Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph.
— Haile Selassie
Charming Voiced quotations
Raise your words, not your voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.
A waterfall cannot be silent, just as the wisdom! When they speak, the voice of power speaks!
Listen to the inner light; It will guide you. Listen to the inner Peace; It will feed you. Listen to the inner Love; It will transform you, It will divinise you, It will immortalise you.
Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice.
The ones who have a voice must speak for those who are voiceless.
Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth.
Even if there comes a time when you do not hear my voice, do not give up.
Do not despair. Do not stop fighting for your freedom until you have victory!
A Christian is: a mind through which Christ thinks, a heart through which Christ loves, a voice through which Christ speaks, and a hand through which Christ helps.
Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.
They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.
The voice of the sea speaks to the soul.
Be a voice not an echo.
During my term in AU, I will initiate an organised compensation claim for Africa and I will fight for a greater voice for Africa in the United Nations Security Council. If they (Western nations) do not want to live with us fairly, it is our planet and they can go to other planet.
When faith is completely replaced by creed, worship by discipline, love by habit; when the crisis of today is ignored because of the splendors of the past; when faith becomes an heirloom rather than a living fountain; when religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.
I found I had less and less to say, until finally, I became silent, and began to listen. I discovered in the silence, the voice of God
The voice you believe will determine the future you experience
I try to have a different relationship with the bike.
I don't give it a name, but I always speak with it. I don't know if the other riders do the same. This is not only a piece of metal - there is a soul. The bike talks back too. But not with a voice, with the components
The nurse is temporarily the consciousness of the unconscious, the love of life of the suicidal, the leg of the amputee, the eyes of the newly blind, a means of locomotion for the newborn , knowledge and confidence for the young mother, a voice for those too weak to speak, and so on.
Face your fear, empty yourself, trust your own voice, let go of control, have faith in outcomes, connect with a larger purpose, derive meaning from the struggle.
If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.
The vibrations on the air are the breath of God speaking to man's soul.
Music is the language of God. We musicians are as close to God as man can be. We hear his voice, we read his lips, we give birth to the children of God, who sing his praise. That's what musicians are.
I’m a big fan of parrots - I think they’re fascinating creatures.
Many of them live for longer than us humans and it's interesting to me the way they learn to mimic human voices even though they don't really comprehend what they're saying.
I cannot switch my voice. My voice is not like an elevator going up and down.
Reading about nature is fine, but if a person walks in the woods and listens carefully, he can learn more than what is in books, for they speak with the voice of God.
Do not follow the ideas of others, but learn to listen to the voice within yourself. Your body and mind will become clear and you will realize the unity of all things.
A KEY TO BEGIN FORGIVING: Become soft and tender with the person.
The first step is to become soft in your mind and spirit. Lower your voice and relax your facial expressions. This reflects honor and humility; and as Proverbs 15:1 suggests, "A gentle answer turns away anger."
Somewhere inside, we hear a voice. It leads us in the direction of the person we wish to become. But it is up to us whether or not to follow.
Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.
No, I make no pretension to patriotism.
So long as my voice can be heard on this or the other side of the Atlantic, I will hold up America to the lightning scorn of moral indignation. In doing this, I shall feel myself discharging the duty of a true patriot; for he is a lover of his country who rebukes and does not excuse its sins.
The heart and soul of the Christian life is learning to hear God's voice and then developing the courage to do what he asks us to do.
Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear.
Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.
Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.
The ear of the leader must ring with the voices of the people.
When the whole world is silent, even one voice becomes powerful.
The people do not complain because they have no voice;
do not move because they are lethargic, and you say that they do not suffer because you have not seen their hearts bleed.
