Quotes
Quotes about Man
But thus: if powers divine Behold our human actions, as they do, I doubt not then but innocence shall make False accusation blush and tyranny Tremble at patience.
You may go to Carlisle's and to Almanac's too; And I'll give you my Head if you find such a Host, For Coffee, Tea, Chocolate, Butter, or Toast; How he welcomes at once all the World and his Wife, And how civil to Folks he ne'er saw in his Life.
Along the varying road of life, In calm content, in toil or strife, At morn or noon, by night or day, As time conducts him on his way, How oft doth man, by care oppressed, Find in an Inn a place of rest.
There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern of inn.
The atmosphere Breathes rest and comfort and the many chambers Seem full of welcomes.
But the devil when he purports any evil against man, first perverts his mind. [Lat., At daemon, homini quum struit aliquid malum, Pervertit illi primitus mentem suam.]
Go, madman! rush over the wildest Alps, that you may please children and be made the subject of declamation. [Lat., I demens! et saevas curre per Alpes, Ut pueris placeas et declamatio fias.]
O, hark! what mean those yells and cries? His chain some furious madman breaks; He comes--I see his glaring eyes: Now, now, my dungeon grate he shakes. Help! Help! He's gone!--O fearful woe, Such screams to hear, such sights to see! My brain, my brain,--I know, I know I am not mad but soon shall be.
We are not ourselves When nature, being oppressed, commands the mind To suffer with the body.
In order to act, you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.
For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.
Mind is the Master-power that molds and makes, and Man is Mind, and evermore he takes the Tool of Thought, and shaping what he wills, brings forth a thousand joys, a thousand ills-He thinks in secret and it comes to pass; Environment is but his looking-glass. As A Man Thinketh .
I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.
The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good. Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom.
Poor is the man whose pleasures depend on the permission of another.
The wise learn many things from their enemies.
To each man is reserved a work which he alone can do.
To believe what has not occurred in history will not occur at all, is to argue disbelief in the dignity of man.
The inspiration of the almighty gives man understanding.
We are only now on the threshold of knowing the range of the educability of man-the perfectibility of man. We have never addressed ourselves to this problem before.
A tree that can fill the span of a man's arms grows from a downy tip; A terrace nine stories high rises from hodfuls of earth; A journey of a thousand miles starts from beneath one's feet.
The best soldier does not attack. The superior fighter succeeds without violence. The greatest conqueror wins without struggle. The most successful manager leads without dictating. This is intelligent nonaggressiveness. This is called the mastery of men.
Anything you cannot relinquish when it has outlived its usefulness possesses you, and in this materialistic age a great many of us are possessed by our possessions.
I've met a few people who had to change their jobs in order to change their lives, but I've met many more people who merely had to change their motive to service in order to change their lives.
to be nobody-but-myself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make me everybody else means, to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight, and never stop fighting.
