Attention Quote by Nathanael Emmons

Every industrious man, in every lawful calling, is a useful man. And one principal reason why men are so often useless is that they…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Useful men, who do useful things, don't mind being treated as useless. But the useless always judge themselves as being important and hide all…

— Paulo Coelho

I think women, especially, are bored of blokes being useless.

— James May

The useless men are those who never change with the years.

— James M. Barrie

Surprisingly few men are lacking in capacity, but they fail because... they are too indolent to apply themselves with the seriousness and the attention…

— Calvin Coolidge

A man's usefulness depends on his living up to his ideals insofar as he can. It is hard to fail but it is worse…

— Theodore Roosevelt

We are so obsessed with doing that we have no time and no imagination left for being. As a result, men are valued not…

— Thomas Merton

Very often the effort men put into activities that seem completely useless turns out to be extremely important in ways no one could foresee.…

— Italo Calvino

Men should soon make up their minds to be forgotten, and look about them, or within them, for some higher motive in what they…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

What men need is as much knowledge as they can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are…

— Thomas Huxley

Men often project a sometimes overbearing egotism and entitlement because that's what you have to do when you're not allowed to show weakness and…

— Norah Vincent