The Reason Quotes

When your reasons to move forward outweigh your excuses for staying put, you will move forward.

Always question your fear, Anh. there's almost never a good reason to be scared.

Treat with utmost respect your power of forming opinions, for this power alone guards you against making assumptions that are contrary to nature and judgments that overthrow the rule of reason.

I believe that everything happens for a reason.

Once your faith persuades you to believe what your intelligence declares absurd, beware, lest you likewise sacrifice your reason in the conduct of your life.

Reason is so unreasonable, that few people can say they are in possession of it.

Every human being has a personal legend to be fulfilled, and this is our reason for being in the world. This personal legend manifests itself in our enthusiasm for the task.

We should chiefly depend not upon that department of the soul which is most superficial and fallible (our reason), but upon that department that is deep and sure, which is instinct.

The law is reason, free from passion.

Science is not only a disciple of reason but, also, one of romance and passion.

We must choose for others as we have reason to believe they would choose for themselves if they were at the age of reason and deciding rationally.

The awful thing about life is this: everyone has their reasons.

Grace is a system of living whereby God blesses us because we are in Jesus Christ, and for no other reason at all.

The souls of emperors and cobblers are cast in the same mold...The same reason that makes us wrangle with a neighbor creates a war betwixt princes.

My job, my mission, the reason I’ve been put onto this planet, is to save wildlife. And I thank you for comin’ with me. Yeah, let’s get 'em!

You guys are both saying the same thing. The only reason you're arguing is because you're using different words.

The reason we must put on the whole armor of God is to withstand evil. We don't war against people, but against a spiritual hierarchy of invisible power.

Corporations are the only reason the tax code is so complicated in the first place. Those off-shore loopholes didn't get carved out by poor people.

Many roads lead to the Path, but basically there are only two: reason and practice.

I market for the same reason a pilot keeps his engines running once he is off the ground.

I feel everyone is put here for a reason. Everyone has a calling. I always thought my real calling was to help other people.

I think that the divorce rate's over 50% for a reason. I don't think people are taking enough time now to really see if they can make it work and live together.

Faith goes beyond reason. It goes beyond what you can see. But it is as real as anything you can touch or feel.

The reason that adulation is not displeasing is that, though untrue, it shows one to be of consequence enough, in one way or other, to induce people to lie.

My advice to those who which to learn the art of scientific prophesy is not to rely on abstract reason, but to decipher the secret language of Nature from Nature's documents: the facts of experience.

The ruling passion, be it what it will. The ruling passion conquers reason still.

Obedience is a penance of reason, and, on that account, a sacrifice more acceptable than all corporal penances and mortifications.

Realism is simply Romanticism that has lost its reason...that is its reason for existing.

I live to hail that season by gifted one foretold, when men shall live by reason, and not alone by gold.

Human reason has discovered many amazing things in nature and will discover still more, and will thereby increase its power over nature.

When I am tempted to complain about God's lack of presence, I remind myself that God has much more reason to complain about my lack of presence.

I have had many successes and many failures in my life. My successes have always been for different reasons, but my failures have always been for the same reason: I said yes when I meant no.

A true leader has to have a genuine open-door policy so that his people are not afraid to approach him for any reason.

The only reason to do business is to make money; that's the only reason for doing business.

Theirs is not to make reply: Theirs is not to reason why: Theirs is but to do and die.

Misuse of reason might yet return the world to pre-technological night; plenty of religious zealots hunger for just such a result, and are happy to use the latest technology to effect it.

You don’t need a reason to be happy...your desire to be so is sufficient.

They know what my standards are. They know what I need and how to get it to me, and they know how to communicate with me if for some reason they can't get it.

My college degree was in theater. But the real reason, if I have any success in that milieu, so to speak, is because I spent a lot of years directing, I spent a lot of years behind the camera

Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.

There is no better reason in life for you to something than because you love it.

For some reason, I struggle seeing myself as a leading man.

I always believe there's a reason why you go through everything.

She just happened to feel like it. Wasn’t that after all, the only reason there was? Had she ever had a less selfish, more complicated reason for doing anything in her life?

Reason is the life of the law.

He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.

In our work and in our living, we must recognize that difference is a reason for celebration and growth, rather than a reason for destruction.

Time makes more converts than reason.

Reason is in fact the path to faith, and faith takes over when reason can say no more.

Prejudice, a dirty word, and faith, a clean one, have something in common: they both begin where reason ends.