Quotes about someone

A collection of quotes on the topic of someone, likeness, doing, love.

Rudolf Steiner quote: “Love starts when we push aside our ego and make room for someone else.”

Zayn Malik quote: “Before you judge someone else, judge yourself!”

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Peter F. Drucker quote: “Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.”

Mark Twain quote: “Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.”

Pelé quote: “There is always someone out there getting better than you by training harder than you.”

Winston S. Churchill quote: “Tact is the ability to tell someone to go to hell in such a way that they look forward to the trip.”

Quotes about someone

“Then, Evaristo felt in his hands the exercise of the power that Foucault spoke so much about, and he felt it like someone who discovers fear in his fellow men.”

José Baroja book No fue un catorce de febrero y otros cuentos

Men, Fear, Exercises

“We longed to be in the middle of some neophyte gaze of some library entity, of someone rediscovering paper.”

José Baroja book Mi último invierno

“Only once in your life, I truly believe, you find someone who can completely turn your world around. You tell them things that you’ve never shared with another soul and they absorb everything you say and actually want to hear more. You share hopes for the future, dreams that will never come true, goals that were never achieved and the many disappointments life has thrown at you. When something wonderful happens, you can’t wait to tell them about it, knowing they will share in your excitement. They are not embarrassed to cry with you when you are hurting or laugh with you when you make a fool of yourself. Never do they hurt your feelings or make you feel like you are not good enough, but rather they build you up and show you the things about yourself that make you special and even beautiful. There is never any pressure, jealousy or competition but only a quiet calmness when they are around. You can be yourself and not worry about what they will think of you because they love you for who you are. The things that seem insignificant to most people such as a note, song or walk become invaluable treasures kept safe in your heart to cherish forever. Memories of your childhood come back and are so clear and vivid it’s like being young again. Colours seem brighter and more brilliant. Laughter seems part of daily life where before it was infrequent or didn’t exist at all. A phone call or two during the day helps to get you through a long day’s work and always brings a smile to your face. In their presence, there’s no need for continuous conversation, but you find you’re quite content in just having them nearby. Things that never interested you before become fascinating because you know they are important to this person who is so special to you. You think of this person on every occasion and in everything you do. Simple things bring them to mind like a pale blue sky, gentle wind or even a storm cloud on the horizon. You open your heart knowing that there’s a chance it may be broken one day and in opening your heart, you experience a love and joy that you never dreamed possible. You find that being vulnerable is the only way to allow your heart to feel true pleasure that’s so real it scares you. You find strength in knowing you have a true friend and possibly a soul mate who will remain loyal to the end. Life seems completely different, exciting and worthwhile. Your only hope and security is in knowing that they are a part of your life.”

Bob Marley (1945–1981) Jamaican singer, songwriter, musician

love, Love, Life, People

“Smile doesn't mean that someone is happy. Sometimes it just means that you're strong.”

Zayn Malik (1993) British singer

Smile, Strong, Happiness

“The hole in one's heart gets filled by others around you. Friends won't flock to someone who abandons the memory of his friends and gives up on the world just because things don't go the way he wants them to. That won't help fill the hole in your heart. And people won't help those who run away and do nothing. As long as you don't give up, there will always be salvation.”

Hatake Kakashi book Naruto

People, World, Way, Memory

“To trust is a profound commitment, and to trust is to make oneself vulnerable... It’s such an optimistic act, because you’re putting your faith in the hands of someone or something which you expect to remain constant, even if the circumstances change.”

Tom Hiddleston (1981) English actor, producer and musical performer

Faith, Making love, Change

“Don't ever change yourself to impress someone. They should be impress that you don't change to please others”

Cornelius Keagon (1996) Liberian humanitarian aid worker

Source: https://www.academia.edu/57019490/Cornelius_Keagon_biography Academic.edu, Cornelius Keagon biography

Change

“People in general, not just girls, but people who are younger are obviously extremely impressionable. And I do think it’s important. There's obviously a lot of different body images that are thrown around in society in general. Some things look like they’re more acceptable and some things are made to feel like they’re unacceptable. So, I think it’s very important that it empowers people in general. I think that anytime you can make someone who potentially might not feel as great about themselves as they should, feel better about themselves, I think that’s always a positive thing.”

