Accepting Quote by W. H. Auden

A man always has to leave his homeland, go to another time zone, another culture, to get a different recognition - to be accepted…

— Donovan

No man leaves where he is and seeks a distant place unless he is in some respect a failure.

— James A. Michener

Americans love to pick up, move on, start over. But instead of being somebody fresh and new, they become somebody lonely and lost, or,…

— Orson Scott Card

Men seek retreats for themselves, houses in the country, sea-shores, and mountains; and thou too art wont to desire such things very much. But…

— Marcus Aurelius

Men who are resolved to find a way for themselves will always find opportunities enough; and if they do not find them, they will…

— Samuel Smiles

If a man does away with his traditional way of living and throws away his good customs, he had better first make certain that…

— Robert Ruark

Despite the success cult, men are most deeply moved not by the reaching of the goal but by the grandness of the effort involved…

— Max Lerner

In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.

— Charles Francis Adams, Sr

A lot of people see it as a kind of failure to stay in the place where you’re from, especially if you’re from the…

— Leah Stewart

The reason is that nature has so created men that they are able to desire everything but are not able to attain everything: so…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

The question for each man to settle is not what he would do if he had means, time, influence and educational advantages; the question…

— Hamilton Wright Mabie

Amongst democratic nations men easily attain a certain equality of conditions: they can never attain the equality they desire. It perpetually retires from before…

— Alexis de Tocqueville