Book Quote by Thomas Browne

And when neither their property nor honour is touched, the majority of men live content, and he has only to contend with the ambition…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

Every man's affairs, however little, are important to himself.

— Samuel Johnson

No man is obliged to do as much as he can do. A man is to have part of his life to himself.

— Samuel Johnson

All the time that he can spare from the adornment of his person, he devotes to the neglect of his duties.

— Bertrand Russell

Every man stamps his value on himself... man is made great or small by his own will.

— Friedrich Schiller

A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with - a man is what he makes of himself.

— Alexander Graham Bell

He who is lord of himself, and exists upon his own resources, is a noble but a rare being.

— Egerton Brydges

Men who have flattered themselves into this opinion of their own abilities, look down on all who waste their lives over books, as a…

— Samuel Johnson

And they assign to Him a part of His servants; man, to be sure, is clearly ungrateful.

— Quran

The rich man is not one who is in possession of much, but one who gives much.

— Anonymous

A man's true estate of power and riches is to be in himself; not in his dwelling or position or external relations, but in…

— Henry Ward Beecher

Most men, even the most accomplished, are of limited faculties; every one sets a value on certain qualities in himself and others: these alone…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe