Avoid Quotes

We had avoided discovery by the Sioux scouts, and we were confident of giving them a complete surprise.

The unforgivable crime is soft hitting. Do not hit at all if it can be avoided, but never hit softly.

How strange! I thought, though everybody hated and despised each other, they could not avoid loving me.

There seems to be no limit to which some men will go to avoid the labor of thinking. Thinking is hard work.

Neither seek nor avoid; take what comes. It is liberty to be affected by nothing. Do not merely endure; be unattached.

When you blame and criticize others, you are avoiding some truth about yourself.

Selfish, adj. Devoid of consideration for the selfishness of others.

Her face looked ugly in the attempt to avoid tears; it was an ugliness which bound him to her more than any beauty could have done. It isn’t being happy together, he thought as though it were a fresh discovery, that makes one love–it’s being unhappy together.

Avoidable human misery is more often caused not so much by stupidity as by ignorance, particularly our ignorance about ourselves.

Avoiding the temptation to sin and being patient upon that, is greater than being patient whilst being afflicted with trials.