Best lessons & men Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“God brings men [and women] into deep waters, not to drown them, but to cleanse [teach and improve] them. [It is fair and appropriate to get excited about what those lessons and improvements to you will mean for the future happiness of you and those you care about.]”

Men Mean Care Water Teach Lessons Men And Women Fairs Excited Improvement Appropriate Anticipation Deep Water Future Happiness

Author:John H Aughey

“The most important lesson I learned...was that the winner of a gunplay usually was the one who took his time. The second was that, if I hoped to live on the frontier, I would shun flashy trick-shooting--grandstand play--as I would poison...In all my life as a frontier peace officer, I did not know a really proficient gunfighter who had anything but contempt for the gun-fanner, or the man who literally shot from the hip.”

Ifs Knows Men Important Play He Man Lessons Gun Shots Tricks Hips Winner Shooting Poison Contempt Officers Frontiers Important Lessons Flashy

Author:Wyatt Earp

“Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war.”

Men War Friendship Cities Enemy Knowledge Learning Building Wall Lessons Ships Foe

Author:Aristophanes

“The violets whisper from the shade Which their own leaves have made: Men scent our fragrance on the air, Yet take no heed Of humble lessons we would read.”

Men Made Air Lessons Humble Shade Scent Violet Fragrance Heed

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Christina Rossetti (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Christina Rossetti (Illustrated)

“Of course all advance depends upon money, when we depend upon paid workers for any advance. Teach men as one of their first lessons in the gospel that pastoral work and evangelistic work ought to be paid, and will they not believe it? They would all believe it if the Holy Ghost did not dispute our teaching. It is a powerful proof of the presence and grace of the Holy Ghost that they do not all believe it and act accordingly.”

Ifs Men Firsts Believe Courses Powerful Teach Grace Teaching Depends Ought Holy Lessons Paid Workers Proof Ghost Disputes Holy Ghost

Book:The Ministry of the Spirit: Selected Writings of Roland Allen

Source: The Ministry of the Spirit: Selected Writings of Roland Allen

“My dear father; my dear friend; the best and wisest man I ever knew, who taught me many lessons and showed me many things as we went together along the country by-ways.”

Men Way Country Together Father Taught Lessons Daughter Dear Wisest Fathers Day Dear Friend Wisest Man

Book:The Country of the Pointed Firs: And Selected Short Fiction

Source: The Country of the Pointed Firs: And Selected Short Fiction

“The worst lesson that can be taught to a man is to rely upon others and to whine over his sufferings”

Men Suffering Worst Taught Lessons Rely Rely Upon

Book:The Bully Pulpit: A Teddy Roosevelt Book of Quotations

Source: The Bully Pulpit: A Teddy Roosevelt Book of Quotations

“Do not feed children on a maudlin sentimentalism or dogmatic religion; give them nature. Let their souls drink in all that is pure and sweet. Rear them, if possible, amid pleasant surroundings ... Let nature teach them the lessons of good and proper living, combined with an abundance of well-balanced nourishment. Those children will grow to be the best men and women. Put the best in them by contact with the best outside. They will absorb it as a plant absorbs the sunshine and the dew.”

“The meaning and the purpose behind some events are unknowable. This is the ultimate test of our faith. We must trust that everyone in life is here to learn different lessons at different times, that good and bad experiences are only the perceptions of man. After all, some of your worst experiences have truly been your best. They've sculpted you, trained you, developed within you a sensitivity and set you in a direction that reaches out to impact your ultimate destiny.”

“The life of a good man is at the same time the most eloquent lesson of virtue and the most severe reproof of vice.”

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Book:Character

Source: Character

“Tis possible, young sir, that some excess Mars youthful judgment and old men's no less; Yet we must take our counsel as we may For (flying years this lesson still convey), 'Tis worst unwisdom to be overwise, And not to use, but still correct one's eyes.”

Men Years May Stills Use Eye Young Worst Lessons Judgment Flying Old Man Excess Mars

Book:Selected poems

Source: Selected poems

“Man's books are but man's alphabet, Beyond and on his lessons lie - The lessons of the violet, The large gold letters of the sky; The love of beauty, blossomed soil, The large content, the tranquil toil: The toil that nature ever taught, The patient toil, the constant stir, The toil of seas where shores are wrought, The toil of Christ, the carpenter; The toil of God incessantly By palm-set land or frozen sea.”

Men Book Lying Christ Sea Sky Land Taught Lessons Letters Gold Constant Patient Soil Shore Toil Palms Frozen Violet Tranquil Alphabet Carpenter Incessantly

Author:Joaquin Miller

“Say what some poets will, Nature is not so much her own ever-sweet interpreter, as the mere supplier of that cunning alphabet, whereby selecting and combining as he pleases, each man reads his own peculiar lesson according to his own peculiar mind and mood.”

Men Mind Poet Sweet Please Lessons Mere Mood Peculiar Cunning Alphabet Combining Interpreter Suppliers

Book:Pierre; or The Ambiguities

Source: Pierre; or The Ambiguities

“Let me follow in Thy footsteps, O Jesus ! I would imitate Thee, but cannot without the aid of Thy grace! O humble and lowly Saviour, grant me the knowledge of the true Christian, and that I may willingly despise myself; let me learn the lesson so incomprehensible to the mind of man, that I must die to myself by an abandonment that shall produce true humility.”

