Coat Quotes

“In most books, the I, or first person, is omitted; in this it will be retained; that, in respect to egotism, is the main difference. We commonly do not remember that it is, after all, always the first person that is speaking. I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well. Unfortunately, I am confined to this theme by the narrowness of my experience. Moreover, I, on my side, require of every writer, first or last, a simple and sincere account of his own life, and not merely what he has heard of other men's lives; some such account as he would send to his kindred from a distant land; for if he has lived sincerely, it must have been in a distant land to me. Perhaps these pages are more particularly addressed to poor students. As for the rest of my readers, they will accept such portions as apply to them. I trust that none will stretch the seams in putting on the coat, for it may do good service to him whom it fits.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods

“Accomplish your tasks by one step at each time. Don't cut your coat according to your elder brother's size. Dream big, but start small; do what you can do at a time.”
― Israelmore Ayivor

“Don’t cluster too much plans to do within a relatively minimum time. As beginner, you must not cut your coat according to your elder brother’s size. Know your limit.”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Shaping the dream

“Honour was like a coat: sometimes one did not have time to put it on.”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, Salute the Dark

“I refuse to hold the coats of this generation.”
― Rebecca McKinsey

“As I contemplate a relationship with God, I find that I’m afraid to ride on the coattails of the infinite. But what I fear more than that is spending my life in the coat closet.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“A coat hanger of a body trying to remember the coat that years before had fallen off”
― Richard Flanagan, Gould's Book of Fish: A Novel in Twelve Fish

“You have to feel the bite of the wind to appreciate the warmth of a winter coat.”
― Fennel Hudson, A Meaningful Life - Fennel's Journal - No. 1

“The wind picks up as if to match his mood, it twists my coat so that for a moment it resembles a saw-toothed cape flying out behind me. All I need now is a garish top hat and they can call me Count Dracula.”
― Ilse V. Rensburg, Blood Sipper

“Never put on a coat that is often worn by those who dwell in the victim mentality. Always embrace a victory-focused mentality.”
― Gift Gugu Mona, A Manual for Victory