Best 602 quotes in «affection quotes» category

There are two kinds of friendship: one is genuine affection, the other is inability to refuse.

There can be no substitute for work, neither affection nor physical well-being can replace it.

There is in the body, a current of energy, affection and intelligence, which guides, maintains and energizes the body. Discover that current and stay with it.

There is no rapture in the love which is prompted by esteem; such affection is lasting, not passionate.

There is no power greater than true affection.

There is nothing but death Our affections can sever, And till life's latest breath Love shall bind us for ever.

There is nothing of permanent value (putting aside a few human affections) nothing that satisfies quiet reflection--except the sense of having worked according to one's capacity and light to make things clear and get rid of cant and shams of all sorts.

There is nothing which so generally strikes the imagination and engages the affections of mankind, as the right of property.

There is no heat of affection but is joyned with some idlenesse of brain, says the Spaniard.

The use it and lose it problem is pervasive, affecting more than 40,000 Californians a year.

The whole point of justice consists precisely in our providing for others through humanity what we provide for our own family through affection.

There is anguish in the recollection that we have not adequately appreciated the affection of those whom we have loved and lost.

The relief of enemies has a tendency to unite mankind in fraternal affection.

There must be fired affections before our prayers will go up.

There's something about the fashion world that I like, which is, I see a lot of the designers really have affection for other designers.

The Soul debases her self, when she sets her affections on any thing but her creator.

The wives who are not deserted, but who have to feed and clothe and comfort and scold and advise, are the true objects of commiseration; wives whose existence is given over to a ceaseless vigil of cantankerous affection.

This is not the land of my birth, but it is the land for which I hold the greatest affection, and I certainly will come back in the springtime

They say a woman always remembers her first lover with affection; but perhaps she does not always remember him.

Time, which grays hair and wrinkles faces, also withers violent affections, and much more quickly.

The word is a sign or symbol of the impressions or affections of the soul.

To a heart formed for friendship and affection the charms of solitude are very short-lived.

To be a leader, you have got to lead human beings with affection

To feel the affection that comes from those whom we do not know ... widens out the boundaries of our being, and unites all living things.

‎"To Parlin's mind, nothing showed affection like a hunk of something dead and bleeding on the table.

Touch is the alpha and omega of affection.

To myself, mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery; in them, and in the forms of inferior landscape that lead to them, my affections are wholly bound up.

To work without pleasure or affection, to make a product that is not both useful and beautiful, is to dishonor God, nature, the thing that is made, and whomever it is made for.

True affection and love have a purity which shall always prevail over bigotry.

True friendship develops not as a result of money or power but on the basis of genuine human affection.

True happiness must arise from well-regulated affections, and an affection includes a duty.

True prayer is not asking God for love; it is learning to love, and to include all mankind in one affection.

Unless one is inordinately fond of subordination, one is always at war.

Until the will and the affections are brought under the authority of Christ, we have not begun to understand, let alone to accept, His lordship.

Those Women who boast the Affections of their Admirers, have a greater share of Vanity than Love.

Venetians feel affection and loyalty to their city, rather than to the Italian state.

Very often when I am introduced to women, I think, What is she really like behind the disguise which she wears? And very often I discover that she is pleasant enough, and probably would expand and glow if she received enough affection.

We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.

We are spectacular splendid manifestations of life. We have language. We have affection. And finally, and perhaps best of all, we have music.

We all need basic human values rooted in trust and affection.

We begin our public affection in our families. No cold relation is a zealous citizen.

We care not how many see us in choler, when we rave and bluster, and make as much noise and bustle as we can; but if the kindest and most generous affection comes across us, we suppress every sign of it, and hide ourselves in nooks and covert.

We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful.

We can never attain to perfection while we have an affection for any imperfection.

We offer love to our customers. And in return, we receive the finest smiles. And even if we cannot return their affection, at least we can offer a rose.

Virtue and taste are nearly the same, for virtue is little more than active taste, and the most delicate affections of each combine in real love.

Well the wedding in the words of the Archbishop of Canterbury was a fairy tale and there was a huge public impress, investment of goodwill, affection and indeed money in this Institution. It was a huge success at the time.

We owe subjection and obedience to all our kings, whether good or bad, alike, for that has respect unto their office; but as to esteem and affection, these are only due to their virtue.

Whatever a man depends upon, whatever rules his mind, whatever governs his affections, whatever is the chief object of his delight, is his god.

Whatever affection we have for our friends or relations, the happiness of others never suffices for our own.