The Greatest Prison Quotes

#1. The greatest prison a man can build is in his own mind.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#2. The greatest prison where most people live is the fear of what other people think and say

Osunsakin Adewale

#3. The greatest prison people live in is the fear of what other people think.

David Icke

#4. I am afraid the greatest prison that people live in is the fear what other people think ... Grow up & lose the fear.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

#5. The thing that hurts the most, that makes it hard to sleep at night, is not being with you" -Jess Tyler

Natalie Palmer

#6. The endings for all my characters seem sufficiently human and messy for me to feel comfortable with them. In some ways they have only moved an inch, but sometimes an inch is a great distance.

David O. Russell

#7. My greatest hero is Nelson Mandela. What a man. Incarcerated for 25 years, he was released in 1990 and he hasn't reoffended. I think he's going straight, which shows you prison does work.

Ricky Gervais

#8. Without 'The Brady Bunch,' my guess is I would have become an engineer working on new plastics or something.

Mike Lookinland

#9. I've dreamed of being on the road, traveling and touring, for as long as I've been into doing music. It's what I live for. I just wanna be Willie Nelson.

G-Eazy

#10. THE GAMBLER,THE NUN,& THE RADIO

I thought the pain alone would kill me

Ernest Hemingway,

#11. The more serious you are about spiritual life, the more you keep your mind in captivity.

Radhanath Swami

#12. I lost my sleep, and this is the greatest tragedy that can befall someone. It is much worse than sitting in prison.

Emil Cioran

#13. The only way I thought I could do a greatest hits album is to do it in a prison where they have no f**king idea who I am. I'd do what I consider the best of those old, early CDs before I did DVDs. A women's prison would be even better, but it has to be English-speaking.

Doug Stanhope

#14. Whether I'm feeding the homeless, stopping by a high school to chat with teens, visiting a prison or local jail, I think that the greatest service you can give is yourself. To be able to help someone who is not in a position to help themselves or possibly ever repay you.

Raheem Devaughn

#15. Then are we servants of God, then are we the disciples of Christ, when we do what is commanded us and because it is commanded us.

John Owen

#16. America is the greatest nation ever founded. The ideals are the greatest ever espoused in human history, and we just need the country to live up to them. But what I worry about are the 1 million black men in the prison system.

Henry Louis Gates

#17. The greatest enemy of mankind is his ignorance of the inherent money power in all of us. When the realization of this comes to man, he will like Samson, push down the walls of his prison.

E.C. Riegel

#18. Life without sports is like life without underpants

Billy Bowden

#19. Problems are the gifts that make us dig out and figure out who we are, what we're made for, and what we're responsible to give back to life.

Tony Robbins

#20. Do not be afraid to offer ideas that draw opposition. Remember, if no one is against your idea, then your idea probably doesn't do anything.

Marco Rubio

#21. I don't believe in the death penalty. I believe that there are other people as we speak right now in prison, wrongfully accused, who could serve such a fate. That is injustice at its greatest.

Hilary Swank

#22. I was merely cursing, under my breath, God and man, under my breath, and the wet Saturday afternoon of my conception.

Samuel Beckett

#23. Life is easy, life is delightful. It's only hard on your illusions, your ambitions, your greed, your cravings.

Anthony De Mello

#24. Quiet is better than loud.

Dieter Rams

#25. I'm still kind of a hapless character in my everyday life. But when it comes to the writing, my influences are very old influences. I love American music of absolutely all stripes, including show tunes, advertising jingles, theme tunes from quiz shows, all kinds of American music.

Nick Lowe

#26. The greatest mystery was not that we have been flung at random among the profusion of the earth and the galaxy of the stars, but that in this prison we can fashion images of ourselves sufficiently powerful to deny our nothingness.

Maurice S. Friedman

#27. Walnut Trees of Altenburg: The greatest mystery is not that we have been flung at random between the profusion of the earth and the galaxy of the stars, but that in this prison we can fashion images of ourselves sufficiently powerful to deny our nothingness.2

James Hollis

#28. Smokey Wilson was like my Gandhi. If I had run into somebody else in prison, with a different set of values, the world might have never known one of the greatest boxing talents ever to come out of Philadelphia.

Bernard Hopkins

#29. The greatest mystery is not that we have been flung at random between the profusion of matter and of the stars, but that within this prison we can draw from ourselves images powerful enough to deny our nothingness.

Andre Malraux

#30. One of the greatest evils of the day among those outside of prison is their sense of futility. Young people say, What is the sense of our small effort? They cannot see that we must lay one brick at a time, take one step at a time; we can be responsible only for the one action of the present moment.

Dorothy Day