Quotes
Quotes about Men
Men conceal the past scenes of their lives. [Lat., Vitae poscaenia celant.]
Leave in concealment what has long been concealed. [Lat., Latere semper patere, quod latuit diu.]
Why is it that fools always have the instinct to hunt out the unpleasant secrets of life, and the hardiness to mention them?
Confession is always weakness. The grave soul keeps its own secrets, and takes its own punishment in silence.
God could cause us considerable embarrassment by revealing all the secrets of nature to us: we should not know what to do for sheer apathy and boredom.
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature or do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure.
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
Security is the priceless product of freedom. Only the strong can be secure, and only in freedom can men produce those material resources which can secure them from want at home and against aggression from abroad.
There is a luxury in self-dispraise; And inward self-disparagement affords To meditative spleen a grateful feast.
The improvement of our way of life is more important than the spreading of it. If we make it satisfactory enough, it will spread automatically. If we do not, no strength of arms can permanently oppose it.
Other men's sins are before our eyes; our own are behind our backs.
He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads.
, Self Empowerment Self-empowerment - that's learning to respect other people's music, but dance to your own tune as you master harmony within yourself. -Doc Childre.
It is necessary to the happiness of a man that he be mentally faithful to himself.
, The Hidden Power of the Heart Your DNA structure is designed so the choice to function in love is the only choice that brings you fulfillment. Stress is inner biofeedback, signaling you that frequencies are fighting within your system. The purpose of stress isn't to hurt you, but to let you know it's time to go back to the heart and start loving. -Sara Paddison.
Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.
The men and women who have the right ideals ... are those who have the courage to strive for the happiness which comes only with labor and effort and self-sacrifice, and those whose joy in life springs in part from power of work and sense of duty.
, The Hidden Power of the Heart As you sincerely go for deeper levels of love, the results you'll have in well-being and increased quality of life will motivate you, leading you to a wider dimensional awareness. The results are so rewarding you can easily develop a passion for self-management. -Sara Paddison.
, Raising an Emotionally Intelligent Child In the last decade or so, science has discovered a tremendous amount about the role emotions play in our lives. Researchers have found that even more than IQ, your emotional awareness and abilities to handle feelings will determine your success and happiness in all walks of life, including family relationships. -John Gottman.
We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects. -Herman Melville.
The outward freedom that we shall attain will only be in exact proportion to the inward freedom to which we may have grown at a given moment. And if this is a correct view of freedom, our chief energy must be concentrated on achieving reform from within. -Gandhi.
Men are not against you; they are merely for themselves.
The source of genius is imagination alone, . . . the refinement of the senses that sees what others do not see, or sees them differently.
I sit with my toes in a brook, And if any one axes forwhy? I hits them a rap with my crook, For 'tis sentiment does it, says I.
Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.
