Men Quotes

Politics is the pursuit of trivial men who, when they succeed at it, become important in the eyes of more trivial men.

George Jean Nathan

The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent, experimentation. It is common sense to take a method and try it, if it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

Theodore Roosevelt

The day is for honest men, the night for thieves.

Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris, circa 412 B. C.

Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity presented to them. They have developed the opportunity that was at hand.

Bruce Marton

You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success - Or are they holding you back.

Clement Stone

True silence is the rest of the mind it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.

William Penn

How much easier it is to be generous than just Men are sometimes bountiful who are not honest.

Junius

Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.

Theodore Isaac Rubin

He who seizes the right moment is the right man.

Johann von Goethe

O, Divine Master, Grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled, as to console To be understood as to understand To be loved as to love For it is in giving that we receive It is in pardoning that we are pardoned And it is in dying to ourselves that we are born to eternal life. Amen.

Saint Augustine

Cowards die many times before their deaths The valiant never taste of death but once. Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, It seems to me most strange that men should fear Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come when it will come.

William Shakespeare

Arguments are like fire - Arms which a man may keep at home but should not carry about with him.

Samuel Butle

Fools make researches and wise men exploit them.

H. G. Wells

Prejudice is the conjurer of imaginary wrongs, strangling truth, overpowering reason, making strong men weak and weak men weaker. God give us the large hearted charity which bearth all things, believe all things, hope all things, endure all things, which thinks no evil.

Macduff

The moment we choose to love we begin to move towards freedom...

Bell Hooks

The history of ideas is the history of the grudges of solitary men.

E. M. Cioran

There is only one way to defeat the enemy, and that is to write as well as one can. The best argument is an undeniably good book.

Saul Bellow

At the beginning of a great national change, the patriot is a scarce man: scorned, ridiculed and forgotten. When his cause succeeds, however, all men will join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.

Mark Twain

The chess board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us. We know that his play is always fair, just, and patient. But we also know, to our cost, that he never overlooks a mistake, or makes the smallest allowance for ignorance.

Thomas Huxley

All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.

C. H. Parkhurst

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

There are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes.

William Bennett

Half this game is 90% mental.

Danny Ozark, manager of the Phillies

There is real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.

Norman Vincent Peale

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed and hence clamorous to be led to safety by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

H. L. Mencken

It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.

Sir Winston Churchill

A very large amount of human suffering and frustration is caused by the fact that many men and women are not content to be the sort of beings that God has made them, but try to persuade themselves that they are really beings of some different kind.

Eric Mascall

Seize the moment of excited curiosity on any subject to solve your doubts; for if you let it pass, the desire may never return, and you may remain in ignorance.

William Wirt

Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war...

Aristophanes

We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

Charles Kingsley

Men in earnest have no time to waste In patching fig - Leaves for the naked truth.

Hubert Humphrey

Sometimes I would rather that people take away years from my life Than take away a moment.

Pearl Bailey

As close as we are today, tomorrow when we come back from that battlefield, we will be as close as two men can possibly be, sharing a bond that can only be forged in the face of imminent disfigurement. We few, we happy few, we band of brothers. For he today that sheds his blood with me shall be my brother.

Jeff Melvoin

Justice is a contract of expediency, entered upon to prevent men harming or being harmed.

Epicurus

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

Shakti Gawain

If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.

Katharine Hepburn

The greatest penalty of evildoing - Namely, to grow into the likeness of bad men.

Plato, Dialogues, Theatetus