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We hear the word Warrior used to describe women and men who show up, give their very best, and refuse to quit until the goal is reached.
Man cannot make, or invent, or contrive principles; he can only discover them; and he ought to look through the discovery to the Author.
Let us celebrate the soil. Most men toil that they may own a piece of it; they measure their success in life by their ability to buy it.
Men of Virginia, countrymen of Washington, of Patrick Henry, of Jefferson, and of Madison, will ye be true to your constitutional faith?
The poet, as a rule, is a half-man - a sissy, not a real person, and he is in no shape to lead real men in matters of blood, or courage.
When money's tight and is hard to get And your horse has also ran, When all you have is a heap of debt A PINT OF PLAIN IS YOUR ONLY MAN.
To the poet, to the philosopher, to the saint, all things are friendly and sacred, all events profitable, all days holy, all men divine.
The evil done by men of goodwill is the worst of all ... We have done terrible things, for the best of reasons, and that makes it worse.
Philosophy is man’s expression of curiosity about everything and his attempt to make sense of the world primarily through his intellect.
Give me a used Bible and I will, I think, be able to tell you about a man by the places that are edged with the dirt of seeking fingers.
The fallen angel becomes a malignant devil. Yet even that enemy of God and man had friends and associates in his desolation; I am alone.
Man invents the most inhuman armaments to assault others so like himself that uniforms are needed to distinguish between friend and foe.
It is truly enough said that a corporation has no conscience, but a corporation of conscientious men is a corporation with a conscience.
And now the forces marshaled around the concept of the group have declared a war of extermination on that preciousness, the mind of man.
A superior man may be made to go to the well, but he cannot be made to go down into it. He may be imposed upon, but he cannot be fooled.
Slovenliness is a lazy and beastly negligence of a man's own person, whereby he becomes so sordid as to be offensive to those about him.
One man who saw through his own eyes and thought with his own brain. Such men may be rare, they may be unknown, but they move the world.
Some day I shall sing to thee in the sunrise of some other world, I have seen thee before in the light of the earth, in the love of man.
That is the eternal folly of man. To be chasing after the sweet flesh, without realizing that it is simply a pretty cover for the bones.
Actors who have tried to play Churchill and MacArthur have failed abysmally because each of those men was a great actor playing himself.
Self-respect is the noblest garment with which a man can clothe himself, the most elevating feeling with which the mind can be inspired.
The only use of an obstacle is to be overcome. All that an obstacle does with brave men is, not to frighten them, but to challenge them.
There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters
No trace of slavery ought to mix with the studies of the freeborn man. No study, pursued under compulsion, remains rooted in the memory.
If a man amounts to much in this world, he must encounter many and varied annoyances whose number mounts as his effectiveness increases.
A man improves more by reading the story of a person eminent for prudence and virtue, than by the finest rules and precepts of morality.
I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man's virtues the means of deceiving him.
I'm not recognised that much. I'm just a bald man in glasses and there's a rash of them in Dublin. It'd be different if I had a mohican.
What a marshmallow. You should hold out for someone with a stronger stomach. Someone who laughs at the gore that makes weaker men vomit.
A wise man once said that any human being is capable of infinite achievement, so long as it’s not the work they’re supposed to be doing.
Many men are loved by their enemies, and hated by their friends, and are the friends of their enemies, and the enemies of their friends.
A man finds he has been wrong at every stage of his career, only to deduce the astonishing conclusion that he is at last entirely right.
When grubbing for necessities man is still an animal. He becomes uniquely human when he reaches out for the superfluous and extravagant.
He is also handsome," replied Elizabeth, "which a young man ought likewise to be, if he possibly can. His character is thereby complete.
The political health of Britain has deteriorated very sharply. The Conservative Party must do something about it. I am the man to do it.
There's an argument for saying that brave men deserve what they get, but it's a serious business forcing cowards to stand in harm's way.
As a girl - twelve, thirteen years old - I was absolutely certain that a good book had to have a man as its hero, and that depressed me.
It is as expedient that a wicked man be punished as that a sick man be cured by a physician; for all chastisement is a kind of medicine.
[T]he outcry against killing women, if you accept killing at all, is sheer sentimentality.:; Why is it worse to kill a woman than a man?
It is clear before God and man that the entire war on HIV and AIDS has not been waged with any degree of piety, responsibility and care.
I am really enjoying the new Martin Luther King Jr stamp - just think about all those white bigots, licking the backside of a black man.
Had not almost every man suffered by the Press, or were not the tyranny thereof become universal, I had not wanted reason for complaint.
If a wise man behaves prudently, how can he be overcome by his enemies? Even a single man, by right action, can overcome a host of foes.
A manager is not a person who can do the work better than his men; he is a person who can get his men to do the work better than he can.
The utility of living consists not in the length of days, but in the use of time; a man may have lived long, and yet lived but a little.
Sensibility alters from generation to generation in everybody, whether we will or no; but expression is only altered by a man of genius.
I'm a big fan of Alan J. Pakula's films like 'All the President's Men', 'The Parallax View,' and 'Klute.' I'm a big fan of those movies.
The avocation of assessing the failures of better men can be turned into a comfortable livelihood, providing you back it up with a Ph.D.
A wise man will see to it that his acts always seem voluntary and not done by compulsion, however much he may be compelled by necessity.
Married life, if lived with the proper love and understanding, helps awaken the feminine within a man, and the masculine within a woman.