Men Quotes
Working in the theater has a lot in common with unemployment.Arthur Gingold
Learn the fundamentals of the game and stick to them. Band - Aid remedies never last.Jack Nicklaus
Often a certain abdication of prudence and foresight is an element of success.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Please write again soon. Though my own life is filled with activity, letters encourage momentary escape into others lives and I come back to my own with greater contentment.Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey
A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depends on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the measure as I have received and am still receiving.Albert Einstein
At 20 years of age the will reigns, at 30 the wit, at 40 the judgment.Benjamin Franklin
There comes a moment when you realize that virtually anything is possible - That nothing is too good to be true.Kobi Yamoda
Men will not believe because they will not broaden their minds.C. Chesterfield
Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.R. Buckminster Fuller, Interview, April 30, 1978
The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life.Henry Ford
No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets.Edward Abbey
In order to deserve, we must pay our dues and steadily work for perfection. We must relish in struggle, and relinquish pride. We must dispel fear and seek enlightenment. We must shun division and honor love. We must know our hearts and seek to understand others. We must try, live, create, feel, grow and love.Bryant McGill, Stanford Lectures on Poetry, 1990
You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you do not trust enough.Frank Crane
Culture makes all men gentle.Menande
The action of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.John Locke
The more pity, that fools may not speak wisely what wise men do foolishly.William Shakespeare, As You Like It, Act 1 Scene 2, character: Touchstone
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
Glass, china and reputation are easily cracked, and never well mended.Benjamin Franklin
Ours is the age that is proud of machines that think and suspicious of men who try to.H. Mumford Jones
And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.Andrew Carnegie
Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.Tom Robbins
I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe. Here I stand, I can do no other. God help me. Amen.Martin Luther, in front of his inquisitors at the Diet of Worms.
Heat and animosity, contest and conflict, may sharpen the wits, although they rarely do; they never strengthen the understanding, clear the perspicacity, guide the judgment, or improve the heart.Walter Savage Lando
It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.Aeschylus, Agamemnon
That all men should be brothers is the dream of people who have no brothers.Charles Chincholles
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.Truman Capote
The New Testament makes it abundantly clear that whenever the Kingdom of God was concerned Jesus was absolutely uncompromising, even when he realized that for him personally the alternative to compromise was crucifixion.Ernest Fremont Title
The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket, nor breaks my leg.Thomas Jefferson
It is not necessary for all men to be great in action. The greatest and sublimest power is simple patience.Horace Bushnell
Modesty and unselfishness - - These are the virtues which men praise - - And pass by.Andr Maurois
Our institutions and values are in jeopardy as the mores of the market pervade all social life in this country. Loyalty, honesty, courage, discipline, patriotism, and commitment to family are being crowded out by the goals and rules of economic rationality - - Do whatever makes the most money.Barry Schwartz
Grown men can learn from very little children for the hearts of little children are pure. Therefore, the Great Spirit may show to them many things which older people miss.Black Elk
You can use all the quantitative data you can get, but you still have to distrust it and use your own intelligence and judgment.Alvin Toffle
In my wide association in life, meeting with many and great men in various parts of the world, I have yet to find the man, however great or exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than he would ever do under a spirit of criticism.Charles M. Schwa
A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions - - As attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science, section 41
Government is not reason; it is not eloquence; it is force! Like fire, it is a dangerous servant, and a fearful master.George Washington
The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.Milton Friedman
