Who Quotes by Khalil Gibran, Wendell Berry, Liana Liberato, T. E. Lawrence, Joseph Campbell, Mitch Hedberg and many others.
Surround yourself with good people who encourage and love you. There are always ups and downs, no matter how successful you are.
Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around.
The greatest single cause of atheism in the world today is Christians who acknowledge Jesus with their lips and walk out the door and deny Him by their lifestyle. That is what an unbelieving world simply finds unbelievable.
It’s not that diamonds are a girl’s best friend, but it’s your best friends who are your diamonds. It’s your best friends who are supremely resilient, made under pressure and of astonishing value. They’re everlasting; they can cut glass if they need to.
Leadership is the other side of the coin of loneliness, and he who is a leader must always act alone. And acting alone, accept everything alone.
Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can’t sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can’t sleep with the window open.
The wicked leader is he who the people despise. The good leader is he who the people revere. The great leader is he who the people say, ‘We did it ourselves.’
He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it.
To be human is to have a collection of memories that tells you who you are and how you got there.
People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do.
I believe marriage is between a man and a woman. I am not in favor of gay marriage. But when you start playing around with constitutions, just to prohibit somebody who cares about another person, it just seems to me that’s not what America’s about. Usually, our constitutions expand liberties, they don’t contract them.
It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance.
To a liar, the most dangerous individual is the person who catches lies but doesn’t say anything about it. Then the liar isn’t sure which lies are compromised.
He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened.
A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.
Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
If I am what I have and if I lose what I have who then am I?
It is amazing that people who think we cannot afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, and medication somehow think that we can afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, medication and a government bureaucracy to administer it.
I never learned from a man who agreed with me.
He who defends everything defends nothing.
Real generosity is doing something nice for someone who will never find out.
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
He who angers you conquers you.
Leaders are people who do the right thing; managers are people who do things right.
In every battle there comes a time when both sides consider themselves beaten, then he who continues the attack wins.
Small is the number of people who see with their eyes and think with their minds.
It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance, and that, in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things.
To all those who have suffered as a consequence of our troubled past I extend my sincere thoughts and deep sympathy. With the benefit of historical hindsight we can all see things which we would wish had been done differently or not at all.
So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don’t even know that fire is hot.
No one is a friend to his friend who does not love in return.
Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression. No man is free who cannot control himself.
Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph.
A true friend is someone who is there for you when he’d rather be anywhere else.
It may be possible to gild pure gold, but who can make his mother more beautiful?
He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.
Charity bestowed upon those who are worthy of it is like good seed sown on a good soil that yields an abundance of fruits. But alms given to those who are yet under the tyrannical yoke of the passions are like seed deposited in a bad soil. The passions of the receiver of the alms choke, as it were, the growth of merits.
There are only two people who can tell you the truth about yourself – an enemy who has lost his temper and a friend who loves you dearly.
However good a Constitution may be, if those who are implementing it are not good, it will prove to be bad. However bad a Constitution may be, if those implementing it are good, it will prove to be good.
At the end of the day, life is about being happy being who you are, and I feel like we are so blessed to have the support system and the best family to really just support each other no matter what we’re going through.
I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.
I have never in my life learned anything from any man who agreed with me.
A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.
I’d rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.
I feel like life is really short, and it’s important to enjoy yourself and embrace whatever comes your way, whether it’s a challenging day or a great day, just welcome it with open arms. No matter who you are, you can’t escape challenges; they are part of life.
Nobody who ever gave his best regretted it.
What a liberation to realize that the ‘voice in my head‘ is not who I am. ‘Who am I, then?’ The one who sees that.
A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
I don’t like country music, but I don’t mean to denigrate those who do. And for the people who like country music, denigrate means ‘put down’.
I am not one who was born in the possession of knowledge; I am one who is fond of antiquity, and earnest in seeking it there.
The work environment is very important in determining how enjoyable work is. It is very important to work with smart guys who have a superior level of intellectual bandwidth and still have softer skills as well.
Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves.
Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late.
The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing… not healing, not curing… that is a friend who cares.
Women deeply want men who are competent and powerful. And I don’t mean power in that they can exert tyrannical control over others. That’s not power. That’s just corruption.
Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.
He can who thinks he can, and he can’t who thinks he can’t. This is an inexorable, indisputable law.
There’s got to be a voice deep within you that is untouched by definitions. And it is there that you become divinely who you are.
The illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot read. It will be the person who does not know how to learn.
Don’t make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.
Loneliness is my least favorite thing about life. The thing that I’m most worried about is just being alone without anybody to care for or someone who will care for me.
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
I think it’s important to get your surroundings as well as yourself into a positive state – meaning surround yourself with positive people, not the kind who are negative and jealous of everything you do.
