Quotes
Quotes about Men
Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.
Food for the soul. [Lat., Nutrimentum spiritus.]
There is a cropping-time in the races of men, as in the fruits of the field; and sometimes, if the stock be good, there springs up for a time a succession of splendid men; and then comes a period of barrenness.
The hero is the one who kindles a great light in the world, who sets up blazing torches in the dark streets of life for men to see by. The saint is the man who walks through the dark paths of the world, himself a light.
Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.
The life that conquers is the life that moves with a steady resolution and persistence toward a predetermined goal. Those who succeed are those who have thoroughly learned the immense importance of plan in life, and the tragic brevity of time.
And how am I to face the odds Of man's bedevilment and God's? I, a stranger and afraid In a world I never made.
In the midst of hopes and cares, of apprehensions and of disquietude, regard every day that dawns upon you as if it was to be your last; then super-added hours, to the enjoyment of which you had not looked forward, will prove an acceptable boon. -Horace.
Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.
Life is a cement trampoline.
Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.
Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies.
The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.
What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others. -Pericles.
Life, as it is called, is for most of us one long postponement.
The truest process of human kind and human life is to ultimatly conquer your fears and live a life worth dyeing for. Because in the end, before that final moment, is it not the moments of your life that flash before you?
Our own life is the instrument with which we experiment with the truth. -Thich Nhat Hanh.
We are coming to understand health not as the absence of disease, but rather as the process by which individuals maintain their sense of coherence (i.e. sense that life is comprehensible, manageable, and meaningful) and ability to function in the face of changes in themselves and their relationships with their environment. -Aaron Antonovsky.
And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin: And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
O lovely lily clean, O lily springing green, O lily bursting white, Dear lily of delight, Spring in my heart agen That I may flower to men.
