Quotes
Quotes about Men
There is no great achievement that is not the result of patient working and waiting.
Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.
Cherish your visions and your dreams, as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.
High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.
There is no simplistic approach to worthwhile achievement in human affairs.
If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement.
An achievement is a bondage. It obliges one to a higher achievement.
It is very easy to overestimate the importance of our own achievements in comparison with what we owe others.
The sports page records people's accomplishments, the front page usually records nothing, but man's failures.
Innocence of heart and violence of feeling are necessary in any kind of superior achievement: The arts cannot exist without them.
One point of view gives a one dimensional world. (Liz Murray.. a brilliant homeless teen who got a scholarship to an Ivy League school).
Mere longevity is a good thing for those who watch Life from the side lines. For those who play the game, an hour may be a year, a single day's work an achievement for eternity.
Death comes to all But great achievements build a monument Which shall endure until the sun grows cold.
Prologues like compliments are loss of time; 'Tis penning bows and making legs in rhyme.
To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart; To make mankind, in conscious virtue bold, Live o'er each scene, and be what they behold-- For this the tragic Muse first trod the stage.
Working in the theatre has a lot in common with unemployment.
Of every noble action the intent Is to give worth reward, vice punishment.
Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets.
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.
I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.
The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.
Periods of tranquility are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.
As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.
