Here are some of Annie Besant’s Famous quotes.

“Thus, as Spirits, we are inherently, indefensibly divine, with all the splendor and freedom implied in that word.”

“The Society is intended, always has been intended, to be a living body and not a fossil, and a living body grows and develops, adapting itself to new conditions.”
~ Annie Besant

“No philosophy, no religion, has ever brought so glad a message to the world as this good news of Atheism.”
~Annie Besant

“Never forget that life can only be nobly inspired and rightly lived if you take it bravely and gallantly, as a splendid adventure in which you are setting out into an unknown country, to meet many a joy, to find many a comrade, to win and lose many a battle.”
~Annie Basant

“Liberty is a great celestial Goddess, strong, beneficent, and austere, and she can never descend upon a nation by the shouting of crowds, nor by arguments of unbridled passion, nor by the hatred of class against class.”

“Better remain silent, better not even think, if you are not prepared to act.”

“To feel life expressing itself, flowing forth, expand­ing, increasing, this is at once the result of the Will to Live, and its fruition in the Bliss of living.”

“It is important to understand that the evolution of the individual “I” is a Self-chosen activity. We are here because we Will to Live; “none else compels”

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Starting with this hope quote on love, “Love comes to those who still hope even though they’ve been disappointed, to those who still believe even though they’ve been betrayed, to those who still love even though they’ve been hurt before.”
~Unknown

” Hope never abandons you, you abandon it.”
~George Weinberg

” Hope is the feeling we have that the feeling we have is not permanent. ”
~Mignon McLaughlin

“Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers. ”
~Robert Ingersoll

“Perhaps they are not stars, but rather openings in heaven where the love of our lost ones pours through and shines down upon us to let us know they are happy.”
~Eskimo sayings

“He who has health has hope; and he who has hope has everything.”
~Arabian Proverb

” Love floods us with hope.”
~Jareb Teague

“Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out”
~ Vaclav Havel

” Hope is faith holding out its hand in the dark. ”
~George Iles

“Hope is not a dream but a way of making dreams become reality.”
~Unknown

” Sanity may be madness but the maddest of all is to see life as it is and not as it should be.”
~Don Quixote

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“Every calamity is a spur and valuable hint.”
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Yield not to calamity, but face her boldly.”
~Virgil

“A great calamity is as old as the trilobites an hour after it has happened.”
~Oliver Wendell Holmes

“Is not this laid up in store with me, and sealed up among my treasures? / To me belongeth vengeance and recompence; their foot shall slide in due time: for the day of their calamity is at hand, and the things that shall come upon them make haste.”
~ Bible quotes

“Public calamity is a mighty leveler”
~ Edmund Burke

“A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation; therefore a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or future.”
~Oliver Goldsmith

“Affliction is enamoured of thy parts, and thou art wedded to calamity.”
~ William Shakespeare

“He is not valiant that dares die, but he that boldly bears calamity.”
~Philip Massinger

“Calamity is the perfect glass wherein we truly see and know ourselves.”
~ William Davenant

“Learn to see in another’s calamity the ills which you should avoid”
~ Publilius Syrus

“Often it takes some calamity to make us live in the present. Then suddenly we wake up and see all the mistakes we have made.”
~Bill Watterson

“Calamity is the test of integrity.”
~ Samuel Richardson

“Prohibit the taking of omens, and do away with superstitious doubts. Then, until death itself comes, no calamity need be feared.”
~ Sun Tzu

And my favorite calamity quote:
“He who foresees calamities, suffers them twice over.”
~ Bishop Porteous

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“You have your ideology and I have mine.”
~Kahlil Gibran

“The main object of a revolution is the liberation of man… not the interpretation and application of some transcendental ideology.”
~Jean Genet

“Ideology has very little to do with ‘consciousness’ – it is profoundly unconscious.”
~Louis Althusser

“You can’t be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet.”
~Hal Borland quotes

“If any ideology is so serious that you can’t have fun while you’re doing it, it’s probably too serious.”
~Larry Wall

“It’s time for greatness — not for greed. It’s a time for idealism — not ideology. It is a time not just for compassionate words, but compassionate action.”
~ Marian Wright Edelman

“Our blight is ideologies — they are the long-expected Antichrist! ”
~Carl Jung

“Great teachers transcend ideology.”
~Suzanne Fields

“Whoever today speaks of human existence in terms of power, efficiency, and ”historical tasks” is an actual or potential assassin. ”
~Albert Camus

“Methods of thought which claim to give the lead to our world in the name of revolution have become, in reality, ideologies of consent and not of rebellion. ”
~Albert Camus

“There is no religion in which everyday life is not considered a prison; there is no philosophy or ideology that does not think that we live in alienation.”
~Eugene Ionesco

“Life has become the ideology of its own absence.”
~Theodor Adorno

You may contribute your own ideology quotes below..

