In this post, you will find great His Quotes from famous people, such as Bob Dylan, Aristotle, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Martin Luther, Oscar Wilde. You can learn and implement many lessons from these quotes.
No man has any natural authority over his fellow men.
Faith is a living, daring confidence in God’s grace, so sure and certain that a man could stake his life on it a thousand times.
I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner.
Beckham? His wife can’t sing and his barber can’t cut hair.
I believe in God and his son, Jesus.
Every man is his own hell.
Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.
It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.
In my early professional years I was asking the question: How can I treat, or cure, or change this person? Now I would phrase the question in this way: How can I provide a relationship which this person may use for his own personal growth?
Unlike a drop of water which loses its identity when it joins the ocean, man does not lose his being in the society in which he lives. Man’s life is independent. He is born not for the development of the society alone, but for the development of his self.
One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.
I think we’re going to the moon because it’s in the nature of the human being to face challenges. It’s by the nature of his deep inner soul… we’re required to do these things just as salmon swim upstream.
Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting.
Alone let him constantly meditate in solitude on that which is salutary for his soul, for he who meditates in solitude attains supreme bliss.
Judge not a man by his clothes, but by his wife’s clothes.
Each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.
Mankind must remember that peace is not God’s gift to his creatures; peace is our gift to each other.
A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
I am a most noteworthy sinner, but I have cried out to the Lord for grace and mercy, and they have covered me completely. I have found the sweetest consolation since I made it my whole purpose to enjoy His marvellous Presence.
What is there more unruly than the sea, with its winds, its tornadoes, and its tempests? And yet in what department of her works has Nature been more seconded by the ingenuity of man than in this, by his inventions of sails and of oars?
Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity, it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.
There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.
Man should be master of his environment, not its slave. That is what freedom means.
Man’s main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality.
Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices.
Cut off from his religious, metaphysical and transcendental roots, man is lost; all his actions become senseless, absurd, useless.
Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren’t very new at all.
Who is rich? He that rejoices in his portion.
We must reject the idea that every time a law’s broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.
From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own.
I think that is a better thing than thanksgiving: thanks-living. How is this to be done? By a general cheerfulness of manner, by an obedience to the command of Him by whose mercy we live, by a perpetual, constant delighting of ourselves in the Lord, and by a submission of our desires to His will.
A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men, and when he devotes himself helpfully to all life that is in need of help.
He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.
The character of a man is known from his conversations.
You can calculate the worth of a man by the number of his enemies, and the importance of a work of art by the harm that is spoken of it.
My dad is too cute. Every morning, he sends me one motivational quote. I have a folder full of all his quotes.
It is a wise father that knows his own child.
A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.
It belongs to the imperfection of everything human that man can only attain his desire by passing through its opposite.
International affairs is very much run like the mafia. The godfather does not accept disobedience, even from a small storekeeper who doesn’t pay his protection money. You have to have obedience; otherwise, the idea can spread that you don’t have to listen to the orders, and it can spread to important places.
Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal.
A man’s friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.
Above all, remember that God looks for solid virtues in us, such as patience, humility, obedience, abnegation of your own will – that is, the good will to serve Him and our neighbor in Him. His providence allows us other devotions only insofar as He sees that they are useful to us.
A man has always to be busy with his thoughts if anything is to be accomplished.
Man does not control his own fate. The women in his life do that for him.
Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way.
Life is a pilgrimage. The wise man does not rest by the roadside inns. He marches direct to the illimitable domain of eternal bliss, his ultimate destination.
If the grandfather of the grandfather of Jesus had known what was hidden within him, he would have stood humble and awe-struck before his soul.
No man or woman who tries to pursue an ideal in his or her own way is without enemies.
I firmly believe that any man’s finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle – victorious.
You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.
No traveler, whether a tree lover or not, will ever forget his first walk in a sugar-pine forest. The majestic crowns approaching one another make a glorious canopy, through the feathery arches of which the sunbeams pour, silvering the needles and gilding the stately columns and the ground into a scene of enchantment.
