Principles Quote by Edmund Burke

It is, generally, in the season of prosperity that men discover their real temper, principles, and designs.

— Edmund Burke

“There are human tempers, bland, glowing, and genial, within whose influence it is as good for the poor in spirit to live, as it…

— Charlotte Brontë

“When a man is warmed by the several modes which I have described, what does he want next? Surely not more warmth of the…

— Henry David Thoreau

“Men live by embedding themselves in ongoing systems of illusion. Religion. Patriotism. Economics. Fashion. That sort of thing.”

— Tom Robbins

“Particularly in the times we living in, composure is what makes the man.”

— Lwandise Qhamngana

“Men are men, with all their flaws, as we have ours, that’s true, but the best among them manage to discover who we really…

— Alice Hoffman

“For men rise or fall based entirely on what the women in their lives demand of them.”

— Kim Wright

“i don't believe i've ever been more certain than I am now that the development and understanding of man's workmanship is the fundamental need…

— Robert M. Edsel

“There are men in the world who derive as stern an exaltation from the proximity of disaster and ruin, as others from success.”

— Winston S. Churchill

“The Maker knows the motives of men's hearts.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“It is not the strength, but the duration, of great sentiments that makes great men.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“I observed mildness of temper, and unchangeable resolution in the things that he had determined after due deliberation; and no vainglory in those things…

— Marcus Aurelius