His Fellows Quotes
68 quotes by 58 authors
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A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions…
— John Adams
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Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength; and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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That is what the title of artist means: one who perceives more than his fellows, and who records more than he has seen.
— Edward Gordon Craig
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The demon of intemperance ever seems to have delighted in sucking the blood of genius and of generosity. What one of us but can call…
— Abraham Lincoln
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No man is a Christian who cheats his fellows, perverts the truth, or speaks of a "clean bomb" yet he will be the first to…
— Marya Mannes
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He that can carp in the most eloquent or acute manner at the weakness of the human mind is held by his fellows as almost…
— Baruch Spinoza
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He whose genius appears deepest and truest excels his fellows in nothing save the knack of expression; he throws out occasionally a lucky hint at…
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
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This, then, is freedom in the external life of man-that he is independent of the arbitrary power of his fellows.
— Ludwig von Mises
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Where it is in his own interest, every organism may reasonably be expected to aid his fellows. Where he has no alternative, he submits to…
— Michael Ghiselin
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For mortal men there is but one hell, and that is the folly and wickedness and spite of his fellows; but once his life is…
— Marquis de Sade
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They are wrong who think that politics is like an ocean voyage or a military campaign, something to be done with some particular end in…
— Plutarch
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The man who succeeds above his fellows is the one who early in life, clearly discerns his object, and towards that object habitually directs his…
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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A man with a full stomach and the respect of his fellows had no business to scold about anything that he might think to be…
— Stephen Crane
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I believe that what so saddens the reformer is not his sympathy with his fellows in distress, but, though he be the holiest son of…
— Henry David Thoreau
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Society is a republic. When an individual endeavors to lift himself above his fellows, he is dragged down by the mass, either by means of…
— Heinrich Heine
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The man who first abused his fellows with swear-words instead of bashing their brains out with a club should be counted among those who laid…
— John Denham
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The man who succeeds above his fellows is the one who early in life clearly discerns his object, and towards that object habitually directs his…
— Earl Nightingale
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Christ sayeth not, Abstain from the flesh, from marrying, from housekeeping, etc., as the Papists teach, for that were even to invite the devil and…
— Martin Luther
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A sound banker, alas, is not one who foresees danger and avoids it, but one who, when he is ruined, is ruined in a conventional…
— John Maynard Keynes
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True greatness merely refuses to change in the face of bad actions against one—and a truly great person loves his fellows because he understands them.
— L. Ron Hubbard
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