Decisions are made by those who show up.
None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
Never trust anyone who wants what you’ve got. Friend or no, envy is an overwhelming emotion.
Let me tell you something: I’m a simple person who lives a simple life.
Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.
War does not determine who is right – only who is left.
The future belongs to those who see possibilities before they become obvious.
Find out who you are. And do it on purpose.
The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done.
Our human compassion binds us the one to the other – not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have learnt how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future.
A neurotic is a man who builds a castle in the air. A psychotic is the man who lives in it. A psychiatrist is the man who collects the rent.
There are three kinds of people in this world: people who make it happen, people who watch what happens, and people who wonder what happened.
A celebrity is a person who works hard all of their life to become well known, and then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized.
Together with a culture of work, there must be a culture of leisure as gratification. To put it another way: people who work must take the time to relax, to be with their families, to enjoy themselves, read, listen to music, play a sport.
The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words.
Truth is, I love everyone that is a good person regardless of what they look like, walk like, or who they love.
Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.
Aerodynamics are for people who can’t build engines.
A champion is someone who gets up when he can’t.
Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.
When you look at a city, it’s like reading the hopes, aspirations and pride of everyone who built it.
The one who loves the least, controls the relationship.
A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.
Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.
Be loyal to those who are loyal to you. And respect everyone, even your enemies and competition.
It’s always great to engage with people. You never know who you can make an effect on. And I love interacting with the fans, hearing what they have to say and joking around with them. Anytime I can reach out online and give encouragement, motivate people, be a better citizen, that’s what it’s all about, man.
Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you!
Only those who have patience to do simple things perfectly ever acquire the skill to do difficult things easily.
We have to stand up for what we believe in, even when we might not be popular for it. Honesty starts with being ourselves, authentic and true to who we are and what we believe in, and that may not always be popular, but it will always let you follow your dreams and your heart.
People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.
An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought.
A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.
A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.
Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.
A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.
The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of those depths.
He who walks in the eightfold noble path with unswerving determination is sure to reach Nirvana.
Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise.
No one knows what the future holds, except the One Who holds the future!
When you look at people who are successful, you will find that they aren’t the people who are motivated, but have consistency in their motivation.
Tell me to what you pay attention and I will tell you who you are.
Since you cannot do good to all, you are to pay special attention to those who, by the accidents of time, or place, or circumstances, are brought into closer connection with you.
Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
Thus it is that in war the victorious strategist only seeks battle after the victory has been won, whereas he who is destined to defeat first fights and afterwards looks for victory.
Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.
True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.
We learned about gratitude and humility – that so many people had a hand in our success, from the teachers who inspired us to the janitors who kept our school clean… and we were taught to value everyone’s contribution and treat everyone with respect.
Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.
Beware of anyone who says they know. Trust me, they don’t, or they wouldn’t have to say they did.
The fellowship of true friends who can hear you out, share your joys, help carry your burdens, and correctly counsel you is priceless.
Someone may ask, ‘How is justice greater than all the other virtues?’ The other virtues gratify the one who possesses them; justice does not give pleasure to the one possessing it, but instead pleases others.
The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can’t find them, make them.
The woman who is known only through a man is known wrong.
Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good plays, good company, good conversation – what are they? They are the happiest people in the world.
He travels the fastest who travels alone.
It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.
A conference is a gathering of people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done.
A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.
A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything.
Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I’ll show you someone who has overcome adversity.
He will win who knows when to fight and when not to fight.
A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.
If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher.
Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
We have this American president, Obama, born of an African father, who is saying we will not give you aid if you don’t embrace homosexuality. We ask, was he born out of homosexuality? We need continuity in our race, and that comes from the woman, and no to homosexuality.
Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.
The man who has no imagination has no wings.
If you’re talking to a man who wouldn’t fight with you under any circumstances whatsoever, then you’re talking to someone for whom you have absolutely no respect.
The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.
When the rich wage war, it’s the poor who die.
He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.
All who joy would win must share it. Happiness was born a Twin.
Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.
Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish, and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard work that we so constantly try to avoid is the major building block in the person we are today.
Because you are women, people will force their thinking on you, their boundaries on you. They will tell you how to dress, how to behave, who you can meet and where you can go. Don’t live in the shadows of people’s judgement. Make your own choices in the light of your own wisdom.
The highest levels of performance come to people who are centered, intuitive, creative, and reflective – people who know to see a problem as an opportunity.
Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn’t have the power to say yes.
It’s not so important who starts the game but who finishes it.
He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command.
A person isn’t who they are during the last conversation you had with them – they’re who they’ve been throughout your whole relationship.
One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.
I do believe in the old saying, ‘What does not kill you makes you stronger.’ Our experiences, good and bad, make us who we are. By overcoming difficulties, we gain strength and maturity.
