Top 100 Sign Of Quotes
#1. All great stars are competitive. That's a sign of a true artist - if you don't have the fire of competition deep down inside, you're never going to achieve anything. You have to want to be king of the heap.
Camille Paglia
#2. Often expecting immediate returns for goodness in this world is a sign of a normal human being
Adil Adam Memon
#4. The monk, Gregory the Great, tells how a nun, in her greed, ate a lettuce without first making the sign of the cross to protect herself against the evil spirits that hide between its leaves, and so she became possessed by a demon. Greetwell
Karen Maitland
#5. A sign of a hard worker is one who works without complaint. God favors those who toil while others play.
Sarah Price
#6. Addiction to anything show signs of emptiness.
Being an imbalanced individual is not sign of success.
Ricardo Derose
#7. It is a certain sign of an ill heart to be inclined to defamation. They who are harmless and innocent can have no gratification that way; but it ever arises from a neglect of what is laudable in a man's self.
Richard Steele
#8. The little that he had said, thus far, had been sufficient to convince me that I was speaking to a gentleman. He had what I may venture to describe as the unsought self-possession, which is a sure sign of good breeding, not in England only, but everywhere else in the civilized world.
Wilkie Collins
#9. If there is one thing I have learned on this incredible journey we call life, it is this: the sign of a truly successful individual is humility.
Naveen Jain
#10. A multitude of laws in a country is like a great number of physicians, a sign of weakness and malady.
Voltaire
#11. Lack of fairness to an opponent is essentially a sign of weakness.
Emma Goldman
#12. We care not how many see us in choler, when we rave and bluster, and make as much noise and bustle as we can; but if the kindest and most generous affection comes across us, we suppress every sign of it, and hide ourselves in nooks and covert.
Walter Savage Landor
#13. The sign of a Philistine age is the cry of immorality against art.
Oscar Wilde
#14. Regardless of its causes, thoughtlessly blaming the present is a weakness which, even if it is never outlawed, ought to be resisted. Though commonly flaunted as a sign of sophistication, it can be an opportunity for one-upmanship and an excuse for misanthropy, especially against the young.
Steven Pinker
#15. It is a sign of the times, and not a very good sign, that these days it is necessary and not only necessary but urgent to interest minds in the fate of Mind, that is to say, in their own fate.
Paul Valery
#16. They spoke as though these Princes are so remote from life as we know it that the smallest sign of humanity, the mere fact even that they communicated by means of speech was worth noting and proclaiming.
Nancy Mitford
#17. The concept of conservation is a far truer sign of civilization than that spoilation of a continent which we once confused with progress.
Peter Matthiessen
#18. Eagerly wanted to prove something
is one sign of lack of self-dependence.
Toba Beta
#19. It's just insane how much you swear, did anyone ever tell you that? My dad says it's a sign of a bad vocabulary.
Fredrik Backman
#20. Taking my faltering as a sign of imminent emotional breakdown.
Andrea Cremer
#21. We were beginning to understand why, in pre-anaesthetic days, the Bible had stipulated that suicide was a sin. Anything other than the prospect of eternal damnation, and the human race would probably have done away with itself at the first sign of the dentist.
Kate Griffin
#22. ... see failure not as a sign of stupidity but as a lack of experience and skill.
(Seth Abrams)
Carol S. Dweck
#23. Impatience is a sign of hurrying; hurrying is a sign of worrying; worrying is a sign someone forgot time is on their side.
Mike Dooley
#24. A sign of a culture that has lost its faith - Moral collapse follows upon spiritual collapse.
C.S. Lewis
#25. It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and to prefer things in measure to things in excess.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
#26. To have displeased evil and ignorant men is the sure sign of genius and virtue...
Francesco Petrarca
#27. When something is detestable, and yet inevitable, what one must do is not merely to endure it-a hard task whatever one may do-but find an excuse for loving it. Everything is a matter of points of view, and misfortune is often only the sign of a false interpretation of life.
Henry De Montherlant
#29. To start blindly with a statement is a sign of arrogance and narrow-mindedness, and will lead to conflict. To start blindly with a question is a sign of uncertainty and honesty, and will lead to wisdom.
Scott Watson
#30. I've got quite a memory. Engraved in my mind, things are. I can't forget anything ... It's not a sign of intelligence ... Nothing to boast about, memory ... that's just how it is ...
Louis-Ferdinand Celine
#31. There is no greater sign of a general decay of virtue in a nation, than a want of zeal in its inhabitants for the good of their country.
Joseph Addison
#32. If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?
Laurence J. Peter
#33. Simplicity is a great virtue, but oversimplification can actually be a vice, a sign of laziness.
N. T. Wright
#34. I have yet to meet the famous Rational Economic Man theorists describe. Real people have always done inexplicable things from time to time, and they show no sign of stopping.
