Quotes
Quotes about Man
We are all cells in the same body of humanity.
Humanity has only scratched the surface of its real potential.
Many people profess Christianity. Very few live it-almost none. And when you live it people may think you're crazy. It has been truthfully said that the world is equally shocked by one who repudiates Christianity as by one who practices it.
Look at every path closely and deliberately. Try it as many times as you think necessary. Then ask yourself and yourself alone one question. . . Does this path have a heart? If it does, the path is good. If it doesn't, it is of no use.
The greatness of a man's power is the measure of his surrender.
You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him to find it within himself.
What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.
What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.
Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Results! Why man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.
The wrongdoer is more unfortunate than the man wronged.
A leader knows what's best to do; a manager knows merely how best to do it.
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
I have discovered that we may be in some degree whatever character we choose. Besides, practice forms a man to anything.
There is no expedient to which a man will go to avoid the real labor of thinking.
Nearly every man who develops an idea works it up to the point where it looks impossible, and then gets discouraged. That's not the place to become discouraged.
A man who suffers before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary.
Life is a play. It's not its length, but its performance that counts.
Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
That thou seest, man, become too thou must; God, if thou seest God, dust, if thou seest dust.
Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.
No man can live happily who regards himself alone, who turns everything to his own advantage. Thou must live for another, if thou wishest to live for thyself.
The chief executive who knows his strengths and weaknesses as a leader is likely to be far more effective than the one who remains blind to them. He also is on the road to humilityâthat priceless attitude of openness to life that can help a manager absorb mistakes, failures, or personal shortcomings.
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.
The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it.
