Quotes
Quotes about Man
Education, then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of man, - the balance-wheel of the social machinery. -Horace Mann.
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself. -Galileo.
If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
Whoever wants to be a leader should educate himself before educating others. Before preaching to others he should first practice himself. Whoever educates himself and improves his own morals is superior to the man who tries to teach and train others.
A man's accomplishments in life are the cumulative effect of his attention to detail.
I don't like a man to be too efficient. He's likely to be not human enough.
It is more than probable that the average man could, with no injury to his health, increase his efficiency fifty percent.
Each man is the smith of his own fortune.
When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.
Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person.
If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even a s Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.
If a man does his best, what else is there?
Many a man never fails because he never tries.
There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering.
Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
As the grace of man is in the mind, so the beauty of the mind is eloquence.
Managing our emotions increases intuition and clarity. It helps us self-regulate our brain chemicals and internal hormones. It gives us natural highs, the real fountain of youth we've been searching for. It enables us to drink from elixirs locked within our cells, just waiting for us to discover them. -Doc Childre.
I realize it's hard not to churn your problems and I'm not idealistically saying you shouldn't. Still, you can learn to manage your non-efficient thinking and emotions. Just learn to be as conscious of your *mental and emotional energy expenditures and returns* as you are conscious of your dollar expenditures and returns. Remember the mental and emotional budget sheet. If you *halfway* play with this concept, it can give you a new perspective on energy economy. -Doc Childre.
The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the old man who will not laugh is a fool.
There is no such thing as a 'self-made' man. We are made up of thousands of others. Everyone who has ever done a kind deed for us, or spoken one word of encouragement to us, has entered into the make-up of our character and of our thoughts, as well as our success.
There are high spots in all of our lives and most of them have come about through encouragement from someone else. I don't care how great, how famous or successful a man or woman may be, each hungers for applause.
I believe that any man's life will be filled with constant and unexpected encouragement, if he makes up his mind to do his level best each day, and as nearly as possible reaching the high water mark of pure and useful living.
A morning sunne, and a wine-bred child, and a latin-bred woman, seldome end well. [A morning sun and a wine-bred child and a Latin-bred woman seldom end well.]
The manner in which one endures what must be endured is more important than the thing that must be endured.
