Men Quotes

Mark twain, the gorky incident - laws are sand, customs are rock. laws can be...
Oprah winfrey, o magazine, september 2002 - breathe. let go. and remind yourself that this...
Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.
Lloyd Alexande
Heraclitus - abundance of knowledge does not teach men to be...
Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life. Thus people haunted by the purposelessness of their lives try to find a new content not only by dedicating themselves to a holy cause but also by nursing a fanatical grievance. A mass movement offers them unlimited opportunities for both.
Eric Hoffe
Some people pay a compliment as if they expected a receipt.
Kim Hubbard
Age cannot wither her, nor custom staleHer infinite variety other women cloyThe appetites they feed, but she makes hungryWhere most she satisfies.
William Shakespeare
This art of resting the mind and the power of dismissing from it all care and worry is probably one of the secrets of energy in our great men.
Captain J. A. Hadfield
You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.
Woodrow Wilson
I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two - Thirds of the people of the Earth might be killed, but enough men capable of thinking, and enough books, would be left to start again, and civilization could be restored.
Albert Einstein
A single fact can spoil a good argument.
Anonymous
In Hollywood, an equitable divorce settlement means each party getting fifty percent of publicity.
Lauren Bacall
Adversity cause some men to break others to break records.
William A. Ward
Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self - Confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
Arnold Bennett
Forming characters! Whose? Our own or others? Both. And in that momentous fact lies the peril and responsibility of our existence.
Elihu Burritt
Feminism is the radical concept that women are people.
Cheris Kramarae & Paula Treichle
Self - Development is a higher duty than self - Sacrifice.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Forming characters Whose Our own or others Both. And in that momentous fact lies the peril and responsibility of our existence.
Elihu Burritt
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
Of women I do not wish them to have power over men but over themselves.
Mary Wollstonecraft
A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.
Greek Prove
Blindness and error can change a life as surely as judgment and reason can.
M. Morris
Even against the greatest of odds, there is something in the human spirit - A magic blend of skill, faith, and valor - That can lift men from certain defeat to incredible victory.
Walter Lord, World War II Memorial in Washington, DC
Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is in prison.
Henry David Thoreau
My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others. That is nice but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success.
Helen Hayes
Language is only the instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas.
Samuel Johnson
The good devout man first makes inner preparation for the actions he has later to perform. His outward actions do not draw him into lust and vice rather it is he who bends them into the shape of reason and right judgement. Who has a stiffer battle to fight than the man who is striving to conquer himself.
Thomas a Kempis
To us, the moment 8: 17 A. M. means something - Something very important, if it happens to be the starting time of our daily train. To our ancestors, such an odd eccentric instant was without significance - Did not even exist. In inventing the locomotive, Watt and Stevenson were part inventors of time.
Aldous Huxley
We hold these truths to be self - Evident that all men are created equal that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
US Declaration of Independence
Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.
Soren Kierkegaard
If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.
Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
Martin Luther King Jr., Strength to Love, 1963
Science has to be understood in its broadest sense, as a method for comprehending all observable reality, and not merely as an instrument for acquiring specialized knowledge.
Alexis Carrel
To attract men, I wear a perfume called ``New Car Interior.'
Rita Rudne
Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Knowing that I am not the one in control gives great encouragement. Knowing the One who is in control is everything.
Alexander Michael
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
Recommend virtue to your children it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience.
Ludwig van Beethoven
It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians.
Henrik Ibsen