Quotes About Empty Vessels

#1. Don't kill yourself just because you think and feel you are empty. God needs empty vessels to fill!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#2. Someone smashed a flutterfler and without even thinking she touched her Stone and used Wyrd to piece its broken body back together. She filled its empty vessels with dreams and it became the stuff it used for blood. It brushed her cheek with its wings, then flew off
dancing in the hot air.

Robert Fanney

#3. The use of history is to tell us what we are, for at our birth we are nearly empty vessels and we become what our tradition pours into us.

Learned Hand

#4. Fullness is always quiet; agitation will answer for empty vessels only.

Amos Bronson Alcott

#5. We are all born as empty vessels which can be shaped by moral values.

Jerry Springer

#6. Empty vessels make the most sound.

John Lydgate

#7. You'll find that empty vessels make the most sound.

John Lydon

#8. Empty vessels can give nothing more than empty advice.

Charles Lee

#9. Empty vessels make the most noise. It is true. The best adventurers and climbers, and the most successful people I know in life, are all great listeners, and they don't talk too much.

Bear Grylls

#10. Clay is fashioned into vessels; it is on their empty hollowness that their use depends. Doors and windows are cut out to make a dwelling, and on the empty space within, its use depends. Thus, while the existence of things may be good, it is the non-existence in them that makes them serviceable.

Laozi

#11. Cycling is not rocket science.

Jens Voigt

#12. Self-care isn't selfish (it is a gift to all concerned). You can't serve from an empty vessel.

Eleanor Brown

#13. I'm afraid of those cows,' protested poor Dora, seeing a prospect of escape.
'The very idea of your being scared of those cows,' scoffed Davy. 'Why, they're both younger than you.

L.M. Montgomery

#14. Until you divest yourself of the notion that you are a collection of needs, an empty vessel that someone else must fill up, there will be no safe place to harbor yourself, no safe shore to reach. As long as you think mostly of getting, you will have nothing real to give.

Merle Shain

#15. We are poor plants buoyed up by the air-vessels of our own conceit: alas for us, if we get a few pinches that empty us of that windy self-subsistence.

George Eliot

#16. True creation requires authority and authenticity.

Bryant McGill

#17. The empty vessel giveth a greater sound than the full barrel.

John Lyly

#18. Clay is fashioned into vessels; but it is on their empty hollowness, that their use depends.

Lao-Tzu

#19. Rest and self-care are so important. When you take time to replenish your spirit, it allows you to serve others from the overflow. You cannot serve from an empty vessel.

Eleanor Brown

#20. It is misleading in a crucial way to view information as something that can be poured into an empty vessel, like a fluid or even energy.

Anatol Rapoport

#21. The Lord bestows his blessings there, where he finds the vessels empty.

Thomas A Kempis

#22. Use me then, my Saviour for whatever purpose and whatever way thou mayest require. Here is my poor heart, and empty vessel; fill it with Thy Grace.

Dwight L. Moody

#23. You cannot teach an old dog new tricks

William Camden

#24. Sarah Palin is an empty vessel ready to be filled by ideology that she doesn't even understand, and that is really scary. Nothing is more frightening than an empty vessel in power.

Chris Matthews

#25. I came to the conclusion that people were just peculiar, I withdrew from them, and never thought about them until I was forced to.

Harper Lee

#26. Vessels knocked together for hour upon hour, like bones, like someone infinitely stupid and patient at the door of an empty house.

China Mieville

#27. Don't just think it, ink it.

Mark Victor Hansen

#28. Like all sciences and all valuations, the psychology of women has hitherto been considered only from the point of view of men.

Karen Horney