Harry Styles (1994) English singer, songwriter, and actor

Interview with Polish website Plejada (25 November 2015) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNqJC-ZSseU&t=552

People, Feeling, Girl, Thinking

“I really am… shinobi trash. But the one thing I still learned is this. That void is something that everyone helps you fill. Just because you face adversity and hardships, is no reason to give up on this world. A person willing to throw away all those memories… of their friends and comrades, will never find peace of mind. Resorting to something like that isn't going to bury that hole. If you persevere and endure, someone will be there to support you!”

Hatake Kakashi book Naruto

World, Peace, Support, Learning

“Love starts when we push aside our ego and make room for someone else.”

Rudolf Steiner (1861–1925) Austrian esotericist

Love

“Before you judge someone else, judge yourself!”

Zayn Malik (1993) British singer

“If you loved someone, you loved him, and when you had nothing else to give, you still gave him love.”

George Orwell book 1984

Source: 1984

Love, Wise

“Wanting to be someone else is a waste of who you are”

Kurt Cobain (1967–1994) American musician and artist

Variant: Wanting to be someone else is the waste of who you are

Powerful

“There is no spectacle on earth more appealing than that of a beautiful woman in the act of cooking dinner for someone she loves.”

Thomas Wolfe (1900–1938) American writer

For Wife, Love, Beauty, Cooking

“You must allow your free-will to roam as freely as you want and delve deep into your dreams. Never limit yourself nor live according to the appetite of someone else.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

Dreams

“Unless you love someone, nothing else makes sense.”

E.E. Cummings (1894–1962) American poet

love, Powerful, Valentine's Day, Love

“The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too”

Ernest Hemingway book Men Without Women

Disputed <br class="br">Source: Claimed to be from Men Without Women, but it does not appear in that work. May have originated in a 2011 blogpost by Marc Chernoff entitled 30 things to stop doing to yourself http://www.marcandangel.com/2011/12/11/30-things-to-stop-doing-to-yourself/.

Hurtful, Relationship, Love, Pain

“If you ever need anything please don't hesitate to ask someone else first.”

Kurt Cobain (1967–1994) American musician and artist

“Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.”

Oprah Winfrey (1954) American businesswoman, talk show host, actress, producer, and philanthropist

Variant: Everyone wants to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.

For Wife, love, Happy, Family

“If the path before you is clear, you’re probably on someone else’s.”

C.G. Jung (1875–1961) Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist who founded analytical psychology

“Do not try to rescue someone who does not want to be rescued, and be very careful about rescuing someone who does want to be rescued.”

Jordan Peterson (1962) Canadian clinical psychologist, cultural critic, and professor of psychology

Other

“You don't love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.”

Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet

love, Valentine's Day, Wedding, Love

“O son of Adam, if you have collected anything in excess of your actual need, you will act only as its trustee for someone else to use it.”

Ali book Nahj al-Balagha

Nahj al-Balagha

“Happiness is a perfume which you cannot pour on someone without getting some on yourself.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet

Variant: Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself.
Variant: Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.

Happiness

“Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.”

Peter F. Drucker (1909–2005) American business consultant

Inspirational, Leadership, Business, Courage

“It's sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew.”

Henry Rollins (1961) American singer-songwriter

Variant: It is sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew.

Depressing, Heartbreaking, Hurtful, Heart Touching

“You have not lived today until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.”

John Bunyan (1628–1688) English Christian writer and preacher

“Auschwitz begins wherever someone looks at a slaughterhouse and thinks: they’re only animals.”

Theodor W. Adorno (1903–1969) German sociologist, philosopher and musicologist known for his critical theory of society

Thinking, Animals

“The feelings that hurt most, the emotions that sting most, are those that are absurd: the longing for impossible things, precisely because they are impossible; nostalgia for what never was; the desire for what could have been; regret over not being someone else; dissatisfaction with the world's existence. All these half-tones of the soul's consciousness create a raw landscape within us, a sun eternally setting on what we are.”

Fernando Pessoa (1888–1935) Portuguese poet, writer, literary critic, translator, publisher and philosopher

Os sentimentos que mais doem, as emoções que mais pungem, são os que são absurdos – a ânsia de coisas impossíveis, precisamente porque são impossíveis, a saudade do que nunca houve, o desejo do que poderia ter sido, a mágoa de não ser outro, a insatisfação da existência do mundo. Todos estes meios tons da consciencia da alma criam em nós uma paisagem dolorida, um eterno sol-pôr do que somos.
The Book of Disquietude, trans. Richard Zenith, text 196

World, Feeling, Soul, Nostalgia

“Get going. Move forward. Aim high. Plan for a takeoff. Don't just sit on the runway and hope someone will come along and push the airplane. It simply won't happen. Change your attitude and gain some altitude. Believe me, you'll love it up here.”

