Men Quotes

I will demand a commitment to excellence and to victory, and that is what life is all about.

Vince Lombardi, Lombardi Winning is the only thing (by Jerry Kramer)

The habit of common and continuous speech is a symptom of mental deficiency.

Walter Bagehot

That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves.

Thomas Jefferson

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

Colleges typically did not tell you that ninety percent of your education came after you hung the parchment on the wall. People might ask for a rebate.

Tom Clancy, "The Teeth Of The Tiger" - - Page 180

Ama me fideliter Fidem meam noto De corde totaliter Et ex mente tota, Sum presentialiter Absens in remota.

Anon.

There is no victory at bargain basement prices.

Dwight D Eisenhowe

Men often applaud an imitation, and hiss the real thing.

Aesop

Justice requires that to lawfully constituted Authority there be given that respect and obedience which is its due that the laws which are made shall be in wise conformity with the common good and that, as a matter of conscience all men shall render obedience to these laws.

Pope Pius XI

I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Negative thinking is always expensive - - Dragging us down mentally, emotionally, and physically - - Hence I refer to any indulgence in it as a luxury.

Peter McWilliams

For men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in their readiness to doubt.

Henry Louis Mencken

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds.

William Shakespeare, Sonnet cxvi

The only difference between a rut and a grave... is in their dimensions.

Ellen Glasglow

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

Tom Rose

To my daughter Leonora without whose never failing sympathy and encouragement this book would have been completed in half the time.

P. G. Wodehouse

The lovely thing about being forty is that you can appreciate twenty - Five - Year - Old men more.

Collen McCullough

An affirmation is a strong, positive statement that somthing is already so.

Shakti Gawain

No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.

Thomas Carlyle

The reward for doing right is mostly an internal phenomenon: self - Respect, dignity, integrity, and self - Esteem.

Dr. Laura Schlessinge

I do not believe in political movements. I believe in personal movement, that movement of the soul when a man who looks at himself is so ashamed that he tries to make some sort of change - within himself, not on the outside.

Joseph Brodsky

More men have become great through practice than by nature.

Democritus

The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments.

Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science, section 191

As we look deeply within, we understand our perfect balance. There is no fear of the cycle of birth, life and death. For when you stand in the present moment, you are timeless.

Rodney Yee

The reason why great men meet with so little pity or attachment in adversity, would seem to be this: the friends of a great man were made by his fortune, his enemies by himself, and revenge is a much more punctual paymaster than gratitude.

C. C. Colton

Television is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome.

T. S. Eliot

Baseball is 90% mental, the other half is physical.

Yogi Berra

There can be no transforming of darkness into light and of apathy into movement without emotion.

Carl Jung

Retirement kills more people than hard work ever did.

Malcolm S. Forbes

The more I see of men, the more I admire dogs.

Jeanne - Marie Roland

The reading of all good books is indeed like a conversation with the noblest men of past centuries who were the authors of them, nay a carefully studied conversation, in which they reveal to us none but the best of their thoughts.

Rene Descartes

My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.

Oprah Winfrey

No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.

Albert Einstein, Physics and Reality [1936]

The government consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me. They have, taking one with another, no special talent for the business of government they have only a talent for getting and holding office.

H. L. Mencken

Besides anarchy, the worst thing in this world is government.

Henry Ward Beeche

Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.

Margaret Mead