Quotes
Quotes about Men
Guard against the prestige of great names; see that your judgments are your own; and do not shrink from disagreement; no trusting without testing.
Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and of family disagreements.
Failure is a disappointment but not defeat.
Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment.
All have disappointments, all have times when it isn't worthwhile.
How disappointment tracks the steps of hope.
Ambition has its disappointments to sour us, but never the good fortune to satisfy us. Its appetite grows keener by indulgence and all we can gratify it with at present serves but the more to inflame its insatiable desires.
If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.
Anytime you suffer a setback or disappointment, put your head down and plow ahead.
Perhaps catastrophe is the natural human environment, and even though we spend a good deal of energy trying to get away from it, we are programmed for survival amid catastrophe.
It is not our circumstances that create our discontent or contentment. It is us.
Content makes poor men rich; Discontent makes rich men poor.
Who with a little cannot be content, endures an everlasting punishment.
Discouragement is the opposite of courage.
Discouragement is simply the despair of wounded self-love.
Every great work, every great accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before the big achievement, comes apparent failure and discouragement.
Disease is an experience of mortal mind. It is fear made manifest on the body. Divine Science takes away this physical sense of discord, just as it removes a sense of moral or mental inharmony.
A bodily disease which we look upon as whole and entire within itself, may, after all, be but a symptom of some ailment in the spiritual part.
Diseases of the mind impair the bodily powers. [Lat., Vitiant artus aegrae contagia mentis.]
And as in men's bodies, so in government, that disease is most serious which proceeds from the head. [Lat., Utque in corporibus, sic in imperio, gravissimus est morbus qui a capite diffunditur.]
As man, perhaps, the moment of his breath, Receives the lurking principle of death, The younger disease, that must subdue at length, Grows with his growth, and strengthens with his strength.
A bodily disease may be but a symptom of some ailment in the spiritual past.
The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise, is gone!
Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.
Men are able to trust one another, knowing the exact degree of dishonesty they are entitled to expect.
