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Top 40 Brandon Stanton Quotes (2025 Update)

Brandon Stanton Quote: “Don’t wait for perfect. Don’t wait for something to be fully formed in your head to start on it. Just start, and then work it out as you go.”
Brandon Stanton Quote: “People always say be true to yourself. But that’s misleading, because there are two selves. There’s your short term self, and there’s your long term self. And if you’re only true to your short term self, your long term self slowly decays.”
Brandon Stanton Quote: “Jealousy. Depression. Love. They pretty much demonstrate the whole range of human emotion.”
Brandon Stanton Quote: “I get way too sensitive when I get attached to someone. I can detect the slightest change in the tone of their voice, and suddenly I’m spending all day trying to figure out what I did wrong.”
Brandon Stanton Quote: “There are so many people that use ‘following your dreams’ as an excuse to not work. When in reality, following your dreams, successfully, is nothing but work.”
Brandon Stanton Quote: “Main thing is just to remember that hard work got me here and only hard work will keep me here.”
Brandon Stanton Quote: “If you love the wrong one so much, just imagine how much you can love the right one.”
Brandon Stanton Quote: “Lives are made of chapters. And after one is written, it cannot be revisited. But, we can write a new chapter with each new day.”
Brandon Stanton Quote: “The camera adds a certain sheen to things. Something about being frozen in time really makes things sparkle.”
Brandon Stanton Quote: “HONY is one of the only things keeping people from getting lost in the matrix.”
Brandon Stanton Quote: “It’s a good poem if I’m a different person when I’m finished reading it.”
Brandon Stanton Quote: “Recently we received an invitation that proved just that.”
Brandon Stanton Quote: “In an age of iPhones and Playstations, it’s great to see that somebody’s still rocking the bus-on-a-string.”
Brandon Stanton Quote: “I’ve learned that every feeling will pass if you give it time. And if you learn to deal with your feelings, they’ll pass by faster each time. So don’t rush to cover them up by medicating them. You’ve got to deal with them.”
Brandon Stanton Quote: “Enjoy your life as long as you want, but the moment the pain becomes too much, it’s in your hands to stop it.”
Brandon Stanton Quote: “When my husband was dying, I said: Moe, how am I supposed to live without you? He told me: take the love you have for me and spread it around.”
Brandon Stanton Quote: “My worldview is this: At all times, people are doing one of two things. They’re showing love. Or they’re crying out for it.”
Brandon Stanton Quote: “Shes’s always been very accepting and patient with my trust issues. I’ve always had a hard time getting close. But no matter how many times I doubted, she just kept saying: ‘I’m not going anywhere.”
Brandon Stanton Quote: “The amplitudes of life get smaller as you age. There are less and less things to experience for the first time. And each time you experience something, you don’t get quite as excited. But you don’t get quite as hurt, either. I wonder what it will feel like when I’m seventy...”
Brandon Stanton Quote: “Great stories never end with the struggle.”
Brandon Stanton Quote: “I want to change the world but I don’t know how.”
Brandon Stanton Quote: “It seems that a lot of people my age try to be interesting by having problems or starting conflicts. I’d rather be interesting because I created something beautiful.”
Brandon Stanton Quote: “I’m a feminist. So if a woman and I are going for the last empty seat on the subway, I’m not holding back.”
Brandon Stanton Quote: “If you’re a thief, don’t complain about being robbed.”
Brandon Stanton Quote: “I have a lot of mental illness right now. Half of my energy goes into taking care of myself. I’ve been daydreaming about shaving my head fully ’cause then I’ll look as sick as I feel.”
Brandon Stanton Quote: “Who’s influenced you the most in your life?” “My principal, Ms. Lopez.” “How has she influenced you?” “When we get in trouble, she doesn’t suspend us. She calls us to her office and explains to us how society was built down around us. And she tells us that each time somebody fails out of school, a new jail cell gets built. And one time she made every student stand up, one at a time, and she told each one of us that we matter.”
Brandon Stanton Quote: “Underneath all the laughs and the gags, it was always about one thing: survival. Tanqueray was a lot of fun. But Tanqueray was Stephanie. And Stephanie was a teenage runaway from Albany: doing what she needed to do, and being who she needed to be, to get what she needed to get.”
Brandon Stanton Quote: “If our shields are what separate us, it’s what’s behind them that brings us together: the struggles, the worries, the pain, the weakness. All the soft spots. The places we protect. These are the things that make us most relatable to others. These ads the things that connect us – if only we allow them to be seen.”
Brandon Stanton Quote: “I used to be a butcher. She used to come into my store. Every week I would set apart the best piece of meat for her. And look how it turned out – I ended up with the best piece of meat of them all.”
Brandon Stanton Quote: “The great thing about New York is that if you sit in one place long enough, the whole world comes to you.”
Brandon Stanton Quote: “The sadness is under the thoughts. It’s like when you’re on a camping trip, and it’s really cold, and you put on extra socks and an extra sweater, but you still can’t get warm, because the coldness is in your bones.”
Brandon Stanton Quote: “The more times I fall in love, the less sure I am about love.”
Brandon Stanton Quote: “It takes a lot of disquiet to achieve this sort of quiet comfort.”
Brandon Stanton Quote: “Right after I lost vision in my eye, I was so bad at walking that I ran into a girl eating ice cream, and knocked her cone out of her hand. She screamed: ‘Are you blind!?!?’ I turned to her and said: ‘I am blind actually, I’m so sorry, I’ll buy you a new cone.’ And she said: ‘Oh my God! I’m so sorry! Don’t worry! It’s no problem at all! I’ll buy another one.’ So we walked into the ice cream store together, and the clerk said: ‘I heard the whole thing. Ice cream is free.”
Brandon Stanton Quote: “She had the most beautiful awkwardness.”
Brandon Stanton Quote: “That’s the problem with growing up in a white world. You think you can do anything that white people can do.”
Brandon Stanton Quote: “It might be a cultural thing, but I was always scolded for showing emotion. Sadness was always met with anger.”
Brandon Stanton Quote: “There are two books in America: one for the poor and one for the rich. The poor person does a crime and gets forty years. A rich person gets a slap on the wrist for the same crime.”
Brandon Stanton Quote: “In some neighborhoods, faces mature faster than bodies.”
Brandon Stanton Quote: “I still dream about him almost every night. And I still sleep with a teddy bear that he gave me. He was the only one why ever knew me. It wasn’t always good – especially toward the end. But when I was with him I felt like I had a place. When I came home at night, there was somebody who actually wanted me to be there. And you can’t just let go of something like that. Especially when you’d never felt it before. And you’ve never felt it since. Carmine was the only one who ever loved Stephanie.”
Brandon Stanton Quote: “Anyone who has a two hundred-plus IQ runs the risk of just hanging out because you get too involved in your own thoughts and you just want to sit there and think about .”
Brandon Stanton Quote: “Sometimes it’s hard not to fall in love with your friends.”
Brandon Stanton Quote: “I’m trying to write a book based on myself, but i keep changing.”
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