Men Quotes

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Most great men and women are not perfectly rounded in their personalities, but are instead people whose one driving enthusiasm is so great it makes their faults seem insignificant.
Charles A. Cerami
I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.
John Locke
Happiness is not in the mere possession of money it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Sophocles, oedpius rex - o generations of men, how i count you as equal...
More people out of work leads to higher unemployment. `
Calvin Coolidge
Well - Behaved women rarely make history.
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
Do not trust all men, but trust men of worth; the former course is silly, the latter a mark of prudence.
Democritus
Consciousness is a phase of mental life which arises in connection with the formation of new habits. When habit is formed, consciousness only interferes to spoil our performance.
W. R. Inge
Ideas must work through the brains and the arms of good and brave men, or they are no better than dreams.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Man is more himself, man is more manlike, when joy is the fundamental thing in him, and grief the superficial.
Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield
Henry James created more convincing women than Iris Murdoch put together.
Wilfred Sheed
Public confidence in the integrity of the Government is indispensable to faith in democracy; and when we lose faith in the system, we have lost faith in everything we fight and spend for.
Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.
Management An activity or art where those who have not yet succeeded and those who have proved unsuccessful are led by those who have not yet failed.
Paulson Frenckne
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace in a continual state of alarm and hence clamorous to be led to safety by menacing them with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
H. L. Mencken
No man is allowed to be a judge in his own cause, because his interest would certainly bias his judgment, and, not improbably, corrupt his integrity. With equal, nay with greater reason, a body of men are unfit to be both judges and parties at the same time.
James Madison, The Federalist, Paper # 10
Yo soy un anima infeliz, Perdida en este mundo atormendo. I am a miserable spirit lost in this tormented world.
James A Michener, Iberia
The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.
Herbert Aga
For health and the constant enjoyment of life, give me a keen and ever - Present sense of humor it is the next best thing to an abiding faith in providence.
George Barrell Cheeve
It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.
Juvenal, Satires
The habit of common and continuous speech is a symptom of mental deficiency.
Walter Bagehot
The enormous gap between what US leaders do in the world and what Americans think their leaders are doing is one of the great propaganda accomplishments of the dominate political mythology.
Michael Parenti
Reprove thy friend privately commend him publicly.
Solon
Wise men talk because they have something to say fools, because they have to say something.
Plato
Despair, in short, seeks its own environment as surely as water finds its own level.
A. Alvarez
I believe that its most important function is in the formation of attachment. If we did not suffer enough loss to fear it, we could not love intensely.
Andrew Soloman, The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression
The first step towards amendment is the recognition of error.
Seneca
The teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena. The teacher must understand and feel her position of observer: the activity must lie in the phenomenon.
Maria Montessori
But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life and thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine.
Thomas Jefferson
For want of self - Restraint many men are engaged all their lives in fighting with difficulties of their own making, and rendering success impossible by their own cross - Grained ungentleness; whilst others, it may be much less gifted, make their way and achieve success by simple patience, equanimity, and self - Control.
Smiles
Never hate your enemies, it affects you judgment.
Michael Corleone
Only one absolute certainty is possible to man, namely that at any given moment the feeling which he has exists.
Thomas H. Huxley
That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves.
Thomas Jefferson
Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every great and commanding moment in the annals of the world is the triumph of some enthusiasm.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
Martin Luther King Jr., Strength to Love, 1963
Regimen is superior to medicine.
Voltaire
I believe that all wisdom consists in caring immensely for a few right things, and not caring a straw about the rest.
John Buchan