Quotes
Quotes about Man
I had grown tired of standing in the lean and lonely front line facing the greatest enemy that ever confronted man--public opinion.
Don't judge a man by his opinions, but by what his opinions have made him.
There are as many opinions as there are experts.
Public opinion is a weak tyrant, compared with our private opinion--what a man thinks of himself, that is which determines, or rather indicates his fate.
It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.
A man is getting along on the road to wisdom when he begins to realize that his opinion is just an opinion.
A thousand year a poor man watched Before the gate of Paradise: But while one little nap he snatched, It oped and shut. Ah! was he wise?
There is an hour in each man's life appointed To make his happiness, if then he seize it.
There is a nick in Fortune's restless wheel For each man's good.
Yet he who grasps the moment's gift, He is the proper man. [Ger., Der den Augenblick ergreift, Das ist der rechte Mann.]
Man's extremity is God's opportunity.
The actual fact is that in this day Opportunity not only knocks at your door but is playing an anvil chorus on every man's door, and then lays for the owner around the corner with a club. The world is in sore need of men who can do things. Indeed, cases can easily be recalled by every one where Opportunity actually smashed in the door and collared her candidate and dragged him forth to success. These cases are exceptional, usually you have to meet Opportunity half-way. But the only place where you can get away from Opportunity is to lie down and die. Opportunity does not trouble dead men, or dead ones who flatter themselves that they are alive.
The greatest thing a man can do in this world is to make the most possible out of the stuff that has been given him. This is success, and there is no other.
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
Subtract from the great man all that he owes to opportunity, all that he owes to chance, and all that he gained by the wisdom of his friends and the folly of his enemies, and the giant will often be seen to be a pygmy.
Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell. â¢Anonymous Many an opportunity is lost because a man is out looking for four-leaf clovers.
Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities simply by being given the opportunity to do so.
Many an opportunity is lost because a man is out looking for four-leaf clovers.
The commonest form, one of the most often neglected, and the safest opportunity for the average man to seize, is hard work.
How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same, while a wise man and a wise guy are opposites?
Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution.
But most of us are apt to settle within ourselves that the man who blocks our way is odious, and not to mind causing him a little of the disgust which his personality excites in ourselves.
The opposition is indispensable. A good statesman, like any other sensible human being, always learns more from his opposition than from his fervent supporters.
You can measure a man by the opposition it takes to discourage him.
