Design Quote by Giacomo Leopardi

Although men flatter themselves with their great actions, they are not so often the result of a great design as of chance.

— Anonymous

Though men pride themselves on their great actions, often they are not the results of any great design, but of chance.

— François De La Rochefoucauld

Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; While others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at…

— Herodotus

Men may boast of their great actions; but they are more often the effects of chance than of design.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

... that order generated without design can far outstrip plans men consciously contrive

— Friedrich August von Hayek

Irresolution and mutability are often the faults of men whose views are wide, and whose imagination is vigorous and excursive.

— Samuel Johnson

Though men are apt to flatter and exalt themselves with their great achievements, yet these are, in truth, very often owing not so much…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Most men expose themselves in battle enough to save their honor, few wish to do so more than sufficiently, or than is necessary to…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Men are in fact, quite unable to control their own inventions; they at best develop adaptability to the new conditions those inventions create.

— John Galsworthy

Men are limited by the knowledge of their minds, the worth of their characters and the principles upon which they are building their lives.

— Edwin Louis Cole

The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which…

— Napoleon Hill

It is many times with a fraudulent Design that men stick their corrupt Doctrine with the Cloves of other mens Wit.

— Thomas Hobbes