Quotes
Quotes about Men
One principle reason why men are so often useless is that they divide and shift their attention among a multiplicity of objects and pursuits.
Thinking more than others about our own thoughts is not self-centeredness. It means that if asked what's on our mind, we are less likely to mention being aware of the world around us, and more likely to mention our inner reflections. But we are less likely to mention thinking about other people.
Zeal without humanity is like a ship without a rudder, liable to be stranded at any moment.
We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment.
Nothing splendid was ever created in cold blood. Heat is required to forge anything. Every great accomplishment is the story of a flaming heart.
Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.
Man is not logical and his intellectual history is a record of mental reserves and compromises. He hangs on to what he can in his old beliefs even when he is compelled to surrender their logical basis.
The measure of a man's success must be according to his ability. The advancement he makes from the station in which he was born gives the degree of his success.
It's the men behind who "make" the man ahead.
As no roads are so rough as those that have just been mended, so no sinners are so intolerant as those that have just turned saints.
A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.
But a stranger in a strange land, he is no one: men know him not-and to know not is to care not for.
Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
When two men share an umbrella, both of them get wet.
The entire world is my temple, and a very fine one too, if I'm not mistaken, and I'll never lack priests to serve it as long as there are men.
Wise men still seek Him today.
All of us, at certain moments of our lives, need to take advice and to receive help from other people. - Reflections on Life.
I think there is choice possible to us at any moment, as long as we live. But there is no sacrifice. There is a choice, and the rest falls away. Second choice does not exist. Beware of those who talk about sacrifice. - The Life of Poetry.
Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health, knowledge and good judgment will always be in demand under all conditions.
Of all the properties which belong to honorable men, not one is so highly prized as that of character.
Facts in books, statistics in encyclopedias, the ability to use them in men's heads.
What is the recipe for successful achievement? To my mind there are just four essential ingredients: Choose a career you love, give it the best there is in you, seize your opportunities, and be a member of the team.
Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew. They're what make the instrument stretch -what makes you go beyond the norm.
There is a sort of veteran woman of condition, who, having lived always in the grand monde, and having possibly had some gallantries, together with the experience of five and twenty or thirty years, form a young fellow better than all the rules that can be given him. Wherever you go, make some of those women your friends; which a very little matter will do. Ask their advice, tell them your doubts or difficulties as to your behavior; but take great care not to drop one word of their experience; for experience implies age, and the suspicion of age, no woman, let her be ever so old, ever forgives.