You are loved just for being who you are, just for existing. You don’t have to do anything to earn it. Your shortcomings, your lack of self-esteem, physical perfection, or social and economic success – none of that matters. No one can take this love away from you, and it will always be here.
The battlefield is a scene of constant chaos. The winner will be the one who controls that chaos, both his own and the enemies.
There are some people who, if they don’t already know, you can’t tell ’em.
I wanted to be an independent woman, a woman who could pay for her bills, a woman who could run her own life – and I became that woman.
We find comfort among those who agree with us – growth among those who don’t.
Stay focused, believe that you can achieve at the highest level, surround yourself with others who believe in you, and do not stray from your goal.
We all want progress, but if you’re on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.
We are braver and wiser because they existed, those strong women and strong men… We are who we are because they were who they were. It’s wise to know where you come from, who called your name.
I’ve always done whatever I want and always been exactly who I am.
God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best.
He who is contented is rich.
A somebody was once a nobody who wanted to and did.
Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached.
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
He who knows, does not speak. He who speaks, does not know.
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
No matter how much good you do, there will always be a few per cent of people who don’t support you.
It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
When you see a person, do you just concentrate on their looks? It’s just a first impression. Then there’s someone who doesn’t catch your eye immediately, but you talk to them and they become the most beautiful thing in the world. The greatest actors aren’t what you would call beautiful sex symbols.
The man who can keep a secret may be wise, but he is not half as wise as the man with no secrets to keep.
I have learned that friendship isn’t about who you’ve known the longest, it’s about who came and never left your side.
A lot of people run a race to see who is fastest. I run to see who has the most guts, who can punish himself into exhausting pace, and then at the end, punish himself even more.
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. ‘Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.
Those who improve with age embrace the power of personal growth and personal achievement and begin to replace youth with wisdom, innocence with understanding, and lack of purpose with self-actualization.
It’s time for political leaders across the ideological spectrum to realize that, while partisanship is understandable, hyper-partisanship is destructive to our country. We need more visionary leaders who will earnestly strive for bipartisanship and finding policy solutions that can move America forward.
The most basic question is not what is best, but who shall decide what is best.
The obsession with suicide is characteristic of the man who can neither live nor die, and whose attention never swerves from this double impossibility.
Surround yourself with good people. People who are going to be honest with you and look out for your best interests.
I don’t listen to what art critics say. I don’t know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is.
Never give a sword to a man who can’t dance.
I don’t feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from them. There were great numbers of people who needed new land, and the Indians were selfishly trying to keep it for themselves.
It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn’t use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words, like ‘What about lunch?’
Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.
No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude.
We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken.
There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter.
Those who do not move, do not notice their chains.
The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
A man who is a master of patience is master of everything else.
Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true.
When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand.
I know who I am. I am not perfect. I’m not the most beautiful woman in the world. But I’m one of them.
No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.
That’s the thing about awards – it’s for the people who do all the hard work behind the scenes. An award is just a clap at them.
My definition of an intellectual is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture without thinking of the Lone Ranger.
A brave man is a man who dares to look the Devil in the face and tell him he is a Devil.
There are people who make things happen, there are people who watch things happen, and there are people who wonder what happened. To be successful, you need to be a person who makes things happen.
We create our own unhappiness. The purpose of suffering is to help us understand we are the ones who cause it.
The most beautiful people are those who are truly themselves, and that’s what I want to show my fans.
Who sows virtue reaps honor.
In good times and bad times, never comprise who you are.
God always gives His best to those who leave the choice with him.
The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can’t be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.
The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out… without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.
The man who does more than he is paid for will soon be paid for more than he does.
The future rewards those who press on. I don’t have time to feel sorry for myself. I don’t have time to complain. I’m going to press on.
Little children, you are from God, and have conquered them; for the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in this world.
He who knows best knows how little he knows.
The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
Those who cannot understand how to put their thoughts on ice should not enter into the heat of debate.
It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.
He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.
Memorial Day isn’t just about honoring veterans, its honoring those who lost their lives. Veterans had the fortune of coming home. For us, that’s a reminder of when we come home we still have a responsibility to serve. It’s a continuation of service that honors our country and those who fell defending it.
You can’t respect yourself if you’re afraid to be who you are.
People who say they don’t care what people think are usually desperate to have people think they don’t care what people think.
Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.
A hero is a man who does what he can.
America… just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable.
Nobody understands anyone 18, including those who are 18.
He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.
Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can’t, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.
We are like chameleons, we take our hue and the color of our moral character, from those who are around us.
He conquers who endures.
No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.
The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything.
If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.
Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon, which cuts without wounding and ennobles the man who wields it. It is a sword that heals.
Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night.
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
The best advice comes from people who don’t give advice.
