Who Quotes

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.

What we need is more people who specialize in the impossible.

Those who are easily shocked should be shocked more often.

There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one - keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.

Everyone who achieves success in a great venture, solves each problem as they came to it. They helped themselves. And they were helped through powers known and unknown to them at the time they set out on their voyage. They keep going regardless of the obstacles they met.

Blood relatives often have nothing to do with family, and similarly, family is about who you choose to make your life with.

Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.

It is only the enlightened ruler and the wise general who will use the highest intelligence of the army for the purposes of spying, and thereby they achieve great results.

Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people.

He is not to pass for a man of reason who stumbles upon reason by chance but he who knows it and can judge it and has a true taste for it.

I may neither choose who I would, nor refuse who I dislike; so is the will of a living daughter curbed by the will of a dead father.

A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.

Be who you are and be that well.

I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.

The law will never make a man free; it is men who have got to make the law free.

Good things happen to those who hustle.

I think a good MP is someone who cares for their community and becomes their champion, which is why I will make my home in any seat I am lucky enough to be selected for. Looks play no part in the equation, what matters is your ideas and connecting them to the electorate.

We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken.

It isn't until you come to a spiritual understanding of who you are - not necessarily a religious feeling, but deep down, the spirit within - that you can begin to take control.

Why do you think the old stories tell of men who set out on great journeys to impress the gods? Because trying to impress people just isn't worth the time and effort.

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.

He who receives money in trust to administer for the benefit of its owner, and uses it either for his own interest or against the wishes of its rightful owner, is a thief.

My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care? A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking for others!

Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.

A brave man is a man who dares to look the Devil in the face and tell him he is a Devil.

Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory.

I admire people who are, by nature, kind and fair to others.

Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand. Is not the mountain far more awe-inspiring and more clearly visible to one passing through the valley than to those who inhabit the mountain?