In the Lord’s Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.
I like feet. I definitely have a fetish. I love to see a man’s bare foot, but its got to be taken care of. If they’re not well manicured, you’ve got to wonder what the rest of him is like. I don’t want to get in bed with somebody and feel his gnarly feet.
We are in the society of the teacher-judge, the doctor-judge, the educator-judge, the ‘social-worker’-judge; it is on them that the universal reign of the normative is based; and each individual, wherever he may find himself, subjects to it his body, his gestures, his behavior, his aptitudes, his achievements.
The general who wins the battle makes many calculations in his temple before the battle is fought. The general who loses makes but few calculations beforehand.
Where a man’s heart is, there is his treasure also.
Every secret of a writer’s soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.
Sex is the most beautiful thing that can take place between a happily married man and his secretary.
A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence.
Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.
A son can bear with equanimity the loss of his father, but the loss of his inheritance may drive him to despair.
I want to take Justin Bieber for a month and just lock him up in a cage where we sit and make music. He’s one of the most successful people in the world, but his music could be so much tighter.
A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.
Consistency is the most overrated of all human virtues… I’m someone who changes his mind all the time.
The loss of my father will always sting. But now, everything that I do is in honor of him and celebrates his life.
I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. ‘Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.
It is right to give every man his due.
And each man stands with his face in the light. Of his own drawn sword, ready to do what a hero can.
If men can develop weapons that are so terrifying as to make the thought of global war include almost a sentence for suicide, you would think that man’s intelligence and his comprehension… would include also his ability to find a peaceful solution.
An attempt is already underway to revise history – to leave the impression that the former president had nothing to do with Watergate. But there is no doubt about his obstruction of justice after the Watergate break-in.
Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul.
God’s plan for enlarging His kingdom is so simple – one person telling another about the Savior. Yet we’re busy and full of excuses. Just remember, someone’s eternal destiny is at stake. The joy you’ll have when you meet that person in heaven will far exceed any discomfort you felt in sharing the gospel.
Before the tribunal of nature, a man has no more right to life than a rattlesnake; he has no more right to liberty than any wild beast; his right to the pursuit of happiness is nothing but a license to maintain the struggle for existence, if he can find within himself the powers with which to do it.
If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words.
When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.
Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.
This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.
He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm.
The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wife.
A god who let us prove his existence would be an idol.
Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.
A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man.
Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, ‘Make me feel important.’ Not only will you succeed in sales, you will succeed in life.
Even Napoleon had his Watergate.
Nobody who ever gave his best regretted it.
I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him; it is what he thinks of himself. To undermine a man’s self-respect is a sin.
An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.
No sooner does man discover intelligence than he tries to involve it in his own stupidity.
It is only the impossible that is possible for God. He has given over the possible to the mechanics of matter and the autonomy of his creatures.
I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinions of himself than on the opinions of others.
The individual is capable of both great compassion and great indifference. He has it within his means to nourish the former and outgrow the latter.
If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him.
No man knows till he has suffered from the night how sweet and dear to his heart and eye the morning can be.
Capitalists are no more capable of self-sacrifice than a man is capable of lifting himself up by his own bootstraps.
Every artist writes his own autobiography.
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
The man who never makes a mistake always takes orders from one who does. No man or woman who tries to pursue an ideal in his or her own way is without enemies.
Clothes and manners do not make the man; but when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance.
None of us is responsible for the complexion of his skin. This fact of nature offers no clue to the character or quality of the person underneath.
God gives his hardest battles to his strongest soldiers.
Every good citizen makes his country’s honor his own, and cherishes it not only as precious but as sacred. He is willing to risk his life in its defense and is conscious that he gains protection while he gives it.
A thug is someone who stands on his own. He lives by the decisions he makes and accepts the consequences. A thug is comfortable in his own skin. I wear mine like a glove.
In a position of utter desolation, when man cannot express himself in positive action, when his only achievement may consist in enduring his sufferings in the right way – an honorable way – in such a position man can, through loving contemplation of the image he carries of his beloved, achieve fulfillment.
