Dishonor Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero

If a man aspires to the highest place, it is no dishonor to him to halt at the second, or even at the third.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

The way of the superior man may be compared to what takes place in traveling, when to go to a distance we must first…

— Confucius

The superior man does what is proper to the station in which he is; he does not desire to go beyond this.

— Confucius

Th aspirer, once attaind unto the top, Cuts off those means by which himself got up.

— Samuel Daniel

The highest that a man can attain is to be able to do.

— G. I. Gurdjieff

A superior man may be made to go to the well, but he cannot be made to go down into it. He may be…

— Confucius

A man never rises higher than when he does not know whither his path can still lead him.

— Oliver Cromwell

No man can ever raise above that that which he aims.

— Archibald Alexander Hodge

Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.

— Elie Wiesel

A man who is a man goes on until he can go no further—and then goes twice as far.

— Steve Sheinkin

Every man is in some sort a failure to himself. No one ever reaches the heights to which he aspires.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The superior man governs men, according to their nature, with what is proper to them, and as soon as they change what is wrong,…

— Confucius