Top 100 Quotes About It Is Well
#1. There is no question of doing is purely on our own. But we must act. Grace is opposed to earning, not to effort. And it is well-directed, decisive, and sustained effort that is the key to the keys of the kingdom and to the life of restful power in ministry and life that those keys open to us.
Dallas Willard
#2. It is well for the unfortunate to be resigned, but for the guilty there is no peace. The agonies of remorse poison the luxury there is otherwise sometimes found in indulging the excess of grief.
Mary Shelley
#4. Sometimes fear is wholesome and rational; it is well to swing fear as a mighty battle-axe over men's heads when no other motive will move them.
Henry Ward Beecher
#6. It is well known that if there is anything that makes men thirstier than the acquisition of knowledge it is the full or partial prohibition of drinking.
Andrzej Sapkowski
#7. People will not bear it when advice is violently given, even if it is well founded. Hearts are flowers; they remain open to the softly falling dew, but shut up in the violent downpour of rain.
Jean Paul
#8. A journal of the 'subjective' kind I have always thought foolish, as nurturing a morbid self -consciousness in the writer; and yet, alone so much as I am, it is well to have some sort of a ventilator from the interior.
Lucy Larcom
#9. If the mind is wearied by study, or the body worn with sickness,It is well to lie fallow for a while, in the vacancy of sheer amusement ;But when thou prosprest in health, and thine intellect can soar untired,To seek uninstructive pleasure is to slumber on the couch of indolence.
Martin Farquhar Tupper
#10. It is well-known that chess and music go well together, and many are those who have achieved unusual proficiency in both.
Savielly Tartakower
#11. It is well known that onset of the disease is affected by lifestyle, yet even when the at-risk subjects were given information about their susceptibility, many did not adjust their fat intake or increase exercise or consult medical specialists to minimize their risk.
Christine Kenneally
#12. It is well to be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth, and wisdom.
Aristotle.
#13. It is well known, that the best productions of the best human intellects, are generally regarded by those intellects as mere immature freshman exercises, wholly worthless in themselves, except as initiatives for entering the great University of God after death.
Herman Melville
#14. It is well known that the Nobel Committees bring world opinion to a focus, and that fact still further enhances the prestige attaching to the Prizes.
Robert Robinson
#15. Alas! It is well written, The road to eminence lies through the cheap and exceedingly uninviting eating-houses.
Ernest Bramah
#16. It is hard to say it is well when you are inside the well but is better to look up in life
Ikechukwu Joseph
#17. During mental prayer, it is well, at times, to imagine that many insults and injuries are being heaped upon us, that misfortunes have befallen us, and then strive to train our heart to bear and forgive these things patiently, in imitation of our Saviour. This is the way to acquire a strong spirit.
Philip Neri
#18. It is well worth remembering that the customer is the most important factor in any business. If you don't think so, try getting along without him for a while.
Napoleon Hill
#20. It is well known that to praise someone whose rivalry you do not dread is often a very good way of putting a spoke in the wheel of someone whose rivalry you do.
W. Somerset Maugham
#21. It is well known that the human mind very often makes decisions for reasons it clearly does not know, presumably because it does so after having travelled the paths of the mind at such speed that, afterwards, it cannot recognise those paths, let alone find them again.
Jose Saramago
#22. It is well known that women outlive men; could it merely be superior vanity that keeps them going?
Truman Capote
#23. It is well known that when Thomas A. Eddison was stymied by a problem, he would lie down and take a short nap.
Maxwell Maltz
#24. It was my contention that opera can not only pay for itself if it is well given, but it can also command a much wider audience if given like a play with lots of rehearsals and wonderful singers that fit the role.
Gian Carlo Menotti
#25. If it is well with your belly, chest and feet - the wealth of kings can't give you more.
Horace
#26. The tendency of liberals is to create bodies of men and women-of all classes-detached from tradition, alienated from religion, and susceptible to mass suggestion-mob rule. And a mob will be no less a mob if it is well fed, well clothed, well housed, and well disciplined.
T. S. Eliot
#27. It is well to pray when the troubles perch and your pillow is cheated of sleep. It is well at all times, even when there are no troubles and no petitions to be made.
Thomas B. Costain
#28. The wealth they had accumulated from retail needed to hide its origins, for it is well known that the purity of gold increases the further removed it is from labor.
Diane Setterfield
#29. A king may be a tool, a thing of straw; but if he serves to frighten our enemies, and secure our property, it is well enough; a scarecrow is a thing of straw, but it protects the corn.
Alexander Pope
#30. As I have said many times - I like Facebook. I think it is well built and run. It's cool. I think it is, in its next-step way, even visionary.
Kara Swisher
#31. It is well known that apes in the wild offer spontaneous assistance to each other, defending against leopards, say, or consoling distressed companions with tender embraces.
