Men Quotes

The way to do research is to attack the facts at the point of greatest astonishment.

Celia Green

The principle of liberty and equality, if coupled with mere selfishness, will make men only devils, each trying to be independent that he may fight only for his own interest. And here is the need of religion and its power, to bring in the principle of benevolence and love to men.

John Randolph

If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.

Plato

Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.

Johann von Goethe

Men have become the tools of their tools.

Henry David Thoreau

Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.

Stephen Covey

Nature is just enough but men and women must comprehend and accept her suggestions.

Antoinette Brown Blackwell

There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat.

James Russell Lowell

First mend yourself, and then mend others.

Jewish Prove

A slight touch of friendly malice and amusement towards those we love keeps our affections for them from turning flat.

Logan Pearsall Smith

What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense, we are. The mere aspiration, by changing the frame of the mind, for the moment realizes itself.

Anna Jameson

The preservation of the sacred fire of liberty and the destiny of the republican model of government are justly considered... deeply... finally, staked on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people.

George Washington

Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full - On metamorphosis.

Martha Beck, O Magazine, Growing Wings, January 2004

Between two groups of men that want to make inconsistent kinds of worlds I see no remedy except force... It seems to me that every society rests on the death of men.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self - Love might impair your judgment.

Seneca

For to err in opinion, though it be not the part of wise men, is at least human.

Plutarch, Morals

Bad mind, bad heart. Mals Mens, Malus Animus.

Anacharsis Cloots

The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, nor to worry about the future, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly.

Buddha

My object will be, if possible, to form Christian men, for Christian boys I can scarcely hope to make.

Thomas Arnold

Individual commitment to a group effort, that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

Vince Lombardi

More men fail through lack of purpose than lack of talent.

William Ashley

Explanation separates us from astonishment, which is the only gateway to the incomprehensible.

Eugene Ionesco, Decouvertes (1969)

Thirty - Five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty - Five for years.

Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest, Act 3

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

Henry David Thoreau, Jan. 3, 1861

I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.

Albert Camus

We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.

George Bernard Shaw

The men who try to do something and fail are infinitely better than those who try to do nothing and succeed.

Lloyd Jones

The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent, experimentation. It is common sense to take a method and try it, if it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

Theodore Roosevelt

We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over so in a series of kindness there is at last one which makes the heart run over.

Samuel Johnson

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

To us, the moment 8: 17 A. M. means something - Something very important, if it happens to be the starting time of our daily train. To our ancestors, such an odd eccentric instant was without significance - Did not even exist. In inventing the locomotive, Watt and Stevenson were part inventors of time.

Aldous Huxley

The good neighbor looks beyond the external accidents and discerns those inner qualities that make all men human and, therefore, brothers.

Marin Luther King, Jr., Strength to Love (1963)

Education is not merely a means for earning a living or an instrument for the acquisition of wealth. It is an initiation into life of spirit, a training of the human soul in the pursuit of truth and the practice of virtue.

Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit

When the highest type of men hear Tao, They diligently practice it. When the average type of men hear Tao, They half believe in it. When the lowest type of men hear Tao, They laugh heartily at it.

Lao Tzu

Use soft words and hard arguments.

English Prove

Commitment in the face of conflict produces character.

Unknown

It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls.

Epicurus

Criminals do not die by the hands of the law. They die by the hands of other men.

George Bernard Shaw