Decline Quote by Theodore Martin

Man errs, till he has ceased to strive.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Once man has lost the fundamental orientation which unifies his existence, he breaks down into the multiplicity of his desires; in refusing to await…

— Pope Francis

“Some may smile and may feel that this is but a new version of the old dream of the perfection of man. It is…

— Siddharta Mukherjee

The man who succeeds must always in mind or imagination live, move, think, and act as if he had gained that success, or he…

— Prentice Mulford

If a man should happen to reach perfection in this world, he would have to die immediately to enjoy himself.

— Josh Billings

When a man forgets his ideals he may hope for happiness, but not till then.

— John Oliver Hobbes

By how much one man has more experience of things past, than another, by so much also he is more prudent, and his expectations…

— Thomas Hobbes

When a man is perfect, he sees perfection in others. When he sees imperfection, it is his own mind projecting itself.

— Swami Vivekananda

A man can become so accustomed to the thought of his own faults that he will begin to cherish them as charming little 'personal…

— Helen Rowland

A man devoid of hope and conscious of being so has ceased to belong to the future.

— Albert Camus

The disappointed man turns his thoughts toward a state of existence where his wiser desires may be fixed with the certainty of faith; the…

— Robert Southey

When you long you can not achieve anything when you repeatedly have to lose all that you had hoped, you gradually become still.

— Lana Del Rey