Men Quotes

The idea of an election is much more interesting to me than the election itself... The act of voting is in itself the defining moment.

Jeff Melvoin, Northern Exposure, Democracy in America, 1992

Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers and are famous preservers of youthful looks.

Charles Dickens

Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duty, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Commonwealth and the Empire last for a thousand years, men will still say, This was their finest hour.

Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill

There is no discipline in the world so severe as the discipline of experience subjected to the tests of intelligent development and direction.

John Dewey

The chess board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us. We know that his play is always fair, just, and patient. But we also know, to our cost, that he never overlooks a mistake, or makes the smallest allowance for ignorance.

Thomas Huxley

Forming characters! Whose? Our own or others? Both. And in that momentous fact lies the peril and responsibility of our existence.

Elihu Burritt

Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.

Plato

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

There is real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.

Norman Vincent Peale

The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government is to live under the government of worse men.

Plato, The Republic

First mend yourself, and then mend others.

Jewish Prove

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

Shakti Gawain

Be not too hasty either with praise or blame; speak always as though you were giving evidence before the judgement - Seat of the Gods.

Seneca

Man is more himself, man is more manlike, when joy is the fundamental thing in him, and grief the superficial.

Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield

There has never been an age that did not applaud the past and lament the present.

Lillian Eichler Watson

Without knowing the force of words, it is impossible to know men.

Confucius

The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.

Niels Boh

Any enjoyment is weakened when shared.

Marquis de Sade

Psychoanalysis is that mental illnes for which it regards itself a therapy.

Karl Kraus

I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious.

Francis Bacon

There are three rings involved with marriage. The engagement ring, the wedding ring, and the suffering.

Woody Allen

There are two ways of being creative. One can sing and dance. Or one can create an environment in which singers and dancers flourish.

Warren Bennis

To conclude that women are unfitted to the task of our historic society seems to me the equivalent of closing male eyes to female facts.

Lyndon B. Johnson

If grass can grow through cement, love can find you at every time in your life.

Che

Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.

Martin Luther King Jr., Strength to Love, 1963

There are moments on most days when I feel a deep and sincere gratitude, when I sit at the open window, and there is a blue sky or moving clouds.

Kathe Kollwitz

Commitment means that it is possible for a man to yield the nerve center of his consent to a purpose or cause, a movement or an ideal, which may be more important to him than whether he lives or dies.

Howard Thurman

Nothing shocks me more in the men of religion and their flocks than their pretensions to be the only religious people.

Jean Guehenno

Instead of solid accomplishments, the man pursues pleasures and self - Gratification. He will never achieve anything so long as he is surrounded by dissipating temptations.

I Ching

A kiss, is the physical transgression of the mental connection which has already taken place.

Tanielle Naus

The laughter of a man is the contentment of God.

John Weiss

The salary of the chief executive of the large corporations is not an award for achievement. It is frequently in the nature of a warm gesture by the individual to himself.

John Kenneth Galbraith

The reluctance to put away childish things may be a requirement of genius.

Rebecca Pepper Sinkle

I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Thank God men cannot as yet fly and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.

Henry David Thoreau, Jan. 3, 1861

Successful men are defined by thier actions; Unsuccessful men are defined by actions not taken.

Tom Rose

Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.

Aldous Huxley