Frans De Waal
#32. Well, Professor, I know you always have a reason for what you do, but this certainly puzzles me. It is well we have no sceptic here, or he would say that you were working some spell to keep out an evil spirit." "Perhaps
Bram Stoker
#33. The desire of perfection became the ruling passion of their soul; and it is well known, that while reason embraces a cold mediocrity, our passions hurry us, with rapid violence, over the space which lies between the most opposite extremes.
Edward Gibbon
#34. When fortune surprises us by giving us some great office without having gradually led us to expect it, or without having raised our hopes, it is well nigh impossible to occupy it well, and to appear worthy to fill it.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#35. If you disclose your alms, even then it is well done, but if you keep them secret, and give them to the poor, then that is better still for you;?and this wipes off from you some of your evil deeds.
Muhammad
#36. If your going to be ugly it is well to be whole-hearted about it, put some effort in. Georges turned heads.
Hilary Mantel
#37. The cat, it is well to remember, remains the friend of man because it pleases him to do so and not because he must.
Carl Van Vechten
#38. It is well to write love letters. There are certain things for which it is not easy to ask your mistress face to face, like money for instance.
Henri De Regnier
#39. It is well to cultivate a friendly feeling towards error, to treat it as a companion inseparable from our lives, as something having a purpose, which it truly has.
Maria Montessori
#40. Wherefore me behoveth needs to grant that all-thing that is done, it is well-done: for our Lord God doeth all.
Julian Of Norwich
#41. It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others.
John Holmes
#42. [It] is well and good when our convictions are based upon the "Thou shalts" and the "Thou shalt nots" of Scripture rather than our own ideas.
Billy Graham
#43. It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.
Michelangelo
#44. It is well known that in an infinite universe everything that can be imagined must exist somewhere, and since many of them are not things that ought to exist in a well-ordered space-time frame they get shoved into a side dimension. This
Terry Pratchett
#45. It is well known that "problem avoidance" is an important part of problem solving. Instead of solving the problem you go upstream and alter the system so that the problem does not occur in the first place.
Edward De Bono
#46. It is well said that neglected prayer is the birth-place of all evil.
Charles Spurgeon
#47. It is well that the earth is round that we do not see too far ahead.
Meryl Streep
#48. It is well-known what a middleman is; he is a man who bamboozles one party and plunders the other.
Benjamin Disraeli
#49. In our fluctuations of feelings, it is well to remember that Jesus admits no change in His affections; your heart is not the compass Jesus saileth by.
Samuel Rutherford
#50. I have discovered that a screw-shaped device such as this, if it is well made from starched linen, will rise in the air if turned quickly.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#51. If God has justified a man it is well done, it is rightly done, it is justly done, it is everlastingly done.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#52. I believe that the Bible is the literal word of God. And I say no, it's not, Dad. Well, I believe that it is. Well, you know, some people believe they're Napoleon. That's fine. Beliefs are neat. Cherish them, but don't share them like they're the truth.
Bill Hicks
#53. It is well for us that we live at the present time, when everybody is logical and consistent.
Elizabeth Gaskell
#54. It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.
Henry Ford
#55. It is a fine game to play - the game of politics - and it is well worth waiting for a good hand before really plunging.
Winston Churchill
#56. Human capital will go where it is wanted, and it will stay where it is well treated. It cannot be driven; it can only be attracted.
Walter Wriston
#57. I'm constantly telling young people that their voices and stories are important. Making a movie is such a large-scale, intense operation that imagining that you "deserve" to be making it is - well, complex.
Josephine Decker
#58. Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilised by education: they grow there, firm as weeds among stones.
Charlotte Bronte
#59. It is well for us to pause, to acknowledge our debt to those who paid so large a share of freedom's price.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
#60. To me, I think justice is part of forgiving, if it is well done with love.
Immaculee Ilibagiza
#61. It is well said, then, that it is by doing just acts that the just man is produced, and by doing temperate acts the temperate man; without doing these no one would have even a prospect of becoming good.
Aristotle.
#62. It is well sometimes to half understand a poem in the same manner that we half understand the world.
G.K. Chesterton
#63. It is well that war is so terrible, or we should grow too fond of it.
Robert E.Lee
#64. It is well to remind ourselves that anxiety signifies a conflict, and so long as a conflict is going on, a constructive solution is possible.
Rollo May
#65. Ah! it is well for the unfortunate to be resigned, but for the guilty there is no peace.
Mary Shelley
#66. SAY IT IS WELL EVEN WHEN U ARE INSIDE D WELL.WE CAN STILL SEE GOD THRU D BLACKNESS OF DARKNESS.TRUST GOD.
Ikechukwu Joseph
#67. It is well, when in difficulties, to say never a word, neither black nor white. Speech is silver but silence is golden.