Charles S. Sanford Jr.
#35. To marvel at the wonders of the gospel is a sign of faith.
Gerald Causse
#36. I fully realize that this gratitude of mine is not in the least a sign of perfection: it must be my nature - I could be suborned with a sardine ...
Teresa Of Avila
#37. The sign of vigour, the sign of life, the sign of hope, the sign of health, the sign of everything that is good, is strength. As long as the body lives, there must be strength in the body, strength in the mind, [and strength] in the hand.
Swami Vivekananda
#39. To me, crying is not a sign of weakness. She wants it that bad and she puts her whole heart into it. She had really high expectations, and that's why she's so good. She just had a bad game.
Kerri Walsh
#40. A man who's courtin' a woman shouldn't disappear at the first sign of a little trouble.
Debra Holland
#41. It would be more accurate to say that human fatherhood is metaphorical, a temporal sign of an eternal reality. God's fatherhood is true fatherhood in the truest sense.
Scott Hahn
#42. There is no greater sign of innate misery than a love of teasing.
Anthony Powell
#43. Just as there are signs by which you can recognize violence with the naked eye, so is the spinning wheel to me a decisive sign of nonviolence.
Mahatma Gandhi
#44. Maybe that was the sign of a true intellectual--someone who could accept the weird. --John Cole in Calling Mr. King
Ronald De Feo
#45. Melancholy isn't a sign of the book's end; it is its inspiration. Melancholy is reading's muse.
Andrew Piper
#46. Its a sign of weakness to lament about things which you entirely have no control over.
Auliq Ice
#47. The sign of a great Master is his ability to win a won game quickly and painlessly
Irving Chernev
#48. Forgetting offences is a sign of sincere repentance. If you keep the memory of them, you may believe you have repented but you are like someone running in his sleep. Let no one consider it a minor defect, this darkness that often clouds the eyes even of spiritual people.
John Climacus
#49. A sure sign of ineptitude and malice is manifested when one's attacker is willing to cover himself with mud in order to try and make some of it adhere to his target.
Christopher Hitchens
#50. I walk alone to the store
And it's quiet uptown
I never liked the quiet before
I take the children to church on Sunday
A sign of the cross at the door
And I pray
That never used to happen before
Lin-Manuel Miranda
#51. Each holy temple stands as a symbol of our membership in the Church, as a sign of our faith in life after death, and as a sacred step toward eternal glory for us and our families.
Russell M. Nelson
#52. People find hope, comfort, or confidence in making the sign of the cross or not walking under a ladder, just as you find hope and confidence in offering a pennant to the witch. Magic exists in the minds of those who believe in it, not in its actual influence on reality.
Thomas Olde Heuvelt
#53. Cardinal Arithmetics is much older than Number Theory. People used to exchange things way before there were numbers. Expressing numbers like 762 is already a sign of a very advanced civilization.
Saharon Shelah
#54. A sign of wisdom and maturity is when you come to terms with the realization that your decisions cause your rewards and consequences. You are responsible for your life, and your ultimate success depends on the choices you make.
Denis Waitley
#55. Routine, in an intelligent man, is a sign of ambition.
W. H. Auden
#56. Even if you break the bird's wings, you cannot change its spirit and heart,"-- Lilette (The Sign of Change)
H. El-Tahwagi
#57. I can see no greater sign of God's glory than the trees around us in the Pacific Northwest. All you have to do is look outside to see God - there are trees everywhere.
Ned Hayes
#58. As far as size goes, to gain access to the complex we're going to cross the 623 foot moat, using the stone causeway. Once across we simply need to search the 203 acres of land and temple for any sign of what we may be looking for.
Vincent Pauletti
#59. God knows it's a sign of a really sick mind to see grown people, adults with responsibilities, wearing class rings.
Nikki Giovanni
#60. He didn't like to be seen needing it - as if hunger were a sign of weakness.
Lionel Shriver
#61. To rush into explanations is always a sign of weakness.
Agatha Christie
#62. Willingness to explore everything is a sign of strength. The weak ones have prejudices. Prejudices are a protection.
Anais Nin
#64. Grief never ends, but it changes. It is a passage, not a place to stay. Grief is not a sign of weakness nor a lack of faith: it is the price of love.
Elizabeth I
#65. Don't be afraid of being scared. To be afraid is a sign of common sense. Only complete idiots are not afraid of anything.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#66. In an article titled "Consequences of Erudite Vernacular Utilized Irrespective of Necessity: Problems with Using Long Words Needlessly," he showed that couching familiar ideas in pretentious language is taken as a sign of poor intelligence and low credibility.
Daniel Kahneman
#67. Uncertainty is a sign of humility, and humility is just the ability or the willingness to learn.
