Top 636 Who Quotes

Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.
Epictetus
The best advice comes from people who don’t give advice.
Matthew McConaughey
Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
George Bernard Shaw
We must always remember with gratitude and admiration the first sailors who steered their vessels through storms and mists, and increased our knowledge of the lands of ice in the South.
Roald Amundsen
In everyone’s life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.
Albert Schweitzer
The people to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagree with you and are too cowardly to let you know.
Napoleon Bonaparte
There are people who make things happen, there are people who watch things happen, and there are people who wonder what happened. To be successful, you need to be a person who makes things happen.
Jim Lovell
Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
Thomas Jefferson
Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt, to offer a solution everybody can understand.
Colin Powell
War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it.
Desiderius Erasmus
Who sows virtue reaps honor.
Leonardo da Vinci
No self-respecting woman should wish or work for the success of a party who ignores her sex.
Susan B. Anthony
Those who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.
James Baldwin
Money is human happiness in the abstract; he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money.
Arthur Schopenhauer
All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark.
Swami Vivekananda
Gold is a treasure, and he who possesses it does all he wishes to in this world, and succeeds in helping souls into paradise.
Christopher Columbus
There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter.
Ernest Hemingway
Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry his own weight, this is a frightening prospect.
Eleanor Roosevelt
There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, ‘Thy will be done,’ and those to whom God says, ‘All right, then, have it your way.’
C. S. Lewis
Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.
Albert Einstein
The fact is that a man who wants to act virtuously in every way necessarily comes to grief among so many who are not virtuous.
Niccolo Machiavelli
Millions long for immortality who don’t know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz
Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.
James Madison
We ask ourselves, 'Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous,

We ask ourselves, ‘Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?’ Actually, who are you not to be?
Marianne Williamson
You just can’t beat the person who never gives up.
Babe Ruth
He conquers who endures.
Persius
This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.
Abraham Lincoln
I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can’t be done.
Henry Ford
The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
I used to think that the worst thing in life was to end up alone. It’s not. The worst thing in life is to end up with people who make you feel alone.
Robin Williams
He who is too busy doing good finds no time to be good.
Rabindranath Tagore
The obsession with suicide is characteristic of the man who can neither live nor die, and whose attention never swerves from this double impossibility.
Emil Cioran
A wise man fights to win, but he is twice a fool who has no plan for possible defeat.
Louis L’Amour
Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.
Socrates
Governments will always play a huge part in solving big problems. They set public policy and are uniquely able to provide the resources to make sure solutions reach everyone who needs them. They also fund basic research, which is a crucial component of the innovation that improves life for everyone.
Bill Gates
We find comfort among those who agree with us – growth among those who don’t.
Frank A. Clark
The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything.
Theodore Roosevelt
Some people come into our life as a blessing, while others come into our life as a lesson, so love them for who they are instead of judging them for who they are not.
Yolanda Hadid
Aerodynamics are for people who can’t build engines.
Enzo Ferrari
We all need people who will give us feedback. That’s how we improve.
Bill Gates
A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.
Christopher Reeve
Only those who have patience to do simple things perfectly ever acquire the skill to do difficult things easily.
James J. Corbett
I’m lucky to be part of a team who help to make me look good, and they deserve as much of the credit for my success as I do for the hard work we have all put in on the training ground.
Lionel Messi
Regardless of who wins, an election should be a time for optimism and fresh approaches.
Gary Johnson
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
Robert Kennedy
For those who love, nothing is too difficult, especially when it is done for the love of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Saint Ignatius
Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things.
T. S. Eliot
It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, more vengeance, more desolation. War is hell.
William Tecumseh Sherman
A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone.
Billy Graham
Character is doing the right thing when nobody’s looking. There are too many people who think that the only thing that’s right is to get by, and the only thing that’s wrong is to get caught.
J. C. Watts
None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
He has achieved success who has worked well, laughed often, and loved much.
Elbert Hubbard
The police are the public and the public are the police; the police being only members of the public who are paid to give full time attention to duties which are incumbent on every citizen in the interests of community welfare and existence.
Robert Peel
I distrust camels, and anyone else who can go a week wi

I distrust camels, and anyone else who can go a week without a drink.
Joe E. Lewis
I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
Abraham Lincoln
Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.
Dale Carnegie
Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell.
Karl Popper
Happy is the person who knows what to remember of the past, what to enjoy in the present, and what to plan for in the future.
Arnold H. Glasow
Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.
Henri Frederic Amiel
He who knows when he can fight and when he cannot, will be victorious.
Sun Tzu
Those who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration which comes from the teaching of biography and history.
Carter G. Woodson
Someone may ask, ‘How is justice greater than all the other virtues?’ The other virtues gratify the one who possesses them; justice does not give pleasure to the one possessing it, but instead pleases others.
St. Jerome
We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.
Samuel Smiles
I’ve always done whatever I want and always been exactly who I am.
Billie Eilish
A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.
George Bernard Shaw
Usually, the loudest in the room is the weakes. The quietest man in the room, who is being very observant, is the smartest and the strongest.
Roddy Ricch
He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.
Harold Wilson
I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.
Desmond Tutu
The people who are bullying you, they’re insecure about who they are, and that’s why they’re bullying you. It never has to do with the person they’re bullying. They desperately want to be loved and be accepted, and they go out of their way to make people feel unaccepted so that they’re not alone.
Madelaine Petsch