Top 100 The Why Quotes
#1. The bigger the 'why' the easier the 'how'.
Jim Rohn
#2. It was like wondering how evil had come into the world or what happens to a person after he dies: an interesting philosophical exercise, but also curiously pointless, since evil and death happened, regardless of the why and the how and what-it-meant.
Joe Hill
#3. It never is the who, is it? It's always the why. -Elphaba
Gregory Maguire
#4. A 'why' is a dangerous thing ... It challenges old, comfortable ways, forces people to think about that they do instead of just mindlessly doing it. (Haplo)
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I think the danger is not so much in asking the 'why' as in believing you have come up with the only answer. (Alfred)
Margaret Weis
#5. I don't consider myself an expert in the why. I don't consider myself an expert in leadership. I consider myself a student of leadership and I consider myself a student of the why. I'm constantly learning and I'm constantly looking for opportunities where it it will fail.
Simon Sinek
#6. Higher calling matters. When you care so deeply about the why-why you're doing what you're doing-then and only then are you operating in a way that allows you to overcome the obstacles.
Dave Ramsey
#7. The existence of God, the why of life, was all that really only a question of glands?
J.D. Salinger
#8. 'How' is a great thing to know. 'Why' is the ultimate. I'm the 'why' coach. Why are we doing this? Why are we not doing that? Why is this not working? Those are the things I want to know.
Mike Singletary
#9. In the interview, Roger reflected how the German philosopher Nietzsche said a man can undergo torture if he knows the why of his life. But I, here at Dachau, learned something far greater. I learned to know the Who of my life. He was enough to sustain me then, and is enough to sustain me still
Ken Dignan
#10. I also found out why I should never reveal the "why" to others. A little knowledge withheld is a great advantage one should store for future use. That is the power of chess. It is a game of secrets in which one must show and never tell.
Amy Tan
#11. What interests me about life most is people, and the why of the world. That's what theatre looks at: it examines life, and gives it a cohesiveness that life doesn't have.
Helen McCrory
#12. I am any man's suitor,
If any will be my tutor:
Some say this life is pleasant,
Some think it speedeth fast,
In time there is no present,
In eternity no future,
In eternity no past.
We laugh, we cry, we are born, we die.
Who will riddle me the how and the why?
Alfred Lord Tennyson
#13. What is important in correction is not venting your feelings, anger or hurt; it is, rather, understanding the nature of the struggle that your child is having. What is important is understanding the "why" of what has been done or said.
Tedd Tripp
#14. The funniest thing about comedy is that you never know why people laugh. I know what makes them laugh but trying to get your hands on the why of it is like trying to pick an eel out of a tub of water.
W.C. Fields
#15. It was very hard for me to practice and enjoy my tennis, and I didn't know the why, so I worked with psychologists to try and see what was happening. They pushed me really hard.
Gabriela Sabatini
#16. More important than the HOW we achieve financial freedom, is the WHY. Find YOUR reasons why you want to be free and wealthy.
Robert Kiyosaki
#18. Communists must always go into the why's and wherefore's of anything, use their own heads and carefully think over whether or not it corresponds to reality and is really well founded; on no account should they follow blindly and encourage slavishness.
Mao Zedong
#19. Didn't waste a second thinking about why I'd passed out. In a crisis, the "why" is irrelevant. I needed to accept where I found myself and prioritize what mattered right that minute, which was getting back on the ground ASAP.
Chris Hadfield
#20. The WHY of letting it go is quite simple: You have to let go of what is NOT meant for you in order to receive what IS. So now I ask you: What are YOU willing to let go of today,
Mandy Hale
#21. When we honestly ask God the 'why' question, He doesn't give us answers as much as He gives us Himself.
Joni Eareckson Tada
#22. I set out to discover the why of it, and to transform my pleasure into knowledge.
Charles Baudelaire
#23. For a thorough understanding of rowing, for the what, the how and the why, the books making up Peter Mallory's The Sport of Rowing certainly do it all.
Anita DeFrantz
#24. Fox Creek Road. Such a simple, unassuming name for this place where destiny's going to go down. Now I know the where. And the who, and the what. All I have to figure out is the when. And the why.
Cynthia Hand
#25. Having and understanding of the 'why' will help having an understanding of the 'how'.
Bobby Darnell
#26. Now, the causes being four, it is the business of the student of nature to know about them all, and if he refers his problems back to all of them, he will assign the "why" in the way proper to his science-the matter, the form, the mover, that for the sake of which.
Aristotle.
#27. A man who becomes conscious of the responsibility he bears toward a human being who affectionately waits for him, or to an unfinished work, will never be able to throw away his life. He knows the "why" for his existence, and will be able to bear almost any "how".
Viktor E. Frankl
#28. When we are really given to the why of life, the hows begin to flow.
Gerald G. May
#29. You've seen what," Emilio conceded, "but not why! That's where God is, Anne. In the why of it - in the meaning.
Mary Doria Russell
#30. It was hard to explain. But what was between them went further than a mating ceremony or a back carving or a witnessed exchange of commitment. He couldn't put his finger on the why of it ... but she was his missing puzzle piece, the twelfth in his dozen, the first and last pages of his book.
