Top 100 One Must Quotes
#1. Even if it's dangerous, and painful, and so very, very lonely. One must go on fighting- It is the only honorable thing to do
David Klass
#3. But I know that in order to get to the end of a thing, one must start at the beginning.
Michelle Zink
#4. For a love to grow through the test of everyday living, one must respect that zone of privacy where one retires to relate to the inside instead of the outside.
Khalil Gibran
#5. One starts an action simply because one must do something.
T. S. Eliot
#6. Why had she? That's just how she was. But damn how she was! She didn't accept that how one was is how one must remain. Consistency in character was a form of tragedy.
Tom Rachman
#7. One must be poor to know the luxury of giving.
George Eliot
#8. On Yom Kippur, it is not enough for one to feel sorry for the foul deeds one has done. To achieve forgiveness, one must go to the injured parties and make amends.
Daniel Silva
#9. One must indeed test the strings to this life, bounce the bow, wet the mouthpiece, prepare for the deeper music that follows.
Mitch Albom
#10. One must lie under certain circumstances and at all times when one can't do anything about them.
Harper Lee
#12. Since in order to speak, one must first listen, learn to speak by listening.
Rumi
#13. When spreading vicious and damaging gossip about the private affairs of others, one must always use proper grammar and posture.
Scott Rhine
#14. [...] the kind of healer who knows that sometimes one must inflict terrible agony - rebreak a bone, carve off a limb, kill the weak - in order to make the whole stronger.
N.K. Jemisin
#15. A tram cannot discover every road! To discover every road, one must leave the predetermined roads!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#16. Mnemosyne, one must admit, has shown herself to be a very careless girl.
Vladimir Nabokov
#17. An intelligent being, is the active principle of all things. One must have renounced all common sense to doubt it, and it is a waste of time to try to prove such self evident truth.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#18. Obviously one must hold oneself responsible for the evil impulses of one's dreams. In what other way can one deal with them? Unless the content of the dream rightly understood is inspired by alien spirits, it is part of my own being.
Sigmund Freud
#19. It seems very strange that one must turn back, and be transported to the very beginnings of history, in order to arrive at an understanding of humanity as it is at present.
Emile Durkheim
#21. One must be patient like the earth. What iniquities are being perpetuated on her! Yet she quietly endures them all.
Sarada Devi
#22. One must, in one's life, make a choice between boredom and suffering.
Madame De Stael
#23. You must know, then, that there are two methods of fighting, the one by law, the other by force: the first method is that of men, the second of beasts; but as the first method is often insufficient, one must have recourse to the second.
Niccolo Machiavelli
#24. Before judging a thin man, one must get some information. Perhaps he was once fat.
Fernand Point
#26. One must never be satisfied with his ability to love. No matter where he is, it is always just a beginning.
Leo Buscaglia
#28. (from now on I'll use the term "mindfulness" to refer to keeping one's consciousness alive to the present reality), then one must practice right now in one's daily life, not only during meditation sessions. When
Thich Nhat Hanh
#29. One could lose everything in the blink of an eye, the slip of a foot. One must avoid dark thoughts at all costs.
Kate Atkinson
#30. War makes men barbarous because, to take part in it, one must harden oneself against all regret, all appreciation of delicacy and sensitive values. One must live as if those values did not exist, and when the war is over one has lost the resilience to return to those values.
Cesare Pavese
#31. Cuisine is not invariable like a Codex formula. But one must guard against tampering with the essential bases.
Fernand Point
#33. To make a lasting impact on the world's system, one must be distinct from it, not identical to it.
Charles Swindoll
#34. If one were to take the bible seriously one would go mad. But to take the bible seriously, one must be already mad.
Aleister Crowley
#35. There was within him a deep unexpressed conviction that all would be well, but that one must not trust to this and still less speak about it, but must only attend to one's own work. And he did his work, giving his whole strength to the task.
Leo Tolstoy
#36. Somehow one must love the world without being worldly.
G.K. Chesterton
#38. I regarded as quite useless the reading of large treatises of pure analysis: too large a number of methods pass at once before the eyes. It is in the works of application that one must study them; one judges their utility there and appraises the manner of making use of them.
Joseph-Louis Lagrange
#39. It is one of the misfortunes in life that one must read thousands of books only to discover that one need not have read them.
Thomas De Quincey
#40. One must not look inward too much, while the inside is yet tender. I do not wish to frighten myself until I can stand it.
Djuna Barnes
#42. To become the founder of a new religion one must be psychologically infallible in one's knowledge of a certain average type of souls who have not yet recognized that they belong together.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#43. One must always account for the vagaries of truth.
Betsy Cornwell
#44. One must always regret that law of growth which renders necessary that kittens should spoil into demure cats, and bright, joyous school-girls develop into the spiritless, crystallized beings denominated young ladies.
Abba Louisa Goold Woolson
#45. One must always be ready to change sides with justice, that fugitive from the winning camp.
Simone Weil
#46. One must change one's tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one's superiority.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#47. Death is unstoppable. One must face it as a fact of life
D. Aswini
#48. In order to fly one must first clear the shit off one's wings.
Cecelia Ahern
#49. In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism.
Hannah Arendt
#51. There ought to be only one large art warehouse in the world, to which the artist could carry his art-works and from which he could carry away whatever he needed. As it is one must be half a tradesman.
Ludwig Van Beethoven
#52. Everybody has a dream, to male that dream a reality, one must work hard.
H.J. Cronin
#53. One must understand the importance of an endless drive to get information and seek value.
