Men Quotes
When a man feels throbbing within him the power to do what he undertakes as well as it can possibly be done, and all of his faculties say amen to what he is doing, and give their unqualified approval to his efforts, - This is happiness, this is success.Orison Swett Marden
Education is not merely a means for earning a living or an instrument for the acquisition of wealth. It is an initiation into life of spirit, a training of the human soul in the pursuit of truth and the practice of virtue.Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
At my graduation, I thought we had to marry what we wished to become. Now you are becoming the men you once would have wished to marry.Gloria Steinem
To us, the moment 8: 17 A. M. means something - Something very important, if it happens to be the starting time of our daily train. To our ancestors, such an odd eccentric instant was without significance - Did not even exist. In inventing the locomotive, Watt and Stevenson were part inventors of time.Aldous Huxley
If men could regard the events of their own lives with more open minds, they would frequently discover that they did not really desire the things they failed to obtain.Andr Maurois
The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation.George Santayana
Leaders come in many forms, with many styles and diverse qualities. There are quiet leaders and leaders one can hear in the next county. Some find strength in eloquence, some in judgment, some in courage.John W. Gardne
There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
It is men who wait to be selected, and not those who seek, from whom we may expect the most efficient service.Ulysses S. Grant, Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Chapter 46
While my interest in natural history has added very little to my sum of achievement, it has added immeasurably to my sum of enjoyment in life.Theodore Roosevelt
Only reason can convince us of those three fundamental truths without a recognition of which there can be no effective liberty that what we believe is not necessarily true that what we like is not necessarily good and that all questions are open.Clive
The renown which riches or beauty confer is fleeting and frail mental excellence is a splendid and lasting possession.Sallust
We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The lights of stars that were extinguished ages ago still reaches us. So it is with great men who died centuries ago, but still reach us with the radiations of their personalities.Kahlil Gibran
We create an environment where it is alright to hate, to steal, to cheat, and to lie if we dress it up with symbols of respectability, dignity and love.Whitney Moore, Jr.
To be intelligent is to be open - Minded, active, memoried, and persistently experimental.Leopold Stein
It is a capital mistake to theorize before you have all the evidence. It biases the judgment.Conan Doyle
Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one.Charles Mackay
Seek not to follow in the footsteps of men of old; seek what they sought.Matsuo Basho
No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets.Edward Abbey
Government, is the last analysis, is organized opinion. Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government.MacKenzie King
You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land, this is no other life but this.Henry David Thoreau
Nothing is illegal if one hundred businessmen decide to do it.Andrew Young
I am convinced that the world is not a mere bog in which men and women trample themselves in the mire and die. Something magnificent is taking place here amid the cruelties and tragedies, and the supreme challenge to intelligence is that of making the noblest and best in our curious heritage prevail.Charles A. Beard
People sleep peacably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.George Orwell
An Irishman is the only man in the world who will step over the bodies of a dozen naked women to get to a bottle of stout.Unknown
Insanity - - A perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world.R. D. Lang
It is faith among men that holds the moral elements of society together, as it is faith in God that binds the world to his throne.William M. Evarts
Canada is a country so square that even the female impersonators are women.Richard Benne
The 1976 Bicentennial is not going to be invented in Washington, printed in triplicate by the Government Printing Office and mailed to you by the United States Postal Service.Richard Milhous Nixon
Ninety - Nine percent of this game is half mental.Lawrence Peter Berra
Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life. Thus people haunted by the purposelessness of their lives try to find a new content not only by dedicating themselves to a holy cause but also by nursing a fanatical grievance. A mass movement offers them unlimited opportunities for both.Eric Hoffe
What makes men of genius, or rather, what they make, is not new ideas, it is that idea - Possessing them - That what has been said has still not been said enough.Eugene Delacroix
Truly, to tell lies is not honorable but when the truth entails tremendous ruin, To speak dishonorably is pardonable.Sophocles
If it is the dirty element that gives pleasure to the act of lust, then the dirtier it is, the more pleasurable it is bound to be.Marquis de Sade
Being a woman is a terribly difficult task since it consists principally in dealing with men.Joseph Conrad
Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes... but no plans.Peter Drucke
