Top 100 Sum Total Quotes
#1. In many ways, each of us is the sum total of what our ancestors were. The virtues they had may be our virtues, their strengths our strengths, and, in a way, their challenges could be our challenges.
James E. Faust
#2. I have always felt that I am the sum total of my parts.
Andres Serrano
#3. It was difficult not to think of the Central Computer as a living entity, localised in a single spot, though actually it was the sum total of all the machines in Diaspar.
Arthur C. Clarke
#4. The quality of human life on our planet is nothing more than the sum total of our daily interactions with one another. Each time we help, and each time we harm, we have a dramatic impact on our world.
Desmond Tutu
#5. your character is the sum total of your habits. You can't claim to be kind unless you are habitually kind - you show kindness without even thinking about it. You can't claim to have integrity unless it is your habit to always be honest.
Rick Warren
#6. The sum total of all sums total is eternal (meaning the universe).
[Lat., Summarum summa est aeternum.]
Lucretius
#7. Power is the sum total of the wills of the mass, transfered by express or tactic agreement to rulers chosen by the masses.
Leo Tolstoy
#8. I do one accent - my own. I can make it louder or quieter. That is the sum total of my vocal range. I thought I could do an American accent until I tried it in front of an American - the expression of horror is still burnt onto my retinas.
John Oliver
#9. The productivity of social cooperation surpasses in every respect the sum total of the production of isolated individuals.
Ludwig Von Mises
#10. You are the sum total of the choices you make every day.
Brit Marling
#11. We are a sum total of what we have learned from all who have taught us, both great and small.
Myles Munroe
#12. I am only certain of one thing. If we are the sum total of our relationships, my balance sheet is bleeding red ink.
Cindy Cruciger
#13. Books seem the most potent source: each one is the sum total of a life that can be inhaled in a single day. I read fast, so I'm hoovering up lives at a ferocious pace, six or seven or eight in a week. I particularly love autobiographies: I can eat a whole person by sundown.
Caitlin Moran
#14. I've heard it said that we are the sum total of every choice we've ever made. I don't think anyone could be a better example of that than I am.
Inglath Cooper
#15. Guilt is the sum total of: All the negative feelings we have ever had about ourselves! Any form of self-hatred, self-rejection, feelings of worthlessness, sinfulness, inferiority, incompetence, failure, or emptiness. The feeling that there are things in us that are lacking or missing or incomplete.
Kenneth Wapnick
#16. Was that the sum total of my exsitence? I didn't get the erudition of 'I think therefore I am.'
Instead I got 'I am, therefore I want to fuck Jericho Barrons.
Karen Marie Moning
#17. The sum total of all the cells in an organism is one person; so each soul is like one cell and the sum of them is God, and beyond that is the Absolute.
Swami Vivekananda
#18. The strength of the United States is not the gold at Fort Knox or the weapons of mass destruction that we have, but the sum total of the education and the character of our people.
Claiborne Pell
#19. From causes which appear similar, we expect similar effects. This is the sum total of all our experimental conclusions.
David Hume
#21. A man's Self is the sum total of all that he can call his, not only his body and his psychic powers, but his clothes and his house.
William James
#22. Time does not expand."
"But time is actually expanding, isn't it? You yourself said that time adds up."
"That's only because time needed for transit has decreased. The sum total of time doesn't change. It's only that you can see more movies.
Haruki Murakami
#23. Private choices are not private; they all have public consequences ... Our society is the sum total of what millions of individuals do in their private lives. That sum total of private behavior has worldwide public consequences of enormous magnitude. There are no completely private choices.
James E. Faust
#24. The utilitarian morality does recognise in human beings the power of sacrificing their own greatest good for the good of others. It only refuses to admit that the sacrifice is itself a good. A sacrifice which does not increase, or tend to increase, the sum total of happiness, it considers as wasted.
John Stuart Mill
#25. Life it is not just a series of calculations and a sum total of statistics, it's about experience, it's about participation, it is something more complex and more interesting than what is obvious.
Daniel Libeskind
#26. What a miracle, I thought. One tiny flame could make so many other flames; one tiny flame could set afire a whole world. Why, I had, with this simple gesture, actually increased the sum total of light in the universe, had I not?
Anne Rice
#27. Character of any person is the aggregate of his or her conscientious tendencies - the sum total of the knacks of the civilized part of the mind.
Abhijit Naskar
#28. You are the sum total of your dominating or most prominent thoughts.
Napoleon Hill
#29. On the basis of biological, sociological, and historical knowledge, we should recognize that the individual self is subject to death or decay, but the sum total of individual achievement, for better or worse, lives on in the immortality of The Larger.
Hu Shih
#30. If you consider yourself a superior type, or even if you be such, let me tell you that the sum total of such superiority, is socially, a minus quantity." I
Henryk Sienkiewicz
#31. No human being can come into this world without increasing or diminishing the sum total of human happiness.
