Men Quotes

We are all in the hands of an omnipotent, omniscient, just and merciful God, and whatever may be the destiny of humanity for real or woe, there will be a universal and eternal amen to all that God does.

W. T. Ussery

That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.

Abraham Lincoln

Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.

John F. Kennedy

First mend yourself, and then mend others.

Jewish Prove

The double law of attraction and radiation or of sympathy and antipathy, of fixedness and movement, which is the principle of Creation, and the perpetual cause of life.

Albert Pike

There are two kinds of men who never amount to much: those who cannot do what they are told and those who can do nothing else.

Cyrus H. Curtis

Men can know more than their ancestors did if they start with a knowledge of what their ancestors had already learned.... That is why a society can be progressive only if it conserves its traditions.

Walter Lippmann

If you think about disaster, you will get it. Brood about death and you hasten your demise. Think positively and masterfully, with confidence and faith, and life becomes more secure, more fraught with action, richer in achievement and experience.

Swami Sivanada

On action alone be thy interest, Never on its fruits. Let not the fruits of action be thy motive, Nor be thy attachment to inaction.

Bhagavad Gita, Chapter 2

Men of perverse opinion do not know the excellence of what is in their hands, till some one dash it from them.

Sophocles

All in all, I am not surprised that the people who want to unravel the social contract start with young adults. Those who are urged to feel afraid, very afraid, have both the greatest sense of independence and the most finely honed skepticism about government.

Ellen Goodman

All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.

Brian Tracy

The man who trusts men will make fewer mistakes that he who distrusts them.

Conte Di Camillo Benso Cavou

The fundamental error of their matrimonial union that of having based a permanent contract on a temporary feeling.

Thomas Hardy

He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument.

William Shakespeare

Independence is the recognition of the fact that yours is the responsibility of judgment and nothing can help you escape it.

Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

Rarely do we find men who willingly to engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half - Baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

They say, best men are moulded out of faults, And, for the most, become much more the better For being a little bad.

William Shakespeare, "Measure for Measure", Act 5 scene 1

Never confuse movement with action.

Ernest Hemingway

Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.

Stephen Covey

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

Charles Kingsley

Statistically the probability of any one of us being here is so small that you would think the mere possibility of existence would keep us all in a contented dazzlement of surprise.

Lewis Thomas

Life is like playing the violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Samuel Butle

In a heated argument we are apt to lose sight of the truth.

Publilius Syrus

Love is to man an embarrassment, even a word; it is to a woman an excuse for existence, especially the word.

Author Unknown

Some of the most rewarding and beautiful moments of a friendship happen in the unforeseen open spaces between planned activities. It is important that you allow these spaces to exist.

Christine Leefeldt

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

For every ailment under the sun, There is a remedy, or there is none... If there be one try to find it If there be none, never mind it.

Dean Hawkins

A world in which others controlled the course of their own development... would be a world in which the American system would be seriously endangered.

Benjamin Cohen

You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end each of us must work for his own improvement, and at the same time share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think we can be most useful.

Marie Curie

Silence is argument carried out by other means.

Ernesto "Che" Guevara

Quality is the result of a carefully constructed cultural environment. It has to be the fabric of the organization, not part of the fabric.

Philip Crosby, Reflections on Quality

The real menace in dealing with a five - Year - Old is that in no time at all you begin to sound like a five - Year - Old.

Jean Ke

I think there is choice possible to us at any moment, as long as we live. But there is no sacrifice. There is a choice, and the rest falls away. Second choice does not exist. Beware of those who talk about sacrifice.

Muriel Rukeyse

The Berlin Wall is the defining achievement of socialism.

George Will

Men are born with two eyes, but only one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say.

Charles Caleb Colton

Confidence in nonsense is a requirement for the creative process.

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