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“Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so shall you become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.”
~ James Allen

Conservative ideal of freedom and progress: everyone to have an unfettered opportunity of remaining exactly where they are.
~ Geoffrey Madan

“An Enlightened Master is ideal only if your goal is to become a Benighted Slave.”
~Robert Anton Wilson

“When a man forgets his ideals he may hope for happiness, but not till then.”
~John Oliver Hobbes

“I’m an idealist. I don’t know where I’m going, but I’m on my way. ”
~Carl Sandburg

“To do nothing and get something, formed a boy’s ideal of a manly career.”
~ Benjamin Disraeli

“Some people never have anything except ideals. ”
~E.W. Howe

“All governments are in equal measure good and evil. The best ideal is anarchy.”
~ Leo Tolstoy

“Happiness is not an ideal of reason but of imagination”
~ Immanuel Kant

“Every dogma has its day, but ideals are eternal. ”
~Israel Zangwill

“You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements. ”
~Norman Douglas

“An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous. ”
~Henry Ford

“Though I believe in liberalism, I find it difficult to believe in liberals. ”
~G.K. Chesterton

“Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.”
~John Ruskin

“Our ideals, like the gods of old, are constantly demanding human sacrifices. ”
~George Bernard Shaw

“Idealism increases in direct proportion to one’s distance from the problem. ”
~John Galsworthy

Freedom is not an ideal; it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than the freedom to stagnate.
~Adlai Stevenson

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“Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.”
~Jim Ryun

“We get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally appear disguised before ourselves.”
~Francois de la Rochefoucauld

“Excellence is not a singular act, but a habit. You are what you repeatedly do.”
~ Shaquille ONea

“Habit is stronger than reason”
~George Santayana

Sooner it goes the better because “Bad habits are easier to abandon today than tomorrow. ”
~Yiddish Proverb

And also because it tends to stick harder with time, which is why it is calle habit..
“Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.”
~St. Augustine

“A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it the superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason.”
~Thomas Paine

“Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased a habit”
~ Epictetus

“First we make our habits, then our habits make us.”
~ Charles C. Noble

“Each year one vicious habit rooted out, in time might make the worst man good throughout.”
~ Benjamin Franklin

And on a positive note:
“Good habits, once established are just as hard to break as are bad habits”
~ Robert Puller

“Character is long-standing habit.”
~ Plutarch

“Habits are at first cobwebs, then cables. ”
~Spanish Proverb

“Habit and routine have an unbelievable power to waste and destroy.”
~ Henri de Lubac

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.”
~Aristotle

“Habits are to the soul what the veins and arteries are to the blood, the courses in which it moves”
~ Horace Bushnell

“In any family, measles are less contagious than bad habits. ”
~Mignon McLaughlin

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1. Character Quotes

“When I die, I desire no better winding sheet than the Stars and Stripes, and no softer pillow than the Constitution of my country.”
~ Andrew Johnson

“Patriotism is like charity — it begins at home. ”
~ James Henry

“National honor is national property of the highest value.”
~ James Monroe

“What is the essence of America? Finding and maintaining that perfect, delicate balance between freedom “to” and freedom “from.”
~ Marilyn vos Savant

“We stand for freedom. That is our conviction for ourselves; that is our only commitment to others. ”
~ John F Kennedy

“May the sun in his course visit no land more free, more happy, more lovely, than this our own country! ”
~ Daniel Webster

“For what avail the plough or sail, or land or life, if freedom fail?”
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

“There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured”
~Bill Clinton

“Where liberty dwells, there is my country.”
~ Benjamin Franklin

“A man is morally free when, in full possession of his living humanity, he judges the world, and judges other men, with uncompromising sincerity.”
~ George Santayana

“Men love their country, not because it is great, but because it is their own.”
~ Seneca

“Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves. ”
~Abraham Lincoln

One good 4th of july patriotic saying:
“They that can give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty or safety. ”
~Benjamin Franklin

“Democracy shows not only its power in reforming governments, but in regenerating a race of men and this is the greatest blessing of free governments”
~ Andrew Jackson, 7th US President (1767-1845)

“We need an America with the wisdom of experience. But we must not let America grow old in spirit.”
~ Hubert H. Humphrey

And lastly,

That’s why I stand here tonight. Because for two hundred and thirty two years, at each moment when that promise was in jeopardy, ordinary men and women – students and soldiers, farmers and teachers, nurses and janitors — found the courage to keep it alive.
~ You all know who Big O

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“Charity sees the need, not the cause.”
~German Proverb

“Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance.”
“~St. Francis of Assisi

No sound ought to be heard in the church but the healing voice of Christian charity.
~Edmund Burke

“Every good act is charity. A man’s true wealth hereafter is the good that he does in this world to his fellows.”
~Moliere

“Give no bounties: make equal laws: secure life and prosperity and you need not give alms.”
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

“True charity is the desire to be useful to others without thought of recompense”
~Emanuel Swedenborg

“He is truly great who hath a great charity.”
~Thomas a Kempis

“Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.”
~John D. Rockefeller

“Charity: a thing that begins at home, and usually stays there.”
~Elbert Hubbard

“With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us finish the work we are in”
~ Abraham Lincoln

“Lady, you know no rules of charity, Which renders good for bad, blessings for curses.”
~William Shakespeare

