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
There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.John Adams, Journal, 1772
If guns are outlawed, only the government will have guns. Only the police, the secret police, the military, the hired servants of our rulers. Only the government - - And a few outlaws. I intend to be among the outlaws.Edward Abbey
Everyone complains of his lack of memory, but nobody of his want of judgment.La Rochefoucauld
Upon books the collective education of the race depends; they are the sole instruments of registering, perpetuating and transmitting thought.Henry C. Rogers
Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy.Sarah Ban Breathnach
For a true writer each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment. He should always try for something that has never been done or that others have tried and failed. Then sometimes, with great luck, he will succeed.Ernest Hemingway, in his Nobel Prize acceptance speech
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace in a continual state of alarm and hence clamorous to be led to safety by menacing them with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.H. L. Mencken
In Cyberspace, the First Amendment is a local ordinance.John Perry Barlow
Talk not of wasted affection, affection never was wasted, If it enrich not the heart of another, its waters returning Back to their springs, like the rain shall fill them full of refreshment That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I think of myself as an intelligent, sensitive human with the soul of a clown, which always forces me to blow it at the most important moments.Jim Morrison
Prejudice is opinion without judgement.Voltaire
Men are but children of a larger growth, Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving too, and full as vain.John Dryden
We stand for freedom. That is our conviction for ourselves that is our only commitment to others.John F. Kennedy
Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.Phillips Brooks
The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when someone asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.Henry David Thoreau
The roots of true achievement lie in the will to become the best that you can become.Harold Taylo
Few men desire liberty: The majority are satisfied with a just master.Sallust
Wise men profit more from fools than fools from wise men; for the wise men shun the mistakes of fools, but fools do not imitate the successes of the wise.Cato the Elder, from Plutarch, Lives
He removes the greatest ornament of friendship, who takes away from it respect.Cicero
Please write again soon. Though my own life is filled with activity, letters encourage momentary escape into others lives and I come back to my own with greater contentment.Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey
Most people hew the battlements of life from compromise, erecting their impregnable keeps from judicious submissions, fabricating their philosophical drawbridges from emotional retractions and scalding marauders in the boiling oil of sour grapes.Zelda
Of all religions, Christianity is without a doubt the one that should inspire tolerance most, although, up to now, the Christians have been the most intolerant of all men.Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
Brave men are all vertebrates they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.G. K. Chesterton
We strain to renew our capacity for wonder, to shock ourselves into astonishment once again.Shana Alexande
No amount of artificial reinforcement can offset the natural inequalities of human individuals.Henry P. Fairchild
Welcome every problem as an opportunity. Each moment is the great challenge, the best thing that ever happened to you. The more difficult the problem, the greater the challenge in working it out.Grace Speare
Blindness and error can change a life as surely as judgment and reason can.M. Morris
Let us forever forget that every station in life is necessarily that each deserves our respect; that not the station itself; but the worthy fulfillment of its duties does honor the man.Mary Lyon
Not houses finely roofed or the stones of walls well builded, nay nor canals and dockyards make the city, but men able to use their opportunity.Alcaeus
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
Do as most do, and men will speak well of you.Thomas Fulle
But the greatest menace to our civilization today is the conflict between giant organized systems of self - Righteousness - - Each system only too delighted to find that the other is wicked - - Each only too glad that the sins give it the pretext for still deeper hatred and animosity.Herbert Butterfield
Had there been no difficulties and no thorns in the way, then man would have been in his primitive state and no progress made in civilisation and mental culture.Anandabai Joshee
Working in the theater has a lot in common with unemployment.Arthur Gingold
Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid.Heinrich Heine
Go ahead, kill without mercy. After all, who remembers today the Armenian Genocide.Adolf Hitle