Seth Klarman
#54. Sanity is the one unbelievable bore. One must be mad, slightly twisted - then one sees life from a new and entrancing angle.
Agatha Christie
#55. I love the valiant; but it is not enough to wield a broadsword, one must also know against whom.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#56. One must say; be in charge of your fucking feelings and keep your mouth shut.
M.F. Moonzajer
#57. As one went to Europe to see the living past, so one must visit Southern California to observe the future.
Alison Lurie
#58. One must always be aware, to notice even though the cost of noticing is to become responsible.
Thylias Moss
#60. To create, one must first question everything.
Eileen Gray
#61. I am writing in the garden. To write as one should of a garden one must write not outside it or merely somewhere near it, but in the garden.
Frances Hodgson Burnett
#62. In order to forgive, one must have lived through what I have lived through, and may God spare her that.
Leo Tolstoy
#63. The rule
Of the many is not well. One must be chief
In war and one the king.
Homer
#64. One must put things in perspective - I've been given a circumstance with very little time to catch form and try and get an Olympic quota for the country.
Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore
#65. Writing is like a 'lust,' or like 'scratching when you itch.' Writing comes as a result of a very strong impulse, and when it does come, I, for one, must get it out.
C.S. Lewis
#66. The price for living the life I have
for any serious, devoted person, is that at times one must live alone, or feel alone. I think loneliness is associated in many people's minds when they think about success.
Helen Frankenthaler
#67. To understand the Left, one must understand that in its view the greatest evil is material inequality. The Left is more troubled by economic inequality than by evil as humanity has generally understood the term.
Dennis Prager
#69. One must always ... tune out the negative voices of the world and make the strongest voice you hear your own! Go out and make a difference in Humanity! You Can Do It ... If You Really Want To!
Timothy Pina
#70. The only principle I can see in this life, is that one must forfeit the less for the greater.
D.H. Lawrence
#71. To dance sublimely, one must forget one knows how to dance.
Marty Rubin
#72. One must always do what one really cannot.
Niels Bohr
#73. In order to become a great man, one must first be a great rascal.
Winston Churchill
#74. You are the end of beauty and creativity one must have created so far.
M.F. Moonzajer
#75. Sometimes, what we are looking for is right in front of us, but more often, I think, one must look long and hard, for she will not reveal herself so easily.
Danielle L. Jensen
#76. One must be a lotus to emerge from mucky waters clean.
Will Advise
#77. An essential element for good writing is a good ear: One must listen to the sound of one's own prose.
Barbara Tuchman
#78. One must be able to say at all times
instead of points, straight lines, and planes
tables, chairs, and beer mugs
David Hilbert
#79. In order for peace to reign, one must speak the truth, and that is why I have spoken of a political abduction, ... Far from my own country, but in deep communion with all Haitians, including Haitians abroad, I continue to launch an appeal for peaceful resistance.
Jean-Bertrand Aristide
#80. One must not always think so much about what one should do, but rather what one should be. Our works do not ennoble us; but we must ennoble our works.
Meister Eckhart
#81. To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one's own in the midst of abundance.
Gautama Buddha
#82. In order to retain a certain respect for sausages and laws, one must not see them being made.
Otto Von Bismarck
#83. The progress of the language has caused us to lose many old treasures. It is thus with all progress, and one must make the best of it.
George Sand
#84. It is not enough to long for a person as a good for oneself, one must also, and above all, long for that person's good.
Pope John Paul II
#86. It is useless to dabble in beauty. One must be utterly devoted to beauty, with every nerve of the body.
Anna Pavlova
#87. To dwell on the things taht depress or anger us does not help in overcoming them. One must knock them down alone.
Walter Isaacson
#88. One must go for a film with an open mind; a film best impacts you when your mind is a blank page to the film.
Anurag Kashyap
#89. Success is not rightly measured by the worldly standards of wealth, prestige and power. None of these bestow happiness unless they are rightly used. To use them rightly one must possess wisdom and love for God and man.
Paramahansa Yogananda
#90. To truly lead one's people, one must also truly know them.
Nelson Mandela
#91. In order to be kind, one must do. There is no point in thinking good thoughts and not acting on them. There is no currency in wishing things were better but not rolling up one's sleeves and helping to change them.
Ingrid Newkirk
#92. Realize that to have friends one must first be a friend. Make friendship a priority in your life.
Goswami Kriyananda
#93. One must be very strong, or very stupid, or completely exhausted to face life with indifference.
Alexandra David-Neel
#94. one must never underestimate anyone or cling to preconceived ideas.
David Lagercrantz
#95. Probably nothing serious or worthwhile can be accomplished without one's willingness to be alone for sustained periods of time, which is not to say that one must live alone, obsessively.
Joyce Carol Oates
#97. all human beings need to keep this energy in movement. So, the first thing one must understand is that it is made up of two extremes, which walk side-by-side during the entire act: relaxation and tension.
Paulo Coelho
#98. All situations have FINE LINE's between the right and not so right..
THAT is the MOMENT when one must stop to look which way to go.. These determine both the DIRECTION of life & the MAGICAL MOMENTS!
Abha Maryada Banerjee
#99. One must have the adventurous daring to accept oneself as a bundle of possibilities and undertake the most interesting game in the world
making the most of one's best.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
#100. To first understand the concept of a haunted doll, one must realize that the doll itself does not posses life. In other words, the doll is not alive. In theory, the doll is haunted by the soul of a person who has passed on. A haunted doll is a spiritual attachment, a haunted item.
Matthew Jackson