Charlie Sheen
#68. THE TERRORISTS hoped their deadly attack would spell the end of Charlie Hebdo magazine, but the publication's staff is showing no sign of surrender.
Anonymous
#69. Indifference to ideas is a sign of good health.
Marty Rubin
#71. It is a sign of the times that the absence of meaningful ID requirements in many states leaves our voting process vulnerable to fraud and allows legal votes to be cancelled out by illegally cast ballots.
Virgil Goode
#72. So it is with the drug of praise upon which these children are trained to depend: the praise that is the sign of parental love, for the achievement that is the condition of that love. Every A is a fix that temporarily quells the anxiety of failure, the terror of falling short.
William Deresiewicz
#73. The sign of a good decision is the multiplicity of reasons for it.
Mary Doria Russell
#74. Sagging wrinkles, hanging breasts and many another sign of age are part of gravitation's slow relentless handiwork.
D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson
#75. Art is not merely a decorative enhancement of our lives, but a sign of our desire to live in the world fully and honestly.
Jan Zwicky
#76. If anything, he seemed a little lonely, all too ready to open his heart at the slightest sign of interst.
Tom Perrotta
#77. All persecution is a sign of fear; for if we did not fear the power of an opinion different from our own, we should not mind others holding it.
Phyllis Bottome
#78. Mental illness, depression, was indeed an illness with a physiological basis. It wasn't a sign of failure. I wasn't a failure.
Rachel Reiland
#79. Fanaticism is always a sign of repressed doubt
C. G. Jung
#80. If I have resistance to something, it means there's something wrong. The resistance to me is a sign of fear.
Billy Corgan
#81. For a scientist, altering your doctrines when the facts change is not a sign of weakness.
Albert Einstein
#82. I can win an argument on any topic, against any opponent. People know this, and steer clear of me at parties. Often, as a sign of their great respect, they don't even invite me.
Dave Barry
#83. Power tends to confuse itself with virtue, and a great nation is peculiarly susceptible to the idea that its power is a sign of God's favor.
J. William Fulbright
#84. Some people act like it's a sign of weakness if you want to belong, but I think most human beings yearn to find at least one open door in their lifetime.
Victor LaValle
#85. It isn't the sign of a good sport to go out among other people when one has a cold: it is the sign of a selfish and ill-advised person.
Mary Elizabeth Clark
#86. I see fear as a sign of intelligence, of preservation.
Rickson Gracie
#87. When you attempt something new, there's always fear. A couple of helpful slogans to me are "follow the fear" or "fear is a sign of growth."
Gloria Steinem
#88. Forgetting used to be a failing, a waste, a sign of senility. Now it takes effort. It may be as important as remembering.
James Gleick
#89. The child does not begin to fall until she becomes seriously interested in walking, until she actually begins walking. Falling is thus more an indication of learning than a sign of failure.
Polly Berrien Berends
#90. Respect is a sign of strength, not of weakness.
Claudia Diaz
#91. It is a sign of the frailty of contemporary Christianity, rather than its strength, that we often do not begin to question until the megaphone of suffering has awakened us from our sleep.
G.K. Chesterton
#92. On the whole I consider the constant need for delight and diversion in completely new things to be a sign of pettiness, lack of inner life, of estrangement from nature, and of a mediocre or defective gift of understanding.
Robert Walser
#93. For Christians do not place their hope in their children, but rather their children are a sign of their hope ... that God has not abandoned this world.
Stanley Hauerwas
#94. I'm always gonna be crazy about dishes in the sink. Crazy! Because it's a sign of disrespect. It says that you think someone else is going to clean up after you: that you're not prepared to do it yourself.
Lara Logan
#95. I love every type of listening format, from MP3s to CDs to vinyl. There's something special about each one. It's a sign of the times. I love looking back, and even putting new music on vinyl - if it's right!
Brendon Urie
#96. If anybody laughs at your idea, view it as a sign of potential success!
Jim Rogers
#97. You don't serve God by saying: the Church is ineffective, I'll have none of it. Your pain at its lack of effectiveness is a sign of your nearness to God. We help overcome this lack of effectiveness simply by suffering on account of it.
Flannery O'Connor
#98. There was no sign of Jules.
"Bad news," said Elliot. "The man is sick. You're going to have to settle for me."
"Sick?" Vee demanded. "How sick? What kind of excuse is sick?"
"Sick as in it's coming out both ends."
Vee scrunched her nose. "Too much information.
Becca Fitzpatrick
#99. Art is very much a sacrament, an outward and visible sign of inward and spiritual grace. Art is not so much what we make, but how we relate to the world. Not a noun, but a verb. This puts art back in a position to be claimed by the many.
Scott W. Alexander
#100. Legible penmanship is a sign of a boring mind.
Larry Correia
