Advantage Quote by Henry David Thoreau

Did ever a man try heroism, magnanimity, truth, sincerity, and find that there was no advantage in them - that it was a vain…

— Henry David Thoreau

A man who aspires to rise above the mediocre, to be something more than the ordinary, surely deserves admiration, even if he fails and…

— Kazuo Ishiguro

Each man has to seek out his own special aptitude for a higher life in the midst of the humble and inevitable reality of…

— Maurice Maeterlinck

“Man is naturally humble, naturally grateful, naturally guilty, naturally transcended, naturally a sufferer; he is small, pitiful, weak, a passive taker who tucks himself…

— Ernest Becker

There is nothing man desires more than a heroic life: there is nothing less common to men than heroism.

— Jacques Maritain

I mean a man whose hopes and aims may sometimes lie (as most men's sometimes do, I dare say) above the ordinary level, but…

— Charles Dickens

There is a perennial nobleness, and even sacredness, in work. Were he never so benighted, forgetful of his high calling, there is always hope…

— Thomas Carlyle

No man should go through life without once experiencing healthy, even bored solitude in the wilderness, finding himself depending solely on himself and thereby…

— Jack Kerouac

The man who is completely wise and virtuous has no need of glory, except so far as it disposes and eases his way to…

— Plutarch

If a man constantly aspires is he not elevated?

— Henry David Thoreau

Man may aspire to virtue, but he cannot reasonably aspire to truth.

— Nicolas Chamfort

In men of the highest character and noblest genius there is to be found an insatiable desire for honor, command, power, and glory.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero