Quotes
Quotes about Man
It is easier for a woman to defend her virtue against men than her reputation against women.
Good will, like a good name, is got by many actions, and lost by one.
The reputation of a man is like his shadow, gigantic when it precedes him, and pigmy in its proportions when it follows.
Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
We are in the position of a little child entering a huge library filled with books in many different languages. The child knows someone must have written those books. It does not know how. It does not understand the languages in which they are they are they are written. The child dimly suspects a mysterious order in the arrangement of the books but doesn't know what it is. That, it seems to me, is the attitude of even the most intelligent being toward God.
Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.
It is strange that we do not temper our resentment of criticism with a thought for our many faults which have escaped us.
Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation . . . . A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind.
We cannot conquer fate and necessity, yet we can yield to them in such a manner as to be greater than if we could.
A wise man cares not for what he cannot have.
Videlicit, That each man swore to do his best To damn and perjure all the rest.
In truth there is no such thing in man's nature as a settled and full resolve either for good or evil, except at the very moment of execution.
Respect commands itself and it can neither be given nor withheld when it is due.
I'm not concerned with your liking or disliking me . . . All I ask is that you respect me as a human being.
If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that ... I believe in what I do, and I'll say it.
I don't know what a scoundrel is like, but I know what a respectable man is like, and it's enough to make one's flesh creep.
One of the surprising things in this world is the respect a worthless man has for himself.
Every human being has a work to carry on within, duties to perform abroad, influence to exert, which are peculiarly his, and which no conscience but his own can teach.
Responsibility is the thing people dread most of all. Yet it is the one thing in the world that develops us, gives us manhood or womanhood fibre.
The man who gets the most satisfactory results is not always the man with the most brilliant single mind, but rather the man who can best coordinate the brains and talents of his associates.
It has been my observation and experience, and that of my family, that nothing human works out well.
Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.
Is not this a lamentable thing, that of the skin of an innocent lamb should be made parchment? that parchment, being scribbled o'er, should undo a man? Some say the bee stings, but I say 'tis the bee's wax; for I did but seal once to a thing, and I was never mind own man since.
There is an enormous number of managers who have retired on the job.