J.R. Ward
#31. Moral maturity and freedom require more than mere adherence to the law; they require an understanding of the why and wherefore of its rules and regulations- the principles that make it worthy of their allegiance.
Karen Bohlin
#32. I am afflicted with the power of thought, which is a heavy curse. The less a person thinks and inquires regarding the why and the wherefore and the justice of things, when dragging along through life, the happier it is for him, and doubly, trebly so, for her.
Miles Franklin
#33. When I'm playing a serial killer, I'm in it. I'm not judging him. I'm not judging his environment. I'm just looking for the why. Why is he the way he is? But, there's no doubt that, if you're a good actor, you're going to take this stuff home with you.
Dylan McDermott
#34. I kept thinking, 'Somebody has to make a food show that is actually educational and entertaining at the same time ... a show that got down to the 'why things happen.' Plus, I hated my job - I didn't think it was very worthwhile.
Alton Brown
#35. When we are courageous enough to begin exploring the 'Why's" and the 'Who's' of life, the 'How's' and 'What's' of life start to come into focus as well. "
Mac MacKenzie
#36. I didn't understand, either, but love had no sense sometimes. Pondering the why of it was futile.
Jeaniene Frost
#37. Look," she said. "You're right. You deserve an explanation. I think it's okay to tell you everything now - not that we know too much of the why.
James Dashner
#38. He who knows the 'Why' for his existence is able to bear almost any 'How'.
Viktor E. Frankl
#39. I don't understand why some kids git a good school and mother and father and some don't. But Rita say forgit the WHY ME shit and git on to what's next.
Sapphire.
#42. The why of the mind's existence and the how of its profound capacity to reason - especially its penchant for moral reasoning - will by their very nature remain as mysterious as whatever lies outside of time.
Dean Koontz
#43. Clarify your purpose. What is the why behind everything you do? When we know this in life or design it is very empowering and the path is clear.
Jack Canfield
#44. Secrets are like scars. The cut may no longer be there, but the scar's white line tells a story. Unless you share it, it's like you're hiding a part of yourself the whole world can already see. They may not know the how or the why, but they see it just the same.
Robin M. King
#45. Science is part of the reality of living; it is the what, the how, and the why of everything in our experience.
Rachel Carson
#46. It's not the who, what, where, when or how that people care about. It's the why.
Amy Jones
#47. He had a method of accepting things, without questioning the why and wherefore.
Jack London
#48. And anyway most people are idiots. They don't care about the why. They only care about what threatens them.
Orson Scott Card
#49. Don't do the right thing for the wrong reasons. It is the "why" that keeps us committed to our choices and defines our character.
Shannon L. Alder
#50. What will we care for the why and the wherefore?
Graham Greene
#51. Can someone tell me, whatever we are doing, have we asked ourselves if our work has helped the poor or come to benefit the nation in any way? We should come out of the 'Why should I care' attitude and dedicate ourselves to the nation's progress.
Narendra Modi
#52. There's a paradox in rereading. You read the first time for rediscovery: an encounter with the confirming emotions. But you reread for discovery: you go to the known to figure out the workings of the unknown, the why of the familiar how.
Cynthia Ozick
#53. Haze all clouding up in my mind in the daze of the why it could've never been.
Tori Amos
#54. Only the very ignorant are perfectly satisfied that they know. To the common man the great problems are easy. He has no trouble in accounting for the universe. He can tell you the origin and destiny of man and the why and wherefore of things.
Robert Green Ingersoll
#55. There was no one innocent amongst us, I realized then. We were all sinners, one way or the other. We hurt with our hands, with our mouths, or with our minds. But what matters was the 'why'.
~Eyes of a Goddess
Ukamaka Olisakwe
#56. To work and work and never mind why; if you kept looking for the why behind everything you might never work again, you might never bother to breathe again.
Kathe Koja
#57. You could know the what of something forever and never discover the why.
Jeff VanderMeer
#58. Wide awake to the presence of God, I realized I had been so focused on asking why a good God allowed bad things to happen that I was missing out on the nearness of God all along. In becoming preoccupied with the why, I was missing the who.
Margaret Feinberg
#59. As important as finding the Why behind your Purpose and Goals is knowing the Who. We will often do more and endure more for people we love than we will endure for ourselves. Find your Why and your Who and you will endure and overcome anything.
Tom Cunningham
#60. Our mind is a machine, it is not a mystery. And the mind always wants to know the how, the why. And because of this persistent inquiry about how and why, it goes on missing all that is beyond the boundaries of machines. Life is beyond the boundaries of machines.
Rajneesh
#61. The relic of the "why" of advertising seems to still persist: Since I, as the advertiser, am paying, you have to put up with whatever I dish out. But think of it this way: just because my date pays for my ticket or dinner, does that give them license to do anything they want? No.
Yoram Jerry Wind
#62. You start at the end, and then go back and write and go that way. Not everyone does, but I do. Some people just sit down at the page and start off. I start from what happened, including the why.
