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“No man can fight his way to the top and stay at the top without exercising the fullest measure of grit, courage, determination, resolution. Every man who gets anywhere does so because he has first firmly resolved to progress in the world and then has enough stick-to-it-tiveness to transform his resolution into reality. Without resolution, no man can win any worthwhile place among his fellow men.”
“No man can force the harp of his own individuality into the people's heart; but every man may play upon the chords of the people's heart, who draws his inspiration from the people's instinct.”
Source: Kossuth in New England: A Full Account of the Hungarian Governor's Visit to Massachusetts ; with Speeches, and the Addresses that Were Made to Him ...
“No man can fully understand the meaning of love unless he’s owned by a dog.”
“No man can get rich himself unless he enriches others.”
Source: How to Completely Change Your Life in 30 Seconds
“No man can give at once the impressions that he himself is clever and that Jesus Christ is mighty to save.”
Source: Studies in Theology: Lectures Delivered in Chicago Theological Seminary
“No man can give me any word but Wait.”
Source: The Essential Gwendolyn Brooks
“No man can given anybody his freedom.”
“No man can go to Heaven, but everyman can build one!”
“No man can have a 'yellow streak' and last. He must pay much attention to his nerves or temperament. He must hide every flaw.”
Source: Pitching in a Pinch: Baseball from the Inside
“No man can have a reasonable opinion of women until he has long lost interest in hair-restorers.”
“No man can have a right to impose an unchosen obligation , an unrewarded duty or an involuntary servitude on another man. There can be no such thing as " the right to enslave .”
Source: The Virtue of Selfishness
“No man can have anything better after faith than a woman of righteous character, loving and child-bearing. And no man can have anything worse after unbelief than a sharp-tongued woman of bad character.”
“No man can have much kindness for him by whom he does not believe himself esteemed, and nothing so evidently proves esteem as imitation.”
Source: The Rambler
“No man can have society upon his own terms.”
Source: The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson
“No man can help another without helping himself.”
“No man can hinder our private addresses to God; every man can build a chapel in his breast, himself the priest, his heart the sacrifice, and the earth he treads on, the altar.”
“No man can hope to accomplish anything great in this world until he throws his whole soul, flings the force of his whole life, into it. It is not enough simply to have a general desire to accomplish something. There is but one way to do that; and that is, to try to be somebody with all the concentrated energy we can muster.”
“No man can hope to be elected in his state without being photographed eating a hot dog at Nathan's Famous.”
“No man can hope to find out the truth without investigation.”
“No man can humiliate me or disturb me. I won't let him.”
“No man can in any measure resemble the scripture saints.”
Source: Horæ homileticæ, or Discourses, in the form of skeletons upon the whole Scriptures. [With] Appendix. (With indexes, prepared by T. H Horne). To which is annexed an improved ed. of a transl. of [J] Claude's Essay on the composition of a sermon
“No man can justly censure or condemn another, because indeed no man truly knows another.”
Source: Sir Thomas Browne's Religio Medici: Or, the Christian Religion, as Professed by a Physician; Freed from Priest-craft and the Jargon of Schools
“No man can know God unless God has taught him; that is to say, that without God, God cannot be known.”
“No man can lead a public career really worth leading, no man can act with rugged independence in serious crises, nor strike at great abuses, nor afford to make powerful and unscrupulous foes, if he is himself vulnerable in his private character.”
Source: Autobiography of Theodore Roosevelt
“No man can lead mean, we have to have unity.”
“No man can live happily who regards himself alone, who turns everything to his own advantage. Thou must live for another, if thou wishest to live for thyself.”
“No man can live without any basis of philosophy, however primitive, naive, childish or unconscious. Every man thinks and speaks, makes use of notions, categories, symbols, myths, and gives vent to appreciations. There is always a childish philosophy at the foundation of a childish faith. Thus the uncritical acceptance of Biblical science, that of primitive mankind, involves the use of certain categories of thought such as ‘Creation’, for example, envisaged as a moment in time.”
Source: العزلة والمجتمع
“No man can lose what he never had.”
“No man can love a second time the person whom he has once truly ceased to love.”
“No man can make a speech alone. It is the great human power that strikes up from a thousand minds that acts upon him, and makes the speech.”
“No man can make good during working hours who does the wrong thing outside of working hours.”
“No man can make haste to be rich without going against the will of God, in which case it is the one frightful thing to be successful.”
Source: The Complete Works of George MacDonald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Theological Writings & Essays (Illustrated): The Princess and the Goblin, Phantastes, At the Back of the North Wind, Lilith, England’s Antiphon, David Elginbrod, Malcolm, The Light Princess, The Golden Key and many more
“No man can mortgage his injustice as a pawn for his fidelity.”
Source: A Memoir of the Political Life of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke: With Extracts from His Writings
“No man can outrun Logic or Time.”
“No man can pass into eternity, for he is already in it.”
Source: Farrar Year Book: Selections from the Writings of the Rev. Frederic W. Farrar ...
“No man can perform so little as not to have reason to congratulate himself on his merits, when he beholds the multitude that live in total idleness, and have never yet endeavoured to be useful.”
Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An Essay on His Life and Genius
“No man can possibly be benevolent or religious, to the full extent of his obligations, without concerning himself, to a greater or less extent, with the affairs of human government.”
Source: Lectures on systematic theology, embracing moral government, the atonement, etc. Revised, enlarged, and partly re-written by the Author ... Edited ... by G. Redford
“No man can possibly improve in any company for which he has not respect enough to be under some degree of restraint.”
Source: The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author
“No man can possibly know what life means, what the world means, until he has a child and loves it. And then the whole universe changes and nothing will ever again seem exactly as it seemed before.”
Source: The Life and Letters of Lafcadio Hearn Including the Japanese Letters
“No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself, who would not exchange the finest show for the poorest reality, who does not so love his work that he is not only glad to give himself for it, but finds rather a gain than a sacrifice in the surrender.”
Source: Among my Books, etc
“No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself.”
Source: Among My Books
“No man can promise himself even fifty years of life, but any man may, if he please, live in the proportion of fifty years in forty-let him rise early, that he may have the day before him, and let him make the most of the day, by determining to expend it on two sorts of acquaintance only-those by whom something may be got, and those from whom something maybe learned.”
Source: Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think
“No man can prophesy with another's parable.”
Source: The Voice of Anna Julia Cooper: Including A Voice from the South and Other Important Essays, Papers, and Letters
“No man can protect you like your father, No women can love you like your mother.”
“No man can prove upon awakening that he is the man who he thinks went to bed the night before, or that anything that he recollects is anything other than a convincing dream.”
“No man can purchase his virtue too dear, for it is the only thing whose value must ever increase with the price it has cost us. Our integrity is never worth so much as when we have parted with our all to keep it.”
Source: Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think
“No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.”
“No man can put on the robes of Christ’s righteousness till he has taken off his own.”
“No man can quite emancipate himself from his age and country, or produce a model in which the education, the religion, the politics, usages, and arts, of his times shall have no share.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)
“No man can rationally live, worship, or love his neighbour on an empty stomach.”
Source: The Papers of Woodrow Wilson, Vol. 1