Who Quotes

An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight... the truly wise person is colorblind.

You can't live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you.

There are some people who, if they don't already know, you can't tell 'em.

It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.

The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and the true teacher is the learner.

No man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent merchant does not knock his competitors. The sensible worker does not work those who work with him. Don't knock your friends. Don't knock your enemies. Don't knock yourself.

I believe in everything until it's disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it's in your mind. Who's to say that dreams and nightmares aren't as real as the here and now?

I have a different vision of leadership. A leadership is someone who brings people together.

A real Christian is a person who can give his pet parrot to the town gossip.

There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson.

Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?

Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

I got to grow up with a mother who taught me to believe in me.

He who has faith has... an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well - even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly.

Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war.

Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.

So the point is, I don't have a right to tell anybody what's right or wrong about their lives. Who am I to tell you at any given moment of the day what would be right for you?

So long as I'm Commander-in-Chief, we will sustain the strongest military the world has ever known. When you take off the uniform, we will serve you as well as you've served us - because no one who fights for this country should have to fight for a job, or a roof over their head, or the care that they need when they come home.

Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world. For, indeed, that's all who ever have.

A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there.

Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone.

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.

Coaches who can outline plays on a black board are a dime a dozen. The ones who win get inside their player and motivate.

The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.

I always believe that to be the best, you have to smell like the best, dress like the best, act like the best. When you throw your trash in the garbage can, it has to be better than anybody else who ever threw trash in the garbage can.

You will know that forgiveness has begun when you recall those who hurt you and feel the power to wish them well.

A liberal is a man who is willing to spend somebody else's money.

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

What do I care about the purring of one who cannot love, like the cat?

Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined.