Top 326 Deprive Quotes & Sayings

Your only purpose is to be yourself, otherwise you deprive the universe of who you came here to be.

You must be careful not to deprive the poem of its wild origin.

We deprive our children, our charges, of persistence. What I am trying to say is that we need to fail, children need to fail, we need to feel sad, anxious and anguished. If we impulsively protect ourselves and our children, as the feel-good movement suggests, we deprive them of learning-persistence skills.

Establishing goals is all right if you don't let them deprive you of interesting detours.

Do not deprive someone of his livelihood. This is a sinful tendency.

If someone kills you, they will deprive you of life, but they can never deprive you of your right to life.

Love is all I can possess and no one can deprive me of it. Kahlil Gibran (Visions of the Prophet)

Give people a common enemy, and you will give them a common identity. Deprive them of an enemy and you will deprive them of the crutch by which they know who they are.

Living a healthy lifestyle will only deprive you of poor health, lethargy, and fat.

We must not be timid from a fear of committing faults: the greatest fault of all is to deprive oneself of experience.

Black and white might be sufficient. But why deprive yourself of color.

Our Founding Fathers were proud that Americans were trusted with arms because they knew that only when people are armed could they truly be thought of as free citizens. And that's where the circle closes. Those who want to deprive you of your right to keep and bear arms are intending to deprive you of your freedom, period. Like the criminals their policies encourage, these elitists know that it is always best to disarm victims before you enslave them.

But such a tiny and trivial thing as an umbrella can deprive you of the sight of such a stupendous fact as the sun.

When we give children advice or instant solutions, we deprive them of the experience that comes from wrestling with their own problems.

I can't deprive myself of things because then I obsess about it and end up eating.

Despotic rules are attempting to deprive women of their rights.

Our thinking minds deprive us of the happiness that comes when we are living fully in the moment.

Don’t deprive yourself of the exciting journey your life can be when you relinquish the need to have goals and a blueprint.

I see a light in the kitchen. Let us not deprive Molly any longer of the chance to deplore how thin you are.

Do not deprive me of my age. I have earned it.

But the mere circumstance of complexion cannot deprive them of the character of men.

I am sorry for men who do not read the Bible every day. I wonder why they deprive themselves of the strength and pleasure.

You cannot make a man worth a given amount by making it illegal for anyone to offer him anything less. You merely deprive him of the right to earn the amount that his abilities and situation would permit him to earn, while you deprive the community even of the moderate services that he is capable of rendering. In brief, for a low wage you substitute unemployment. You do harm all around, with no comparable compensation.

It's wrong to deprive someone else of a pleasure so that you can enjoy one yourself, but to deprive yourself of a pleasure so that you can add to someone else's enjoyment is an act of humanity by which you always gain more than you lose.

The most sensible and jealous people are so little attentive to government that there are no instances of resistance until repeated, multiplied oppressions have placed it beyond a doubt that their rulers had formed settled plans to deprive them of their liberties; not to oppress an individual or a few, but to break down the fences of a free constitution, and deprive the people at large of all share in the government, and all the checks by which it is limited.

Dream big dreams! Others may deprive you of your material wealth and cheat you in a thousand ways, but no man can deprive you of the control and use of your imagination. Men may deal with you unfairly, as men often do; they may deprive you of your liberty; but they cannot take from you the privilege of using your imagination. In your imagination you always win!

To hate is to deprive oneself of energy better spent on worthwhile endeavors.

I know that when we deprive communities of their voice, it can be dangerous.

Never deprive someone of hope; it might be all they have.

I don't want my daughter to think she has to deprive herself to be pretty...It's all about balance and I can teach that best by living it.

Hope is a powerful weapon, and (one) no one power on earth can deprive you of.

The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense.

We're most likely to lose our rights when we allow ourselves to be persuaded to deprive others of theirs.

Give to a being the useless, and deprive him of the needful, and you have the gamin.

But I won't deprive myself of singing opera as long as my voice follows.

There are major groups, including the Sierra Club, that support efforts to deprive poor countries of energy.

When you have an enemy in your power, deprive him of the means of ever injuring you.

Pay close attention to the particular thoughts you use to deprive yourself of happiness.

As any psychologist will tell you, the worst thing you can possibly do to a woman is to deprive her of a grievance.

May the Lord level in the dust those who would deprive the people of their liberty.

Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.

By withholding the knowledge of [the Scriptures] from children, we deprive ourselves of the best means of awakening moral sensibility in their minds.

The effect of great and inevitable misfortune is to elevate those souls which it does not deprive of all virtue.

When you deprive people of their right to live in dignity, to hope for a better future, to have control over their lives, when you deprive them of that choice, then you expect them to fight for these rights.

The criteria for serving one's country should be competence, courage and willingness to serve. When we deny people the chance to serve because of their sexual orientation, we deprive them of their rights of citizenship, and we deprive our armed forces the service of willing and capable Americans.

We will fight anyone who wishes to impose a totalitarian system upon a free society, and we will always prevail. But we will not do so with a fear-stricken administration which seeks to deprive us of freedoms in the name of 'defending' us from the terrorists, who also seek to deprive us of our freedoms.

Sometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure.

Pay-per-view would deprive many kids of the delight of seeing the Olympics.

The ingratitude of the world can never deprive us of the conscious happiness of having acted with humanity ourselves.

True passions do not deprive love.

I don't deprive myself. I eat chocolate most nights and if there's a cake knocking around I'll have it. And I do like Nando's.

Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.

Swaraj is our birthright. No one can deprive us of it unless we forfeit it ourselves.

Nobody can deprive me of the fact that I had a good time.

I never eat meat as I think it is wrong to deprive animals of their life when they are so difficult to chew anyway.

There is a certain right by which we many deprive a man of life, but none by which we may deprive him of death; this is mere cruelty.

Self-respect is to the soul as oxygen is to the body. Deprive a person of oxygen, and you kill his body; deprive him of self-respect and you kill his spirit.

The scandal of education is that every time you teach something, you deprive a [student] of the pleasure and benefit of discovery.

If you deprive yourself of something, you're going to want it more.

The power to arrest - to deprive a citizen of liberty - must be used fairly, responsibly, and without bias.