Men Quote by Steven James Download Open image “The true nature of man left to himself without restraint is not nobility but savagery.” — Steven James ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Men Nature Nature of man Nobility Restraint Savagery True nature
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
It is perhaps common in the world for individuals and nations to suffer for their noble qualities more than for their ignoble ones. For… — Daniel Patrick Moynihan Copy Share Image
The essence of true nobility is neglect of self. Let the thought of self pass in, and the beauty of a great action is… — James Anthony Froude Copy Share Image
...ambition without pious restraint must end in failure, often involving in its ruin that beautiful reverence which solaces common men for the obscurity and… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
A man without nobility cannot have kindliness; he can only have good nature. — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
Man isn't a noble savage, he's an ignoble savage. He is irrational, brutal, weak, silly, unable to be objective about anything where his own interests are involved-that about sums it up. I'm interested in the brutal and violent nature of man because it's a true picture of him. And any attempt to create social institutions on a false view of… — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share
Men inadvertently comport themselves with nobility when they have grown accustomed to wanting nothing from others and always giving to them. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
For neither does wealth bring honour to the owner, if he be a coward; of such a one the wealth belongs to another, and… — Plato Copy Share Image
As a result, the highly civilized man can endure incomparably more than the savage, whether of moral or physical strain. Being better able to… — Lafcadio Hearn Copy Share Image
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“Think of a caterpillar entering a cocoon. Once he does so, one of two things will happen: He will either transform into a butterfly,… — Steven James Copy Share Image
Change is not always a good thing. What I need is not change from one thing to another but transformation from who I am… — Steven James Copy Share Image
“Patrick: How do you know so much about dating? You're a teenage girl. Tess: Because I'm a teenage girl.” — Steven James Copy Share Image
Violence can behave like a disease. That insight gives a different frame of reference that is designed to take the judgment out of it,… — Steven James Copy Share Image
“Do you know how to turn someone into a monster?” “I’m not sure. No.” “Let him be himself without restraint.” — Steven James Copy Share Image
Here is the paradox of the thing we call freedom: the farther we wander from God and the more we try to break free… — Steven James Copy Share Image
“Jesus being born as a baby was God's way of laughing at a world trying to grow up too quickly.” — Steven James Copy Share Image
“Part of living is acknowledging people’s pain and grief, but not letting it take over your heart. Though it’s always nighttime in the depths,… — Steven James Copy Share Image
“Live each moment, each precious moment that you have. Live each one as if it were your last. And your first. Miss” — Steven James Copy Share Image
Christianity is wild. It’s intimate. It’s heartbreaking and soul-mending. It’s the wings to rise above the everyday and hope of a honeymoon with the… — Steven James Copy Share Image
“I am a caged bird, rattling the bars of my cage, with furious flutterings, break my chains! Free my spirit! Let me fly with… — Steven James Copy Share Image
When I passed the Chancellor he arose, waved his hand at me, and I waved back at him. I think the writers showed bad… — Jesse Owens Copy Share Image
Life works most perfectly when a reciprocal love relationship is in place between man and God. — Beth Moore Copy Share Image
We do not want nowadays temples of worship and outward rites and ceremonies. What we really want is an Asram. We want a place… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Social responsibility above the level of family, or at most of tribe, requires imagination-- devotion, loyalty, all the higher virtues -- which a man… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Most celebrated men live in a condition of prostitution. — Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve Copy Share Image
I cannot forbid a person to marry several wives, for it does not contradict Scripture. MARTIN LUTHER, letter to Chancellor Gregory Brück, January 13,… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Hats off to starting a franchise younger than we all did in 'Twilight' and keeping your cool. The 'Harry Potter' men and women had,… — Kellan Lutz Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates. Not only does… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
That country [Carthage] was rapidly sinking into the state of barbarism from whence it had been raised by the Phoenician colonies and Roman laws;… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
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