Elihu Burritt
#33. The habit of learning to appreciate to the utmost every situation in life adds wonderfully to the sum total of one's happiness. But many people are incapable of real happiness because they never learn to appreciate anything except that which appeals to their own comfort, pleasure, or appetite.
Orison Swett Marden
#34. AIDS today in Africa is claiming more lives than the sum total of all wars, famines and floods and the ravages of such deadly diseases as malaria ... We must act now for the sake of the world.
Nelson Mandela
#35. Philosophy is the sum total of all that you know and what you decide is valuable.
Jim Rohn
#36. Civilization is the sum total of all those activities that allow men to transcend mere biological existence and reach for a richer mental, aesthetic, material, and spiritual life.
Anthony Daniels
#37. Our lives are a sum total of the choices we have made.
Wayne Dyer
#38. What you will be in your next life is the sum total of the realizations that you have had in this lifetime.
Frederick Lenz
#39. It has been a tremendous privilege to serve the people of Utah during my time in the United States House of Representatives, but my time in the House should not be the sum total of my service.
Jim Matheson
#40. We are the sum total of our memories. Memories are the most precious things we have. Good or bad. That's what make us who we are. What would we be without them?
Alexandra Potter
#41. Here is a definition which correctly reflects the course of thought and action of a grandmaster: - The plan in a game of chess is the sum total of successive strategical operations which are each carried out according to separate ideas arising from the demands of the position.
Alexander Kotov
#42. There's always more to it. This is what history consists of. It is the sum total of the things they aren't telling us.
Don DeLillo
#43. The Lord's prayer contains the sum total of religion and morals.
Arthur Wellesley
#44. Fame is finally only the sum total of all the misunderstanding that can gather around a new name.
Rainer Maria Rilke
#45. What is past, but unalterable truth; life, just a pile of regrets; future, just a sum total of possibilities, and you...? just another trapped soul...
Gayathri Jayakumar
#47. The quality of a person's life is the sum total of the character, good or not so good, of the people whom he has inspired and motivated, directly and indirectly, with his living standard and lifestyle.
Anuj
#48. The Present is the living sum-total of the whole Past.
Thomas Carlyle
#49. The ability and desire to transform the mundane materials at hand that we both bring into the collaboration well beyond the sum total of the parts - to birth a new baby neither of us could claim single parentage of.
Gary Lucas
#50. Originality is not seen in single words or even in sentences. Originality is the sum total of a man's thinking or his writing.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
#51. Islam will be what Muslims make of it. And it is the sum total of the interpretation that Muslims give to it.
Maajid Nawaz
#53. Your behavior is the sum total of your action and reaction to issues and people around you.
Jaachynma N.E. Agu
#54. Our life is the sum total of all the decisions we make every day, and those decisions are determined by our priorities.
Myles Munroe
#55. It is only of life on Earth, however, that one can speak with any certainty. It seems to me that all life on Earth, the sum total of life upon the Earth, has purpose.
Clifford D. Simak
#56. A purpose tells us that we are far more than just the sum total of our existence because we are called to do something in an existence that far exceeds us.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#58. Karma is the sum total of who you are, everything you've been. The mind state you are in is karmic. Meaning, it's related by a causal chain of existences, of moments, of particles of timelessness.
Frederick Lenz
#59. Even if the sum total of human knowledge is available online, a book is still a powerful thing.
M.H. Van Keuren
#60. At the end, all that's left of you are your possessions. Perhaps that's why I've never been able to throw anything away. Perhaps that's why I hoarded the world: with the hope that when I died, the sum total of my things would suggest a life larger than the one I lived.
Nicole Krauss
#61. Every new discovery is assumed at once into the sum total of knowledge, and with that ceases in a sense to be a discovery; it dissolves into the whole and disappears, and one must have a trained scientific eye even to recognize it after that.
Franz Kafka
#63. I am far too often the author of terribly poor decisions. Yet I must rest in the unalterable fact that God says I am far better than what the sum total of those decisions would ever suggest.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#64. The sum total of all my stop-starts have made me less concerned about the future. I'm just aware now that I'll always land on my feet somehow.
Joel Edgerton
#65. I am the sum total of everything that went before me, of all I have been seen done, of everything done-to-me. I am everyone everything whose being-in-the-world affected was affected by mine. I am anything that happens after I'm gone which would not have happened if I had not come.
Salman Rushdie
#66. There cannot be heaven without Christ. He is the sum total of bliss; the fountain from which heaven flows, the element of which heaven is composed. Christ is heaven and heaven is Christ.
Charles Spurgeon
#67. We are nothing if we are not the sum total of our physique and the history of the actions of our physique
that we carry with us in body and in memory. (Body - Michael McClure)
Theodore Roszak
#68. Character is that sum total of moments we can't explain.
George Saunders
#69. Remember that your character is the sum total of your habits.
Rick Warren
#70. It is not so much the major events as the small day-to-day decisions that map the course of our living ... Our lives are, in reality, the sum total of our seemingly unimportant decisions and of our capacity to live by those decisions.
