Prevailing Quotes

Prevailing Quote of the day

By prevailing over all obstacles and distractions, one may unfailingly arrive at his chosen goal or destination.

[The] type of education now prevailing all over the world is directed against human freedom. State-controlled education ... deprives people of their free choice, creativity and brilliance.

Prevailing prayer is that which secures an answer. Saying prayers is not offering prevailing prayer. The prevalence of prayer does not depend so much on quantity as on quality.

All great soul-winners have been men of much and mighty prayer, and all great revivals have been preceded and carried out by persevering, prevailing knee-work in the closet.

[The] prevailing reason at this time is, that the Act of Parliament is against the Magna Charta, and the natural rights of Englishmen, and therefore, according to Lord Coke, null and void.

The fact remains; chauvinism is prevailing.

Nevertheless, the consuming hunger of the uncritical mind for what it imagines to be certainty or finality impels it to feast upon shadows in the prevailing famine of substance.

Anyone who challenges the prevailing orthodoxy finds himself silenced with surprising effectiveness. A genuinely unfashionable opinion is almost never given a fair hearing.

Prayer is the key to unlocking God's prevailing power in your life.

The strategist's method is very simply to challenge the prevailing assumptions with a single question: Why?

Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little.

Everything is governed by one law. A human being is a microcosmos, i.e. the laws prevailing in the cosmos also operate in the minutest space of the human being.

When we meet a fact which contradicts a prevailing theory, we must accept the fact and abandon the theory, even when the theory is supported by great names and generally accepted.

When it comes to politics, one has to do as one at sea with a sailing ship, reach one's course having regard to prevailing winds.

Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude

A mighty fortress is our God, a bulwark never failing: our helper He amid the flood of mortal ills prevailing.

Prevailing prayer requires a tender, compassionate heart, a deep solicitude for the glory of God and the good of His people. Nehemiah wept and mourned.

If you carry the weather with you, then character is determined by the prevailing wind

If there is anything the nonconformist hates worse than a conformist, it's another nonconformist who doesn't conform to the prevailing standard of nonconformity.

We cannot and must not sit back and let the anti-biblical world system determine the prevailing values of our day.

Acceptance of prevailing standards often means we have no standards of our own.

Unfortunately, manipulation and defamation are part of the bad manners that have been prevailing in Poland's politics for ten years now.

Gentle words, quiet words, are after all the most powerful words. They are more convincing, more compelling, more prevailing.

I believe in a kind of fidelity to your own early ideas; it's a kind of antagonism in me to prevailing fads.

What we imagine is order is merely the prevailing form of chaos.

Mere unorthodoxy or dissent from the prevailing mores is not to be condemned. The absence of such voices would be a symptom of grave illness to our society.

In a religiously uniform culture, it is natural for people to take for granted the truth of the prevailing religion and its associated metaphysical propositions.

The prevailing attitude of the speakers was one of heavy disagreement with a number of things which the reader had not said.

One of the prevailing sources of misery and crime is in the generally accepted assumption, that because things have been wrong a long time, it is impossible they will ever be right.

It is difficult to escape from the prevailing disease of one's generation.

The history of prevailing status quos shows decay and decadence infecting the opulent materialism of the Haves. The spiritual life of the Haves is a ritualistic justification of their possessions.

The prevailing view has been that the market will earn a high rate of return if the holding period is long enough, but entry point is what really matters.

The average music-lover hears only the production under prevailing conditions.

It is sometimes easier to circumvent prevailing difficulties [in science] rather than to attack them.

The prevailing wisdom is that markets are always right. I take the opposite position. I assume that markets are always wrong.

The dissenting opinions of one generation become the prevailing interpretation of the next.

The prevailing style of management must undergo transformation. A system can not understand itself. The transformation requires a view from outside.

It would be an endless task to trace the variety of meannesses, cares, and sorrows into which women are plunged by the prevailing opinion that they were created rather to feel than reason.

I will not let thee go, except thou bless me.

If human equality is to be forever averted -- if the High, as we have called them, are to keep their places permanently -- then the prevailing mental condition must be controlled insanity.

Example is a motive of very prevailing force on the actions of men.

The essay form has superceded the novel as the vehicle that best suggests the prevailing apocalyptic gestalt, and as the talisman that is most able to repel the onset of paralysing dread.

When any prevailing prejudice is attacked, the wise will consider, and leave the narrow-minded to rail with thoughtless vehemence at innovation.

No one can escape the influence of a prevailing ideology.

If you can once engage people's pride, love, pity, ambition (or whatever is their prevailing passion) on your side, you need not fear what their reason can do against you.

It seems very obvious that a vast majority of the American people are sick and tired of political correctness and prevailing partisanship that does not serve the American people or freedom well.

That which corrodes the souls of the persecuted is the monstrous inner agreement with the prevailing prejudice against them.

The proclamation of the saving love of God comes before moral and religious imperatives. Today sometimes it seems that the opposite order is prevailing.

I think I love most people best when they are in adversity; for pity is one of my prevailing passions.

The prevailing view is that geniuses are largely built, not born.