To deprive a man of his natural liberty and to deny to him the ordinary amenities of life is worse then starving the body; it is starvation of the soul, the dweller in the body.
Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity.
Great literature should do some good to the reader: must quicken his perception though dull, and sharpen his discrimination though blunt, and mellow the rawness of his personal opinions.
Man is jealous because of his amour propre; woman is jealous because of her lack of it.
Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.
The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action.
His mother should have thrown him out and kept the stork.
A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
Man’s greatness lies in his power of thought.
Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face.
If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.
It takes someone with a vision of the possibilities to attain new levels of experience. Someone with the courage to live his dreams.
The artist, like the God of the creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails.
A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding them with books, if he has the means to buy them.
I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.
I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his portrait.
That best portion of a man’s life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.
God will forgive me. It’s his job.
When an individual is protesting society’s refusal to acknowledge his dignity as a human being, his very act of protest confers dignity on him.
The man who has no inner-life is a slave to his surroundings.
I am just a common man who is true to his beliefs.
A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.
Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal which the reader recognizes as his own.
The doctor of the future will give no medicine but will instruct his patient in the care of the human frame, in diet, and the cause and prevention of disease.
I am aware that a philosopher‘s ideas are not subject to the judgment of ordinary persons, because it is his endeavour to seek the truth in all things, to the extent permitted to human reason by God.
A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.
The world runs on individuals pursuing their self interests. The great achievements of civilization have not come from government bureaus. Einstein didn’t construct his theory under order from a, from a bureaucrat. Henry Ford didn’t revolutionize the automobile industry that way.
Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only by the man who is as well organized in his individuality as the mass itself.
Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
My trust in God flows out of the experience of his loving me, day in and day out, whether the day is stormy or fair, whether I’m sick or in good health, whether I’m in a state of grace or disgrace. He comes to me where I live and loves me as I am.
Words may show a man’s wit but actions his meaning.
Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry his own weight, this is a frightening prospect.
The eternal quest of the individual human being is to shatter his loneliness.
The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.
A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.
I did not write it. God wrote it. I merely did his dictation.
He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity.
The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.
Man has no Body distinct from his Soul; for that called Body is a portion of Soul discerned by the five Senses, the chief inlets of Soul in this age.
A strong man doesn’t have to be dominant toward a woman. He doesn’t match his strength against a woman weak with love for him. He matches it against the world.
Snoop Dogg eats terrible. That’s another reason I had to leave him. I would have been dead of a heart attack. He literally eats at 7-11. That’s where he does his grocery shopping or it’s Roscoe’s Chicken & Waffles, or it’s Denny’s delivery. There’s not a piece of salad or vegetable within two miles of this dude.
Greatness is not measured by what a man or woman accomplishes, but by the opposition he or she has overcome to reach his goals.
I was not content to believe in a personal devil and serve him, in the ordinary sense of the word. I wanted to get hold of him personally and become his chief of staff.
When a citizen gives his suffrage to a man of known immorality he abuses his trust; he sacrifices not only his own interest, but that of his neighbor; he betrays the interest of his country.
He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument, but in the right word. The power of sound has always been greater than the power of sense.
We must respect the other fellow’s religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui.
It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.
What is a poet? An unhappy person who conceals profound anguish in his heart but whose lips are so formed that as sighs and cries pass over them they sound like beautiful music.
Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality; man, alone, can dream and make his dreams come true.
This is me, a sinner on whom the Lord has turned his gaze. And this is what I said when they asked me if I would accept my election as pontiff. I am a sinner, but I trust in the infinite mercy and patience of our Lord Jesus Christ, and I accept in a spirit of penance.
A good teacher, like a good entertainer first must hold his audience‘s attention, then he can teach his lesson.
All things will be produced in superior quantity and quality, and with greater ease, when each man works at a single occupation, in accordance with his natural gifts, and at the right moment, without meddling with anything else.
He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
No man’s credit is as good as his money.
No one ever discovers the depths of his own loneliness.
