Quotes 341 till 360 of 5500.
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The key to good management is keeping the nine guys who hate your guts away from the nine guys who haven't made up their minds.
Common Ground News -
The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he justly entitled.
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The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready, and it may be a long time before they get off.
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The man who never has money enough to pay his debts has too much of something else.
Sparks from the philosopher's stone (1882) -
The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.
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The most prolific period of pessimism comes at twenty-one or thereabouts, when the first attempt is made to translate dreams into reality.
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The punishment of criminals should serve a purpose. When a man is hanged he is useless.
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The superior man is modest in his speech but exceeds in his actions.
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The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort.
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The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.
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The superior man will watch over himself when he is alone. He examines his heart that there may be nothing wrong there, and that he may have no cause of dissatisfaction with himself.
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The supremacy of expediency is being refuted by time and truth. Time is an essential dimension of existence defiant of man's power, and truth reigns in supreme majesty, unrivaled, inimitable, and can never be defeated.
Who Is Man? (1965) -
The tendency of aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man... it constitutes the most powerful obstacle to culture.
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The whore is despised by the hypocritical world because she has made a realistic assessment of her assets and does not have to rely on fraud to make a living. In an area of human relations where fraud is regular practice between the sexes, her honesty is regarded with a mocking wonder.
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The world can doubtless never be well known by theory: practice is absolutely necessary; but surely it is of great use to a young man, before he sets out for that country, full of mazes, windings, and turnings, to have at least a general map of it, made by some experienced traveler.
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The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.
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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.
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There are few things more difficult than to appraise the work of a man suddenly dead in his youth; to disentangle ''promise'' from achievement; to save him from that sentimentalizing which confuses the tragedy of the interruption with the merit of the work actually performed.
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There exists a species of transcendental ventriloquism by means of which men can be made to believe that something said on earth comes from Heaven.
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