T Quotes
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“The man who acts the least, upbraids the most.”
Source: The Iliad of Homer, Translated by Alexander Pope
“The man who actually knows just what he wants in life has already gone a long way toward attaining it.”
Source: The Law of Success: The Master Wealth-Builder's Complete and Original Lesson Plan forAchieving Your Dreams
“The man who ain't got an enemy is really poor.”
“The man who alters his way of thinking to suit others is a fool.”
“The man who always takes and never gives is not a leader. He is a parasite.”
Source: The Law of Success in Sixteen Lessons
“The man who arrives at the doors of artistic creation with none of the madness of the Muses would be convinced that technical ability alone was enough to make an artist... what that man creates by means of reason will pale before the art of inspired beings.”
“The man who asks a question is a fool for a minute, the man who does not ask is a fool for life.”
“The man who asks a woman what she wants deserves all that's coming to him.”
Source: 'Sir!' She Said
“The man who asks of freedom anything other than itself is born to be a slave.”
Source: The old régime and the French Revolution
“The man who attempts Christianity without the church shoots himself in the foot, shoots his children in the leg, and shoots his grandchildren in the heart.”
“The man who attempts to live for others is a dependent. He is a parasite in motive and makes parasites of those he serves.”
Source: Ayn Rand Reader
“The man who attracts attention is the man who is thinking all the time, and expressing himself in little ways. It is not the man who tries to dazzle his employer by doing the theatrical, the spectacular.”
Source: Succeeding With What You Have
“The man who attracts luck carries with him the magnet of preparation.”
“The man who avoids debt doesn't have to worry about avoiding his creditors.”
“The man who backbites an absent friend, nay, who does not stand up for him when another blames him, the man who angles for bursts of laughter and for the repute of a wit, who can invent what he never saw, who cannot keep a secret -- that man is black at heart: mark and avoid him.”
“The man who barely abstains from violating either the person, or the estate, or the reputation of his neighbours, has surely very little positive merit. He fulfils, however, all the rules of what is peculiarly called justice, and does every thing which his equals can with propriety force him to do, or which they can punish him for not doing. We may often fulfil all the rules of justice by sitting still and doing nothing.”
Source: The Essays on Philosophical Subjects: the Great Master
“The man who becomes angry never does a great amount of work, and the man whom nothing can make angry accomplishes so much.”
Source: Swami Vivekananda's Rousing Call to Hindu Nation
“The man who begins to go to bed forty minutes before he opens his bedroom door is bored; that is to say, he is not living.”
Source: How to Live on Twenty-Four Hours a Day: The Secret Edition - Open Your Heart to the Real Power and Magic of Living Faith and Let the Heaven Be in You, Go Deep Inside Yourself and Back, Feel the Crazy and Divine Love and Live for Your Dreams
“The man who begins to speculate in stocks with the intention of making a fortune usually goes broke, whereas the man who trades with a view of getting good interest on his money sometimes gets rich.”
Source: Dow Theory Unplugged: Charles Dow's Original Editorials & Their Relevance Today
“The man who believes he can do it is probably right, and so is the man who believes he can't.”
Source: Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Times
“The man who believes he can do it is probably right.”
“The man who believes in giraffes would swallow anything.”
Source: Heart on the Left: Poems, 1953-1984
“The man who believes that honesty is the best policy is not an honest man.”
“The man who believes that the secrets of the world are forever hidden lives in mystery and fear. Superstition will drag him down. The rain will erode the deeds of his life. But that man who sets himself the task of singling out the thread of order from the tapestry will by the decision alone have taken charge of the world and it is only by such taking charge that he will effect a way to dictate the terms of his own fate.”
Source: Blood Meridian: Picador Classic
“The man who believes that the secrets of the world are forever hidden lives in mystery and fear. Superstition will drag him down." -The Judge”
“The man who boasts that he habitually tells the truth is simply a man with no respect for it. It is not a thing to be thrown about loosely, like small change; it is something to be cherished and hoarded and disbursed only when absolutely necessary. The smallest atom of truth represents some man's bitter toil and agony; for every ponderable chunk of it there is a brave truth-seeker's grave upon some lonely ash-dump and a soul roasting in Hell.”
“The man who boldly transgresses, amassing a great heap unjustly--by force, in time, he will strike his sail, when trouble seizes him as the yardarm is splintered. He calls on those who hear nothing and he struggles in the midst of the whirling waters. The god laughs at the hot-headed man, seeing him, who boasted that this would never happen, exhausted by distress without remedy and unable to surmount the cresting wave. He wrecks the happiness of his earlier life on the reef of Justice, and he perishes unwept, unseen.”
“The man who bows before the ruler, shows his behind to the courtiers”
“The man who brings flowers to his woman every week walks into a trap of his own making. The week that he forgets will be the one she never will. The man who never gets his woman flowers leaves open a powerful possibility. The week that he does will be the one she will always remember. There is no sense in being a harmless rabbit, even if it is your nature. She wants a mysterious or dangerous animal who can show clemency and make an exception for her benefit.”
Source: Masculinity Amidst Madness
“The man who broods over the past can never master the difficulties of today. Every wise man learn to forget.”
“The man who builds a factory builds a temple, . . . the man who works there worships there, and to each is due, not scorn and blame, but reverence and praise.”
Source: Have Faith In Massachusetts
“The man who builds a factory, builds a temple.”
“The man who builds, and wants wherewith to pay, Provides a home from which to run away.”
Source: The poetical works of Edward Young
“The man who built the manger had a purpose in mind... God had another. You'll never know how far reaching God's plan is for your work.”
“The man who called it "near beer" was a bad judge of distance.”
“The man who came to her 1863rd regression turn. The man who she wanted to see again. The detestable man with his own brand of ass-kissing. The man who lied really easily. The man who she enjoyed being around, since they could lie about something together and snicker among themselves.
The man, who didn't remember her.”
“The man who can accept defeat and take his salary without feeling guilty is a thief.”
“The man who can be compelled knows not how to die.”
“The man who can best gets along with women, is the man who can get along without them.”
“The man who can dominate a London dinner-table can dominate the world.”
“The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win.”
“The man who can face vilification and disgrace, who can stand up against the popular current, even against his friends and his country when he know he is right, who can defy those in authority over him, who can take punishment and prison and remain steadfast-that is a man of courage. The fellow whom you taunt as a 'slacker' because he refuses to turn murderer-he needs courage. But do you need much courage just to obey orders, to do as you are told and to fall in line with thousands of others to the tune of general approval and the Star Spangled Banner?”
Source: Now and After: the ABC of Anarchist Communism
“The man who can get believers to praying would, under God, usher in the greatest revival that the world has ever known.”
Source: Why Revival Tarries
“The man who can keep a secret may be wise, but he is not half as wise as the man with no secrets to keep.”
“The man who can look upon a crisis without being willing to offer himself upon the altar of his country is not for public trust.”
Source: Millard Fillmore Papers
“The man who can make others laugh secures more votes for a measure than the man who forces them to think.”
“The man who can make you laugh can also make you live, for there is no finer feeling," Sol had said to her one morning.
"Why's that?" she inquired, amused.
"Because laughter is the strongest feeling of all, stronger than love and passion. Laughter is a form of perfection. We never regret it; we always experience it fully. When it's over, we're always satisfied- we want it to go on but we do not ask for more. Even the memory of laughter is pleasant.”
Source: El enigma de la habitación 622
“The man who can master his time can master nearly anything.”
“The man who can own up to his error is greater than he who merely knows how to avoid making it.”
“The man who can put himself in the place of other men, who can understand the workings of their minds, need never worry about what the future has in store for him.”