These quarter quotes will inspire you. Quarter each of four equal or corresponding parts into which something is or can be divided.
A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging quarter quotes, quarter sayings, and quarter proverbs.
Best Quarter Quotes
- “And will you succeed? Yes indeed, yes indeed! Ninety-eight and three-quarters percent guaranteed!” ~ Dr. Seuss
- “Hear me, four quarters of the world-a relative I am! Give me the strength to walk the soft earth, a relative to all that is! Give me the eyes to see and the strength to understand, that I may be like you. With your power only can I face the winds.” ~ Black Elk
- “I would not trade you a billion dollars for the kids I led to combat in Vietnam or in fact any of the Marines that I served with for a quarter of a century.” ~ Oliver North
- “But the cloud never comes in that quarter of the horizon from which we watch for it.” ~ Elizabeth Gaskell
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“A dollar saved is a quarter earned.” ~ John Ciardi
- “The Cox Committee found that the Chinese military acquired many of the technologies over the past seven years, although many of them had been targeted for acquisition for more than a quarter century.” ~ Charles Bass
- “Also see how many quarters of corn you will spend in a week in dispensable bread, how much in alms.” ~ Robert Grosseteste
- “A practical botanist will distinguish at the first glance the plant of the different quarters of the globe and yet will be at a loss to tell by what marks he detects them.” ~ Carl Linnaeus
- “Americans are a quarter of a billion people who have almost nothing in common except for the fact they’ve been told they have lots in common.” ~ Douglas Coupland
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“A lifetime contract for a coach means if you’re ahead in the third quarter and moving the ball, they can’t fire you.” ~ Lou Holtz
- “Even though we now have the half-century-old new Constitution, there is a popular sentiment of support for the old one that lives on in reality in some quarters.” ~ Kenzaburo Oe
- “If you know how many acres you have sown of each kind of corn, inquire how much the acre the soil of that land takes for sowing, and count the number of quarters of seed, and you shall know the return of seed, and what ought to be over.” ~ Robert Grosseteste
- “They urged me to take up winter quarters at the forks of the Platt, stating that if I atte
- mpted to advance further until spring, I would endanger the lives of my whole party.” ~ William Henry Ashley
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“I’ve had quarter horses for the last 18 years.” ~ Bruce Boxleitner
- “We have had such a letter movement on two occasions in Denmark when more than a quarter of the adult Danish population participated. Such an achievement, however, demands a really great effort and also a great deal of money.” ~ Fredrik Bajer
- “With reasonable men, I will reason; with humane men I will plead; but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost.” ~ William Lloyd Garrison
- “In the last quarter of the eighteenth century bourgeois Europe needed to emancipate itself from that combination of feudalism and commercial capitalism which we know as mercantilism.” ~ C. L. R. James
- “Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.” ~ Sigmund Freud
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“We forfeit three-quarters of ourselves in order to be like other people.” ~ Arthur Schopenhauer
- “Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.” ~ Sigmund Freud
- “I live in a high rise with my family part of the year in New York and I don’t know three quarters of the people in the building. We live in the same square-footage and I wouldn’t know who they were.” ~ Dan Aykroyd
- “Second, a quarter to a third of those who listen to Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity are liberals.” ~ Paul Weyrich
- “I have a brother who’s a psychologist. He says three-quarters of the world are born feeling that they will be affected by the world; one quarter are born knowing that they will affect the world” ~ Kathleen Turner
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“The company accountant is shy and retiring. He’s shy a quarter of a million dollars. That’s why he’s retiring.” ~ Milton Berle
- “I had spent many years before I was 31 hearing people tell me, Oh Man, you’re so funny, you need to be in television. But that and a quarter won’t get you on a bus.” ~ Chi McBride
- “Directors work 10 times harder than anyone else. Get paid a quarter.” ~ William H. Macy
- “I looked about me once again, and suddenly the dancing horses without number changed into animals of every kind and into all the fowls that are, and these fled back to the four quarters of the world from whence the horses came, and vanished.” ~ Black Elk
- “And we live in a French Quarter a lot of the time, in New Orleans. And the camaraderie of everybody there. Everybody takes care of each other.” ~ Delta Burke
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“Love is three-quarters curiosity.” ~ Giacomo Casanova
- “I have my own religion. I’m sort of one-quarter Baptist, one-quarter Catholic, one-quarter Jewish.” ~ Tom T. Hall
- “Let me state what the official IPCC prediction is: Sea levels could go up as much as three-quarters of a meter in this century, but there is a reasonable probability it could be much higher than that.” ~ Steven Chu
- “To pass to the deluge, and beyond it, and to come to close quarters with our proper division, the origin of Romance itself is a very debatable subject, or rather it is a subject which the wiser mind will hardly care to debate much.” ~ George Saintsbury
- “We have to stress our conservative credentials and emphasize that we are the natural, national alternative to the Liberals. Clearly the Alliance has shown it can’t break out of its Western box. The Alliance is at single-digit support in three quarters of the country.” ~ Peter MacKay
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“Two quarters doesn’t make a trend, but it’s a heck of a lot better than none.” ~ Philip M. Condi
- “In Arkansas alone, approximately three quarters of a million people are at risk of going hungry, and one in four children does not get enough to eat, so my goal is to bring awareness to this tragic issue.” ~ Blanche Lincoln
