Men Quotes

Negative thinking is always expensive - - Dragging us down mentally, emotionally, and physically - - Hence I refer to any indulgence in it as a luxury.

Peter McWilliams

If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking.

Lyndon B. Johnson

If we wish to know the force of human genius we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning we may study his commentators.

William Hazlitt

The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself.

Mark Caine

Knowledge is the only instrument of production That is not subject to the law of diminishing returns.

John Maurice Clark

The men who create power make an indispensable contribution to the Nation? s greatness, but the men who question power make a contribution just as indispensable, especially when that questioning is disinterested, for they determine whether we use power or power uses us.

John F. Kennedy, Amherst College, Oct 26, 1963 - Source JFK Library, Boston, Mass.

The good devout man first makes inner preparation for the actions he has later to perform. His outward actions do not draw him into lust and vice rather it is he who bends them into the shape of reason and right judgement. Who has a stiffer battle to fight than the man who is striving to conquer himself.

Thomas a Kempis

Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.

Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky

If men use their liberty in such a way as to surrender their liberty, are they thereafter any the less slaves If people by a plebiscite elect a man despot over them, do they remain free because the despotism was of their own making.

Herbert Spence

Men and women, women and men. It will never work.

Erica Jong

A good intention but fixed and resolute - Bent on high and holy ends, we shall find means to them on every side and at every moment; and even obstacles and opposition will but make us like the fabled specter - Ships, which sail the fastest in the very teeth of the wind.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.

Peter Drucke

The consensus seemed to be that if really large numbers of men were sent to storm the mountain, then enough might survive the rocks to take the citadel. This is essentially the basis of all military thinking.

Terry Pratchett, Eric

A family is a family not because of gender but because of values, like commitment, trust and love.

Gray Davis

A revolution of government is the strongest proof that can be given by a people of their virtue and good sense.

John Adams, (Diary, 1786)

In all things preserve integrity; and the consciousness of thine own uprightness will alleviate the toil of business, soften the hardness of ill - Success and disappointments, and give thee an humble confidence before God, when the ingratitude of man, or the iniquity of the times may rob thee of other rewards.

Barbara Paley

It is in your moments of decision that your life is shaped. Develop your decision - Making muscles.

Anthony Robbins

Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television.

Rita Mae Brown

The moment a man talks to his fellows he begins to lie.

Hilaire Belloc

Tony Montana In this country, you gotta make the money first. Then when you get the money, you get the power. Then when you get the power, then you get the women.

Scarface

Judge thyself with the judgment of sincerity, and thou will judge others with the judgment of charity.

John Mitchell Mason

The lip of truth shall be established for ever: but a lying tongue is but for a moment.

Proverbs 12: 19, The King James Bible

You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break.

Harry S Truman

We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

Charles Kingsley

It is strange that we do not temper our resentment of criticism with a thought for our many faults which have escaped us.

Author Unknown

Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness it is the one crime in which society has a direct interest.

W. H. Auden

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is in prison.

Henry David Thoreau

A friend is someone, who upon seeing another friend in immense pain, would rather be the one experiencing the pain than to have to watch their friend suffer.

Amanda Grie

Whether they give or refuse, it delights women just the same to have been asked.

Ovid

Insanity: a perfectly rational adjustment to the insane world.

R. D. Laing

Women are at last becoming persons first and wives second, and that is as it should be.

May Sarton

Memory is a giggling sprite and will not be tamed. She takes flight the moment the present becomes the past.

Real Live Preacher, weblog, 04 - 29 - 04

The most profound statements are often said in silence.

Lynn Johnston, For Better or For Worse, 01 - 15 - 04

Personally I think birthdays and anniversaries are like menstrual cramps, a regular pain in the ass thats somehow connected to birth.

Hugh Elliott

There are always opportunities through which businessmen can profit handsomely if they will only recognize and seize them.

J. Paul Getty

To my daughter Leonora without whose never failing sympathy and encouragement this book would have been completed in half the time.

P. G. Wodehouse

I see young men, my townsmen, whose misfortune it is to have inherited farms, houses, cattle, barns, and farming tools, for these are more easily acquired than gotten rid of. Better if they had been born in the open pasture and suckled by a wolf, that they might have seen with clearer eyes what field they were called to labour in.

Henry David Thoreau, Walden