Men Quotes
The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia.Elbert Hubbard
Think little goals and expect little achievements. Think big goals and win big success.David Joseph Schwartz
Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.John Quincy Adams
Men have become the tools of their tools.Henry David Thoreau
In the midst of hopes and cares, of apprehensions and of disquietude, regard every day that dawns upon you as if it was to be your last then super - Added hours, to the enjoyment of which you had not looked forward, will prove an acceptable boon.Horace
Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.Sir Francis Bacon, "Of Death".
Ideas must work through the brains and arms of men, or they are no better than dreams.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Toward the accomplishment of an aim, which in wantonness of atrocity would seem to partake of the insane, he will direct a cool judgement, sagacious and sound. These men are madmen, and of the most dangerous sort.Herman Melville, Billy Budd, Sailo
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
Everything beautiful has its moment, and then passes away.Luis Cernada
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.Thomas Jefferson
I muse with the greatest affection on every flower I have known from my infancy - Their shapes and colours are as new to me as if I had just created them with a superhuman fancy - It is because they are connected with the most thoughtless and happiest moments of our lives.John Keats, Letter to James Rice, Feb 1820
The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes.Thomas Hardy
I wonder how so insupportable a thing as a bookseller was ever permitted to grow up in the Commonwealth. Many of our modern booksellers are but needless excrements, or rather vermin.George Withe
The fundamental defect of fathers is that they want their children to be a credit to them.Bertrand Russell
Commencement speakers have a good deal in common with grandfather clocks Standing usually some six feet tall, typically ponderous in construction, more traditional than functional, their distinction is largely their noisy communication of essentially commonplace information.W, Willard Wirtz
Correction does much, but encouragement does more.Johann von Goethe
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
Government is not reason; it is not eloquence; it is force! It is a dangerous servant and a terrible master.George Washington
We need men who can dream of things that never were.John F. Kennedy, speech in Dublin, Ireland, June 28, 1963
If I ask a woman if she has suffered sexual harassment, could this be considered sexual harassment?Sally Forth, Jan. 28, 1991
America has not always been kind to its artists and scholars. Somehow the scientists always seem to get the penthouse while the arts and humanities get the basement.Lyndon B. Johnson
You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are but you must approach each man by the right door.Henry Ward Beeche
I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure - That is all that agnosticism means.Clarence Darrow
The good teacher... discovers the natural gifts of his pupils and liberates them by the stimulating influence of the inspiration that he can impart. The true leader makes his followers twice the men they were before.Stephen Neill
Studying literature at Harvard is like learning about women at the Mayo Clinic.Roy Blount Jr.
How little do they see what really is, who frame their hasty judgments upon that which seems.Robert Southey
It has been observed that a pure democracy if it were practicable would be the most perfect government. Experience has proved that no position is more false than this. The ancient democracies in which the people themselves deliberated never possessed one good feature of government. Their very character was tyranny their figure deformity.Alexander Hamilton
Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements and doubts. We tend to forget the past difficulties, the many false starts, and the painful groping. We see our past achievements as the end results of a clean forward thrust, and our present difficulties as signs of decline and decay.Eric Hoffe
Upon books the collective education of the race depends; they are the sole instruments of registering, perpetuating and transmitting thought.Henry C. Rogers
Wailing and lamentation befit those who stand before the throne of life and depart without leaving in its hands a drop of the sweat of their brows or the blood of their hearts.Kahlil Gibran
Why do strong arms fatigue themselves with frivolous dumbbells? To dig a vineyard is worthier exercise for men.Marcus Valerius Martialis
The fundamental qualities for good execution of a plan is first; intelligence; then discernment and judgment, which enable one to recognize the best method as to attain it; the singleness of purpose; and, lastly, what is most essential of all, will - Stubborn will.Ferdinand Foch
All sects are different, because they come from men morality is everywhere the same, because it comes from God.Voltaire
Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows, We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.Agnes de Mille
Justice requires that to lawfully constituted Authority there be given that respect and obedience which is its due that the laws which are made shall be in wise conformity with the common good and that, as a matter of conscience all men shall render obedience to these laws.Pope Pius XI
The teaching of politics is that the Government, which was set for protection and comfort of all good citizens, becomes the principal obstruction and nuisance with which we have to contend? The cheat and bully and malefactor we meet everywhere is the Government.Ralph Waldo Emerson, Journal, 1860
