Quotes
Quotes about Man
Desire is the essence of a man.
By annihilating the desires, you annihilate the mind. Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act.
All human activity is prompted by desire.
Every human mind is a great slumbering power until awakened by a keen desire and by definite resolution to do.
More than any other time in history, mankind faces a cross-roads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly.
Despair ruins some, presumption many.
Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim. It is, one is told, the unforgivable sin, but it is a sin the corrupt or evil man never practices. He always has hope. He never reaches the freezing-point of knowing absolute failure. Only the man of goodwill carries always in his heart this capacity for damnation.
It becomes no man to nurse despair, but, in the teeth of clenched antagonisms, to follow up the worthiest till he die.
The man who lives only by hope will die with despair.
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation ... A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind.
It is a miserable state of mind to have few things to desire, and many things to fear.
For rarely man escapes his destiny. [It., Che l'uomo il suo destin fugge di raro.]
No living man can send me to the shades Before my time; no man of woman born, Coward or brave, can shun his destiny.
Every man meets his Waterloo at last.
I feel that I am a man of destiny. [Ger., Ich fuhl 's das ich der Mann des Schicksals bin.]
A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a king, and eat of the fish that hath fed of that worm.
Think you I bear the shears of destiny? Have I commandment on the pulse of life?
Intellect annuls fate. So far as a man thinks, he is free.
Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.
Man's ultimate destiny is to become one with the Divine Power which governs and sustains the creation and its creatures.
Woman is the salvation or the destruction of the family. She carries its destiny in the folds of her mantle.
Ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your hands. But like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them you will reach your destiny.
Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces over which we have no control. It is determined for the insect, as well as for the star. Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper.
If a man is destined to drown, he will drown even in a spoonful of water.
Many blunder in business through inability or an unwillingness to adopt new ideas. I have seen many a success turn to failure also, because the thought which should be trained on big things is cluttered up with the burdensome detail of little things.
