Who Quotes

Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged.

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.

Men are so simple and yield so readily to the desires of the moment that he who will trick will always find another who will suffer to be tricked.

He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.

Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

A man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror.

I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.

I just gravitate to movies where the mystery is the character himself. Any time you see a trailer of something where somebody is questioning 'Who am I?' I'm hooked.

The Artist is he who detects and applies the law from observation of the works of Genius, whether of man or Nature. The Artisan is he who merely applies the rules which others have detected.

A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.

You can find women who have never had an affair, but it is hard to find a woman who has had just one.

I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.

I worry that the person who thought up Muzak may be thinking up something else.

In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.

He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.

Today I love myself as I love my god: who could charge me with a sin today? I know only sins against my god; but who knows my god?

The man who builds a factory builds a temple, that the man who works there worships there, and to each is due, not scorn and blame, but reverence and praise.

The people who cast the votes don't decide an election, the people who count the votes do.

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.

The higher mental development of woman, the less possible it is for her to meet a congenial male who will see in her, not only sex, but also the human being, the friend, the comrade and strong individuality, who cannot and ought not lose a single trait of her character.

Stand upright, speak thy thoughts, declare The truth thou hast, that all may share; Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare.

A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says "I was beaten," he does not say "My men were beaten".

Surround yourself with people who take their work seriously, but not themselves, those who work hard and play hard.

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.

Sure it's a big job; but I don't know anyone who can do it better than I can.

I feel sorry for people who don't drink. They wake up in the morning and that's the best they're going to feel all day.

Anyone who has experienced a certain amount of loss in their life has empathy for those who have experienced loss.

Presents don't really mean much to me. I don't want to sound mawkish, but - it was the realization that I have a great many people in my life who really love me, and who I really love.

You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong no matter who does it or who says it.

A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.