Hastings Banda

President, Dictator Malawian 1902 – 1997

Malawian president who ruled as an autocrat.

391 quotes

"Everything you want is on the other side of fear."
Fear
"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken."
"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity."
Humor
"The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing."
Wisdom
"It is what we think we know already that often prevents us from learning."
Knowledge
"The greatest wealth is health."
Health
"An investment in knowledge pays the best interest."
Education
"The mind is everything. What you think you become."
"Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible."
Kindness
"The only limit to our realization of tomorrow is our doubts of today."
Motivation
"Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life."
Science
"Music is the universal language of mankind."
Music
"Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life."
Art
"Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished."
Nature
"Beauty is not something that can be explained."
Beauty
"Death is but crossing the world, as friends do the seas."
Death
"Gratitude is the healthiest of all human emotions."
Gratitude
"Creativity is intelligence having fun."
Creativity
"Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet."
Patience
"Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths."
Strength
"We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails."
Change
"The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be."
"Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen."
Imagination
"Technology is best when it brings people together."
Technology
"The greatest pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too."
Humor
"Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none."
Love
"Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them."
Success
"To be or not to be, that is the question."
Philosophy
"All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players."
Literature
"The course of true love never did run smooth."
Love