Muriel Spark
#68. Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
Oscar Wilde
#69. It is well known that, when two authors meet, they at once start talking about money-like everyone else.
V.S. Pritchett
#70. It is well to remember that the stomach governs the world, wrote Churchill when planning the feeding of his troops on the north-west Indian frontier at the tail-end of the nineteenth century.
Cita Stelzer
#71. How unfair, he thought; I can close my mouth whenever I like, as tight as I like, and what has a mouth to say? It is there for taking in nourishment, yet it is well defended, but ears - ears are a prey to every onslaught.
Elias Canetti
#72. It is well known that I am pro-life ... but I would not seek to impose my views on the Canadian people.
Stockwell Day
#73. Before buying anything, it is well to ask if one could do without it.
John Lubbock
#74. If they are sufficiently complete to live, they do live, and it is well they should live. If they are not sufficiently complete to live, they die, and it is best they should die.
Herbert Spencer
#75. Mary? said an officer who was carrying a large potted plant in the manner of someone who thinks it is well outside his job description.
Jasper Fforde
#76. It is well for one to know more than he says.
Plautus
#77. It takes faith and the courage to risk failure in order to realize one's destiny. Having had my share of failures throughout my career I know that it is well worth the risk.
Ryan Hall
#78. It is well known that the older a man grows, the faster he could run as a boy.
Red Smith
#79. It is well-nigh obvious that those who are in favor of the death penalty have more affinities with murderers than those who oppose it.
Remy De Gourmont
#80. It is well we cannot see into the future. There are few boys of fourteen who would not feel ashamed of themselves at forty.
Jerome K. Jerome
#81. You do not really care for God's mercy or His comfort either, so long as you live in any sin. And it is well that you do not; for you can have neither. Your peace will be like a river, when you put away your sin; but not one word of true peace, not one drop of true comfort, can you have till then.
Alexander Whyte
#82. One cannot make oneself, but one can sometimes help a little in the making of somebody else. It is well.
Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
#83. The most important thing is to write material that YOU think is funny. If you don't think it's funny, but you're convinced that other people will think it is, well they won't.
Mo Rocca
#84. Remember that bodily exercise, when it is well ordered, as I have said, is also prayer by means of which you can please God our Lord.
Saint Ignatius
#85. It is well to be alone. It fertilizes the creative impulse.
Max Nordau
#86. On the
other hand, it is well known that a person never comes to the clear knowledge of himself unless he has first contemplated the face of the Lord, and afterward descended to consider himself.
John Calvin
#87. It is well-known that the friend of a conqueror is but the last victim.
Isaac Asimov
#88. It is well known that my husband and Lady Thatcher enjoyed a very special relationship as leaders of their respective countries during one of the most difficult and pivotal periods in modern history. Ronnie and Margaret were political soul mates, committed to freedom and resolved to end Communism.
Nancy Reagan
#89. It is well documented that the same text, indexed by several indexers, will result in as many slightly or even substantially different indexes, and even the same indexer will produce varying indexes for the same text at different times.
Hans H Wellisch
#90. It is well for us if we have learned to listen to the sweet persuasion of the Beatitudes, but there are crises in all lives which require also the emphatic "Thou shalt not" of the decalogue which the founders wrote on the gateposts of their commonwealth.
John Greenleaf Whittier
#91. It is well known that involuntary migrants, no matter what pot they are thrown into, tend not to melt.
Anne Fadiman
#92. True happiness is not based on circumstances or success but on the very nature of God. He promises to be our joy. That no matter what happens "it is well with my soul".
Hayley DiMarco
#93. If you are a kind person and love animals, you may be lucky enough to find the Magic Valley. There you will discover a land where snow leopards play and mountains smile. I should tell you, though, that it will be a very hard journey. But I should also tell you that it is well worth the effort.
Helen Freeman
#94. While it is well enough to leave footprints on the sands of time, it is even more important to make sure they point in a commendable direction.
James Branch Cabell
#95. The real "it is well" is something I say from the ground, having fallen.
Antonio Porchia
#96. In garden arrangement, as in all other kinds of decorative work, one has not only to acquire a knowledge of what to do, but also to gain some wisdom in perceiving what it is well to let alone.
Gertrude Jekyll
#97. Now, it is well known, that a man may with more impunity be guilty of an actual breach either of real good breeding or of good morals, than appear ignorant of the most minute point of fashionable etiquette.
Walter Scott
#98. It is well for us that we are born babies in intellect. Could we understand half what mothers say and do to their infants, we should be filled with a conceit of our own importance, which would render us insupportable through life.
Augustus Hare
#99. It is well for his peace that the saint goes to his martyrdom. He is spared the sight of the horror of his harvest.
Oscar Wilde