Top 1200 Precious Moments Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

Fearlessness may be a gift, but perhaps most precious is courage from cultivating the habit of refusing to let fear dictate one's actions.

I got into filmmaking in order to tell very personal stories, and in this day and age, the opportunity seems all the more precious.

My most precious possession is a 13.5-feet-long fishing rod, made by an American firm called Loomis.

Do not let trifles disturb your tranquility of mind. . . . Life is too precious to be sacrificed for the nonessential and transient. . . . Ignore the inconsequential!

We've been bought with a price, the precious blood of the Lord Jesus Christ. So none of us really have any rights.

One of my father's most precious legacies to me was spiritual. I learned from him the value of courage and the strength of will.

Our enemies provide us with a precious opportunity to practice patience and love. We should have gratitude toward them.

Each day is a precious gift to be savored and used, not left unopened and hoarded for a future that may never come.

What with the reviews of critics, the sarcasms of one's friends, the reproaches of one's own taste, there's precious little peace after publishing a book.

I fear that I am losing my mind. But really, it would not be such a precious thing to lose, as it only causes me pain.

This youthful heart can love you and give you what you need, but I'm too old to go chasing you around wasting my precious energy.

A lot of directors on a base level are fearful of actors and maybe even distrustful. I love the craft of acting and I love actors so I think they can probably sense that. They also know that I understand what their process is, having done it myself. The thing I come back to over and over again is that for most people who are not analyzing it from a critical point of view, most iconic film moments are actor moments. We show up to commune with another human being and their experience. We don't show up necessarily to watch a really cool dolly shot.

Like a precious family heirloom, freedom is not just ours to enjoy, but to treasure, protect, and pass on to future generations.

A great man's manias must be respected, because the time required to combat them is too precious to waste.

You are supposed to have a dream of walking the red carpet. But I'm really not like that. Because fame is... I don't think it is something interesting or precious.

He held her as though she was a gift. Given to him in love. Something still and small. Unbearably precious.

Love, indeed, lends a precious seeing to the eye, and hearing to the ear: all sights and sounds are glorified by the light of its presence.

There is a tragic flaw in our precious constitution, and I don't know what can be done to fix it. This is it: Only nut cases want to be president.

Nina Simone is a musical genius and a rich and precious treasure who paid a heavy price for her artistic freedom.

Brothers and sisters of Egypt, you have given the world the most precious gift: the belief that ultimately right will prevail.

The world is starving for leaders who are not afraid to dismantle the sacred and precious beliefs, which hold us as prisoners of the past.

To share is precious, pure and fair. Don't play with something you should cherish for life. Don't you wanna care, ain't it lonely out there?

So remember, if marriage arises out of intimacy then it is beautiful. That means that everybody should have lived together before they get married. The honeymoon should not happen after marriage, it should happen before marriage. One should have lived the dark nights, the beautiful days, the sad moments, the happy moments, together. One should have looked into each other's eyes deeply, into each other's being.

Liberty, the greatest of all earthly blessings - give us that precious jewel and you may take everything else!

People never hurt others in moments of personal strength and bravery, when they are feeling good about themselves, when they are strong and confident. If we spent all of our waking moments in that place, then fighting for social justice would be redundant; we would simply have social justice and be done with it, and we could all go swimming, or fishing, or bowling, or dancing, or whatever people do. But it is because we spend so much of our time in that other place, that place of diminished capacity, of flagging energy, or wavering and somewhat flaccid commitment, that we have to be careful.

I'm immensely grateful for the precious gift my mother has given me. She is my hero today and every day.

It is a pity that many Christians have the TV schedule better memorized than a single chapter for God's precious Word.

Genius and sunshine have this in common that they are the two most precious gifts of heaven to earth, and are dispensed equally to the just and the unjust.

Throughout life, one does not miss any chance to hold onto the things that are really precious, if one is truly wise.

What makes human life - which is inseparable from this moment--so precious is its fleeting nature. And not that it doesn't last but that it never returns again.

Our overvaluation of speed (time here as only money) has robbed us of many things that are at least equally precious.

You get so close to your own music that you can't see the beauty in it. I had to learn to let go. It's good to be less precious.

As a street artist, I'm used to sharing my stuff with the public. It's a communal experience. I've learned not to be so precious, but rather to enjoy the process.

A precious, mouldering pleasure 't is, to meet an antique book, In just the dress his century wore; A privilege I think.

How precious you are in my life. I am forever grateful that God sent an angel to me. I love you most dearly.

Sweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in his head.

I'm an equal-opportunity critic when it comes to left-wing celebrities sounding off on topics of which they know precious little.

There's nothing as perfect as the initial idea. And the only reason I write and direct is to protect the writing, because that's what's most precious.

We are unnecessarily wasting our precious resources in wars... if we must wage war, we have to do it on unemployment, disease, poverty, and backwardness.

In a divine commonwealth holiness must have the principal honor and encouragement, and a great difference be made between the precious and the vile.

Our precious heritage of natural and unspoiled beauty and unpolluted streams, once exhausted and destroyed, can never be replaced.

I'm not a precious text protector, or anything like that, you know, because it's a much more vital form than that. You have to rock.

Once you believe in yourself and see your soul as divine and precious, you'll automatically be converted to a being who can create miracles.

Time is man's most precious asset. All men neglect it; all regret the loss of it; nothing can be done without it.

We are all accountable for ourselves. Think of yourself as a precious commodity, and then protect your investment each day.

Being a child is such a shining gift, yet we don't know how precious it is until it's worn out and gone away.

criticism is dangerous, because it wounds a person's precious pride, hurt his sense of importace and arouse resentment.

The fidelity of a dog is a precious gift demanding no less binding moral responsibilities than the friendship of a human being.

Kids only learn that the stove is hot when they put their finger on and they burn it. This, unfortunately, is the limitation of our precious brain.

You just need to create and be open with that energy. The second that you are precious with it, it's almost like you showing the world you have a limited amount.

There are a lot of times where actors can be a little precious sometimes, and then it's difficult to put them in a situation where there is true hardship.

My God! How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!

A kid is something precious, and you want to protect it and keep it fun. I'm not a dad, but I've seen people and how they behave with their kids.

what you do every day is what forms your mind and precious few of us can or would spend most days outdoors.

Repose in that peaceful, cool, calm, serene depth of your Being. You know, this is something immensely valuable and precious

I think that it's a crime to say you are bored when time is so precious and there are so many things to do in life: read, learn, watch.

Kisses are like grains of gold or silver found upon the ground, of no value themselves, but precious as showing that a mine is near.

I've been blessed to spend time with young people and help encourage an environment where it's comfortable for them to be who they are. That's precious for children.

That's what is so precious in reading this way - you can plumb the depths of another's experience while sitting still with a book in your hands.

Sometimes I would see them not as mementos of the blissful hours but as the tangible precious debris of the storm raging in my soul.