Carrying Quotes

The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones. (Confucius)
Apathy can be overcome by enthusiasm, and enthusiasm can only be aroused by two things: first, an ideal, with takes the imagination by storm, and second, a definite intelligible plan for carrying that ideal into practice. View quote
Arnold J. Toynbee
You are a little soul carrying around a corpse. View quote
Epictetus
Genius is present in every age, but the men carrying it within them remain benumbed unless extraordinary events occur to heat up and melt the mass so that it flows forth. View quote
Denis Diderot
History is the ship carrying living memories to the future. View quote
Stephen Spender
In executing the duties of my present important station, I can promise nothing but purity of intentions, and, in carrying these into effect, fidelity and diligence. View quote
George Washington
Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out. View quote
Stephen Covey
The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a banner. View quote
Mark Twain
As far as carrying the American banner, you just do what's right for the kids. View quote
Dennis Farina
This enemy of peace in the world today is unlike any we have seen in the past, and our military is learning from, and building on, previous successes while carrying peace and freedom into the future. View quote
Mark Kennedy
The worst manifestations of exhaustion were successfully cured by a long period of rest but it was immediately apparent to me that I had lost once and for all my former capacity for carrying out experimental work until physically tired. (Wilhelm Ostwald)
In this instance of the fire-arms, the Asiatic has been most improperly bracketed with the native. The British Indian does not need any such restrictions as are imposed by the Bill on the natives regarding the carrying of fire-arms. The prominent race can remain so by preventing the native from arming himself. Is there a slightest vestige of justification for so preventing the British Indian? View quote
Mahatma Gandhi
I will not attempt to deny the reasonableness and necessity of a party war; but in carrying on that war all principles and rules of justice should not be departed from. View quote
Robert Walpole
If your judgement is clouded, you must be carrying too many things which are being a burden to you. View quote
Yoko Ono
American citizens are instrumental in carrying on a traffic in enslaved Africans, equally in violation of the laws of humanity and in defiance of those of their own country. The same just and benevolent motives which produced interdiction in force against this criminal conduct will doubtless be felt by Congress in devising further means of suppressing the evil. View quote
James Madison
When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross. View quote
Sinclair Lewis
Tradition and heritage are all dead people's baggage, stop carrying it. Move forward. View quote
Doug Stanhope
If this work seems so threatening, this is because it isn't simply eccentric or strange, but competent, rigorously argued, and carrying conviction. View quote
Jacques Derrida
Ancient portraits are symbolic images without any immediate relation to the individuals represented; they are not portraits as we understand them. ...It is remarkable that philologists who are capable of carrying accuracy to the extremes in the case of words are as credulous as babies when it comes to "images," and yet an image is so full of information that ten thousands words would not add up to it. View quote
George Sarton
He wished she knew his impressions, but he would as soon as thought of carrying an odour in a net as of attempting to convey the intangibles of his feeling in the coarse meshes of language. So he remained silent. View quote
Thomas Hardy
The time has come when we must proceed with the business of carrying the war to the enemy, not permitting the greater portion of our armed forces and our valuable material to be immobilized within the continental United States. (George C. Marshall)
Woe to him who saw no more sense in his life, no aim, no purpose, and therefore no point in carrying on. View quote
Viktor Frankl
What should we suppose must naturally be the consequence of our carrying on a slave trade with Africa? With a country, vast in its extent, not utterly barbarous, but civilized in a very small degree? Does any one suppose a slave trade would help their civilization? View quote
William Wilberforce
So down thy hill, romantic Ashbourn, glides The Derby dilly, carrying three INSIDES. View quote
George Canning
Carrying a baby is the most rewarding experience a female can enjoy. A father shares in that experience, knowing that he caused it to happen. View quote
Jayne Mansfield