Quotes
Quotes about Man
Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another.
My greatest point is my persistence. I never give up in a match. However down I am, I fight until the last ball. My list of matches shows that I have turned a great many so-called irretrievable defeats into victories.
Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others. -Winston Churchill.
A man of courage is also full of faith.
For a righteous man falls seven times, and rises again. [Proverbs 24:16].
If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world.
We must be as courteous to a man as we are to a picture, which we are willing to give the advantage of a good light.
We covet what is guarded; the very care invokes the thief. Few love what they may have. [Lat., Quicquid servatur, cupimus magis: ipsaque furem Cura vocat. Pauci, quod sinit alter, amant.]
How many feasible projects have miscarried through despondency, and been strangled in their birth by a cowardly imagination.
A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.
Cowards die many times before their deaths;The valiant never taste of death but once.
How many cowards whose hearts are all as false As stairs of sand, wear yet upon their chins The beards of Hercules and frowning Mars, Who inward searched, have livers white as milk!
Fear even when morbid is not cowardice. That is the label we reserve for something that a man does. What passes through his mind is his own affair.
Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
Because of their courage, their lack of fear, they (creative people) are willing to make silly mistakes. The truly creative person is one who can think crazy; such a person knows full well that many of his great ideas will prove to be worthless. The creative person is flexibleâhe is able to change as the situation changes, to break habits, to face indecision and changes in conditions without undue stress. He is not threatened by the unexpected as rigid, inflexible people are.
The human mind cannot create anything. It produces nothing until after having been fertilized by experience and meditation; its acquisitions are the gems of its production.
Man was made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.
The creative person wants to be a know -it -all. He wants to know about all kinds of things: ancient history, nineteenth -century mathematics, current manufacturing techniques, flower arranging, and hog futures. Because he never knows when these ideas might come together to form a new idea. It may happen six minutes later or six months, or six years down the road. But he has faith that it will happen.
No man's credit is as good as his money.
Heaven takes care that no man secures happiness by crime. [It., Oh! ben provvide il cielo, Ch' uom per delitto mai lieto non sia.]
But many a crime deemed innocent on earth Is registered in Heaven; and these no doubt Have each their record, with a curse annex'd.
Many commit the same crimes with a very different result. One bears a cross for his crime; another a crown. [Lat., Multi committunt eadem diverso crimina fato; Ille crucem scleris pretium tulit, hic diadema.]
By his own verdict no guilty man was ever acquitted. [Lat., Se judice, nemo nocens absolvitur.]
We enact many laws that manufacture criminals, and then a few that punish them.
The real significance of crime is in its being a breach of faith with the community of mankind.
