Men Quotes
Firmness of purpose is one of the most necessary sinews of character, and one of the best instruments of success. Without it genius wastes its efforts in a maze of inconsistencies.Philip Dormer Chesterfield
Show us a man who never makes a mistake and we will show you a man who never makes anything. The capacity for occasional blundering is inseparable from the capacity to bring things to pass. The only men who are past the danger of making mistakes are the men who sleep at Greenwood.H. L. Wayland
In comparing various authors with one another, I have discovered that some of the gravest and latest writers have transcribed, word for word, from former works, without making acknowledgment.Pliny the Elder, Natural History
Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but judgment; and he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion.Edmund Burke, Speech to the electors of Bristol. 3 Nov. 1774
The Jesus that men want to see is not the Jesus they really need to see.G. Campbell Morgan
Most of us, swimming against the tides of trouble the world knows nothing about, need only a bit of praise or encouragement - And we will make the goal.Jerome P. Fleishman
Man is more himself, man is more manlike, when joy is the fundamental thing in him, and grief the superficial.Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield
In great affairs men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small things they show themselves as they are.Nicholas Chamfort
Men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all the other alternatives.Abba Eban
A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam that flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his own thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts they come back to us with a sort of alienated majesty.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.Abraham Lincoln
My father always told me that all businessmen were sons of bitches, but I never believed it till now. On steel industry executives who increased prices.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.Aeschylus, Agamemnon
Ideas are the beginning of all achievement.Bruce Lee
Humor is the great thing, the saving thing. The minute it crops up, all our irritations and resentments slip away and a sunny spirit takes their place.Mark Twain
Love is the extra effort we make in our dealings with those whom we do not like and once you understand that, you understand all. This idea that love overtakes you is nonsense. This is but a polite manifestation of sex. To love another you have to undertake some fragment of their destiny.Pierre Corneille
Life can be found only in the present moment. The past is gone, the future is not yet here, and if we do not go back to ourselves in the present moment, we cannot be in touch with life.Thich Nhat Hanh
Acknowledgment - If you wish your merit to be known, acknowledge that of other people.Author Unknown
On a long journey of human life, faith is the best of companions it is the best refreshment on the journey and it is the greatest property.Buddha
The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts to return love for hate, to include the excluded, and to say, I was wrong.Sydney Harris
By listening to his language of his locality the poet begins to learn his craft. It is his function to lift, by use of imagination and the language he hears, the material conditions and appearances of his environment to the sphere of the intelligence where they will have new currency.William Carlos Williams
Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.Lloyd Alexande
Know the right moment.Pittacus, (The Seven Sages) from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers
The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes.Thomas Hardy
Many years ago, I concluded that a few hair shirts were part of the mental wardrobe of every man. The president differs from other men in that he has a more extensive wardrobe.Herbert Clark Hoove
Any enjoyment is weakened when shared.Marquis de Sade
Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke.Hermann Hesse
It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.Ansel Adams
What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish.W. H. Auden
Tis a good thing to laugh at any rate, and if a straw can tickle a man, it is an instrument of happiness.Chamfort
The failure of the mind in old age is often less the results of natural decay, than of disuse. Ambition has ceased to operate; contentment bring indolence, and indolence decay of mental power, ennui, and sometimes death. Men have been known to die, literally speaking, of disease induced by intellectual vacancy.Sir B. Brodie
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
We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together.La Bruyere
Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the governing of himself. Can he, then, be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the forms of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.Thomas Jefferson, First Inaugural Address
The end always passes judgement on what has gone before.Publilius Syrus
It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.George Smith Patton, Jr.
Many brave men lived before Agamemnon but all are overwhelmed in eternal night, unwept, unknown, because they lack a sacred poet.Horace
The main difference between men and women is that men are lunatics and women are idiots.Rebecca West
