Consist Quotes

Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.

The art of being a woman can never consist of being a bad imitation of a man.

Thankfulness is the beginning of gratitude. Gratitude is the completion of thankfulness. Thankfulness may consist merely of words. Gratitude is shown in acts.

Elegance does not consist in putting on a new dress.

The great difference between those who succeed and those who fail does not consist in the amount of work done by each but in the amount of intelligent work. Many of those who fail most ignominiously do enough to achieve grand success but they labor haphazardly at whatever they are assigned, building up with one hand to tear down with the other. They do not grasp circumstances and change them into opportunities. They have no faculty for turning honest defeats into telling victories. With ability enough and ample time, the major ingredients of success, they are forever throwing back and forth an empty shuttle and the real web of their life is never woven.

To get something done a committee should consist of no more than three people, two of whom are absent.

Happiness may well consist primarily of an attitude toward time.

The fact, in short, is that freedom, to be meaningful in an organized society must consist of an amalgam of hierarchy of freedoms and restraints.

Constitutions should consist only of general provisions; the reason is that they must necessarily be permanent, and that they cannot calculate for the possible change of things.

Of what does politics consist except the making of imperfect decisions, many of them unjust and quite a few of them deadly?

But the delights of solitude don't only consist of dreaming. Next in enjoyment, I think, comes planning.

I believe in the equality of man; and I believe that religious duties consist in doing justice, loving mercy, and endeavoring to make our fellow-creatures happy.

Medicine is not only a science; it is also an art. It does not consist of compounding pills and plasters; it deals with the very processes of life, which must be understood before they may be guided.

It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving, it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe.

Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward in the same direction.

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.

Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.

No man speaketh, or should speak, of his prince, that which he hath not weighed whether it will consist with that veneration which should be preserved inviolate to him.

The green-light meeting, when I first started at Paramount, would consist of maybe three or four of us in a room. Perhaps two or three of us would have read the script under discussion.

There will be some tracks on the next album which that will consist of mostly noise and feedback, whereas others may just have guitar parts and samples.

Real education should consist of drawing the goodness and the best out of our own students. What better books can there be than the book of humanity?

Goodness does not consist in greatness, but greatness in goodness.

Riches do not consist in the possession of treasures, but in the use made of them.

Painting is an essentially concrete art and can only consist of the representation of real and existing things.