Who Quotes

The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.

Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.

Mysterious love, uncertain treasure, hast thou more of pain or pleasure! Endless torments dwell about thee: Yet who would live, and live without thee!

Those who cannot understand how to put their thoughts on ice should not enter into the heat of debate.

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.

Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept his lot calmly, even if they roll a few stones upon it.

Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.

We will make no distinction between the terrorists who committed these acts and those who harbour them.

Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us.

At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.

Nor shall derision prove powerful against those who listen to humanity or those who follow in the footsteps of divinity, for they shall live forever. Forever.

An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious - just dead wrong.

I never regret anything. Because every little detail of your life is what made you into who you are in the end.

A bachelor is a guy who never made the same mistake once.

Those who hate you don't win unless you hate them, and then you destroy yourself.

Deficiency motivation doesn't work. It will lead to a life-long pursuit of try to fix me. Learn to appreciate what you have and where and who you are.

A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.

Treat those who are good with goodness, and also treat those who are not good with goodness. Thus goodness is attained. Be honest to those who are honest, and be also honest to those who are not honest. Thus honesty is attained.

No man deserves to be praised for his goodness, who has it not in his power to be wicked. Goodness without that power is generally nothing more than sloth, or an impotence of will.

Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.

When you're a mom and you have three children, nothing bothers you. Trust me. Who cares what people say? I've got other things to deal with.

I like a man who's good, but not too good - for the good die young, and I hate a dead one.

Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true.

He who is not a good servant will not be a good master.

I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can't be done.

Those who know how to think need no teachers.

Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid, one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat, and humble and gentle in victory.

What white man has ever seen me drunk? Who has ever come to me hungry and left me unfed? Who has seen me beat my wives or abuse my children? What law have I broken?

I am convinced that material things can contribute a lot to making one's life pleasant, but, basically, if you do not have very good friends and relatives who matter to you, life will be really empty and sad and material things cease to be important.