Business Quote by Alexis de Tocqueville

Consider any individual at any period of his life, and you will always find him preoccupied with fresh plans to increase his comfort.

— Alexis de Tocqueville

If the man succeeds in becoming indifferent to the opinions of his neighbors he runs into another danger, that of a distorted and extravagant…

— Charles Horton Cooley

The man who is dissatisfied with himself, what can he do?

— Henry David Thoreau

He that would be content with a mean condition must not cast his eye upon one that is in a far better estate than…

— Anne Bradstreet

Where it is in his own interest, every organism may reasonably be expected to aid his fellows. Where he has no alternative, he submits…

— Michael Ghiselin

For the ordinary man is passive. Within a narrow circle (home life, and perhaps the trade unions or local politics) he feels himself master…

— George Orwell

There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own eyes, and in the…

— James A. Baldwin

He that lives alone lives in danger; society avoids many dangers.

— Marcus Aurelius

Tell him, on the contrary, that he needs, in the interest of his own happiness, to walk in the path of humility and self-control,…

— Irving Babbitt

Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

A man's life is always dealing with permanence, that is the most dangerous kind of irresponsibility is to think of your doings as temporary.

— Wendell Berry

The sole cause of man's unhappiness is that he does not know how to stay quietly in his room.

— Blaise Pascal