Who Quotes

People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.

A diplomat is a person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip.

A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally.

It means, people who are in high and responsible positions, if they go against righteousness, righteousness itself will get transformed into a destroyer.

He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.

When our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving them.

I read somewhere that 77 per cent of all the mentally ill live in poverty. Actually, I'm more intrigued by the 23 per cent who are apparently doing quite well for themselves.

When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.

No one ever died from sleeping in an unmade bed. I have known mothers who remake the bed after their children do it because there is wrinkle in the spread or the blanket is on crooked. This is sick.

A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you when forget-me-nots have withered. Carve your name on hearts, not on marble.

A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.

A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.

I'm never pleased with anything, I'm a perfectionist, it's part of who I am.

Whether one believes in a religion or not, and whether one believes in rebirth or not, there isn't anyone who doesn't appreciate kindness and compassion.

I don't care who you are. When you sit down to write the first page of your screenplay, in your head, you're also writing your Oscar acceptance speech.

The measure of who we are is what we do with what we have.

The land is ours. It's not European and we have taken it, we have given it to the rightful people... Those of white extraction who happen to be in the country and are farming are welcome to do so, but they must do so on the basis of equality.

A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him.

There have been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them.

Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself.

Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even.

An expert is someone who has succeeded in making decisions and judgements simpler through knowing what to pay attention to and what to ignore.

A well adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous.

Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion.

He, who every morning plans the transactions of the day, and follows that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through a labyrinth of the most busy life.

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.

He who loves, flies, runs, and rejoices; he is free and nothing holds him back.

A democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it.

Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves.

A man has to learn that he cannot command things, but that he can command himself; that he cannot coerce the wills of others, but that he can mold and master his own will: and things serve him who serves Truth; people seek guidance of him who is master of himself.