The best portion of a good man’s life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.
Motivation is everything. You can do the work of two people, but you can’t be two people. Instead, you have to inspire the next guy down the line and get him to inspire his people.
A father is a man who expects his son to be as good a man as he meant to be.
I think a child should be allowed to take his father’s or mother’s name at will on coming of age. Paternity is a legal fiction.
I believe the first test of a truly great man is in his humility.
That’s what people respect, the fact that I wasn’t a chump that laid on his back and gave up.
Each Warrior wants to leave the mark of his will, his signature, on important acts he touches. This is not the voice of ego but of the human spirit, rising up and declaring that it has something to contribute to the solution of the hardest problems, no matter how vexing!
Whatever your life’s work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.
There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise.
When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.
The adolescent must never be treated as a child, for that is a stage of life that he has surpassed. It is better to treat an adolescent as if he had greater value than he actually shows than as if he had less and let him feel that his merits and self-respect are disregarded.
Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
A youth, when at home, should be filial and, abroad, respectful to his elders. He should be earnest and truthful. He should overflow in love to all and cultivate the friendship of the good. When he has time and opportunity, after the performance of these things, he should employ them in polite studies.
Make sure of your commitment to Jesus Christ, and seek to follow Him every day. Don’t be swayed by the false values and goals of this world, but put Christ and His will first in everything you do.
The Father willed that his blessed and glorious Son, whom he gave to us and who was born for us, should through his own blood offer himself as a sacrificial victim on the altar of the cross. This was to be done not for himself through whom all things were made, but for our sins.
Oh, it is wonderful to know that our Heavenly Father loves us – even with all our flaws! His love is such that even should we give up on ourselves, He never will.
The name, Seventh-day Adventist, is a standing rebuke to the Protestant world. Here is the line of distinction between the worshipers of God, and those who worship the beast, and receive his mark. The great conflict is between the commandments of God and the requirements of the beast.
For me, every hour is grace. And I feel gratitude in my heart each time I can meet someone and look at his or her smile.
I feel like I’m a New Yorker because I really know the city. I actually tell the drivers where to go – I have this bad habit, I always question the drivers. I do that all the time because I feel like I know the best way, when really it’s like, ‘Yo, man, shut up. This dude does this every day of his life.’
My word will never be as strong as God’s word. All I am is just a vessel, doing His work.
A man’s character is his fate.
The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his own weight.
That Seaman is a handsome young man but he spends too much time looking in his mirror rather than at the ball. You can’t keep goal with hair like that.
He who does not love his own language is worse than an animal and smelly fish.
The life of Christ was a life of humble simplicity, yet how infinitely exalted was his mission. Christ is our example in all things.
The deepest problems of modern life derive from the claim of the individual to preserve the autonomy and individuality of his existence in the face of overwhelming social forces, of historical heritage, of external culture, and of the technique of life.
It is just like man’s vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.
The conversational overachiever is someone whose grasp exceeds his reach. This is possible but not attractive.
Many will call me an adventurer – and that I am, only one of a different sort: one of those who risks his skin to prove his platitudes.
The superior man is distressed by the limitations of his ability; he is not distressed by the fact that men do not recognize the ability that he has.
The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them.
By prevailing over all obstacles and distractions, one may unfailingly arrive at his chosen goal or destination.
A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.
Everyone has his day and some days last longer than others.
Every normal person, in fact, is only normal on the average. His ego approximates to that of the psychotic in some part or other and to a greater or lesser extent.
Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather he must recognize that it is he who is asked.
The man who loves other countries as much as his own stands on a level with the man who loves other women as much as he loves his own wife.
No man is a hero in his own country.
Only a mediocre person is always at his best.
The last great delusion is soon to open before us. Antichrist is to perform his marvelous works in our sight So closely will the counterfeit resemble the true that it will be impossible to distinguish between them except by the Holy Scriptures.
No matter what has happened to you in the past or what is going on in your life right now, it has no power to keep you from having an amazingly good future if you will walk by faith in God. God loves you! He wants you to live with victory over sin so you can possess His promises for your life today!