Anne Perry
#63. At the surface, many people's goals are to lose weight, tone up, feel better, etc. But superficial goals get superficial results that usually fade. Dig a little deeper, and the 'why' is usually unveiled: to be more confident, to be more happy, to feel sexy again.
Brett Hoebel
#64. The "why not" of youth, the secret desire to know his luck, to try his strength all on his own without the support of another, eventually won through.
Ivan Turgenev
#66. Knowing the why is vastly more important than knowing the how.
Debasish Mridha
#67. The sciences are the 'how,' and the humanities are the 'why' - why are we here, why do we believe in the things we believe in. I don't think you can have the 'how' without the 'why.'
George Lucas
#68. There is no going back. Study the past to know why, not what, and from the why, dream and do. There is no shortcut to creation. There may also be no profit in it.
Elizabeth Ann Coleman
#69. I grasped the who, and that was enough when I didn't understand the why. What I have learned along the way, and what Job learned too, is that it is better to know God than to know the answers!
Kasey Van Norman
#70. Given angel's wings, where might you fly? In what sweet heaven might you find your love? Unwilling to be bound, where might you move, Lost between the wonder and the why? ...
Nick Gordon
#71. Powerful Leaders plan from the heart; 1st the WHY in their passion, 2nd the HOW it could unfold, 3rd the WHAT wins they will celebrate!
Michael Walker
#72. The Why's of suffering keep us shrouded in a seemingly bottomless void of abstraction where God is reduced to a finite ethical agent, a limited psychological personality, whose purposes measure on the same scale as ours.
Tullian Tchividjian
#73. Forget the "why" and focus on the "is
John Riley
#75. Darwinism's atheism prevents science from knowing why things are as they are. Without God there is no answer to the why for anything.
Dave Hunt
#77. When the person who personifies the WHY departs without clearly articulating WHY the company was founded in the first place, they leave no clear cause for their successor to lead.
Simon Sinek
#78. It kept him from reaching that place that he hit so, so often in his life, the mind-bending, sob-inducing limit where he said to himself, I just cannot endure any more motherfucking death. No more! Order. Put everything in order. Serve order. That was the why and what of it. Order.
Christopher Moore
#79. Ah, but my dear sir, the why must never be obvious. That is the whole point.
Agatha Christie
#80. We need God, not in order to understand the why, but in order to feel and sustain the ultimate wherefore, to give a meaning to the universe.
Miguel De Unamuno
#81. There are those who work so they can stop.
Stopping is the why of work.
There are those who stop so they can work.
Working is the why of work.
Nick Cave
#82. The key to motivation is motive. It's the why. It's the deeper yes! burning inside that makes it easier to say no to the less important.
Stephen Covey
#83. But one day the "why" arises and everything begins in that weariness tinged with amazement.
Alexander Maksik
#84. The why of murder always fascinates me so much more than the how.
Ann Rule
#85. Unspoken questions shine from her eyes, but I don't have the answers she wants to hear. All I have is the truth, the why, and it's ugly. She might've thought she liked it dirty, but she doesn't know dirty. She can't know it, unless she has lived it. Unless she is it.
J.M. Darhower
#86. Forget Not: 1)to be patient with yourself. 2) the difference between good and foolish sacrifices. 3) to be happy NOW. 4) the 'why' of the gospel. 5) the Lord loves you.
Dieter F. Uchtdorf
#87. Its easy to protest, even a child protests...the hardest part is understanding the 'why and what to protest.
Victor Truth
#88. When the WHY Goes, WHAT Is All You'll Have Left
Simon Sinek
#89. The WHY exists in the part of the brain that controls feelings and decision-making but not language. WHATs exist in the part of the brain that controls rational thought and language.
Simon Sinek
#90. From out of the Then
And into the Now,
From the There to the Here
Come the Why and the How.
Carol Kendall
#91. We know so little of the why, what the universe is, what infinity is. The veil around us is very fragile.
Conor McPherson
#93. Even when we cannot see the why and wherefore of God's dealings, we know that there is love in and behind them, and so we can rejoice always.
J.I. Packer
#94. The choice is not in what you do. The choice is in the why.
Emma Raveling
#95. Love is not love if it compelled by reason and driven by logic - love exists in spite of those things, not because of them. It is a emotion which needs no fuel to fire it or oxygen to feed it; if you have to look for the why, then stop looking; it was never there at all.
Julia Cameron
#98. Self-awareness is a great tool to combating resistance. When you feel resistance to taking action, stop in your tracks. Try to understand the 'why' behind it. Is the resistance valid?
Vatsala Shukla
#99. I've got to stop this. Stop worrying about the why. Stop forcing what was happening into the realm of impossible. Stop hiding behind excuses. Stop being afraid to step out on faith.
Deatri King-Bey
#100. You've heard the saying "time heals all wounds." Nothing could be further from the truth. Time won't heal all wounds. Jesus will. By His wounds, we are healed. That's what this book is all about. There is a real answer to the why question, and it's much better than anything you could ever make up.
Dan Greenup
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