Men Quotes - Page 946

The spiritual man habitually makes eternity-judgments instead of time-judgments. By faith he rises above the tug of earth and the flow of time and learns to think and feel as one who has already left the world and gone to join the innumerable company of angels and the general assembly and Church of the First-born which are written in heaven. Such a man would rather be useful than famous and would rather serve than be served. And all this must be by the operation of the Holy Spirit within him. No man can become spiritual by himself. Only the free Spirit can make a man spiritual.

Religion has accepted the monstrous heresy that noise, size, activity and bluster make a man dear to God.

Conversation in its happiest development is a link, equally exquisite and adequate, between mind and mind, a system by which men approach one another with sympathy and enjoyment, a field for the finest amenities of civilization, for the keenest and most intelligent display of social activity. It is also our solace, our inspiration, and our most rational pleasure. It is a duty we owe to one another; it is our common debt to humanity.

Real management is developing people through work.

It is really a hard life. Men will not be nice to you if you are not good-looking, and women will not be nice to you if you are.

Time brings all things to pass.

A man needs to be polite, not just to me but to everyone. I watch that. How does he treat the waiter? How does he treat the coat-check girl? How does he treat the driver?

The majority can never replace the man

This state of mind, which subordinates the interests of the ego to the conservation of the community, is really the first premise for every truly human culture... The basic attitude from which such activity arises, we call-to distinguish it from egoism and selfishness-idealism. By this we understand only the individual's capacity to make sacrifices for the community, for his fellow men.

Superior technical achievements - used correctly both strategically and tactically - can beat any quantity numerically many times stronger yet technically inferior.

Should I give up or should I just keep chasing pavement, even if it leads nowhere?

But in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or to detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.

You can always lie to others and hide your actions from them... but you can not fool yourself

The liberty of a people consists in being governed by laws which they have made themselves, under whatsoever form it be of government; the liberty of a private man, in being master of his own time and actions, as far as may consist with the laws of God and of his country.

I begin to think, that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life. Man was made for action and for bustle too, I believe.

From time immemorial, man has desired to comprehend the complexity of nature in terms of as few elementary concepts as possible.

Tell me, why is the media here so negative? Why are we in India so embarrassed to recognize our own strengths, our achievements? We are such a great nation. We have so many amazing success stories but we refuse to acknowledge them. Why?.

No one man is superior to the game.

A woman's life in the orchestra is not as long as a man's; she is just not as good at 60 as a man is at 60.

A lot of people think medicine hunting is all Chris trekking through the jungle. Or, for that matter, the chiefs and (male) elders he works with. The men get the headlines, but it's the women behind the scenes who are doing the planting and harvesting and chopping.

Men honor what lies within the sphere of their knowledge, but do not realize how dependent they are on what lies beyond it.

A man who trusts in luck better have plenty of it.

If success attends my steps, honor and glory await my name-if defeat, still shall it be said we died like brave men, and conferred honor, even in death, on the American Name.

To consider oneself different from ordinary men is wrong, but it is right to hope that one will not remain like ordinary men.

Don't get attached to moments. Good or bad, they all pass.