Donald J. Trump (1946) 45th President of the United States of America

Trump: How to Get Rich (2004), p. 74
2000s

Love, Hope, Change

“When we find someone who is brave, fun, intelligent, and loving, we have to thank the universe.”

Maya Angelou (1928–2014) American author and poet

Love, Intelligence, Universe

“If someone insults me, I only feel an infinite pity for him.”

K. R. Narayanan (1920–2005) 9th Vice President and the 10th President of India

Source: Gopalkrishna Gandhi "A remarkable life-story"

Feeling

“I never tried to prove anything to someone else. I wanted to prove something to myself.”

Kobe Bryant (1978–2020) American basketball player

“Smiling makes me feel weak and not in control and not powerful and small. Writing a song is so personal. You have to have trust in someone you're working with; otherwise, you're not gonna come out with something that's really you.”

Billie Eilish (2001) American singer-songwriter

Source: https://www.wmagazine.com/story/billie-eilish-new-ep/

Personality, Making love, Smile, Feeling

“Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud.”

Maya Angelou book Letter to My Daughter

Variant: Be a rainbow in somebody else's cloud.
Source: Letter to My Daughter

Inspirational, Motivational, Wise, Deep

“UNLESS someone like you
cares a whole awful lot,
nothing is going to get better.
It's not.”

Dr. Seuss The Lorax

Source: The Lorax (1972)

Motivational, Back To Work

“Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed: everything else is public relations.”

George Orwell (1903–1950) English author and journalist

“A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.”

Jim Morrison (1943–1971) lead singer of The Doors

Friendship, Relationship, Valentine's Day, For Friend

“If you have been voting for politicians who promise to give you goodies at someone else's expense, then you have no right to complain when they take your money and give it to someone else, including themselves.”

Thomas Sowell (1930) American economist, social theorist, political philosopher and author

Money

“To love someone is to show to them their beauty, their worth and their importance.”

Jean Vanier (1928–2019) Canadian humanitarian

Love, Beauty

“Sometimes you wake up from a dream. Sometimes you wake up in a dream. And sometimes, every once in a while, you wake up in someone else's dream.”

Richelle Mead (1976) American writer

Source: Succubus Blues

Dreams

“I am good, but not an angel. I do sin, but I am not the devil. I am just a small girl in a big world trying to find someone to love.”

Marilyn Monroe (1926–1962) American actress, model, and singer

love, For women, Romantic, Love

“Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.”

Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist

Heartbreaking, Attitude, Hurtful

“It's easy to fall in love. The hard part is finding someone to catch you.”

Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) logician, one of the first analytic philosophers and political activist

love, Relationship, Cute, Romantic

“A hippie is someone who looks like Tarzan, walks like Jane and smells like Cheetah.”

Ronald Reagan (1911–2004) American politician, 40th president of the United States (in office from 1981 to 1989)

“There’s a loneliness that only exists in one’s mind. The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is blink.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940) American novelist and screenwriter

Variant: The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.

Life, World, Loneliness

“Graffiti is one of the few tools you have if you have almost nothing. And even if you don't come up with a picture to cure world poverty you can make someone smile while they're having a piss.”

Banksy pseudonymous England-based graffiti artist, political activist, and painter

Other sources
Source: Banging Your Head Against a Brick Wall
Context: Bus stops are far more interesting and useful places to have art than in museums. Graffiti has more chance of meaning something or changing stuff than anything indoors. Graffiti has been used to start revolutions, stop wars, and generally is the voice of people who aren't listened to. Graffiti is one of those few tools you have if you have almost nothing. And even if you don't come up with a picture to cure world poverty you can make somebody smile while they're having a piss.

World, Smile

“The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up.”

Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist

Variant of this quote "The best way to cheer yourself is to cheer somebody else up." is misattributed to Albert Einstein.
Source: According Quote Investigator Mark Twain did write a version of this saying in a personal notebook in 1896, and it was published by 1935 in “Mark Twain’s Notebook”. https://quoteinvestigator.com/2012/12/21/cheer-somebody/

Happy, Life, Positive, Way

“If you die you’re completely happy and your soul somewhere lives on. I’m not afraid of dying. Total peace after death, becoming someone else is the best hope I’ve got.”