You can tell a lot about a person from his underwear.
No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death. He and his are not neglected by the gods.
The science of psychology has been far more successful on the negative than on the positive side… It has revealed to us much about man’s shortcomings, his illnesses, his sins, but little about his potentialities, his virtues, his achievable aspirations, or his psychological health.
There can be no failure to a man who has not lost his courage, his character, his self respect, or his self-confidence. He is still a King.
Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word.
Every successful individual knows that his or her achievement depends on a community of persons working together.
The great liability of the engineer compared to men of other professions is that his works are out in the open where all can see them. His acts, step by step, are in hard substance. He cannot bury his mistakes in the grave like the doctors. He cannot argue them into thin air or blame the judge like the lawyers.
We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information.
Democracy is the form of government that gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.
God spoke to me and called me to His Service. What form this service was to take the voice did not say.
I see the church as a field hospital after battle. It is useless to ask a seriously injured person if he has high cholesterol and about the level of his blood sugars. You have to heal his wounds. Then we can talk about everything else.
Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbour to have them through envy.
The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled.
Let the future tell the truth, and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I have really worked, is mine.
The injury that we do to a man must be such that we need not fear his vengeance.
Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times.
The battlefield is a scene of constant chaos. The winner will be the one who controls that chaos, both his own and the enemies.
Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory.
Friendship is Love without his wings!
To be satisfied with a little, is the greatest wisdom; and he that increaseth his riches, increaseth his cares; but a contented mind is a hidden treasure, and trouble findeth it not.
The man who promises everything is sure to fulfil nothing, and everyone who promises too much is in danger of using evil means in order to carry out his promises, and is already on the road to perdition.
When a person really desires something, all the universe conspires to help that person to realize his dream.
The scab is a traitor to his God, his mother, and his class.
God will use whatever he wants to display his glory. Heavens and stars. History and nations. People and problems.
Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it.
John Muir, the famous naturalist, wrote in his journal that you should never go to Alaska as a young man because you’ll never be satisfied with any other place as long as you live. And there’s a lot of truth to that.
By a lie, a man… annihilates his dignity as a man.
If any foreign minister begins to defend to the death a ‘peace conference‘, you can be sure his government has already placed its orders for new battleships and airplanes.
Work is not man’s punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure.
A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life.
A round man cannot be expected to fit in a square hole right away. He must have time to modify his shape.
In play, a child is always above his average age, above his daily behavior; in play, it is as though he were a head taller than himself.
If I play a villain, I try to find his lightness and his good side. And if I play a hero or a good guy, I’ll try to find his darkness or his flaws. Because I don’t believe in good and evil. I believe in grays.
One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn’t do.
If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.
Isn’t it amazing that we are all made in God’s image, and yet there is so much diversity among his people?
Often it does seem such a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
From the depths of the West of Europe, a young child will be born of poor people, he who by his tongue will seduce a great troop; his fame will increase towards the realm of the East.
A man’s kiss is his signature.
A man’s measure is his will.
‘Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.
He that has eyes to see and ears to hear may convince himself that no mortal can keep a secret. If his lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore.
I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.
A man learns all his life and dies the day he thinks that he has learnt everything.
Certainly, in taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy, but in passing it over, he is superior; for it is a prince’s part to pardon.
A fanatic is one who can’t change his mind and won’t change the subject.
Plant thy foot firmly in the prints which His foot has made before thee.
A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles.
Nobody ever did, or ever will, escape the consequences of his choices.
Meekness implies a spirit of gratitude as opposed to an attitude of self-sufficiency, an acknowledgement of a greater power beyond oneself, a recognition of God, and an acceptance of his commandments.
In Art, man reveals himself and not his objects.
The right of nature… is the liberty each man hath to use his own power, as he will himself, for the preservation of his own nature; that is to say, of his own life.
Look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred-and-first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not the last blow that did it, but all that had gone before.
Never judge a stranger by his clothes.