Gordon B. Hinckley
#71. The sum total of all scientifically valid proof supporting the existence of all of world's gods, combined, is zero.
David Silverman
#72. We all know that the Disney brand is our most valuable asset. It is the sum total of our seventy-five years in business, of our reputation, of everything that we stand for.
Michael Eisner
#73. If Marxist theory dictates that the personal is always political, the rebuttal of both 'The Americans' and 'House of Cards' is that the political is always personal: the sum total of our collective needs and desires, vows and betrayals.
Steve Erickson
#74. We don't know exactly how this memory works. We think it is the sum total of several complex biochemical reactions and interactions. Researchers also don't know exactly how the human memory works. They think it is the sum total of several complex biochemical reactions and interactions. The
Hope Jahren
#75. All rationalism tends to minimalise the value and the importance of life and to decrease the sum total of human happiness.
H.P. Lovecraft
#76. Bak stood a moment, as though considering whether the sum total of their shared working life was ending in a minus or a plus.
Jussi Adler-Olsen
#77. I happen to be a 64-year-old woman who lives in Manhattan, so on and so forth, but am I the sum total of my sort of bodily coordinates? Well, of course not.
Deborah Eisenberg
#78. Whenever Hollywood makes films about us, it's 12 Years a Slave or The Butler or The Help. That is not the sum total of who we are as a people.
Mo Abudu
#79. Swaraj of a people means the sum total of the Swaraj (self-rule) of individuals.
Mahatma Gandhi
#80. The way I figure it, life's the sum total of all our small mistakes, little tragedies, bad choices.
Lauren Oliver
#81. The "I" thought is said to be the sum total of all thoughts. The source of the "I" thought has to be inquired into.
Ramana Maharshi
#82. Education is the sum total of one's experience, and the purpose of higher education is to widen our experiences beyond the circumscribed existence or our own daily lives.
Mortimer Adler
#83. The State is the sum total of the sacrifice, on its behalf, of its members.
Mahatma Gandhi
#84. We are the sum total of all our experiences, our lessons, our successes, our failures, our loves, our hates, from birth to death. And if those memories disappear, what then? Who are we?
P.J. Manney
#85. Something like this changes you,
it breaks you into pieces and puts you back together, but the sum total is different.
James Patterson
#86. We're more than the sum total of our choices, that all the paths we might have taken factor somehow into the math of our identity.
Blake Crouch
#87. The avarice, the hunger for materialistic possessions and the dependency upon alcohol had gradually become stronger and stronger. And now, it was the sum total of what she was.
Sue Fortin
#88. The sum total or Ishwara may be said to be All-good, Almighty, and Omniscient. These are obvious qualities, and need no argument to prove, from the very fact of totality.
Swami Vivekananda
#89. The human person is the sum total of a 15 billion year chain of unbroken evolution now thinking about itself
Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
#90. Feelings are indicators, not dictators. They can indicate where your heart is in the moment, but that doesn't mean they have the right to dictate your behavior and boss you around. You are more than the sum total of your feelings and perfectly capable of that little gift ... called self-control.
Lysa TerKeurst
#91. That your friends are reflections of the best parts of you. That you are more than the sum total of the things you know and how you react to them. That dancing is sometimes more important than listening to the music.
Pleasefindthis
#92. Your values define who you truly are. Your true identity is the sum total of your values.
Assegid Habtewold
#93. Life's the sum total of all our small mistakes, little tragedies, bad choices. Addition on top of addition. They pile up and pile up until the cost of keeping up appearances is too high and the weight is just too much. Then: collapse.
Lauren Oliver
#94. Mythos is the sum total of the early historic and prehistoric myths which preceded the logos. The mythos includes not only the Greek myths but the Old Testament, the Vedic Hymns and the early legends of all cultures which have contributed to our present world understanding.
Robert M. Pirsig
#95. Isolation is the sum total of wretchedness to a man.
Thomas Carlyle
#96. Our achievements of today are but the sum total of our thoughts of yesterday. You are today where the thoughts of yesterday have brought you and you will be tomorrow where the thoughts of today take you.
Blaise Pascal
#97. In the realm of the phenomenal, "less is more" only when less is the sum total of more.
Robert Irwin
#98. Wilhelm Reich identified "armor" as the sum total of typical character attitudes, which an individual develops as a blocking against his emotional excitations, resulting in rigidity of the body, lack of emotional contact, "deadness". Functionally identical to muscular armor (chronic muscular spasms)
Wilhelm Reich
#99. Death IS an illusion. The body dies. The soul/spirit lives forever. YOU are the sum total of ALL you survey. Who would know you and not know your name? Kat Kaelin
Kat Kaelin
#100. Consciously and unconsciously, intentionally and involuntarily, willfully and unsuspectingly, our beliefs are the sum total of our lives. It's that simple.
Patty Houser
