Accord Quotes

Once you become aware that the main business that you are here for is to know God, most of life's problems fall into place of their own accord.

If I decide to be an idiot, then I'll be an idiot on my own accord.

I wanted only to live in accord with the promptings which came from my true self. Why was that so very difficult?

I am for peace. And I am for a negotiated peace. But this accord is not a just peace.

All you have to do is know where you're going. The answers will come to you of their own accord.

Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord.

Je ne suis pas d'accord avec ce que vous dites, mais je d‚fendrai jusqu'... la mort le droit que vous avez de le dire/ I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it

It is a great happiness when men's professions and their inclinations accord.

Friendship is nothing else than an accord in all things,
human and divine,
conjoined with mutual goodwill and affection.

Life consists in penetrating the unknown, and fashioning our actions in accord with the new knowledge thus acquired.

My people do not come to me of their own accord; it is I who seek and bring them to me.

You have much more power when you are working for the right thing than when you are working against the wrong thing. And, of course, if the right thing is established wrong things will fade away of their own accord.

God will never allow any action against you that is not in accord with His will for you. And His will is always directed to our good.

Everything vanishes round me and good works rise from me of their own accord.

The highest purpose is to have no purpose at all. This puts one in accord with nature, in her manner of operation.

Our psyche is set up in accord with the structure of the universe, and what happens in the macrocosm likewise happens in the infinitesimal and most subjective reaches of the psyche

Not until we dare to regard ourselves as a nation, not until we respect ourselves, can we gain the esteem of others, or rather only then will it come of its own accord

No creature needs to be threatened with death to act in accord with its own nature

Flatterers and men of learning do not accord well with each other.

Germany will never break the peace of its own accord.

It is far more important that one's life should be perceived than that it should be transformed; for no sooner has it been perceived, than it transforms itself of its own accord.

Shake me off, then, sir--push me away; for I'll not leave you of my own accord.

I always felt better co-writing something - always co-writing. Because if I was the lead of it and it failed, then it failed on my own accord. I would say, "Well, I liked it or I screwed up. I take the hit on this one."

I see this evident, that we willingly accord to piety only the services that flatter our passions.

External fears cease of their own accord when once we have conquered these traitors within the camp.

Public notice does not necessarily accord with internal fulfilment.

Some of the best things that have happened in my stories have happened seemingly of their own accord. The writer becomes a listener, just writing things down as they come.

If I'm going to lose, I'd rather lose on my own accord.