Men Quotes
It is faith among men that holds the moral elements of society together, as it is faith in God that binds the world to his throne.William M. Evarts
Labor disgraces no man unfortunately you occasionally find men disgrace labor.Ulysses S. Grant
Shyness has a strange element of narcissism, a belief that how we look, how we perform, is truly important to other people.Andr Dubus
It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done.Samuel Smiles
This world is given as the prize for the men in earnest; and that which is true of this world, is truer still of the world to come.Frederick William Robertson
There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.Benjamin Franklin
Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.Soren Kierkegaard
Men are rich only as they give. He who gives great service gets great rewards.Elbert Hubbard
The power of hiding ourselves from one another is mercifully given, for men are wild beasts, and would devour one another but for this protection.Henry Ward Beecher, "Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit", 1887
Psychoanalysis is that mental illnes for which it regards itself a therapy.Karl Kraus
Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.Samuel Johnson
As we look deeply within, we understand our perfect balance. There is no fear of the cycle of birth, life and death. For when you stand in the present moment, you are timeless.Rodney Yee
When neither their property nor their honor is touched, the marjority of men live content.Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince
When an idea exclusively occupies the mind, it is transformed into an actual physical or mental state.Swami Sivanada
The fundamental defect of fathers is that they want their children to be a credit to them.Bertrand Russell
Without cultural sanction, most or all our religious beliefs and rituals would fall into the domain of mental disturbance.John Schumake
Government never furthered any enterprise but the alacrity with which it got out of the way.Henry David Thoreau
It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.Aristotle
Never hire or promote in your own image. It is foolish to replicate your strength and idiotic to replicate your weakness. It is essential to employ, trust, and reward those whose perspective, ability, and judgment are radically different from yours. It is also rare, for it requires uncommon humility, tolerance, and wisdom.Dee W. Hock, Fast Company
To be prosperous is not to be superior, and should form no barrier between men. Wealth out not to secure the prosperous the slightest consideration. The only distinctions which should be recognized are those of the soul, of strong principle, of incorruptible integrity, of usefulness, of cultivated intellect, of fidelity in seeking the truth.William Ellery Channing
Fools make researches and wise men exploit them.H. G. Wells
The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves.William Ellery Channing
President Reagan was elected on the promise of getting government off the backs of the people and now he demands that government wrap itself around the waists of the people.Ralph Nade
So long as faith with freedom reigns And loyal hope survives, And gracious charity remains To leaven lowly lives; While there is one untrodden tract For intellect or will, And men are free to think and act, Life is worth living still.Alfred Austin
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
Some people surrender their freedom willingly but others are forced to surrender it. Imprisonment begins with birth. Society, parents they refuse to allow you to keep the freedom you were born with. There are subtle ways to punish a person for daring to feel. You see that everyone around you has destroyed his true feeling nature. You imitate what you see.Jim Morrison
Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.Stephen Covey
Radio is a bag of mediocrity where little men with carbon minds wallow in sluice of their own making.Fred Allen
Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.Seneca, Epistles
In nature there are neither rewards not punishments - - There are consequences.Robert Green Ingersoll
For men who had easily endured hardship, danger and difficult uncertainty, leisure and riches, though in some ways desirable, proved burdensome and a source of grief.Sallust
When small men cast long shadows the sun is going down.Venita Cravens
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
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
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
We not only live among men, but there are airy hosts, blessed spectators, sympathetic lookers - On, that see and know and appreciate our thoughts and feelings and acts.Henry Ward Beeche
To the poet, to the philosopher, to the saint, all things are friendly and sacred, all events profitable, all days holy, all men divine.Ralph Waldo Emerson
At the moment of death I hope to be surprised.Ivan Illich