Kurt Cobain (1967–1994) American musician and artist

Death, Peace, Hope, Soul

“It's far better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone — so far.”

Marilyn Monroe (1926–1962) American actress, model, and singer

Variant: It's far better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone — so far.
Source: On Being Blonde (2007), p. 52

“And when at last you find someone to whom you feel you can pour out your soul, you stop in shock at the words you utter— they are so rusty, so ugly, so meaningless and feeble from being kept in the small cramped dark inside you so long.”

Sylvia Plath (1932–1963) American poet, novelist and short story writer

Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

Feeling, Soul

“People talk of “social outcasts.” The words apparently denote the miserable losers of the world, the vicious ones, but I feel as though I have been a “social outcast” from the moment I was born. If ever I meet someone society has designated as an outcast, I invariably feel affection for him, an emotion which carries me away in melting tenderness.”

Osamu Dazai book No Longer Human

The Second Notebook
No Longer Human

People, World, Feeling

“We will never be a pawn in someone else's game. We will always be Afghanistan.”

Ahmad Shah Massoud (1953–2001) Afghan military leader

Attributed in Jawbreaker: The Attack on Bin Laden and Al Qaeda (2005) by Gary Berntsen and Ralph Pezzullo.

Game

“Growing up in a home of abuse, you struggle with the notion that you can love a person you hate, or hate a person you love. It’s a strange feeling. You want to live in a world where someone is good or bad, where you either hate them or love them, but that’s not how people are.”

Trevor Noah book Born a Crime

page 267
Born a Crime

Home, Hate, Personality, Bad luck

“Listen,
if stars are still lit it means there is someone who needs them.
It means someone wants to love,
Why then do we feel so much pain and heaviness of heart?
are we waiting for something, regretting anything?
To whom I can strech out my hand in the somber desert?
Who will accompany me on the empty night?
Who will give me a fiery day?
Who will bring back the sea that left?
No hope here. Torment is certain.
Without sacredness in the emptiness of this world of ours,
the heart of man fades like a flower.
Suddenly, the shuddering of the heavens penetrating my soul,
Oh never let the parting sun, no star is ever lost we once have seen, the long rains will continue to fall.”

Alexis Karpouzos (1967)

Source: Song THE HEART OF MAN

Soul, Pain, Waiting, Night

“Being a student is like someone behind bars; only those who burn the midnight oil will get the certificate of freedom.”

Ahmed Omaar

Freedom

“It's one thing to fall in love. It's another to feel someone else falling in love with you, and to feel a responsibility toward that love.”

David Levithan book Every Day

Variant: It's one thing to fall in love. It's another to feel someone else fall in love with you, and to feel a responsibility toward that love.
Source: Every Day

Romantic, Love, Feeling

“Nothing is more tragic than loving someone to the depths of your soul and knowing they cannot and will not ever love you back.”

Rick Riordan book The Hidden Oracle

Source: The Hidden Oracle

Love, Soul

“When all by myself, I can think of all kinds of clever remarks, quick comebacks to what no one said, and flashes of witty sociability with nobody. But all of this vanishes when I face someone in the flesh: I lose my intelligence, I can no longer speak, and after half an hour I just feel tired. Talking to people makes me feel like sleeping. Only my ghostly and imaginary friends, only the conversations I have in my dreams, are genuinely real and substantial.”

Fernando Pessoa (1888–1935) Portuguese poet, writer, literary critic, translator, publisher and philosopher

People, Dreams, Feeling, Intelligence

“If someone were to harm my family or a friend or somebody I love, I would eat them. I might end up in jail for 500 years, but I would eat them.”

Johnny Depp (1963) American actor, film producer, and musician

Love, Family

“You know it's never fifty-fifty in a marriage. It's always seventy-thirty, or sixty-forty. Someone falls in love first. Someone puts someone else up on a pedestal. Someone works very hard to keep things rolling smoothly; someone else sails along for the ride.”

Jodi Picoult (1966) Author

Source: Mercy (1996)

Love, Marriage

“I think you can love a person too much.

