Men Quotes

Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.

Stephen Covey

The more I see of men, the better I like dogs.

Madame de Stael

We may pass violets looking for roses. We may pass contentment looking for victory.

Bern Williams

The graveyards are full of indispensable men.

Charles de Gaulle

None can love freedom heartily but good men the rest love not freedom, but license.

John Milton

That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.

Dorothy Parke

It is the highest form of self - Respect to admit our errors and mistakes and make amends for them. To make a mistake is only an error in judgment, but to adhere to it when it is discovered shows infirmity of character.

Dr. Dale E. Turne

The conscientious objector is a revoultionary. On deciding to disobey the law he sacrifices his personal interests to the most important cause of working for the betterment of society.

Albert Einstein

Hope is the worst of evils, for it prolongs the torments of man.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Ama me fideliter Fidem meam noto De corde totaliter Et ex mente tota, Sum presentialiter Absens in remota.

Anon.

When you can think of yesterday without regret and tomorrow without fear, you are near contentment.

Author Unknown

The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth - Rate men.

Henry B. Adams

Most of those who make collections of verse or epigram are like men eating cherries or oysters they choose out the best at first, and end by eating all.

Sbastien - Roch Nicolas de Chamfort

In those days spirits were brave, the stakes were high, men were real men, women were real women and small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri were real small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri.

Douglas Adams

STRATEGY is; A style of thinking, a conscious and deliberate process, an intensive implementation system, the science of insuring FUTURE SUCCESS.

Pete Johnson

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

Rita Mae Brown

There is nothing remarkable about it, all one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself.

J. S. Bach

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

Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun.

Mary Lou Cook

All military type firearms are to be handed in immediately... The SS, SA and Stahlhelm give every respectable German man the opportunity of campaigning with them. Therefore anyone who does not belong to one of the above named organisations and who unjustifiably nevertheless keeps his weapon... must be regarded as an enemy of the national government.

SA Oberfuhrer of Bad Tolz, March, 1933.

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

Culture makes all men gentle.

Menande

Swiftly arose and spread around me the peace and knowledge that pass all the argument of the earth, And I know that the hand of God is the promise of my own, And I know that the spirit of God is the brother of my own, And that all the men ever born are also my brothers, and the women my sisters and lovers, And that a kelson of the creation is love.

Walt Whitman

There was never in the history of the world a great politician who was not hated by large numbers of inferior men.

Unknown

All you get from a circular argument is dizzy.

Darrin Bell

Solvency is entirely a matter of temperament and not of income.

Logan Pearsall Smith

All commend patience, but none can endure to suffer.

Thomas Fulle

How sweet and soothing is this hour of calm I thank thee, night for thou has chased away these horrid bodements which, amidst the throng, I could not dissipate and with the blessing of thy benign and quiet influence now will I to my couch, although to rest is almost wronging such a night as this.

Lord Byron

A nation that continues to produce soft - Minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

The Art of Love: knowing how to combine the temperment of a vampire with the discretion of an anemone.

E. M. Cioran

Jury: a group of twelve men who, having lied to the judge about their hearing, health and business engagements, have failed to fool him.

H. L. Mencken

Retirement kills more people than hard work ever did.

Malcolm S. Forbes

The teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena. The teacher must understand and feel her position of observer the activity must lie in the phenomenon.

Maria Montessori

Difficulties show men what they are. In case of any difficulty remember that God has pitted you against a rough antagonist that you may be a conqueror, and this cannot be without toil.

Epictetus

Again, men in general desire the good, and not merely what their fathers had.

Aristotle, Politics

If you are poor, shun association with him who measures men with the yardstick of riches.

Kahlil Gibran

Do not wait for the last judgment. It takes place every day.

Albert Camus