Men Quotes
For most men the love of justice is only the fear of suffering injustice.La Rochefoucauld
The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of human arrogance from one pedestal after another of previous convictions about our centrality in the cosmos.Stephen Jay Gould
Law is the embodiment of the moral sentiment of the people.William Blackstone
This world is given as the prize for the men in earnest; and that which is true of this world, is truer still of the world to come.Frederick William Robertson
If you want to win friends, make it a point to remember them. If you remember my name, you pay me a subtle compliment you indicate that I have made an impression on you. Remember my name and you add to my feeling of importance.Dale Carnegie
In the defense of our nation, a president must be a clear - Eyed realist. There are limits to the smiles and scowls of diplomacy. Armies and missiles are not stopped by stiff notes of condemnation. They are held in check by strength and purpose and the promise of swift punishment.George W. Bush, speech, November 19, 1999
The art of life lies in a constant readjustment to our surroundings.Okakura Kakuzo
To be prosperous is not to be superior, and should form no barrier between men. Wealth out not to secure the prosperous the slightest consideration. The only distinctions which should be recognized are those of the soul, of strong principle, of incorruptible integrity, of usefulness, of cultivated intellect, of fidelity in seeking the truth.William Ellery Channing
Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common.Denis Diderot
When good men die their goodness does not perish, But lives though they are gone. As for the bad, All that was theirs dies and is buried with them.Euripides, Temenidae
There is no good arguing with the inevitible. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat.James Russell Lowell
No punishment of the unrighteous has ever been too severe in the eyes of the righteous.Author Unknown
America is not only big and rich, it is mysterious and its capacity for the humorous or ironical concealment of its interests matches that of the legendary inscrutable Chinese.David Riesman
The art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one class of the citizens to give to the other.Voltaire
The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.Thomas Jefferson
We have entered an age in which education is not just a luxury permitting some men an advantage over others. It has become a necessity without which a person is defenseless in this complex, industrialized society. ... We have truly entered the century of the educated man.Lyndon B. Johnson
If the automobile had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls - Royce would today cost 100, get one million miles to the gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside.Robert X Cringely
If the objects who serve us feel ecstacy, they are much more often concerned with themselves than with us, and our own enjoyment is consequently impaired. The idea of seeing another person experience the same pleasure reduces one to a kind of equality which spoils the unutterable charms that come from despotism.Marquis de Sade
One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty councils. The thing is to supply light and not heat.Woodrow Wilson
The man who in view of gain thinks of righteousness; who in the view of danger is prepared to give up his life; and who does not forget an old agreement however far back it extends - Such a man may be reckoned a complete man.Confucius, The Confucian Analects
Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil that men do lives after them The good is oft interred with their bones.William Shakespeare
The chief objection of playing wind instruments is that it prolongs the life of the player.George Bernard Shaw
On the touchstone of misfortune a man discovers the strength of understanding and of spirit in kinsmen, wife, servants, and himself.The Hitopadesa
All men are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality.Martin Luther King Jr.
Management is nothing more than motivating other people.Lee Iacocca
The world is blessed most by men who do things, not by those who merely talk about them.James Olive
Our friendships are precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life; and thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part is sunshine.Thomas Jefferson
Thank God men cannot as yet fly and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.Henry David Thoreau
The heart may think it knows better the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends. The friend becomes a traitor by breaking, however unwillingly or sadly, out of our own zone a hard judgment is passed on him, for all the pleas of the heart.Elizabeth Bowen
The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself and can never be erased.Alexander Hamilton
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.Franklin D. Roosevelt
Oh God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains!William Shakespeare
Appraise war in terms of the fundamental factors. The first of these factors is moral influence.Sun - Tzu
Life is a foreign language all men mispronounce it.Christopher Morley
The best of men is he who blushes when you praise him and remains silent when you defame him.Kahlil Gibran
Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture... Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.Norman Vincent Peale
The salary of the chief executive of the large corporations is not an award for achievement. It is frequently in the nature of a warm gesture by the individual to himself.John Kenneth Galbraith
