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Men Quotes by Samuel Smiles
- It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have…
- Commonplace though it may appear, this doing of one's duty embodies the highest ideal of life and character. There may be nothing heroic about it;…
- It is possible that the scrupulously honest man may not grow rich so fast as the unscrupulous and dishonest one; but the success will be…
- Opportunities ... fall in the way of every man who is resolved to take advantage of them.
- It is not eminent talent that is required to ensure success in any pursuit, so much as purpose-not merely the power to achieve, but the…
- The wise man... if he would live at peace with others, he will bear and forbear.
- The apprenticeship of difficulty is one which the greatest of men have had to serve.
- Energy enables a man to force his way through irksome drudgery and dry details and caries him onward and upward to every station in life.
- The career of a great man remains an enduring monument of human energy. The man dies and disappears, but his thoughts and acts survive and…
- 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 their…
- It is not ease, but effort-not facility, but difficulty, makes men. There is, perhaps, no station in life in which difficulties have not to be…
- The cheapest of all things is kindness, its exercise requiring the least possible trouble and self-sacrifice. Win hearts, said Burleigh to Queen Elizabeth, and you…
- Courage is by no means incompatible with tenderness. On the contrary, gentleness and tenderness have been found to characterize the men, no less than the…
- Obedience, submission, discipline, courage--these are among the characteristics which make a man.
- For want of self-restraint many men are engaged all their lives in fighting with difficulties of their own making.
- Men often discover their affinity to each other by the mutual love they have for a book.
- It is the close observation of little things which is the secret of success in business, in art, in science, and in every pursuit in…
- All that is great in man comes through work; and civilization is its product.
- It is observed at sea that men are never so much disposed to grumble and mutiny as when least employed. Hence an old captain, when…
- To set a lofty example is the richest bequest a man can leave behind.
- Men who are resolved to find a way for themselves will always find opportunities enough; and if they do not find them, they will make…
- Man cannot aspire if he looked down; if he rise, he must look up.
- The work of many of the greatest men, inspired by duty, has been done amidst suffering and trial and difficulty. They have struggled against the…
- Wisdom and understanding can only become the possession of individual men by travelling the old road of observation, attention, perseverance, and industry.
- Men must necessarily be the active agents of their own well-being and well-doing they themselves must in the very nature of things be their own…
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- Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being. — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in… — Hannah Arendt
- Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want… — Pietro Aretino
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
- A man's homeland is wherever he prospers. — Aristophanes
- Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of… — Aristophanes
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
- Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers. — Aristotle
- At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle