Able Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche

A strong, successful man is not the victim of his environment. He creates favorable conditions. His own inherent force and energy compel things to…

— Orison Swett Marden

Again and again, to be sure, on the way to America, and under many other circumstances, man has passed through the most adverse climates…

— Ellsworth Huntington

Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into…

— Joseph Addison

“In short, his aim is to make a home for himself between two extremes in a temperate zone without violent storms and tempests; and…

— Hermann Hesse

And when neither their property nor honour is touched, the majority of men live content, and he has only to contend with the ambition…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

It is man's duty to live in conformity with the divine will, and this means, firstly, bringing his life into line with 'nature's laws',…

— Seneca the Younger

Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

The power to become habituated to his surroundings is a marked characteristic of mankind.

— John Maynard Keynes

And when statesmen or others worry him [the scientist] too much, then he should leave with his possessions. With a firm and steadfast mind…

— Tycho Brahe

“To illustrate how an individual can attain the goal of being submerged in physical reality while transforming it into holiness, we can use an…

— Chana Weisberg

[E]very man, everywhere, should be free to develop his talents to their full potential - unhampered by arbitrary barriers of race or birth or…

— Lyndon B. Johnson

Every man is prompted by the love of himself to imagine that he possesses some qualities, superior, either in kind or degree, to those…

— Samuel Johnson