Browsing Topic Best Common Quotes

Please find below a curated list of 5,700 of The Best Common Quotes by notable women and men. Please consider sharing with others any of the Common Quotes that resonate.

Love is the common denominator that unites all people, whatever religion they are.

The common question that gets asked in business is, why? That’s a good question, but an equally valid question is, why not?

Topic(s): Common , Success , Business

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.

Topic(s): Common , People , Thinking

I have nothing in common with lazy people who blame others for their lack of success.

Topic(s): Common , People , Motivational

The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.

Topic(s): Common , Inspirational , Art

The most common ego identifications have to do with possessions, the work you do, social status and recognition, knowledge and education, physical appearance, special abilities, relationships, person and family history, belief systems, and often nationalistic, racial, religious, and other collective identifications. None of these is you.

Topic(s): Common , Persons , Social

What do sad people have in common? It seems they have all built a shrine to the past and often go there and do a strange wail and worship. What is the beginning of Happiness? It is to stop being so religious like that.

Topic(s): Common , People , Past

It is very common for us to desire most what we are least qualified to obtain.

Topic(s): Common , Desire , Qualified

The characteristic of genuine heroism is its persistency. All men have wandering impulses, fits and starts of generosity. But when you have resolved to be great, abide by yourself, and do not weakly try to reconcile yourself with the world. The heroic cannot be the common, nor the common the heroic.

Topic(s): Common , Men , World

It is a know fact that almost all revolutions have been the work, not of the common people, but of the aristocracy, and especially of the decayed part of the aristocracy.

Topic(s): Common , People , Knows

What we all have in common is an appreciation of kindness and compassion; all the religions have this. We all lean towards love.

Topic(s): Common , Compassion , Kindness

My humanity, in common with all of God’s children, gives the greatest flight to my full range of my possibilities.

Topic(s): Common , Giving , Children

With fame I become more and more stupid, which of course is a very common phenomenon.

Topic(s): Common , Courses , Stupid

People share a common nature but are trained in gender roles.

Topic(s): Common , People , Share

The man who has learned to do something better than anyone else, has learned to do a common thing in an uncommon manner, is the man who has a power and influence that no adverse circumstances can take from him.

Topic(s): Common , Men , Success

The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges, or churches, or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors, but always most in the common people.

Topic(s): Common , People , Church

We can build a society grounded on friendship and our common humanity – a society founded on tolerance. That is the only road open to us.

Topic(s): Common , Humanity , Tolerance

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.

Topic(s): Common , People , Knows

Among the many interesting objects which will engage your attention that of providing for the common defense will merit particular regard. To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace.

Topic(s): Common , Mean , War

Santa Claus is anyone who loves another and seeks to make them happy; who gives himself by thought or word or deed in every gift that he bestows; who shares his joys with those who are sad; whose hand is never closed against the needy; whose arm is ever outstretched to aid the week; whose sympathy is quick and genuine in time of trouble; who recognizes a comrade and brother in every man he meets upon life’s common road; who lives his life throughout the entire year in the Christmas spirit.

Topic(s): Common , Men , Giving

I think that the best profession or the best thing to do is to be a public servant… I mean there’s nothing better than working for the people – working for the common people out there and being a servant, a public servant, and I have seen this.

Topic(s): Common , People , Thinking

One citizen differs from another, but the salvation of the community is the common business of them all. This community is the constitution; the virtue of the citizen must therefore be relative to the constitution of which he is a member.

Topic(s): Common , Community , Virtue

Is it not a thing divine to have a smile which, none know how, has the power to lighten the weight of that enormous chain which all the living in common drag behind them?

Topic(s): Common , Behinds , Divine

Common experience is the gold reserve which confers an exchange value on the currency which words are; without this reserve of shared experiences, all our pronouncements are checks drawn on insufficient funds.

Topic(s): Common , Values , Change

In human life there is constant change of fortune; and it is unreasonable to expect an exemption from the common fate. Life itself decays, and all things are daily changing.

Topic(s): Common , Life , Change

Using, as an excuse, others’ failure of common sense is in itself a failure of common sense.

Topic(s): Common , Wisdom , Excuse

Getting over those unexpected hurdles may not be exactly enjoyable, but ultimately I believe that such challenges and the solutions we find give us more confidence.They teach us with common sense and determination we can turn what looks like a disaster into a triumph.

Topic(s): Common , Giving , Believe

We offer peace and neighborliness to all the neighboring states and their peoples, and invite them to cooperate with the independent Hebrew nation for the common good of all.

Topic(s): Common , Offers , Independent

Common sense comes from experience, and kids need to fail as well as succeed in order to learn it. It’s difficult to develop common sense when you spend a lot of time in your room where nothing much happens.

Topic(s): Common , Kids , Difficult

Common sense is not an issue in politics–it’s an affliction.

Topic(s): Common , Issues , Common Sense

Language is by its very nature a communal thing; that is, it expresses never the exact thing but a compromise – that which is common to you, me, and everybody.

Topic(s): Common , Language , Compromise

Heartsick, heartbroken – to know love is to know pain. What could be more common? Even so, each broken heart is so singular that with it we probe the divine.

Topic(s): Common , Heart , Pain

We try to coordinate regularly with Russia, as well as with others – except for the United States – on what is happening in the region. And we’re open to discussing with everybody the situation in Syria, because we believe it’s a common threat.