Men Quotes

It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.

Kahlil Gibran

Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight They never mention that part to us, do they.

George Carlin

Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.

Abraham Lincoln

The man who in view of gain thinks of righteousness who in the view of danger is prepared to give up his life and who does not forget an old agreement however far back it extends - Such a man may be reckoned a complete man.

Confucius

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

Government, is the last analysis, is organized opinion. Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government.

MacKenzie King

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

Life would be tolerable but for its amusements.

George Bernard Shaw

STRATEGY is; A style of thinking, a conscious and deliberate process, an intensive implementation system, the science of insuring FUTURE SUCCESS.

Pete Johnson

I always deserve the best treatment because I never put up with any other.

Jane Austen, Emma

Life is not a spectacle or a feast it is a predicament.

George Santayana

There is no calamity greater than lavish desires. There is no greater guilt than discontentment. And there is not greater disaster than greed.

Lao - Tzu, The Way of Lao - Tzu

Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

George Gordon Byron

So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.

Peter Drucke

Some of your countrymen were unable to distinguish between their native dislike for war and the stainless patriotism of those who suffered its scars. But there has been a rethinking and now we can say to you, and say as a nation, thank you for your courage.

Ronald Reagan

Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

George Bernard Shaw

Men show their characters in nothing more clearly than in what they think laughable.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Like President Reagan, President Bush has not shied from calling evil by its name or declaring his intention to defeat its latest incarnation, terrorism, just as free men and women of all political persuasions, here and abroad, defeated fascism and communism before.

Donald Rumsfeld, Ronald Reagan Library and Museum, October 10, 2003

Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity.

Horace Mann

The freedom fighters of Nicaragua... are the moral equal of our Founding Fathers and the brave men and women of the French Resistance.

Ronald Reagan

Education is the movement from darkness to light.

Allan Bloom

Commitment means that it is possible for a man to yield the nerve center of his consent to a purpose or cause, a movement or an ideal, which may be more important to him than whether he lives or dies.

Howard Thurman

Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them.

Paul Hawken, Growing a Business

Men give me credit for some genius. All the genius I have lies in this when I have a subject in hand, I study it profoundly. Day and night it is before me. My mind becomes pervaded with it. Then the effort that I have made is what people are pleased to call the fruit of genius. It is the fruit of labor and thought.

Alexander Hamilton

That which is won ill, will never wear well, for there is a curse attends it which will waste it. The same corrupt dispositions which incline men to sinful ways of getting, will incline them to the like sinful ways of spending.

M. Henry

Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality.

Albert Schweitze

I have a prejudice against people who print things in a foreign language and add no translation. When I am the reader, and the other considers me able to do the translating myself, he pays me the quite a nice compliment - - But if he would do the translating for me I would try to get along without the compliment. A Tramp Abroad, 1880.

Mark Twain

Either define the moment or the moment will define you.

Walt Whitman

From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.

Julius Henry Marx

There is nothing more unequal, than the equal treatment of unequal people.

Thomas Jefferson

I have always felt that the moment when first you wake up in the morning is the most wonderful of the twenty - Four hours.

Monica Baldwin

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

Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should just live next door and just visit now and then.

Katharine Hepburn

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

I wanted change and excitement and to shoot off in all directions myself, like the colored arrows from a Fourth of July rocket.

Sylvia Plath

I often wonder whether we do not rest our hopes too much upon constitutions, upon laws and upon courts. These are false hopes believe me, these are false hopes. Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it...

Learned Hand