“The noblest art is that of making others happy”
P.T. Barnum (1810–1891) American showman and businessman
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“The noblest art is that of making others happy”
P.T. Barnum (1810–1891) American showman and businessman
José Baroja (1983) Chilean author and editor
Source: Perú Informa. Interview. https://www.peruinforma.com/entrevista-cultural-al-escritor-chileno-jose-baroja/
“Some people feel the rain. Others just get wet.”
Bob Marley (1945–1981) Jamaican singer, songwriter, musician
Yuzuru Hanyu (1994) Japanese figure skater (1994-)
Source: Original: (ja) たとえばバレエとかミュージカルとかもそうですけれども、芸術というのは、明らかに正しい技術、徹底された基礎によって裏付けされた表現力、芸術であって、それが足りないと芸術にはならないと僕は思っています。
Source: Interview at the Foreign Correspondence Club of Japan from 27 February 2018
https://quotepark.com/authors/yuzuru-hanyu/
Yuzuru Hanyu (1994) Japanese figure skater (1994-)
Annotation: Hanyu's being asked what difference it makes for him to go into the 2020 World Championships as a challenger after being the considered favorite for the title in recent years.
CBC interview with Scott Russell
Original: (ja) えっと、まあ、チャレンジャーっていうことを言われますけど、でもいつも他のスケーターの良いところを追いかけてるし、他のスケーターに対してチャレンジしたいなって思ってるし、だからいつも自分はチャレンジャーだと思っていて、だから今シーズンの世界選手権でも先シーズンの世界選手権でも何も変わらないかなって思います。
Robert Baden-Powell (1857–1941) lieutenant-general in the British Army, writer, founder and Chief Scout of the Scout Movement
Cornelius Keagon (1996) Liberian humanitarian aid worker
Source: https://www.academia.edu/57019490/Cornelius_Keagon_biography Academic.edu, Cornelius Keagon biography
“Always pray for wisdom above all other things, it's like magnate”
Cornelius Keagon (1996) Liberian humanitarian aid worker
Source: https://www.scribd.com/document/531451370/Quotes-of-Famous-People Scribd document, famous people quotes, Cornelius Keagon
“Do not compare yourself to others. If you do so, you are insulting yourself.”
Adolf Hitler (1889–1945) Führer and Reich Chancellor of Germany, Leader of the Nazi Party
Sukavich Rangsitpol (1935) Thai politician
citizenship in the changing world of tomorrow.
“In other to be a successful leader you must be heartless, heart makes you weak”
Cornelius Keagon (1996) Liberian humanitarian aid worker
Sukavich Rangsitpol (1935) Thai politician
Teacher
“The most worth-while thing is to try to put happiness into the lives of others.”
Robert Baden-Powell (1857–1941) lieutenant-general in the British Army, writer, founder and Chief Scout of the Scout Movement
Letter (September 1940)
“If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.”
Virginia Woolf (1882–1941) English writer
"The Leaning Tower", lecture delivered to the Workers' Educational Association, Brighton (May 1940)
The Moment and Other Essays (1948)
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity
As quoted in Journal of France and Germany (1942–1944) by Gilbert Fowler White, in excerpt published in Living with Nature's Extremes: The Life of Gilbert Fowler White (2006) by Robert E. Hinshaw, p. 62. From the context http://books.google.com/books?id=_2qfZRp9SeEC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA62#v=onepage&q&f=false it seems that White did not specify whether he had heard Einstein himself say this or whether he was repeating a quote that had been passed along by someone else, so without a primary source the validity of this quote should be considered questionable.<br>Some have argued that elsewhere Einstein defined a "miracle" as a type of event he did not believe was possible—Einstein on Religion by Max Jammer (1999) quotes on p. 89 from a 1931 conversation Einstein had with David Reichinstein, where Reichinstein brought up philosopher Arthur Liebert's argument that the indeterminism of quantum mechanics might allow for the possibility of miracles, and Einstein replied that Liebert's argument dealt "with a domain in which lawful rationality [determinism] does not exist. A 'miracle,' however, is an exception from lawfulness; hence, there where lawfulness does not exist, also its exception, i.e., a miracle, cannot exist." ("Dort, wo eine Gesetzmässigkeit nicht vorhanden ist, kann auch ihre Ausnahme, d.h. ein Wunder, nicht existieren." D. Reichenstein, Die Religion der Gebildeten (1941), p. 21). However, it is clear from the context that Einstein was stating only that miracles cannot exist in a domain (quantum mechanics) where lawful rationality does not exist. He did not claim that miracles could never exist in any domain. Indeed, Einstein clearly believed, as seen in many quotations above, that the universe was comprehensible and rational, but he also described this characteristic of the universe as a "miracle". In another example, he is quoted as claiming belief in a God, "Who reveals Himself in the lawful harmony of the world." <br class="br">As quoted in From Yale to Jail: The Life Story of a Moral Dissenter (1993) by David T. Dellinger, p. 418 <br class="br">Disputed <br class="br">Variant: There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. <br class="br">Variant: There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
Ali book Nahj al-Balagha
Nahj al-Balagha
“We believe in each other, that's enough for me.”
