Despair Quote by Henry David Thoreau

I cannot describe to you the despairing sensation of trying to do something for a man who seems incapable or unwilling to do anything…

— Lord Byron

For men to plunge headlong into an undertaking of vast change, they must be intensely discontented yet not destitute, and they must have the…

— Eric Hoffer

. . . why some men choose to fill their brief allotment of time engaging the impossible, others in the manufacture of sorrow.

— Erik Larson

Men often become what they believe themselves to be. If I believe I cannot do something,it makes me incapable of doing it. When I…

— Mahatma Gandhi

For centuries great, brave, lonely men have been telling you what to do. Time and again you have corrupted, diminished and demolished their teachings;…

— Wilhelm Reich

I have not come into this world to make men better, but to make use of their weaknesses.

— Adolf Hitler

It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.

— Thomas Jefferson

“The great majority of men and women, in ordinary times, pass through life without ever contemplating or criticising, as a whole, either their own…

— Bertrand Russell

I have been very fortunate in worldly matters; many men have worked much harder, and not succeeded half so well; but I never could…

— Charles Dickens

There comes into the life of every man a task for which he and he alone is uniquely suited. What a shame if that…

— Winston Churchill

Those who make us believe that anythings possible and fire our imagination over the long haul, are often the ones who have survived the…

— Paul Rogat Loeb

And truly it is a very natural and ordinary thing to desire to acquire, and always, when men do it who can, they will…

— Niccolo Machiavelli