Shoe Quotes

“We cannot wait for the other shoe to drop, when the road becomes unendurably bumpy. If the aura of truth starts to wane and the light of the sky begins to splinter, only resilience can settle things. (“Steaming ahead”)”
― Erik Pevernagie

“Sometimes I wonder, that one missing sock after doing laundry, is the smart one. After being unhappy for so long, it finally walks away from a frayed, worn-out relationship.”
― Anthony Liccione

“Leaders don't climb hills of success with shoes of pride. They are slippery enough to bring a person down to the valley.”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Ladder

“Shoes are like society. Once in awhile they have to replace the worn out souls.”
― Kate McGahan

“Walking through life, we spend most of our energy choosing the right shoes.”
― Ljupka Cvetanova, The New Land

“Offence is like muddy soil; when trapped underfoot, it resists rapid progress. Don't trap offences under your mind, else you resist change! Jesus said "Shake the soil off your sandals"! What are you waiting for? Shake it off!”
― Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes

“Never play a blame game. Your feet are aching because you put them into a tight shoe... Nobody has it on; it's you who have it on! Your aims will help you to get out of trouble games, but not your blames!”
― Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes

“Two hundred years ago an old Dutch voyager likened its shape to that of a shoemaker’s last. And in this same last or shoe, that old woman of the nursery tale with the swarming brood, might very comfortably be lodged, she and all her progeny.”
― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

“Drop down someone else's shoe and run to take your own quickly. Don't hire your own to anybody, else it profits you nothing! Brighten the corner where you are. Yes, you can!”
― Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes

“People are eager to walk in other people's pair of shoes that does not fit them. The result is that, their dreams begin to imitate a "tortoise" walk and that I guess is already uncomfortable!”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Shaping the dream

“If you threw your shoe to someone’s head, you spread your own stench.” ~ Angelica Hopes, If I Could Tell You”
― Angelica Hopes

“You should still wear good shoes even if your feet were made of gold.”
― Paul Bamikole

“To walk barefoot is sacred.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Song of a Nature Lover

“You may be tall; you may be short. You may be a black; you may be a white. One more thing to keep behind your mind is that you "your purpose is unique". Anyone who is thinks he is clever enough will mess up when he/she wears your shoes; it won't fit!”
― Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes

“Lack of courage is what makes big dreams to sit in the ink of the paper instead of them running in the shoes of actions. Without courage, you remain a dreamer!”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Watchwords

“Wait!" she cried, and she yanked away from him and gathered her heels and her ruined
purse. She slid the shoes on and straightened her shoulders. "I will go as a lady should," she claimed bravely. "In patent leather heels.”
― Abigail Roux, Fish & Chips

“There were poached eggs, broiled grapefruit halves, a rasher of bacon, and a basket of small oblong cakes that appeared to have been twisted and turned partially inside out before they had been deep-fried to golden brown.
"What are these?" Cassandra asked the waiter.
"Those are called Jersey Wonders, milady. They've been made on the island since before I was a boy."
After the waiter had finished setting out the food and left, Cassandra picked up one of the cakes and took a bite. The outside was lightly crisp, the inside soft and flavored with ginger and nutmeg. "Mmm."
Tom chuckled. He came to seat her at the table, and bent to kiss her temple. "A cake that's shaped like a shoe," he murmured. "How perfect for you.”
― Lisa Kleypas, Chasing Cassandra

“Excellence is making a rubber shoe initially; later making a leather shoe; then later making a leather shoe with gold medal on top and then making a golden shoe with diamond medal on top; going to make a real diamond shoe!”
― Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes

“Shoe strangles the foot. But it advances. (La chaussure étrangle le pied. - Mais elle fait avancer)”
― Charles de Leusse

“You can't shave a cat with a shoe.”
― Ray Palla, SIMPLE TRIPLE STANDARD

“Rich just needs a more expensive shoe, but poor just needs a shoe!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“​Failure is the Shoe that I Wear. I can't Walk a Step without it.”
― Vineet Raj Kapoor

“As I live out my life, I would be wise to remember that the size of my shoe does not dictate the depth of my print.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Don't be one of the scurrying, struggling ants.
Be the shoe.”
― Orson Scott Card

“The heart of the shoe is the sole.”
― Martin Uzochukwu Ugwu

“Sometimes you have to put the shoe on another person's foot for them to understand your pain.”
― Carlos Wallace

“A shoe in hand gets many.”
― Mantaranjot Mangat, Plotless

“I’m just a common girl wanting to be someone’s Cinderella, hoping that the shoe fits only me.”
― Namrata Gupta, Together we were

“We walk the same path, but got on different shoes. Live in the same building, but we got different views.” —DRAKE, “RIGHT ABOVE IT”
― Ben Horowitz, The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers

“You don't fail in life because you don't have a good job,
because you don't have the car or house of your dreams,
because you can't buy that outfit, that shoe
or for not doing that aesthetic procedure.
You fail in life only if you consider
that not to achieve these things is to fail in life.”
― Augusto Branco