Freddie Mercury (1946–1991) British singer, songwriter and record producer
On Mary Austin, a long time companion, and the inheritor of most of his estate, as quoted in "For A Song : The Mercury that's rising in rock is Freddie the satiny seductor of Queen" by Fred Hauptfuhrer, in People magazine (5 December 1977) http://www.queenarchives.com/index.php?title=Group_-_12-05-1977_-_People <br class="br">Context: All my lovers asked me why they couldn't replace Mary, but it's simply impossible. The only friend I've got is Mary and I don't want anybody else. To me, she was my common-law wife. To me, it was a marriage. We believe in each other, that's enough for me.
Carl Sagan book Pale Blue Dot
Source: Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space (1994), p. 8, Supplemental image at randi.org http://www.randi.org/images/122801-BlueDot.jpg
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918–2008) Russian writer
Source: Rebuilding Russia: Reflections and Tentative Proposals
“Do not be afraid to fail exams, be afraid to always be a witness to other students success.”
Ahmed Omaar (1987)
Success
Source: https://www.yourquote.in/ahmed-omaar-crc7k/quotes
Paramahansa Yogananda (1893–1952) Yogi, a guru of Kriya Yoga and founder of Self-Realization Fellowship
“Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen.”
Michael Jordan (1963) American retired professional basketball player and businessman
Variant: Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, and others make it happen.
“Education is the sum of what students teach each other between lectures and seminars.”
Stephen Fry (1957) English comedian, actor, writer, presenter, and activist
Variant: Education is the sum of what students teach each other between lectures and seminars.
“Across the sea of space, the stars are other suns.”
Carl Sagan (1934–1996) American astrophysicist, cosmologist, author and science educator
Sophie Scholl (1921–1943) White Rose member
Statement to the Volksgerichtshof [People's Court] of Judge Roland Freisler (21 February 1943).
Sukavich Rangsitpol (1935) Thai politician
Education helps reduce social problems and improves quality of life
“If a man knows more than others, he becomes lonely.”
C.G. Jung (1875–1961) Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist who founded analytical psychology
Rumi (1207–1273) Iranian poet
Source: Anonymous reader point out that quote appears on internet from 2015. Rumi, having died in the 1200s, when the first mention of this quote was around 2015.
Adolf Hitler book Mein Kampf
1920s, Zweites Buch (1928)
Source: Mein Kampf
Context: Jewry is a Folk with a racial core that is not wholly unitary. Nevertheless, as a Folk, it has special intrinsic characteristics which separate it from all other Folks living on the globe. Jewry is not a religious community, but the religious bond between Jews; rather is in reality the momentary governmental system of the Jewish Folk. The Jew has never had a territorially bounded State of his own in the manner of Aryan States. Nevertheless, his religious community is a real State, since it guarantees the preservation, the increase and the future of the Jewish Folk. But this is solely the task of the State. That the Jewish State is subject to no territorial limitation, as is the case with Aryan States, is connected with the character of the Jewish Folk, which is lacking in the productive forces for the construction and preservation of its own territorial State.