“A man receiving charity always hates his benefactor- it is a fixed characteristic of human nature”
~ George Orwell

“Every charitable act is a stepping stone towards heaven.”
~Henry Ward Beecher

“And now abideth faith, hope and charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity (I Corinthians 13:13).”
~Bible quotes

“Every good act is charity. A man’s true wealth hereafter is the good that he does in this world to his fellows.”
~Mohammed

“Behold I do not give lectures or a little charity, When I give I give myself”
~Walt Whitman

“Having leveled my palace, don’t erect a hovel and complacently admire your own charity in giving me that for a home.”
~Emily Bronte

“The living need charity more than the dead.”
~George Arnold

“The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing service”
~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“The qualities most needed are charity and tolerance, not some form of fanatical faith such as is offered to us by the various rampant isms”
~ Bertrand Russell

“The measure of life is not its duration, but its donation.”
~Peter Marshall

“He who wished to secure the good of others, has already secured his own.”
~Confucius

“They take the paper and they read the headlines, So they’ve heard of unemployment and they’ve heard of breadlines, And they philanthropically cure them all By getting up a costume charity ball.”
~Ogden Nash

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“It is the rooted instinct in men to admire what is better and more beautiful than themselves.”
~James Russell Lowell

“If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is overwhelming, he will refuse to believe it. If, on the other hand, he is offered something which affords a reason for acting in accordance to his instincts, he will accept it even on the slightest evidence. The origin of myths is explained in this way.”
~ Bertrand Russell

“A good short-story writer has an instinct for sketching in just enough background to ground the specific story.”
~Lynn Abbey

“How instinct varies in the grov’lling swine, Compar’d, half-reasoning elephant, with thine! ‘Twixt that and reason what a nice barrier! Forever sep’rate, yet forever near!”
~Alexander Pope

“What is peculiar in the life of a man consists not in his obedience, but his opposition, to his instincts. In one direction or another he strives to live a supernatural life.”
~Henry David Thoreau

“Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There is no intelligence where there is no change and no need of change.”
~H. G. Wells

My favorite instinct quote, “Instinct must be thwarted just as one prunes the branches of a tree so that it will grow better.”
~ Henri Matisse

“The intellect has little to do on the road to discovery. There comes a leap in consciousness, call it intuition or what you will, and the solution comes to you and you don’t know how or why.”
~Albert Einstein

“A good artist lets his intuition lead him wherever it wants.”
~Lao-Tzu

“Follow your instincts. That’s where true wisdom manifests itself.”
~Oprah Winfrey

“The only real valuable thing is intuition.”
~Albert Einstein

“With the exception of the instinct of self-preservation, the propensity for emulation is probably the strongest and most alert and persistent of the economic motives proper”
~ Thorstein Veblen

“A few strong instincts and a few plain rules.”
~ William Wordsworth

“There can be as much value in the blink of an eye as in months of rational analysis.”
~Malcolm Gladwell – This is about the latest Instinct quote..

“Truly successful decision making relies on a balance between deliberate and instinctive thinking.”
~Malcolm Gladwell

Another new Instinct quote:
I rely far more on gut instinct than researching huge amounts of statistics.
~Richard Branson

Very old one:
“I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.”
~Socrates

“You do what’s in your gut- if you’ve been doing it long enough, what’s in your gut will be appropriate.”
~ Anderson Cooper

“Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don’t start measuring her limbs.”
~Pablo Picasso

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We start with this cute father’s day quote:
The greatest gift I ever had
Came from God; I call him Dad!
~Author Unknown

“He who is taught to live upon little owes more to his father’s wisdom than he who has a great deal left him does to his father’s care. ”
~William Penn

“It doesn’t matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.”
~Anne Sexton

“The kind of man who thinks that helping with the dishes is beneath him will also think that helping with the baby is beneath him, and then he certainly is not going to be a very successful father”
~ Eleanor Roosevelt

“It is a wise father that knows his own child.”
~ William Shakespeare

Here is a Funny Father’s day quote:
“What’s all this fuss about fathers being present at the birth of their children? The way events are shaping, they’ll be lucky to be present at the conception.”
~George H. Davies

Another Funny one:
“Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope.”
~Bill Cosby

“My father always used to say that when you die, if you’ve got five real friends, you’ve had a great life.”
~Elbert Hubbard

“A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again.”
~ Enid Bagnold

“A bad father has never a good son”
~ Latin Proverb

“Fifth Commandment: Honor thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.”
~Exodus 20:12

“Becoming a father is easy enough, but being one can be very rough”
~ Wilhelm Busch

“A man knows he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.”
~Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“Lucky that man whose children make his happiness in life and not his grief, the anguished disappointment of his hopes. ”
~ Euripedes

This is a quote about parents:
“Children learn to smile from their parents.”
~Shinichi Suzuki

“A truly rich man is one whose children run into his arms when his hands are empty.”
~ Unknown Author

?€œAny man can be a father, but it takes a special person to be a dad”
~Old Proverb

“One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.”
~George Herbert

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