Accounts Quote by Henry Ward Beecher

Nothing is worthy of man as man unless he can pursue it with passionate devotion.

— Max Weber

Man acts from adequate motives relative to his interest, and not on metaphysical speculations.

— Edmund Burke

The power of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special efforts, but by his ordinary doing

— Blaise Pascal

“A man may possess the disposition without its producing any good result.”

— Aristotle

No man is without some quality, by the due application of which he might deserve well of the world; and whoever he be that…

— Samuel Johnson

Nothing truly valuable arises from ambition or from a mere sense of duty; it stems rather from love and devotion towards men and towards…

— Albert Einstein

Man, being made reasonable, and so a thinking creature, there is nothing more worthy of his being than the right direction and employment of…

— William Penn

Men who do not contend in earnest can have little warmth and fervor in what they undertake, and are more than half prepared to…

— William Godwin

No man who acts from a sense of duty ever puts the lesser duty above the greater. No man has the desire and the…

— Henry David Thoreau

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

He who does nothing renders himself incapable of doing any thing; but while we are executing any work, we are preparing and qualifying ourselves…

— William Hazlitt

We must judge of a man's motives from his overt acts.

— Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon