Who Quotes

Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.

I love those who do not know how to live for today.

If there's any message to my work, it is ultimately that it's OK to be different, that it's good to be different, that we should question ourselves before we pass judgment on someone who looks different, behaves different, talks different, is a different color.

The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life.

The American people are tired of liars and people who pretend to be something they're not.

God forgives us... who am I not to forgive?

Every judgement of conscience, be it right or wrong, be it about things evil in themselves or morally indifferent, is obligatory, in such wise that he who acts against his conscience always sins.

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.

Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.

Don't show off every day, or you'll stop surprising people. There must always be some novelty left over. The person who displays a little more of it each day keeps up expectations, and no one ever discovers the limits of his talent.

An atheist is a man who watches a Notre Dame - Southern Methodist University game and doesn't care who wins.

It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience.

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.

We are not victims of aging, sickness and death. These are part of scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being.

Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.

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.

Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.

The musicals had a good, happy feeling, saying that the world is a better place. They say it's not reality, but who cares? There's too much reality these days.

Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.

A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.

Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.

If I am what I have and if I lose what I have who then am I?

People who say they don't care what people think are usually desperate to have people think they don't care what people think.

Men admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass.

One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.

I guess there's a certain amount of poking fun at certain characters, but that's because there is something amusing about them or about the way they behave, so I guess you can say that that's poking fun at the character. But the character is your own invention, so who cares?

There are 4 billion cell phones in use today. Many of them are in the hands of market vendors, rickshaw drivers, and others who've historically lacked access to education and opportunity. Information networks have become a great leveler, and we should use them together to help lift people out of poverty and give them a freedom from want.

Look at the sky. We are not alone. The whole universe is friendly to us and conspires only to give the best to those who dream and work.

You cannot have Liberty in this world without what you call Moral Virtue, and you cannot have Moral Virtue without the slavery of that half of the human race who hate what you call Moral Virtue.

Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.