no longer accepted that something is wrong, all the laws in the world will avail you naught. The law functions as a formal embodiment of a moral code, not as a free-standing substitute for it.
Mark Steyn
#15. All our dreams and hopes become as naught, and evil men are allowed to hang their lanterns on our tombstones. What greater folly is there?
James Lee Burke
#16. I think anybody who has had a long relationship and has had a really hard time letting go, wants to feel like it's not all for naught, and it's meaningful, because it makes you who you are.
Rashida Jones
#17. A wise man does not waste so good a commodity as lying for naught.
Mark Twain
#18. Fortune craves not Contentment, for it is an earthly hope, and its desires are embraced by union with objects, while Contentment is naught but heartfelt.
Kahlil Gibran
#19. For what is a man, what has he got. If not himself, then he has naught.
Frank Sinatra
#20. Happiness is not to be found at the bottom of a bottle or from the tip of a needle; it is not to be found amidst a cloud of smoke or within a sugar-coated pill. If you look for it in these places, you will find naught but despair.
Wayne Gerard Trotman
#21. Virtue can have naught to do with ease ... It craves a steep and thorny path.
Michel De Montaigne
#22. God has created me to do some definite service. He has committed some work to me which He has not committed to another. I have my mission. I am a link in a chain, a bond of connection between persons. He has not created me for naught. I shall do good; I shall do His work.
John Henry Newman
#23. Thousands of hopeful days came to naught before this one. This was a golden day. Never give up.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#24. Have you not heard it said full oft,
A woman's nay doth stand for naught?
William Shakespeare
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