You put someone up on a pedestal, and all of a sudden, from that perspective, you notice what's wrong - a hair out of place, a run in a stocking, a broken bone. You spend all your time and energy making it right, and all the while, you are falling apart yourself. You don't even realize what you look like, how far you've deteriorated, because you only have eyes for someone else.”

Jodi Picoult book Handle With Care

Source: Handle with Care

Love, Thinking, Time, Personality

“Someone who eats pancakes and jam can't be so awfully dangerous. You can talk to him.”

Tove Jansson book Finn Family Moomintroll

Source: Finn Family Moomintroll

“How do you tell a Communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin.”

Ronald Reagan (1911–2004) American politician, 40th president of the United States (in office from 1981 to 1989)

Remarks in Arlington, Virginia http://www.reagan.utexas.edu/archives/speeches/1987/092587b.htm (25 September 1987) <br class="br">1980s, Second term of office (1985–1989)

Understanding, Reading

“Leave something for someone but dont leave someone for something.”

Enid Blyton book Five on a Hike Together

Source: Five on a Hike Together

Funny

“Visions are worth fighting for. Why spend your life making someone else's dreams?”

Tim Burton (1958) American filmmaker

Life, Dreams, Fight

“Control Your Own Destiny or Someone Else Will”

Jack Welch (1935) American executive: General Electric CEO

“You become like what you worship. When you gaze in awe, admiration, and wonder at something or someone, you begin to take on something of the character of the object of your worship.”

N.T. Wright (1948) Anglican bishop

Source: Simply Christian: Why Christianity Makes Sense

“When a person realizes he has been deeply heard, his eyes moisten. I think in some real sense he is weeping for joy. It is as though he were saying, "Thank God, somebody heard me. Someone knows what it's like to be me”

Carl R. Rogers (1902–1987) American psychologist

God, Thinking, Sense, Joy

“A soulmate is someone who has locks that fit our keys, and keys to fit our locks. When we feel safe enough to open the locks, our truest selves step out and we can be completely and honestly who we are; we can be loved for who we are and not for who we’re pretending to be. Each unveils the best part of the other. No matter what else goes wrong around us, with that one person we’re safe in our own paradise. Our soulmate is someone who shares our deepest longings, our sense of direction. When we’re two balloons, and together our direction is up, chances are we’ve found the right person. Our soulmate is the one who makes life come to life.”

Richard Bach (1936) American spiritual writer

Love, Life, Feeling, Sense

“The way she held your hand,
The little things you planned.
Her memory is with you yet,
That's someone you'll never forget.”

Elvis Presley (1935–1977) American singer and actor

That's Someone You Never Forget, from Pot Luck, written by Elvis Presley and Red West (1961)
Song lyrics

Way, Memory, Forgetting

“When the remedy you have offered only increases the disease, then leave him who will not be cured, and tell your story to someone who seeks the truth.”

Rumi (1207–1273) Iranian poet

Rumi Daylight (1990)

Truth, Disease

“My Soul gave me good counsel, teaching me never to delight in praise or to be distressed by reproach. Before my Soul taught me, I doubted the value of my accomplishments until the passing days sent someone who would extol or disparage them. But now I know that trees blossom in the spring and give their fruits in the summer without any desire for accolades. And they scatter their leaves abroad in the fall and denude themselves in the winter without fear of reproof.”

Khalil Gibran (1883–1931) Lebanese artist, poet, and writer

The Vision: Reflections on the Way of the Soul (1994)

Fear, Soul, Spring, Tree

“Every day, you know, you learn something new about someone. I think that's what life is about, it's about learning something new every day. A partner for me that will be lifetime. She's just a great individual and incredibly powerful woman.”

Serena Williams (1981) American tennis player

usopen.org http://www.usopen.org/en_US/news/interviews/2014-08-30/201408301409438446669.html

Life, Thinking, Learning

“There is always someone out there getting better than you by training harder than you.”

Pelé (1940–2022) Brazilian association football player

Training

“Remember, when someone says ‘you’ve changed,’ it usually just means you’ve stopped living your life their way.”

Ricky Gervais (1961) English comedian, actor, director, producer, musician, writer, and former radio presenter

Way, Life, Change

“In today's world, where we live, there is no longer someone else’s war. None of you can feel safe when there is a war in Ukraine, when there is a war in Europe.”

