Men Quotes

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

Men in no way approach so nearly to the gods as in doing good to men.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Education is the movement from darkness to light.

Allan Bloom

I would not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum.

Frances Willard

I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment, while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that I was more distinguished by that circumstance that I should have been by any epaulet I could have worn.

Henry David Thoreau

My wife Mary and I have been married for forty - Seven years and not once have we had an argument serious enough to consider divorce; murder, yes, but divorce, never.

Jack Benny

Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.

Calvin Coolidge, speech, June 11, 1928

Love works in miracles every day such as weakening the strong, and strengthening the weak making fools of the wise, and wise men of fools favouring the passions, destroying reason, and in a word, turning everything topsy - Turvy.

Marguerite de Valois

The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.

Robert Frost

Wit is brushwood; judgment timber; the one gives the greatest flame, and the other yields the most durable heat; and both meeting make the best fire.

Overlung

We ought not be over anxious to encourage innovation, in case of doubtful improvement, for an old system must ever have two advantages over a new one; it is established and it is understood.

C. C. Colton

Punishment is not for revenge, but to lessen crime and reform the criminal.

Elizabeth Fry, Journal entry

The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices Make instruments to plague us.

William Shakespeare

A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft - Minded men purchases its own spiritual death on an installment plan.

Martin Luther King Jr.

From their experience or from the recorded experience of others history, men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn.

Aldous Huxley

Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.

Timothy Leary

I recommend that you take care of the minutes, for the hours will take care of themselves.

Lord Chesterfield

Welcome every problem as an opportunity. Each moment is the great challenge, the best thing that ever happened to you. The more difficult the problem, the greater the challenge in working it out.

Grace Speare

In times of tumult and discord bad men have the most power mental and moral excellence require peace and quiteness.

Publius Cornelius Tacitus

Wise men profit more from fools than fools from wise men for the wise men shun the mistakes of fools, but fools do not imitate the successes of the wise.

Cato the Elde

Your soul is oftentimes a battlefield, upon which your reason and your judgment wage war against passion and your appetite.

Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

When men are pure, laws are useless when men are corrupt, laws are broken.

Benjamin Disraeli

Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside. Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. Reach out. Share. Smile. Hug. Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.

Og Mandino

The function of government ought to be: make sure you have good water to drink, somebody picking up the garbage, good roads to drive on, enough electricity to turn your light bulbs and your record player on, and whatever smaller amounts of regulatory assistance is necessary to make this society work.

Frank Zappa, Interview with this submitter, New York City, 5/08/1980

Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.

Elizabeth I, in Francis Bacon, Apophthegms, 1625

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

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

By and large, I seem to have made more mistakes than any others of whom I know, but have learned thereby to make ever swifter acknowledgment of the errors and thereafter immediately set about to deal more effectively with the truths disclosed by the acknowledgment of erroneous assumptions.

Richard Buckminster Fulle

If a man would follow, today, the teachings of the Old Testament, he would be a criminal. If he would follow strictly the teachings of the New, he would be insane.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Do as most do, and men will speak well of you.

Thomas Fulle

The unconscious self is the real genius. Your breathing goes wrong the moment your conscious self meddles with it.

Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman, 1903

Reprove thy friend privately commend him publicly.

Solon

The fields were fruitful and starving men moved on the roads. The granaries were full and the children of the poor grew up rachitic.

John Steinbeck

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

Humor is the great thing, the saving thing. The minute it crops up, all our irritations and resentments slip away and a sunny spirit takes their place.

Mark Twain

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - Not absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward it is not a compliment to say it is brave.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement.

James Earl Jimmy Carter, Jr.