Men Quotes
Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture... Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.Norman Vincent Peale
For Brutus is an honourable man So are they all, all honourable men.William Shakespeare
A good intention but fixed and resolute - Bent on high and holy ends, we shall find means to them on every side and at every moment; and even obstacles and opposition will but make us like the fabled specter - Ships, which sail the fastest in the very teeth of the wind.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Great men are not always idiots.Karen Elizabeth Gordon
Every government is run by liars. Nothing they say should be believed.I. F. Stone 1907 - 1989
Any coward can sit in his home and criticize a pilot for flying into a mountain in a fog. But I would rather, by far, die on a mountainside than in bed. What kind of man would live where there is no daring And is life so dear that we should blame men for dying in adventure Is there a better way to die.Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr.
I bid him look into the lives of men as though into a mirror, and from others to take an example for himself.Terence, Adelphoe
Retirement, we understand, is great if you are busy, rich, and healthy. But then, under those conditions, work is great too.Bill Vaughan
We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together.La Bruyere
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
The tendancy of liberals is to create bodies of men and women - Of all classes - Detached from tradition, alienated from religion, and susceptible to mass suggestion - Mob rule. And a mob will be no less a mob if it is well fed, well clothed, well housed, and well disciplined.George Eliot
Reflect on your present blessings, of which every man has many; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.Charles Dickens
Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in... Fear and resentment of what is new is really a lament for the memories of our childhood.Peter Medawa
Good writing takes more than just time; it wants your best moments and the best of you.Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher. com weblog, 10 - 09 - 04
Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.John Quincy Adams
We think very little of time present; we anticipate the future, as being too slow, and with a view to hasten it onward, we recall the past to stay it as too swiftly gone. We are so thoughtless, that we thus wander through the hours which are not here, regardless only of the moment that is actually our own.Blaise Pascal
All great achievements require time.David Joseph Schwartz
Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labor in it, but they labor in it because they excel.William Hazlitt
Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone.John Maynard Keynes
This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; the being a force of Nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman, Epistle Dedicatory
That government is best which governs least. - From Civil Disobedience.Henry David Thoreau
Retirement at sixty - Five is ridiculous. When I was sixty - Five I still had pimples.George Burns
Whenever books are burned men also in the end are burned.Heinrich Heine
Poetry is the language in which man explores his own amazement.Christopher Fry
Comments are free but facts are sacred.Charles Prestwich Scott
Civilization is very much an immature and ongoing experiment, the success of which is by no means yet proven.Colin Turnbull, anthropologist, The Human Cycle
A vein of poetry exists in the hearts of all men.Thomas Carlyle
The aim of education must be the training of independently acting and thinking individuals who, however, can see in the service to the community their highest life achievement.Albert Einstein
The ideal condition Would be, I admit, that men should be right by instinct But since we are all likely to go astray, The reasonable thing is to learn from those who can teach.Sophocles
The art of leading, in operations large or small, is the art of dealing with humanity, of working diligently on behalf of men, of being sympathetic with them, but equally, of insisting that they make a square facing toward their own problems.S. L. A. Marshall, Men Against Fire, 1947
Englishmen hate Liberty and Equality too much to understand them. But every Englishman loves a pedigree.George Bernard Shaw
It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.Charles Dickens, Bleak House
Man is more himself, man is more manlike, when joy is the fundamental thing in him, and grief the superficial.Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield
The AIDS epidemic has rolled back a big rotting log and revealed all the squirming life underneath it, since it involves, all at once, the main themes of our existence sex, death, power, money, love, hate, disease and panic. No American phenomenon has been so compelling since the Vietnam War.Edmund White
But search the land of living men, Wher wilst thou find their like again.Walter Scott
The best current evidence is that media are mere vehicles that deliver instruction but do not influence student achievement any more than the truck that delivers groceries causes change in our nutrition.Richard Clark
Sexual enlightenment is justified insofar as girls cannot learn too soon how children do not come into the world.Karl Kraus
