Men Quotes
The same power is in every man, the one manifesting more, the other less; the same potentiality is in everyone.
We can have no conception of God higher than man, so our God is man, and man is God.
If a man, day and night, thinks he is miserable, low and nothing, nothing he becomes. If you say yea, yea, "I am, I am", so shall you be.
Liberty in thought and action is the only condition of life, growth and well-being: Where it does not exist, the man, the race, and the nation must go down.
By the time a man asks you for advice, he has generally made up his mind what he wants to do, and is looking for confirmation rather than counseling.
He who drinks a tumbler of London water has literally in his stomach more animated beings than there are men, women, and children on the face of the globe.
"You’re different,” he said, touching my face. Of course I was. The man I loved had killed for me. A lot of things became inconsequential after a sacrifice like that.
Sensibility alters from generation to generation in everybody, whether we will or no; but expression is only altered by a man of genius.
In seasons of tumult and discord bad men have most power; mental and moral excellence require peace and quietness.
It has been said that absolute power corrupts absolutely, but many it not be truer to say that to be absolutely powerful a man must first corrupt himself?
How friendly all men would be one with another, if no regard were paid to honour and money! I believe it would be a remedy for everything.
No! Please! I'll tell you whatever you want to know!" the man yelled. "Really?" said Vimes. "What's the orbital velocity of the moon?" "What?" "Oh, you'd like something simpler?
Did the mass of men know the actual selfishness and injustice of their rulers, not a government would stand a year. - The world would foment with revolution.
To sit home, read one's favorite paper, and scoff at the misdeeds of the men who do things is easy, but it is markedly ineffective. It is what evil men count upon the good men's doing.
The highest form of success comes to the man who does not shrink from danger, from hardship or from bitter toil, and who, out of these, wins the splendid ultimate triumph.
The man of great wealth owes a peculiar obligation to the state because he derives special advantages from the mere existence of government.
A lot of men in politics suddenly woke up to the issue of women in politics when they realised: hey, there are votes in this!
If we live in peace ourselves, we in turn may bring peace to others. A peaceable man does more good than a learned one.
Devotion is a certain act of the will by which man gives himself promptly to divine service.
But man is freer than all the animals, on account of his free-will, with which he is endowed above all other animals.
It is the very nature of grace to make a man strive to be most eminent in that particular grace which is most opposed to his bosom sin.
The heart of man is the place the devil dwells in; I feel sometimes a hell within myself.
A man who will not leave his room because he does not know how, or is afraid to open the door, is trapped just the same whether or not the door is locked.
Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against.
All men, if they work not as in the great taskmaster's eye, will work wrong, and work unhappily for themselves and for you.
A man's felicity consists not in the outward and visible blessing of fortune, but in the inward and unseen perfections and riches of the mind.
To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a far slower reformation, is what each begins and perfects on himself.
Of a truth, men are mystically united: a mystic bond of brotherhood makes all men one.