Men Quotes
Probably all laws are useless, for good men do not want laws at all, and bad men are made no better by them.Demonax
Real, constructive mental power lies in the creative thought that shapes your destiny, and your hour - By - Hour mental conduct produces power for change in your life. Develop a train of thought on which to ride. The nobility of your life as well as your happiness depends upon the direction in which that train of thought is going.Laurence J. Pete
Ideas, like individuals, live and die. They flourish, according to their nature, in one soil or climate and droop in another. They are the vegetation of the mental world.Macneile Dixon
If a man remembers what is right at the sign of profit, is ready to lay down his life in the face of danger, and does not forget sentiments he has repeated all his life when he has been in straitened circumstances for a long time, he may be said to be a complete man.Confucius, Analects, XIV. 12
Good men must die, but death cannot kill their names.Danish prove
If, after all, men cannot always make history have meaning, they can always act so that their own lives have one.Albert Camus
Men will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.Napoleon Bonaparte
Individual commitment to a group effort, that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.Vince Lombardi
I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure - That is all that agnosticism means.Clarence Darrow
Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun.Mary Lou Cook
It is by no means self - Evident that human beings are most real when most violently excited violent physical passions do not in themselves differentiate men from each other, but rather tend to reduce them to the same state.Thomas Elliot
Their element is to attack, to track, to hunt, and to destroy the enemy. Only in this way can the eager and skillful fighter pilot display his ability. Tie him to a narrow and confined task, rob him of his initiative, and you take away from him the best and most valuable qualities he posses: aggressive spirit, joy of action, and the passion of the hunter.LtGen Adolf Galland, Luftwaffe
Talk not of wasted affection, affection never was wasted, If it enrich not the heart of another, its waters returning Back to their springs, like the rain shall fill them full of refreshment; That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men and women agree, it is only in the conclusions their reasons are always different.George Santayana
If government could create jobs and raise children, socialism would have worked.George Gilde
Studying literature at Harvard is like learning about women at the Mayo Clinic.Roy Blount Jr.
A fact is a simple statement that everyone believes. It is innocent, unless found guilty. A hypothesis is a novel suggestion that no one wants to believe. It is guilty, until found effective.Edward Telle
People who are smart get into Mensa. People who are really smart look around and leave.James Randi
Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation.James Thurbe
The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.W. Somerset Maugham
The First Amendment is often inconvenient. But that is besides the point. Inconvenience does not absolve the government of its obligation to tolerate speech.Justice Anthony Kennedy
Whenever you commend, add your reasons for doing so; it is this which distinguishes the approbation of a man of sense from the flattery of sycophants and admiration of fools.Sir Richard Steele
Consciousness of our powers augments them.Vauvenargues
He that commends me to mine own content Commends me to the thing I cannot get.William Shakespeare, A Comedy of Errors
I know of no great men except those who have rendered great service to the human race.Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
One of these days, the people are going to demand peace of the government, and the government is going to have to give it to them.Dwight Eisenhowe
Being a woman is of special interest to aspiring male transexuals. To actual women it is simply a good excuse not to play football.Fran Lebowitz
People call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute.Rebecca West
Men are never so likely to settle a question rightly as when they discuss it freely.Thomas Babington
While you are not able to serve men, how can you serve spirits of the dead?... While you do not know life, how can you know about death?Confucius, The Confucian Analects, bk. 11: 11
Wise men are not always silent, but they know when to be.Author Unknown
Young men, hear an old man to whom old men hearkened when he was young.Caesar Augustus, from Plutarch, Apothegms
A harvest of peace is produced from a seed of contentment.American Prove
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.Helen Kelle
To feel that one has a place in life solves half the problems of contentment.George Woodberry
Nothing changes more constantly than the past; for the past that influences our lives does not consist of what happened, but of what men believe happened.Gerald W. Johnston
My philosophy, in essence, is the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute.Ayn Rand
There are two levers for moving men interest and fear.Napoleon Bonaparte
