Men Quotes
The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent, experimentation. It is common sense to take a method and try it, if it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.Theodore Roosevelt
Movements born in hatred very quickly take on the characteristics of the thing they oppose.J. S. Habgood
Any movement in history which attempts to perpetuate itself, becomes reactionary.Marshal Tito
We think very little of time present; we anticipate the future, as being too slow, and with a view to hasten it onward, we recall the past to stay it as too swiftly gone. We are so thoughtless, that we thus wander through the hours which are not here, regardless only of the moment that is actually our own.Blaise Pascal
Judge of thine improvement, not by what thou speakest or writest, but by the firmness of thy mind, and the government of thy passions and affections.Thomas Fulle
Great men are they who see that the spiritual is stronger than any material force, that thoughts rule the world.Ralph Waldo Emerson
On the touchstone of misfortune a man discovers the strength of understanding and of spirit in kinsmen, wife, servants, and himself.The Hitopadesa
Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.William Pitt
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.Plato
Management means, in the last analysis, the substitution of thought for brawn and muscle, of knowledge for folklore and superstition, and of cooperation for force...Peter F. Drucker, People and Performance
I have learned this at least by my experiment that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavours to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.Henry David Thoreau
The one thing more difficult than following a regimen is not imposing it on others.Marcel Proust
The man who trusts men will make fewer mistakes that he who distrusts them.Conte Di Camillo Benso Cavou
The art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one class of the citizens to give to the other.Voltaire
Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it.Nadia Boulange
All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people.James Abram Garfield
Arguments are like fire - Arms which a man may keep at home but should not carry about with him.Samuel Butle
Banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies.Thomas Jefferson
When small men cast long shadows the sun is going down.Venita Cravens
Idolatry is committed, not merely by setting up false gods, but also by setting up false devils; by making men afraid of war or alcohol, or economic law, when they should be afraid of spiritual corruption and cowardice.Gilbert Chesterton
It is important that an aim never be defined in terms of activity or methods. It must always relate directly to how life is better for everyone.... The aim of the system must be clear to everyone in the system. The aim must include plans for the future. The aim is a value judgment.W. Edwards Deming
A kiss, is the physical transgression of the mental connection which has already taken place.Tanielle Naus
There are many men whose tongues might govern multitudes if they could govern their tongues.George D. Prentice
I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.Martin Luther King Jr.
Some of the most rewarding and beautiful moments of a friendship happen in the unforeseen open spaces between planned activities. It is important that you allow these spaces to exist.Christine Leefeldt
We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.George Bernard Shaw
The elegance of honesty needs no adornment.Merry Browne
Wealth and children are the adornment of life.Koran
Jails and prisons are the complement of schools; so many less as you have of the latter, so many more must you have of the former.Horace Mann
While you are not able to serve men, how can you serve spirits of the dead... While you do not know life, how can you know about death.Confucius
The headline reads, Docs say patients make them prescribe useless antibiotics. This puts a physician in roughly the same predicament as a serial killer. The latter says, Stop me before I kill again, while the former says, Stop me before I prescribe again.Nicolas Martin, www. iatrogenic. org
No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal.Marilyn Ferguson
The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed.J. Krishnamurti
To cement a new friendship, especially between foreigners or persons of a different social world, a spark with which both were secretly charged must fly from person to person, and cut across the accidents of place and time.Nigerian Prove
The miracles of the church seem to me to rest not so much upon faces or voices or healing power coming suddenly near to us from afar off, but upon our perceptions being made finer, so that for a moment our eyes can see and our ears can hear what is there about us always.Willa Sibert Cathe
Politics is the pursuit of trivial men who, when they succeed at it, become important in the eyes of more trivial men.George Jean Nathan
What looks like a loss may be the very event which is subsequently responsible for helping to produce the major achievement of your life.Srully D. Blotnick
