Men Quotes

On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does.

Will Rogers

Contentment is not the fulfillment of what you want, but the realization of how much you already have.

Anonymous

And that this country shall have a new birth of freedom, and that this government, of the people, for the people, by the people, shall not perish from the Earth.

Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg Address

Our whole life is an attempt to discover when our spontaneity is whimsical, sentimental irresponsiblity and when it is a valid expression of our deepest desires and values.

Helen Merrell Lynd

Every great improvement has come after repeated failure. Virtually nothing comes out right the first time. Failures, repeated failures, are the posts on the road to achievement.

Charles F. Kettering, quoted in Globe and Mail, Toronto, June 18, 2004, page A16, mkesterton@globeandmail. ca

You cannot acquire experience by making experiments. You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.

Albert Camus

The point to remember is what the government gives it must first take away.

John S. Coleman

One cool judgment is worth a dozen hasty councils. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.

Woodrow Wilson

The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men, charity.

Francis Maitland Balfou

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

Many years ago, I concluded that a few hair shirts were part of the mental wardrobe of every man. The president differs from other men in that he has a more extensive wardrobe.

Herbert Clark Hoove

In no sense do I advocate evading or defying the law... That would lead to anarchy. An individual who breaks a law that his conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

What most experimenters take for granted before they begin their experiments is infinitely more interesting than any results to which their experiments lead.

Norbert Wiene

Men of ill judgment oft ignore the good That lies within their hands, till they have lost it.

Sophocles, Ajax

This quote reminds me to enjoy each moment of the summer Steep thyself in a bowl of summertime.

Virgil

Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.

Thomas Alva Edison

If we take care of the moments, the years will take care of themselves.

Maria Edgeworth, O Magazine, April 2004

Ultimately, contentment is more a shift in attitude than a change in circumstances.

Linda Dillow, "Calm My Anxious Heart".

Prejudice is opinion without judgement.

Voltaire

Men of perverse opinion do not know the excellence of what is in their hands, till some one dash it from them.

Sophocles

With all their faults, trade - Unions have done more for humanity than any other organization of men that ever existed.

Clarence Darrow

Beneath the rule of men entirely great, The pen is mightier than the sword.

Edward Bulwer - Lytton, Richelieu

So they the Government go on in strange paradox, decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all - Powerful to be impotent.

Sir Winston Churchill, Hansard, November 12, 1936

He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument.

William Shakespeare

In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative original thinker unless you can also sell what you create. Management cannot be expected to recognize a good idea unless it is presented to them by a good salesman.

David M. Ogilvy

Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

Tacitus

The men who create power make an indispensable contribution to the Nation? s greatness, but the men who question power make a contribution just as indispensable, especially when that questioning is disinterested, for they determine whether we use power or power uses us.

John F. Kennedy, Amherst College, Oct 26, 1963 - Source JFK Library, Boston, Mass.

No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right a single experiment can prove me wrong.

Albert Einstein

Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

An affirmation is a strong, positive statement that somthing is already so.

Shakti Gawain

To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there is no birth in our lifetime.

Erich Fromm

Judge thyself with the judgment of sincerity, and thou will judge others with the judgment of charity.

John Mitchell Mason

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

Anne Frank, Diary of a Young Girl, 1952

We do not remember days, we remember moments.

Cesare Pavese

The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object.

Thomas Jefferson

Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all - wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.

Sir Winston Churchill, Hansard, November 11, 1947

Virtue does not come from wealth, but... wealth, and every other good thing which men have... comes from virtue.

Socrates

Neither can embellishments of language be found without arrangement and expression of thoughts, nor can thoughts be made to shine without the light of language.

Cicero