Words matter. These are the best His Quotes from famous people such as Euripides, Oscar Wilde, Swami Sivananda, Gilbert K. Chesterton, Miguel de Cervantes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future.
A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.
Life is a pilgrimage. The wise man does not rest by the roadside inns. He marches direct to the illimitable domain of eternal bliss, his ultimate destination.
The word ‘good’ has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.
He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.
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.
A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.
He is winding the watch of his wit; by and by it will strike.
I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.
Capitalists are no more capable of self-sacrifice than a man is capable of lifting himself up by his own bootstraps.
True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind; the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not; he knoweth all things but his own ignorance.
I believe the first test of a truly great man is in his humility.
An attempt is already underway to revise history – to leave the impression that the former president had nothing to do with Watergate. But there is no doubt about his obstruction of justice after the Watergate break-in.
The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action.
Love is the magician that pulls man out of his own hat.
The old adage about giving a man a fish versus teaching him how to fish has been updated by a reader: Give a man a fish and he will ask for tartar sauce and French fries! Moreover, some politician who wants his vote will declare all these things to be among his ‘basic rights.’
The Lord gets his best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction.
A leader or a man of action in a crisis almost always acts subconsciously and then thinks of the reasons for his action.
When a person really desires something, all the universe conspires to help that person to realize his dream.
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.
Never call an accountant a credit to his profession; a good accountant is a debit to his profession.
The best news of the Christian gospel is that the supremely glorious Creator of the universe has acted in Jesus Christ’s death and resurrection to remove every obstacle between us and himself so that we may find everlasting joy in seeing and savoring his infinite beauty.
Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It’s a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment.
When man fell from grace, he lost a kingdom, not a religion. He lost dominion over the earth; He did not lose Heaven. Therefore, mankind’s search is not for a religion or for Heaven but for his kingdom.
One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unreachable stars; and the world will be better for this.
All that I am I owe to Jesus Christ, revealed to me in His divine Book.
Henry Kissinger should have the door shut in his face by every decent person and should be shamed, ostracized and excluded.
The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them.
A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit.
Fereydun, that’s my dad’s name. My grandmother, my dad’s mom, when she was pregnant, she was dating a man from Persia, a Persian gentleman. It wasn’t his child, but he was still very supportive and said, ‘Hey, this is a great name,’ and so it stuck. So that’s what she named him.
How many legs does a dog have if you call his tail a leg? Four. Saying that a tail is a leg doesn’t make it a leg.
In the morning a man walks with his whole body; in the evening, only with his legs.
A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God’s truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.
There are only two people who can tell you the truth about yourself – an enemy who has lost his temper and a friend who loves you dearly.
Christ comes as a thief in the night, & it is not for us to know the times & seasons which God hath put into his own breast.
Power over a man’s subsistence is power over his will.
One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn’t do.
A man learns all his life and dies the day he thinks that he has learnt everything.
I was a child actor in ‘Deliverance,’ but not the banjo player. It was my dad’s big movie as a director, and at the very end there’s a scene where Jon Voight comes home to his wife. I played his young son.
From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own.
A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but for that one in whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy.
Nobody who ever gave his best regretted it.
Man needs his difficulties because they are necessary to enjoy success.
It is the duty of a good shepherd to shear his sheep, not to skin them.
When a man marries his mistress it creates a job opportunity.
For what shall it profit a man, if he gain the whole world, and suffer the loss of his soul?
Every good citizen makes his country’s honor his own, and cherishes it not only as precious but as sacred. He is willing to risk his life in its defense and is conscious that he gains protection while he gives it.
Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal which the reader recognizes as his own.
No sooner does man discover intelligence than he tries to involve it in his own stupidity.
Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality; man, alone, can dream and make his dreams come true.
I believe in God and his son, Jesus.
If there is anyone here whom I have not insulted, I beg his pardon.
The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.
The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head.
Concern for man and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations.
I am a most noteworthy sinner, but I have cried out to the Lord for grace and mercy, and they have covered me completely. I have found the sweetest consolation since I made it my whole purpose to enjoy His marvellous Presence.
I don’t know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn’t.
The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mold of the body and mind.
The greatest error of a man is to think that he is weak by nature, evil by nature. Every man is divine and strong in his real nature. What are weak and evil are his habits, his desires and thoughts, but not himself.
If a man could pass through Paradise in a dream, and have a flower presented to him as a pledge that his soul had really been there, and if he found that flower in his hand when he awake – Aye, what then?
He was a tubby little chap who looked as if he had been poured into his clothes and had forgotten to say ‘when!’
And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with Me, to give every man according as his work shall be. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last.
Cricket is a team game. No individual can just say he can win it on his own.
All of the biggest technological inventions created by man – the airplane, the automobile, the computer – says little about his intelligence, but speaks volumes about his laziness.
I am just a common man who is true to his beliefs.
Steve Irwin did wonderful conservation work but I was uncomfortable about some of his stunts. Even if animals aren’t aware that you are not treating them with respect, the viewers are.
International affairs is very much run like the mafia. The godfather does not accept disobedience, even from a small storekeeper who doesn’t pay his protection money. You have to have obedience; otherwise, the idea can spread that you don’t have to listen to the orders, and it can spread to important places.
