Behave Quote by Tahir Shah Download Open image “The taste for glory can make ordinary men behave in extraordinary ways.” — Tahir Shah ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Behave Behavior Ego Extraordinary Glory Men Ordinary Ordinary man Taste Way
Love of glory can only create a great hero; contempt of glory creates a great man. — Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Copy Share Image
We exaggerate the glory of some men in order to detract from that of others. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
“Sometimes a kind of glory lights up the mind of a man. It happens to nearly everyone. You can feel it growing or preparing… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Glory is largely a theatrical concept. There is no striving for glory without a vivid awareness of an audience... The desire to escape or… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Popular glory is a perfect coquette; her lovers must toil, feel every inquietude, indulge every caprice, and perhaps at last be jilted into the… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
The love of glory, the fear of disgrace, the incentive to succeed, the desire to live in comfort, and the instinct to humiliate others… — Francois La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Admiration of great men, living or dead, naturally evokes imitation of them in a greater or less degree. — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
The desire for glory clings even to the best men longer than any other passion. — Tacitus Copy Share Image
False glory is the rock of vanity; it seduces men to affect esteem by things which they indeed possess, but which are frivolous, and… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
“As the head of an expedition, you can't pussyfoot around being polite to everyone. You have to show your teeth once in a while;… — Tahir Shah Copy Share Image
“The last thing we wanted was for the Machiguenga to be sad again. Sadness appeared to bring out their violence.” — Tahir Shah Copy Share Image
If hot food is they key to maintaining an expedition's stamina, then low grade gut-rot alcohol is the key to sustaining its sense of… — Tahir Shah Copy Share Image
“Normally I would have been the first to go in search of cannibal monks, particularly as I had heard of a similar tradition at… — Tahir Shah Copy Share Image
“Inscribed on it was a verse from the Quatrains of Omar Khayyam, the eleventh-century Persian mystic. Reading the words aloud I prepared for a… — Tahir Shah Copy Share Image
“Moroccan traffic isn't like normal traffic. It's armed combat, a war of wills, in which only the very bravest have a chance to survive.” — Tahir Shah Copy Share Image
“Prideep pointed to the flames of paraffin lamps as they came alive in the distance and cackled in awe at the experience. (…) I… — Tahir Shah Copy Share Image
“The very fact that a Frenchman was prepared, after tow minutes of conversation, to be so friendly towards anyone, especially one who had come… — Tahir Shah Copy Share Image
“As anyone who's ever taken an Ethiopian bus knows, there is an unwritten rule that the windows must remain firmly closed.” — Tahir Shah Copy Share Image
“In some warped way, having an embalmed body with us made perfect sense.” — Tahir Shah Copy Share Image
“Back at the guest house I tried to acclimatise. A travel-worn adventurer had once told me that leaning with one's head dangling over the… — Tahir Shah Copy Share Image
Any man who has ever led an army, an expedition, or a group of Boy Scouts has sadism in his bones. — Tahir Shah Copy Share Image
If you are well-mannered towards those whose views are similar to yours, you may be said to exhibit a fairly good character. But, if… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To behave creatively in art means behavior with skill; and skill comes from discipline, not derangement. The artist who knows the rules -and proportion… — Burne Hogarth Copy Share Image
For war to man, like childbirth to women, is simplifying in its emotions and activities. All the real problems of life can be put… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
The possibility of saying anything about a thing rests on the assumption that it preserves its identity, or continues to be the same thing… — Frank Knight Copy Share Image
Why does man behave like perfect idiot? This is the problem I wish to deal with. — Albert Szent-Gyorgyi Copy Share Image
This is a time in my life where I'm gonna behave like an elegant human being. Or not. — Elaine Stritch Copy Share Image
Most people, even in simple risky situations, don't behave the way the theory of utility would have them behave. — Howard Raiffa Copy Share Image
As a club, we have an educational purpose: to give back to those people who love Arsenal so that they learn moral values from… — Arsene Wenger Copy Share Image
What astonishes many of us is not so much that human nature is fundamentally corrupt; we are astonished rather that it does not behave… — Morton Irving Seiden Copy Share Image
Do we behave out of fear of punishment, or out of the demands of our heart? For me, it is the latter, as I… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When you are in hard labor, remember that the length of labor is usually proportional to the number of people around. Avoid the presence… — Michel Odent Copy Share Image
