Men Quotes - Page 478

Adversity makes men remember God.

Power is what men seek, and any group that gets it will abuse it. It is the same story.

The man who worries morning and night about the dandelions in the lawn will find great relief in loving the dandelions.

A man can do all things if he will.

But man has other needs as well: emotional needs. These, too, are few, but every bit as important as his physical requirements, yet not so simple. If they aren't met, they can be as devastating as physical hunger, as uncomfortable as a lack of shelter, as incapacitating as thirst. The frustration, isolation and anxiety brought about by unmet emotional needs can, like physical privation, produce death or a degree of living death - neurosis and psychosis.

Every job is good if you do your best and work hard. A man who works hard stinks only to the ones that have nothing to do but smell.

They say a good man is worth fighting for. But a man who's good for YOU shouldn't make you fight just for the right to be in his life.

We prefer self-government with danger to servitude in tranquility.

The only reality is in the moment. What you are doing counts.

The people I met and the places I been Are all what make me the man I so proudly am.

Myth was regarded as primary; it was concerned with what was thought to be timeless and constant in our existence. Myth looked back to the origins of life, to the foundations of culture, and to the deepest levels of the human mind. Myth was not concerned with practical matters, but with meaning. Unless we find some significance in our lives, we mortal men and women fall very easily into despair. The mythos of a society provided people with a context that made sense of their day-to-day lives; it directed their attention to the eternal and the universal.

Men are like mascara, they run at the slightest display of emotion.

There are no friends; only moments of friendship.

The prospect of a government that treats all its citizens as criminal suspects is more terrifying than any terrorist. And even more frightening is a citizenry that can accept the surrender of its freedoms as the price of "freedom".

The man who most vividly realizes a difficulty is the man most likely to overcome it.

We ask you to help us work for that day when black will not be asked to get in back, when brown can stick around... when yellow will be mellow... when the red man can get ahead, man; and when white will embrace what is right.

It is one of man's curious idiosyncrasies to create difficulties for the pleasure of resolving them.

The fundamental goal of Buddhism is the realization of the peace and happiness of humankind.

Act as if! Act as if you're a wealthy man, rich already, and then you'll surely become rich. Act as if you have unmatched confidence and then people will surely have confidence in you. Act as if you have unmatched experience and then people will follow your advice. And act as if you are already a tremendous success, and as sure as I stand here today - you will become successful.

What is the one thing that 43% of men prefer over sex? Bacon!

A democracy is ... accounted the meanest and worst of all forms of government.

Find a mission that you can give yourself over to and then spend your days moving that mission forward. Man is made so that when anything fires his soul the impossibilities vanish. The influence of each human being on others in this life is a kind of immortality.

Temptations and occasions put nothing into a man, but only draw out what was in him before.

Pride is the recognition of the fact that you are your own highest value and, like all of man's values, it has to be earned-that of any achievements open to you, the one that makes all others possible is the creation of your own character-that your character, your actions, your desires, your emotions are the products of the premises held by your mind.

men are undoubtedly more in danger from prosperity than from adversity. for when matters go smoothly, they flatter themselves, and are intoxicated by their success