Turn Quotes

The Master said, "He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it." (Confucius)
When we see men of worth, we should think of equaling them; when we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves. View quote
Confucius
If you live long enough, you'll see every victory turn into a defeat. View quote
Simone de Beauvoir
There are only three things to be done with a woman. You can love her, suffer for her, or turn her into literature. View quote
Lawrence Durrell
Turn your wounds into wisdom. View quote
Oprah Winfrey
Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact. View quote
Honoré de Balzac
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around. View quote
Leo Buscaglia
Cruel leaders are replaced only to have new leaders turn cruel. View quote
Che Guevara
I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain. View quote
Frank Herbert
The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don't turn against him, they crush those beneath them. View quote
Emily Brontë
One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never! (Winston Churchill)
No Jew was ever fool enough to turn Christian unless he was a clever man. View quote
Israel Zangwill
Try to turn every disaster into an opportunity. View quote
John D. Rockefeller
A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down. View quote
Robert Benchley
At fifteen one is first beginning to realize that everything isn't money and power in this world, and is casting about for joys that do not turn to dross in one's hands. View quote
Robert Benchley
True godliness does not turn men out of the world, but enables them to live better in it and excites their endeavors to mend it. View quote
William Penn
When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro. View quote
Hunter S. Thompson
Life is a maze in which we take the wrong turn before we have learnt to walk. View quote
Cyril Connolly
I always turn to the sports section first. The sports section records people's accomplishments; the front page nothing but man's failures. View quote
Earl Warren
Your commanders have ordered you to storm the White House and to arrest me. But I as the elected President of Russia give you the order to turn your tanks and not to fight against your own people. View quote
Boris Yeltsin
We turn toward God only to obtain the impossible. (Albert Camus)
For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn? View quote
Jane Austen
The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn when teachers themselves are taught to learn. View quote
Bertolt Brecht
The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas - uncertainty, progress, change - into crimes. View quote
Salman Rushdie
Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers... What we call art is a game. View quote
Octavio Paz