Men Quotes
It is strange that we do not temper our resentment of criticism with a thought for our many faults which have escaped us.Author Unknown
The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.Carl Jung
Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.Henry Mille
Movements born in hatred very quickly take on the characteristics of the thing they oppose.J. S. Habgood
And that this country shall have a new birth of freedom, and that this government, of the people, for the people, by the people, shall not perish from the Earth.Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg Address
Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above For love is heaven, and heaven is love.Sir Walter Scott
The noun of self becomes a verb. This flashpoint of creation in the present moment is where work and play merge.Stephen Nachmanovitch
Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them.Martin Luther King, Jr.
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do.Ralph Waldo Emerson
There are men whom a happy disposition, a strong desire of glory and esteem, inspire with the same love for justice and virtue which men in general have for riches and honors.... But the number of these men is so small that I only mention them in honor of humanity.Claude Adrien Helvetius
It is the simple things in life that make living worthwhile - Sweet fundamental things such as love.Laura Ingalls Wilde
The greatest and noblest pleasure which men can have in this world is to discover new truths; and the next is to shake off old prejudices.Frederick The Great
How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.William James
A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort.Sydney Smith
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
Virtue is its own punishment.Aneurin Bevan
Ideas must work through the brains and the arms of good and brave men, or they are no better than dreams.Ralph Waldo Emerson
So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private citizens will occasionally kill their. s.Elbert Hubbard
Women are the glue that hold our day - To - Day world together.Anna Quindlen
Pause you who read this, and think for a moment of the long chain of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers, that would never have bound you, but for the formation of the first link on one memorable day.Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
A solitary, unused to speaking of what he sees and feels, has mental experiences which are at once more intense and less articulate than those of a gregarious man.Thomas Mann
They devoted the city to the lord and destroyed with the sword every living thing in it - Men and women, young and old, cattle, sheep and donkeys.The Book of Joshua 6: 21
We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others it is in yourself alone.Orison Swett Marden
Trusting your intuition means tuning in as deeply as you can to the energy you feel, following that energy moment to moment, trusting that it will lead you where you want to go and bring you everything you desire.Shakti Gawain
The world is wide, and I will not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum.Frances Willard
Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil in its worst state, an intolerable one.Thomas Paine
To the accountants, a true work of art is an investment that hangs on the wall.Hilary Alexander, Sunday Telegraph (1993)
Brigands demand your money or your life; women require both.Nicholas Murray Butle
Public confidence in the integrity of the Government is indispensable to faith in democracy and when we lose faith in the system, we have lost faith in everything we fight and spend for.Adlai E. Jr. Stevenson
Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.Bette Davis
If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement and mystery of the world we live in.Rachel Carson
The heart has arguments with which the logic of mind is not aquainted.Blaise Pascal
In great affairs men show themselves as they wish to be seen in small things they show themselves as they are.Nicholas Chamfort
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
A sobering thought what if, at this very moment, I am.Jane Wagne
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
Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing.John Locke
