Men Quotes
Be fully in the moment, open yourself to the powerful energies dancing around you.Ernest Hemingway
Of all the inventions that have helped to unify China perhaps the airplane is the most outstanding. Its ability to annihilate distance has been in direct proportion to its achievements in assisting to annihilate suspicion and misunderstanding among provincial officials far removed from one another or from the officials at the seat of government.Madame Chiang
The primary task of the Church is not to mend the manners of the community, but to proclaim the matchless Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. When men hear that Gospel and believe it, their lives will give evidence of their faith.Walter Dale Langtry
Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way... you become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.Aristotle
It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done.Samuel Smiles
A free press can of course be good or bad, but, most certainly, without freedom it will never be anything but bad.... Freedom is nothing else but a chance to bet better, whereas enslavement is a certainty of the worse.Albert Camus, Resistance, Rebellion and Death (1960)
The antiwar movement is a wild orgasm of anarchists sweeping across the country like a prairie fire.Richard Milhous Nixon
What men call good fellowship is commonly but the virtue of pigs in a litter which lie close together to keep each other warm.Henry David Thoreau
Recommend to your children virtue that alone can make them happy, not gold.Ludwig van Beethoven
Many complain of their memory, few of their judgment.Benjamin Franklin
The bitterest tragic element in life to be derived from an intellectual source is the belief in a brute Fate or Destiny.Ralph Waldo Emerson, Natural History of Intellect (1893)
Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.Johann von Goethe
Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one.Charles Mackay
A society grows great when old men plant trees in whose shade they know they shall never sit.Greek prove
While you are not able to serve men, how can you serve spirits of the dead... While you do not know life, how can you know about death.Confucius
Hope in reality is the worst of all evils, because it prolongs the torments of man.Friedrich Nietzsche
The surest hindrance of success is to have too high a standard of refinement in our own minds, or too high an opinion of the judgment of the public. He who is determined not to be satisfied with anything short of perfection will never do anything to please himself or others.Hazlitt
Ideas are the beginning of all achievement.Bruce Lee
Women are always being tested... but ultimately, each of us has to define who we are individually and then do the very best job we can to grow into it.Hillary Rodham Clinton
All that is necessary for the forces of evil to win in the world is for enough good men to do nothing.Edmund Burke
All men have an instinct for conflict at least, all healthy men.Hilaire Belloc
Mathematicians are like Frenchmen whatever you say to them they translate into their own language and forthwith it is something entirely different.Johann von Goethe
Those who want the Government to regulate matters of the mind and spirit are like men who are so afraid of being murdered that they commit suicide to avoid assassination.Harry S Truman
I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.Albert Camus
When you cannot get a compliment any other way pay yourself one.Mark Twain
Life is not advancement. It is growth. It does not move upward, but expands outward, in all directions.Russell G. Alexande
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
About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.Josh Billings
It is as hard to do your duty when men are sneering at you as when they are shooting at you.Woodrow Wilson
Peace won by the compromise of principles is a short - Lived achievement.Author Unknown
A state that dwarfs its men in order that they may be more docile instruments in its hands even for beneficial purposes, will find that with small men no great things can really be accomplished.John Stewart Mills
Being a woman is a terribly difficult task since it consists principally in dealing with men.Joseph Conrad
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
Men, in general, are but great children.Napoleon
There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much but then, if one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better we find comfort somewhere.Jane Austen
Arguments are to be avoided they are always vulgar and often convincing.Oscar Wilde
The renown which riches or beauty confer is fleeting and frail mental excellence is a splendid and lasting possession.Sallust
A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft - Minded men purchases its own spiritual death on an installment plan.Martin Luther King Jr.