- “It was impossible for me to believe that conditions in Europe could be worse than they were in the Polish section of Chicago, and in many Italian and Irish tenements, or that any workshops could be worse than some of those I had seen in our foreign quarters.” ~ Alice Hamilton
- “I had an awful first quarter but I picked it up. To all you single guys out there, it’s not how you start the date, it’s how you finish it sir. A lot of people can, you know, start the date with flowers and candy, but if you don’t finish the date – you know what I mean?” ~ Shaquille O’Neal
- “You know one of the causes of modern despair is the fact that we have had proposed to us, from various quarters, an impossible perfection.” ~ Morris West
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“You fool! You’re 30 cents away from having a quarter!” ~ Robin Harris
- “Over the last several quarters we have been growing faster in Asia and Europe than any other place on the planet. We have 18 percent of the global PC share, about 12 percent in Europe, and 8 percent in Asia.” ~ Kevin B. Rollins
- “In recent times, European nations, with the use of gunpowder and other technical improvements in warfare, controlled practically the whole world. One, the British Empire, brought under one government a quarter of the earth and its inhabitants.” ~ John Boyd Orr
- “Many who had been ahead of their time, had to wait for her in very uncomfortable quarters.” ~ Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
- “As for AIDS, it’s a plague. We are human, we get plagues. They come along every so often, kill off two thirds of the population; in the next generation it’s a quarter; after that it’s a childhood disease.” ~ Larry Niven
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“Be careful who you call your friends. I’d rather have four quarters than one hundred pennies.” ~ Al Capone
- “There are men and women still on the streets, and that’s all they are saying Can you spare a quarter? I come from a crowd of people who were current on the outlook on life, who were social and knew where they were and had some input into how things seemed to be.” ~ Abbey Lincoln
- “There are several insights at the heart of the A’s system that I think are wonderful for baseball. One, that it’s a team game. That no one player is going to make that much of a difference to your team, so for god’s sake don’t go blow a quarter of your budget on one guy.” ~ Michael Lewis
- “When I consider what it was that moved me to join the Communist Party, I have to cast my mind back for more than a quarter of a century to try and ascertain what precisely my motives at that time were.” ~ Bram Fischer
- “I raise quarter horses. Mine are mostly thoroughbred cross horses, a little bigger horses than some people like. I sell them or use them on the ranch. A lot of them go to the rodeo arena and some of them go to racetracks.” ~ Wilford Brimley
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“We are each but a quarter note in a grand symphony.” ~ Guy Laliberte
- “The G8 nations, together with the five major emerging economies of China, India, South Africa, Brazil, Mexico, use almost three-quarters of the Earth’s biocapacity – the capacity of the world’s ecosystems to produce natural resources and to reduce harmful substances.” ~ Sigmar Gabriel
- “The strength in our third-quarter financial results is cause for excitement. I’m particularly pleased that we continue to demonstrate impressive growth at the same time we are engaged in important merger discussions.” ~ Bernard Ebbers
- “I began using pseudonyms early in my career, when I was being paid a quarter a cent a word for my work, and when I had to write a lot to earn a living. Sometimes I had three or four stories in a single magazine without the editor knowing they were all by me.” ~ Ed McBain
- “Politics is the gizzard of society, full of grit and gravel, and the two political parties are its opposite halves – sometimes split into quarters – which grind on each other. Not only individuals but states have thus a confirmed dyspepsia.” ~ Henry David Thoreau
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“A penny saved is not a penny earned if at the end of the day you still owe a quarter.” ~ Mary Landrieu
- “We are inheriting the worst financial system since the Depression. We’re inheriting a situation – when people go back and study major banking crises a quarter century from now, the one that America developed in 2007 and 2008 is going to be one of those crises.” ~ Lawrence Summers
- “But now it’s kind of a given that a 15-year-old would have a record deal and sell a quarter of a million records. No one’s expecting her to answer any deep theological questions. And I’ll tell you, I was asked s
- ome deep theological questions from the git-go.” ~ Amy Grant
- “It has long been known that the chemical atomic weight of hydrogen was greater than one-quarter of that of helium, but so long as fractional weights were general there was no particular need to explain this fact, nor could any definite conclusions be drawn from it.” ~ Francis William Aston
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“The great increase of our population throughout the Union will alone produce an important effect, and in no quarter will it be so sensibly felt as in those in contemplation.” ~ James Monroe
- “In the first quarter of the nineteenth century the experimental proof for the interdependence of the composition and properties of chemical compounds resulted in the theory that they are mutually related, so that like composition governs like properties, and conversely.” ~ Wilhelm Ostwald
- “Almost a quarter of our planet is a single mountain range and we didn’t enter it until after Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin went to the moon. So we went to the moon, played golf up there, before we went to the largest feature on our own planet.” ~ Robert Ballard
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“If you leave the smallest corner of your head vacant for a moment, other people’s opinions will rush in from all quarters.” ~ George Bernard Shaw
- “That’s what so sad about a lot of modern music, in my opinion, so many young bands never stay around long enough to fulfill their ultimate promise. They only get halfway there or a quarter of the way there.” ~ Alan Vega
- “I have three brothers and they’re all into computers. They’re all intellects. My mother would pay me a quarter a page to read a book and I couldn’t make 50 cents. I just couldn’t do it.” ~ Josh Holloway
