Active Quote by Thomas Merton

A man of ability and the desire to accomplish something can do anything.

— Donald Kircher

Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.

— William James

A man who has blown all his options can’t afford the luxury of changing his ways. He has to capitalize on whatever he has…

— Hunter S. Thompson

Man is in pursuit of two goals: he is looking for happinesse and, being by essence empty ("étant vide par essence", Fr.), he is…

— African Spir

Modern man has transformed himself into a commodity; he experiences his life energy as an investment with which he should make the highest profit,…

— Erich Fromm

A man who raises himself by degrees to wealth and power, contracts, in the course of this protracted labor, habits of prudence and restraint…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

As men advance in life, all passions resolve themselves into money. Love, ambition, even poetry, end in this.

— Benjamin Disraeli

The way of life becomes monotonous for the idle man who seeks no change, but the hard work has many alternatives.

— Crosby Kwaw

The more nobly a man wills and acts, the more avid he becomes for great and sublime aims to pursue. He will no longer…

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

“The decisive question for man is: Is he related to something infinite or not? That is the telling question of his life. Only if…

— Carl Gustav Jung

The more a man desirous to pass at a value above his worth can contrast, by dignified silence, the garrulity of trivial minds, the…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

I feel that man can transcend himself to a point where he can accomplish greater things than he thinks.

— Jack Kirby