Titles quotes
536 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"I've come to embrace the notion that I haven't done enough in my life. I've come to confirm that one's title, even a title like president of the United States, says very little about how well one's life has been led. No matter how much you've done or how successful you've been, there's always more to do, always more to learn, and always more to achieve."
"Socialists have always spent much of their time seeking new titles for their beliefs, because the old versions so quickly become outdated and discredited."
"Physicians are many in title but very few in reality."
"I have lived as plain Mr. Jinnah and I hope to die as plain Mr. Jinnah. I am very much averse to any title or honours and I will be more than happy if there was no prefix to my name."
"We have our factory, which is called a stage. We make a product, we color it, we title it and we ship it out in cans."
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"My fake Japanese was smooth enough to earn me the title of 'The Emperor of Pleasing Graciousness' in that country."
"For me, the difference between an ‘ordinary’ and an ‘extraordinary’ person is not the title that person might have, but what they do to make the world a better place for us all."
"I will never be below the title."
"We don't know the spiritual advancements long-term veganism - over generations - would have for human life. It would be certainly a different civilisation, and the first one in the whole of our history that would truly deserve the title of being a civilisation."
"I'm a hardcore gamer and would never let you down by designing a crappy title."
"So much of life is happenstance. It makes me laugh when I go to a bookstore and see all those titles about controlling your life. You're lucky if you can control your bladder."
"Books, books, books. It was not that I read so much. I read and re-read the same ones. But all of them were necessary to me. Their presence, their smell, the letters of their titles, and the texture of their leather bindings."
"People follow courage, not titles."
"There can be to the ownership of anything no rightful title which is not derived from the title of the producer and does not rest upon the natural right of the man to himself."
"Nothing makes my buttocks clench tighter and my teeth itch more than 'Full Time Mummy'. Full time mummy is not a job title. It is a biological status."
"Words have their own hierarchy, their own protocol, their own artistic titles, their own plebeian stigmas."
"One's true worth as a human being is not a matter of outward appearance or title, but derives rather from the breadth of one's spirit. Everything comes down to faith and conviction. It is what is in one's heart, and the substance of one's actions that count."
"The clouds may drop down titles and estates, and wealth may seek us, but wisdom must be sought."
"I have always said that everyone is in sales. Maybe you don't hold the title of salesperson, but if the business you are in requires you to deal with people, you, my friend, are in sales."
"Titles of property, for instance railway shares, may change hands every day, and their owner may make a profit by their sale even in foreign countries, so that titles to property are exportable, although the railway itself is not."
"The noble title of "dissident" must be earned rather than claimed; it connotes sacrifice and risk rather than mere disagreement."
"I refuse the title of artist to those who owe their reputations to a physical deformity. I regard them as buffoons."
"The journey makes things valuable not the title. Learn to enjoy and value the process of what God is doing."
"A good title should be like a good metaphor. It should intrigue without being too baffling or too obvious."
"The whole of heraldry and of chivalry is in courtesy. A man of fine manners shall pronounce your name with all the ornament that titles of nobility could ever add."
