Confess Quote by Henry David Thoreau

If a man will understand how intimately, yea, how inseparably, self-control and happiness are associated, he has but to look into his own heart,…

— James Allen

Men very seldom change, try though we will, beneath the shifts of exterior doctrine, our hearts so often remain what they were.

— Murray Kempton

Now the pessimist proper is the most modest of men. ... under no circumstances does he presume to imagine that he, a mere unit…

— Agnes Repplier

You can change the circumstances but you can never change man's inner nature.

— Ron Perlman

“It is not true that men never change; they change for the worse, as well as for the better. It is not true they…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

It is well for a man when he has learned to endure what he cannot change, and to give up with dignity what he…

— Friedrich Schiller

The greatness of man cannot be seen in the hours of comfort and convenience, but rather in moments of conflict/adversity

— Martin Luther King, Jr

I think a man becomes less than a man when he begins to compromise on what he believes is right.

— Mike Singletary

Man often becomes what he believes himself to be.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Only man is not content to leave things as they are but must always be changing them, and when he has done so, is…

— Elspeth Huxley

In civilized life, where the happiness, and indeed almost the existence, of man depends so much upon the opinion of his fellow men, he…

— Washington Irving

Being a man is the continuing battle for one's life. One loses a bit of manhood with every stale compromise to the authority of…

— H. Rap Brown