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For want of self-restraint many men are engaged all their lives in fighting with difficulties of their own making, and rendering success impossible by…

— Samuel Smiles

A man does what he must - in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures - and that is…

— Anonymous

Man cannot become attached to higher aims and submit to a rule if he sees nothing above him to which he belongs. To free…

— Emile Durkheim

Man's duty is to improve himself; to cultivate his mind; and, when he finds himself going astray, to bring the moral law to bear…

— Immanuel Kant

So willing is every man to flatter himself, that the difference between approving laws, and obeying them, is frequently forgotten; he that acknowledges the…

— Samuel Johnson

In the absence of government each man learns to think, to act for himself, without counting on the support of an outside force which,…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

A man may quarrel with himself alone; that is, by controverting his better instincts and knowledge when brought face to face with temptation.

— William Ellery Channing

A man does what he must, with no personal consequences in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressure And that is the basis of…

— Blaze Olamiday

No man, however enslaved to his appetites, or hurried by his passions, can, while he preserves his intellects unimpaired, please himself with promoting the…

— Samuel Johnson

It is not good for man to cherish a solitary ambition. Unless there be those around him, by whose example he may regulate himself,…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

Whoever desires, for his writings or himself, what none can reasonably contemn, the favour of mankind, must add grace to strength, and make his…

— Samuel Johnson

In the measure to which a man cuts off and humbles his own will, he proceeds toward success. But insofar as he stubbornly guards…

— Ephrem the Syrian