Men Quotes - Page 394

. . . man is just what he thinks himself to be . . . He will attract to himself what the thinks most about. He can learn to govern his own destiny when he learns to control his thoughts.

If a person loves only one other person and is indifferent to all others, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism.

There is always a step small enough from where we are to get us to where we want to be. If we take that small step, there's always another we can take, and eventually a goal thought to be too far to reach becomes achievable.

If you can influence the leaders, either with or without their conscious cooperation, you automatically influence the group which they sway. But men do not need to be actually gathered together in a public meeting or in a street riot, to be subject to the influences of mass psychology. Because man is by nature gregarious he feels himself to be member of a herd, even when he is alone in his room with the curtains drawn.

Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

Education is not only a ladder of opportunity, but it is also an investment in our future.

Being an outsider to some extent, someone who does not "fit in" with others or is rejected by them for whatever reason, makes life difficult, but it also places you at an advantage as far as enlightenment is concerned. It takes you out of unconsciousness almost by force.

Every man must wear out at least one pair of fools shoes.

If a man just stops to think what he has to praise God for, he will find there is enough to keep him singing praises for a week.

Every great man has a woman behind him ... And every great woman has some man or other in front of her, tripping her up.

Is it not lack of faith that leads men to fear the scrutiny of reason? If the destination is doubtful, then the path must be fraught with fear. A robust faith need not fear, for if God exists, then reason cannot help but lead us to Him. 'Cogito, ergo Deus est,' argues St. Augustine, 'I think, therefore God is.'

In a battery, I strive to maximize electrical potential. When mentoring, I strive to maximize human potential.

Man is the most intelligent of the animals - and the most silly.

There are in life a few moments so beautiful,that even words are a sort of profanity.

It's headed away by John Clark, using his head.

The combined outrage of the millions of creatures which have suffered at the hands of man may well combine to haunt us. We are all of the same family, though destiny has assigned us to different roles: in our relationship with animals, we should regard them as different, not inferior.

No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.

Success has a great tendency to conceal and throw a veil over the evil deeds of men.

The animal needing something knows how much it needs, the man does not.

It is hard to fight desire; but to control it is the sign of a reasonable man.

In my life nothing goes wrong. When things seem to not meet my expectations, I let go of how I think things should be. It's a matter of not having any attachment to any fixed outcome.

I know not whether, in the eyes of the world, a brilliant death is not preferred to an obscure life of rectitude. Most men are remembered as they died, and not as they lived. We gaze with admiration upon the glories of the setting sun, yet scarcely bestow a passing glance upon its noonday splendor.

If god created man in his own image, how come I'm not invisible?

No local church can afford to go without the encouragement and nourishment that will come to it by sending away its best people.

Patience is a crucial but rare investment commodity.