Words matter. These are the best He Quotes from famous people such as Rabindranath Tagore, Cesar Chavez, Jim Elliot, Bertrand Russell, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Don’t limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.
It is possible to become discouraged about the injustice we see everywhere. But God did not promise us that the world would be humane and just. He gives us the gift of life and allows us to choose the way we will use our limited time on earth. It is an awesome opportunity.
He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.
Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.
It is the characteristic excellence of the strong man that he can bring momentous issues to the fore and make a decision about them. The weak are always forced to decide between alternatives they have not chosen themselves.
You teach a child to read, and he or her will be able to pass a literacy test.
That which God said to the rose, and caused it to laugh in full-blown beauty, He said to my heart, and made it a hundred times more beautiful.
One travels more usefully when alone, because he reflects more.
My father used to say that it’s never too late to do anything you wanted to do. And he said, ‘You never know what you can accomplish until you try.’
My father used to have an expression. He’d say, ‘Joey, a job is about a lot more than a paycheck. It’s about your dignity. It’s about respect. It’s about your place in your community.’
He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity.
A rooster crows only when it sees the light. Put him in the dark and he’ll never crow. I have seen the light and I’m crowing.
A man is never completely alone in this world. At the worst, he has the company of a boy, a youth, and by and by a grown man – the one he used to be.
Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself – and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine with them. That’s what real love amounts to – letting a person be what he really is.
A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.
Unhappy is he to whom the memories of childhood bring only fear and sadness.
It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.
The new ruler must determine all the injuries that he will need to inflict. He must inflict them once and for all.
A man is no less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years.
The most important lesson that I have learned is to trust God in every circumstance. Lots of times we go through different trials and following God’s plan seems like it doesn’t make any sense at all. God is always in control and he will never leave us.
He who reigns within himself and rules passions, desires, and fears is more than a king.
No captain can do very wrong if he places his ship alongside that of the enemy.
The scientific man does not aim at an immediate result. He does not expect that his advanced ideas will be readily taken up. His work is like that of the planter – for the future. His duty is to lay the foundation for those who are to come, and point the way.
God is so unique in giving His people ways to fellowship, witness, and remember what a mighty and merciful God He is.
When Alexander of Macedon was 33, he cried salt tears because there were no more worlds to conquer. Eric Bristow is only 27.
Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.
If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner.
Literature must rest always on a principle, and temporal considerations are no principle at all. For, to the poet, all times and places are one; the stuff he deals with is eternal and eternally the same: no theme is inept, no past or present preferable.
A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life.
A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
Judy Garland’s father was gay. That seems to be the consensus. They left Minnesota and went to California because he got caught with some boy backstage.
He that has eyes to see and ears to hear may convince himself that no mortal can keep a secret. If his lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore.
He has all of the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
Three things are necessary for the salvation of man: to know what he ought to believe; to know what he ought to desire; and to know what he ought to do.
When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide.
You know, Johnny Depp has always been a massive inspiration for me and he’s somebody who has produced an incredible amount of work, and every single piece that he does is amazing.
Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word.
Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
The wise man does not lay up his own treasures. The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.
Any life is made up of a single moment, the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is.
He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself; for every man has need to be forgiven.
War should be the only study of a prince. He should consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes as ability to execute, military plans.
Freedom, morality, and the human dignity of the individual consists precisely in this; that he does good not because he is forced to do so, but because he freely conceives it, wants it, and loves it.
God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.
There is nothing is more musical than a sunset. He who feels what he sees will find no more beautiful example of development in all that book which, alas, musicians read but too little – the book of Nature.
My relationship with God has gotten so much stronger. He’s always had his hand on me. He always guided me. I didn’t always go where he wanted me to go. But He always had me. Now that I’m actually listening and being obedient, life is so much better.
The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.
The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.
Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength; and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.
Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.
A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.
When one man, for whatever reason, has the opportunity to lead an extraordinary life, he has no right to keep it to himself.
When a man says money can do anything, that settles it: he hasn’t got any.
A man can be short and dumpy and getting bald but if he has fire, women will like him.
Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.
He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.
His father is governor of Media, and though he has the greatest command given him of all the rest of my generals, he still covetously desires more, and my being without issue spurs him on to this wicked design. But Philotas takes wrong measures.
There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in.
He was a great patriot, a humanitarian, a loyal friend; provided, of course, he really is dead.
Neuroscience is by far the most exciting branch of science because the brain is the most fascinating object in the universe. Every human brain is different – the brain makes each human unique and defines who he or she is.
The education of a man is never completed until he dies.
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life.
Somewhere deep down there’s a decent man in me, he just can’t be found.
I went to America to convert the Indians, but, oh, who shall convert me? Who, what, is he that will deliver me from this evil heart of unbelief?
In almost everything that touches our everyday life on earth, God is pleased when we’re pleased. He wills that we be as free as birds to soar and sing our maker’s praise without anxiety.
