Men Quotes

For the ordinary man is passive. Within a narrow circle home life, and perhaps the trade unions or local politics he feels himself master of his fate, but against major events he is as helpless as against the elements. So far from endeavouring to influence the future, he simply lies down and lets things happen to him.

George Orwell

Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals nay it is treachery to comrades.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

His mother had often said, When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action. She had emphasized the corollary of this axiom even more vehemently: when you desired a consequence you had damned well better take the action that would create it.

Lois McMaster Bujold, "Memory", 1996

The basic delusion that men may be governed and yet be free.

Henry Louis Mencken

I have never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.

Henry David Thoreau

Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no delay, no procrastination; never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.

Earl of Chesterfield

That all men are equal is a proposition which, at ordinary times, no sane individual has ever given his assent.

Aldous Huxley

Say what you will about the Ten Commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them.

H. L. Mencken

Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.

Buddha

Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.

Tom Robbins

Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war...

Aristophanes

The steady discipline of intimate friendship with Jesus results in men becoming like Him.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

Men in authority will always think that criticism of their policies is dangerous. They will always equate their policies with patriotism, and find criticism subversive.

Henry Steele

Guilt resembles a sword with two edges. On the one hand, it cuts for Justice, imposing practical morality upon those who fear it. But there is another side to that weighted emotion. Conscience does not always adhere to rational judgment. Guilt is always a self - Imposed burden, but it is not always rightly imposed.

R. A. Salvatore, Sojourn

We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over so in a series of kindness there is at last one which makes the heart run over.

Samuel Johnson

Roam abroad in the world, and take thy fill of its enjoyments before the day shall come when thou must quit it for good.

Saadi

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

People in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than governments.

Dwight D Eisenhowe

We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing.

R. D. Laing

For they are yet ear - Kissing arguments.

William Shakespeare

The line, often adopted by strong men in controversy, of justifying the means by the end.

Saint Jerome, Letter 48

The noun of self becomes a verb. This flashpoint of creation in the present moment is where work and play merge.

Stephen Nachmanovitch

Be not too hasty either with praise or blame speak always as though you were giving evidence before the judgement - Seat of the Gods.

Seneca

Successful men are defined by thier actions; Unsuccessful men are defined by actions not taken.

Tom Rose

In nature there are neither rewards not punishments - - There are consequences.

Robert Green Ingersoll

You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

Henry Drummond

Bias has to be taught. If you hear your parents downgrading women or people of different backgrounds, why, you are going to do that.

Barbara Bush

Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game.

Donald Trump, "Trump: Art of the Deal".

There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.

Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire

It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.

Charles Dickens, Bleak House

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

Stephen Covey

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

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Poetry is the language in which man explores his own amazement.

Christopher Fry

For the great mass of mankind, the only saving grace needed is a steady fidelity to what is nearest to hand and heart for the short moment of each human effort.

Joseph Conrad

From the highest mountains in the world, Men seek for higher places to climb, When in their heart, It is where the climb always continues.

Jason Berg

We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Defeat should never be a source of discouragement, but rather a fresh stimulus.

Robert South