Every judgement of conscience, be it right or wrong, be it about things evil in themselves or morally indifferent, is obligatory, in such wise that he who acts against his conscience always sins.
Recession is when a neighbor loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours.
The final test of a gentleman is his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him.
A man is born alone and dies alone; and he experiences the good and bad consequences of his karma alone; and he goes alone to hell or the Supreme abode.
All religions must be tolerated… for every man must get to heaven in his own way.
A liberal to me is one who – and it suits some of the dictionary definitions – is unbeholden to any specific belief or party or group or person, but makes up his or her mind on the basis of the facts and the presentation of those facts at the time. That defines what I am.
No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.
The wise man does not lay up his own treasures. The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.
You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end, each of us must work for his own improvement and, at the same time, share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think we can be most useful.
Anyone who thinks that the vice-president can take a position independent of the president of his administration simply has no knowledge of politics or government. You are his choice in a political marriage, and he expects your absolute loyalty.
God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform. He plants his footsteps in the sea, and rides upon the storm.
A man’s accomplishments in life are the cumulative effect of his attention to detail.
God always gives His best to those who leave the choice with him.
To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one’s family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one’s own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.
Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another.
When you control a man’s thinking you do not have to worry about his actions.
No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause.
Man only likes to count his troubles, but he does not count his joys.
Man is a child of his environment.
We should always look upon ourselves as God’s servants, placed in God’s world, to do his work; and accordingly labour faithfully for him; not with a design to grow rich and great, but to glorify God, and do all the good we possibly can.
One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But… I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.
The celebrity is a person who is known for his well-knownness.
A man should never neglect his family for business.
I never knew whether to pity or congratulate a man on coming to his senses.
Every moment and every event of every man’s life on earth plants something in his soul.
I believe in God – not in a Catholic God; there is no Catholic God. There is God, and I believe in Jesus Christ, his incarnation. Jesus is my teacher and my pastor, but God, the Father, Abba, is the light and the Creator. This is my Being.
Earth’s crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with God: But only he who sees takes off his shoes.
I am a marvelous housekeeper. Every time I leave a man I keep his house.
Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.
How many legs does a dog have if you call his tail a leg? Four. Saying that a tail is a leg doesn’t make it a leg.
Nothing is impossible in this world. Firm determination, it is said, can move heaven and earth. Things appear far beyond one’s power, because one cannot set his heart on any arduous project due to want of strong will.
A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes.
Prayer is our invitation to God to intervene in the affairs of earth. It is our request for Him to work His ways in this world.
Every great architect is – necessarily – a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.
Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.
A man’s face is his autobiography. A woman’s face is her work of fiction.
Ah, but a man’s reach should exceed his grasp, Or what’s a heaven for?
The more a man can forget, the greater the number of metamorphoses which his life can undergo; the more he can remember, the more divine his life becomes.
The scientific man does not aim at an immediate result. He does not expect that his advanced ideas will be readily taken up. His work is like that of the planter – for the future. His duty is to lay the foundation for those who are to come, and point the way.
Dr. Einstein was not successful in school, but he found something in the air from his own imagination and his own brain power, and look what he did.
What gives me the most hope every day is God’s grace; knowing that his grace is going to give me the strength for whatever I face, knowing that nothing is a surprise to God.
Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.
No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.
The God we serve does not seek out the perfect, but instead uses our imperfections and our shortcomings for his greater good. I am humbled by my own limitations. But where I am weak, He is strong.
Man has the power to act as his own destroyer – and that is the way he has acted through most of his history.
The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.
He who does not know how to look back at where he came from will never get to his destination.
If a man does his best, what else is there?
Reading isn’t good for a ballplayer. Not good for his eyes. If my eyes went bad even a little bit I couldn’t hit home runs. So I gave up reading.
The difference between a saint and a hypocrite is that one lies for his religion, the other by it.
He is winding the watch of his wit; by and by it will strike.
One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unreachable stars; and the world will be better for this.
A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man in fever. Just so should a wise man treat all mankind, as a physician does his patient, and look upon them only as sick and extravagant.
