Blessed Quote by William Makepeace Thackeray

The petty man is eager to make boasts, yet desires that others should believe in him. He enthusiastically engages in deception, yet wants others…

— Anonymous

The prudent man does himself good; the virtuous one does it to other men.

— Voltaire

“Sometimes the man who looks happiest in town, with the biggest smile, is the one carrying the biggest load of sin. There are smiles…

— Ray Bradbury

The commendable conduct of man is shown by his discriminate treatment of merits and sympathetic regard for pleasure and pain, profit and loss of…

— Dayananda Saraswati

Human infirmity in moderating and checking the emotions I name bondage : for, when a man is a prey to his emotions, he is…

— Anonymous

This much is certain: when a man is happy, happy to the core and root of beatitude, he is no longer conscious of himself…

— Meister Eckhart

Man is naturally more desirous of a quiet and approving, than of a vigilant and tender conscience--more desirous of security than of safety.

— Richard Whately

“Having come to a sound egoistic decision by the help of the unconscious, a man proceeds to invent, or adopt from others, a set…

— Bertrand Russell

Man's desire for the approval of his fellows is so strong, his dread of their censure so violent, that he himself has brought his…

— W. Somerset Maugham

The secret of man's success resides in his insight into the moods of people, and his tact in dealing with them.

— J. G. Holland

Many a man is praised for his reserve and so-called shyness when he is simply too proud to risk making a fool of himself.

— J. B. Priestley

Every man is prompted by the love of himself to imagine that he possesses some qualities, superior, either in kind or degree, to those…

— Samuel Johnson