Condition Quotes

Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.
Thomas Jefferson

Life, Happiness, Good

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own... Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy.
Robert A. Heinlein

Love, Happiness, Jealousy

Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition, is not only a waste of energy but the worst habit you could possibly have.
Dale Carnegie

Yourself, Sorry, Feeling

Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.
James Russell Lowell

Change, Sad, Angry

Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.
Mahatma Gandhi

Life, Education, Personal

No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world.
Aristotle

Choose, Existence, Friendless

The 'kingdom of Heaven' is a condition of the heart - not something that comes 'upon the earth' or 'after death.'
Friedrich Nietzsche

Death, Heart, After

The lie is a condition of life.
Friedrich Nietzsche

The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Rather, Against, Existence

To be a poet is a condition, not a profession.
Robert Frost

Poet, Profession

The truth is that we can learn to condition our minds, bodies, and emotions to link pain or pleasure to whatever we choose. By changing what we link pain and pleasure to, we will instantly change our behaviors.
Tony Robbins

Change, Truth, Pain

The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.
George Bernard Shaw

Progress, Censorship, Removal

If you paint in your mind a picture of bright and happy expectations, you put yourself into a condition conducive to your goal.
Norman Vincent Peale

Happy, Yourself, Mind

How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.
Albert Camus

Friendship, Truth, Nothing

It is difficult to make our material condition better by the best law, but it is easy enough to ruin it by bad laws.
Theodore Roosevelt

He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.
Albert Camus

Hope, Fool, Human

Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.
Voltaire

Doubt, Pleasant, Absurd

Peace is not a relationship of nations. It is a condition of mind brought about by a serenity of soul. Peace is not merely the absence of war. It is also a state of mind. Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people.
Jawaharlal Nehru

Peace, War, Mind

If you start to think of your physical and moral condition, you usually find that you are sick.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Find, Sick, Start

Marriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two.
Ambrose Bierce

Marriage, Two, Making

Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another.
Joseph Addison

Life, Nature, Humanity

When a nation goes down, or a society perishes, one condition may always be found; they forgot where they came from. They lost sight of what had brought them along.
Carl Sandburg

Society, Lost, May

The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers.
Erich Fromm

Meaning, Search, Certainty

Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of one's own self.
Erich Fromm

Love, Integrity, Self

If we know that our own men are in a condition to attack, but are unaware that the enemy is not open to attack, we have gone only halfway towards victory.
Sun Tzu

Men, Enemy, Victory

Man's biological weakness is the condition of human culture.
Erich Fromm

Human, Culture, Weakness

Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.
Marilyn vos Savant

Giving, Often, Makes

Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations - wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco.
Edmund Burke

Men, Wine, Moral

We are victims of evil customs. It is a crime against humanity that our women are shut up within the four walls of the houses as prisoners. There is no sanction anywhere for the deplorable condition in which our women have to live.
Muhammad Ali Jinnah

Women, Live, Evil

Consul - in American politics, a person who having failed to secure an office from the people is given one by the Administration on condition that he leave the country.
Ambrose Bierce

Politics, Person, Country

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