I dote on his very absence.
Nixon was the most dishonest individual I have ever met in my life. He lied to his wife, his family, his friends, his colleagues in the Congress, lifetime members of his own political party, the American people and the world.
The bluebird carries the sky on his back.
A man’s house is his castle.
Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts.
I build on Christ, the rock of ages; on his sure mercies described in his word, and on his promises, all which I know are yea and amen.
What can you do against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself, who gives your arguments a fair hearing and then simply persists in his lunacy?
Often the difference between a successful man and a failure is not one’s better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on his ideas, to take a calculated risk, and to act.
No one is a friend to his friend who does not love in return.
How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks.
A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.
The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.
The devil ain’t got no power over me. The devil come, and me shake hands with the devil. Devil have his part to play. Devil’s a good friend, too… because when you don’t know him, that’s the time he can mosh you down.
To my young friends out there: Life can be great, but not when you can’t see it. So, open your eyes to life: to see it in the vivid colors that God gave us as a precious gift to His children, to enjoy life to the fullest, and to make it count. Say yes to your life.
No man is rich enough to buy back his past.
The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man, but only to have the law of nature for his rule.
Some people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a flower.
A prince never lacks legitimate reasons to break his promise.
When man fell from grace, he lost a kingdom, not a religion. He lost dominion over the earth; He did not lose Heaven. Therefore, mankind’s search is not for a religion or for Heaven but for his kingdom.
Criticism, like rain, should be gentle enough to nourish a man’s growth without destroying his roots.
The president can’t change the country on his own. But what can he do? He can give an example.
Any soldier worth his salt should be antiwar. And still there are things worth fighting for.
The best news of the Christian gospel is that the supremely glorious Creator of the universe has acted in Jesus Christ’s death and resurrection to remove every obstacle between us and himself so that we may find everlasting joy in seeing and savoring his infinite beauty.
I want to be the white man’s brother, not his brother-in-law.
A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.
The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands.
A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.
Build a man a fire, and he’ll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he’ll be warm for the rest of his life.
I don’t know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn’t.
How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him.
A man who becomes conscious of the responsibility he bears toward a human being who affectionately waits for him, or to an unfinished work, will never be able to throw away his life. He knows the ‘why’ for his existence, and will be able to bear almost any ‘how.’
He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being.
The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.
A professional is someone who can do his best work when he doesn’t feel like it.
When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry.
The man of character is the persistent man, the man who is faithful to his own word, his own convictions, his own affections.
When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.
An intelligent person is never afraid or ashamed to find errors in his understanding of things.
Kindness and faithfulness keep a king safe, through kindness his throne is made secure.
A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit.
A man’s conscience and his judgment is the same thing; and as the judgment, so also the conscience, may be erroneous.
Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own.
Many a man’s reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
Of course God will forgive me; that’s His job.
If thy brother wrongs thee, remember not so much his wrong-doing, but more than ever that he is thy brother.
Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.
Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage.
Each of us has a vision of good and of evil. We have to encourage people to move towards what they think is good… Everyone has his own idea of good and evil and must choose to follow the good and fight evil as he conceives them. That would be enough to make the world a better place.
A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.
God buries His workmen but carries on His work.
A classic man is a distinguished man. He cares about taste and his craft. He’s all about the simple model that I live by – eat, drink, be swanky, and have fun getting the job done. He makes sure that he’s excellent in all things and that he cares about his neighborhood immensely.
The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.
A leader who doesn’t hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.
No man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent merchant does not knock his competitors. The sensible worker does not knock those who work with him. Don’t knock your friends. Don’t knock your enemies. Don’t knock yourself.
Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by his heart, and his friends can only read the title.
What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.
The greatest discovery of my generation is that man can alter his life simply by altering his attitude of mind.
If a person gets his attitude toward money straight, it will help straighten out almost every other area in his life.
Great tranquility of heart is his who cares for neither praise nor blame.
It was my father who taught me to value myself. He told me that I was uncommonly beautiful and that I was the most precious thing in his life.