Volodymyr Zelensky (1978) 6th President of Ukraine

Zelensky’s speech at the UN General Assembly https://www.president.gov.ua/en/news/vistup-prezidenta-ukrayini-volodimira-zelenskogo-na-zagalnih-57477 (25 September 2019)

World, War, Feeling

“A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.”

Ezra Pound (1885–1972) American Imagist poet and critic

Waiting

“A musician is similar to someone who wrote a letter to the loved one. Then decided to read it out loud instead of sending it.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

Love, Reading

“There is no liberty or equality without respecting the privacy of someone else.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

“Right. I can’t speak to, agree with, even look at someone from a particular political party.
Ppl aren’t human any more.
If you’re black & a Democrat tells u to shove marbles up ur ass, you simply have to.
If another party tells u to look out for that bus, stand there & get hit”

Nicki Minaj (1982) Trinidadian-born American singer, rapper and actress

Source: 15 September 2021 tweet https://twitter.com/NICKIMINAJ/status/1438256221660663812

“How we need another soul to cling to, another body to keep us warm. To rest and trust; to give your soul in confidence: I need this, I need someone to pour myself into.”

Sylvia Plath (1932–1963) American poet, novelist and short story writer

Variant: How we need that security. How we need another soul to cling to, another body to keep us warm. To rest and trust; to give your soul in confidence: I need this. I need someone to pour myself into.
Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

Soul, Confidence

“How can anyone love someone who is less than a full person, unless love itself is domination per se?”

Andrea Dworkin book Intercourse

Source: Intercourse

Love, Personality

“I don't care if I fall as long as someone else picks up my gun and keeps on shooting.”

Ernesto Che Guevara (1928–1967) Argentine Marxist revolutionary

Variant: I don't care if I fall as long as someone else picks up my gun and keeps on shooting.

“I used to work at McDonald's making minimum wage. You know what that means when someone pays you minimum wage? You know what your boss was trying to say? "Hey if I could pay you less, I would, but it's against the law.”

Chris Rock (1965) American comedian, actor, screenwriter, television producer, film producer, and director

Law

“If there's any message to my work, it is ultimately that it's OK to be different, that it's good to be different, that we should question ourselves before we pass judgment on someone who looks different, behaves different, talks different, is a different color.”

Johnny Depp (1963) American actor, film producer, and musician

Variant: If there's any message, it is ultimately that it's okay to be different; that it's good to be different, that we should question ourselves before we pass judgment on someone who looks different, behaves different, talks different, is a different color.

Color, Question

“From someone who doesn't want to share your destiny, you should neither accept a cigarette”

Cesare Pavese (1908–1950) Italian poet, novelist, literary critic, and translator

Source: The Burning Brand: Diaries, 1935-1950

“Someone else's vision will never be as good as your own vision of your self. Live and die with it 'cause in the end it’s all you have. Lose it and you lose yourself and everything else. I should have listened to myself.”

Georgia O'Keeffe (1887–1986) American artist

“I'm tired of living unable to love anyone. I don't have a single friend - not one. And, worst of all, I can't even love myself. Why is that? Why can't I love myself? It's because I can't love anyone else. A person learns how to love himself through the simple acts of loving and being loved by someone else. Do you understand what I am saying? A person who is incapable of loving another cannot properly love himself.”

Haruki Murakami book 1Q84

Source: 1Q84 (2009-2010)

Love, Understanding, Learning, Personality

“Whenever you are about to find fault with someone, ask yourself the following question: What fault of mine most nearly resembles the one I am about to criticize?”

Marcus Aurelius book Meditations

Source: Meditations

Question

“(In my sleep I dreamed this poem)

Someone I loved once gave me
a box full of darkness.

It took me years to understand
that this, too, was a gift.”

Mary Oliver (1935–2019) American writer

Variant: Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift.
Source: Thirst

Love, Dreams, Understanding, Sleep

“Would you give up your vengeance against someone you hate if it meant saving someone you love? Would you want your dreams to come true if it meant granting your enemy's dying wish?”

Jodi Picoult Change of Heart

Source: Change of Heart

Love, Hate, Dreams

“Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.”

Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890–1969) American general and politician, 34th president of the United States (in office from 1953 to 1961)

As quoted in The Federal Career Service: A Look Ahead (1954)
1950s
Variant: Now I think, speaking roughly, by leadership we mean the art of getting someone else to do something that you want done because he wants to do it.

For Team, Leadership, Business, Art