John Wooden (1910–2010) American basketball coach
Variant: Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.
“To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.”
Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962) American politician, diplomat, and activist, and First Lady of the United States
Hannibal (-247–-183 BC) military commander of Carthage during the Second Punic War
As quoted in Hannibal : Enemy of Rome (1992) by Leonard Cottrell, p. 150.
Diogenes of Sinope (-404–-322 BC) ancient Greek philosopher, one of the founders of the Cynic philosophy
Diogenes Laërtius, vi. 54
Quoted by Diogenes Laërtius
Jane Goodall (1934) British primatologist, ethologist, and anthropologist
"Chimpanzees - Bridging the Gap", in Paola Cavalieri, Peter Singer, The Great Ape Project: Equality Beyond Humanity (1996), p. 14
“Accuse the other side of that which you are guilty.”
Joseph Goebbels (1897–1945) Nazi politician and Propaganda Minister
Perhaps a reframing of "The cleverest trick used in propaganda against Germany during the war was to accuse Germany of what our enemies themselves were doing," which Goebbels said at a 1934 Nurenberg rally. stackexchange.com https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/37824/did-joseph-goebbels-say-accuse-the-other-side-of-that-which-you-are-guilty. <br class="br">Misattributed
David Lane (white nationalist) book 88 Precepts
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88 Precepts
Freddie Mercury (1946–1991) British singer, songwriter and record producer
On his relationship with Mary Austin, as quoted in "Rock On Freddie" (1985).
Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906–1945) German Lutheran pastor, theologian, dissident anti-Nazi
Source: Letters and Papers from Prison
Henry Beston (1888–1968) American writer
Source: The Outermost House, 1928, p. 25: Ch 2
Source: The Outermost House: A Year of Life On The Great Beach of Cape Cod
Context: We need another and a wiser and perhaps a more mystical concept of animals. Remote from universal nature, and living by complicated artifice, man in civilization surveys the creature through the glass of his knowledge and sees thereby a feather magnified and the whole image in distortion. We patronize them for their incompleteness, for their tragic fate of having taken form so far below ourselves. And therein we err, and greatly err. For the animal shall not be measured by man. In a world older and more complete than ours they moved finished and complete, gifted with extensions of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear. They are not brethren, they are not underlings; they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time, fellow prisoners of the splendour and travail of the earth.
“Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.”
Tennessee Williams (1911–1983) American playwright
“Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.”
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity
In answer to a question asked by the editors of Youth, a journal of Young Israel of Williamsburg, NY. Quoted in the New York Times, June 20, 1932, pg. 17 http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F40617F83B5A13738DDDA90A94DE405B828FF1D3 <br class="br">Unsourced variant: Only a life in the service of others is worth living. <br class="br">1930s <br class="br">Variant: I believe in one thing—that only a life lived for others is a life worth living.
Fulton J. Sheen (1895–1979) Catholic bishop and television presenter
Source: Seven Words of Jesus and Mary: Lessons from Cana and Calvary
Sadhguru book Inner Engineering: A Yogi's Guide to Joy
Source: Inner Engineering: A Yogi's Guide to Joy
Annie Ernaux (1940) French writer
Source: Quoted in Melodrama after the tears, ed. Jörg Metelmann and Scott Loren (Amsterdam University Press, 2016), p. 178
Dolly Parton (1946) American singer-songwriter and actress
Variant: If your actions create a legacy that inspires others to dream more, learn more, do more, and become more, then, you are an excellent leader.
“I use bits and pieces of others [sic] personalities to form my own.”
Kurt Cobain book Journals
Source: Journals (2002), p. 95
John Quincy Adams (1767–1848) American politician, 6th president of the United States (in office from 1825 to 1829)
Robert Baden-Powell (1857–1941) lieutenant-general in the British Army, writer, founder and Chief Scout of the Scout Movement
Dale Carnegie How to Win Friends and Influence People
Variant: You can make more friends in two months by being interested in them, than in two years by making them interested in you.
Source: How to Win Friends and Influence People (1936), p. 52 (in 1998 edition)