Men Mind May Christian Dies Jesus Grace Produce Humility Lessons Let Me Humble Aids Thee Grants Despise Abandonment Saviour Footsteps True Humility

Author:Francois Fenelon

“For every man who has learned to fight in arms will desire to learn the proper arrangement of an army, which is the sequel of the lesson.”

Men Desire Fighting Arms Lessons Army Every Man Arrangements Sequels Desire To Learn

Book:The Dialogues of Plato

Source: The Dialogues of Plato

“All the lessons learned, unlearned; The young, who learned to read, now blind, Their eyes with an archaic film; The peasant relapses to a stumbling tune, Following the donkey's bray; These only remember to forget. But somewhere some word presses, On the high door of a skull and in some corner, Of an irrefrangible eye, Some old man memory jumps to a child - Spark from the days of energy. And the child hoards it like a bitter toy.”

“But chiefly Thou, Whom soft-eyed Pity once led down from Heaven To bleed for man, to teach him how to live, And, oh! still harder lesson! how to die.”

Men Stills Dies Heaven Christ Teach Lessons Harder Pity

Book:The Poems of Falconer, Day, Blair, Glynn, and Porteus

Source: The Poems of Falconer, Day, Blair, Glynn, and Porteus

“It takes a thousand men to invent a telegraph, or a steam engine, or a phonograph, or a photograph, or a telephone or any other important thing-and the last man gets the credit and we forget the others. He added his little mite - that is all he did. These object lessons should teach us that ninety-nine parts of all things that proceed from the intellect are plagiarisms, pure and simple; and the lesson ought to make us modest. But nothing can do that.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)

“The best lesson that any people can learn is that there is no patent cure-all which will make the body politic perfect, and that any man who is able glibly to answer every question as to how to deal with the evils of the body politic is at best a foolish visionary and at worst an evil-minded quack.”

People Men Body Able Evil Politics Answers Perfect Deals Economy Worst Lessons Foolish Cures Liberalism Visionaries Patents Quacks

Book:History as Literature and Other Essays

Source: History as Literature and Other Essays

“The children's lessons should provide material for their mental growth, should exercise the several powers of their minds, should furnish them with fruitful ideas, and should afford them knowledge, really valuable for its own sake, accurate, and interesting, of the kind that the child may recall as a man with profit and pleasure.”

Men Should Mind Kind May Children Ideas Growth Pleasure Interesting Materials Exercise Lessons Sake Profit Valuable Accurate Recalls

Book:The Original Home School Series

Source: The Original Home School Series

“A true home is one of the most sacred of places. It is a sanctuary into which men flee from the world's perils and alarms. It is a resting-place to which at close of day the weary retire to gather new strength for the battle and toils of tomorrow. It is the place where love learns its lessons, where life is schooled into discipline and strength, where character is molded.”

Men World Character Home Life Is Tomorrow Discipline Lessons Battle Sacred Retiring Weary Toil Peril Alarms Sanctuary Schooled True Home

Author:J.R. Miller

“Fear is the most easily taught of all lessons, and the fight against terror, real or imagined, is perhaps the history of man's mind.”

Men Mind Real Fighting Fear Taught Lessons Terror

Book:Cross Creek

Source: Cross Creek

“Such will be a great lesson of peace: teaching men that what they cannot take by an election, neither can they take it by war.”

Men War Teaching Lessons Election

Book:Lincoln on War

Source: Lincoln on War

“Among the lessons taught by the French revolution, there is none sadder or more striking than this--that you may make everything else out of the passions of men except a political system that will work, and that there is nothing so pitilessly and unconsciously cruel as sincerity formulated into dogma.”

Men May Political Passion Politics Taught Revolution Lessons Sincerity Dogma Political Systems French Revolution

Book:Abraham Lincoln

Source: Abraham Lincoln

“No divine terror will ever be found in the work of the man who wastes a colossal strength in elaborating toys; for the first lesson that terror is sent to teach us is, the value of the human soul, and the shortness of mortal time.”

Men Firsts Humans Soul Values Found Teach Divine He Man Lessons Waste Terror Mortals Toys Human Soul Colossal Shortness

Book:The Stones of Venice: The fall

Source: The Stones of Venice: The fall

“The great lesson of biography is to show what man can be and do at his best. A noble life put fairly on record acts like an inspiration to others.”

Men Shows Inspiration Records Lessons Noble Biographies Inspiration To Others

Book:Character

Source: Character

“Nature is man's religious book, with lessons for every day.”

Men Book Nature Religious Lessons Religious Books

Book:The Collected Works of Theodore Parker: Sermons. Prayers

Source: The Collected Works of Theodore Parker: Sermons. Prayers

“The things of the world are ever rising and falling, and in perpetual change; and this change must be according to the will of God, as He has bestowed upon man neither the wisdom nor the power to enable him to check it. The great lesson in these things is, that man must strengthen himself doubly at such times to fulfill his duty and to do what is right, and must seek his happiness and inward peace from objects which cannot be taken away from him.”

Men World Fall Taken Objects Duty Lessons Gods Will Checks Rising Perpetual Inward

Author:Wilhelm von Humboldt

“Although all men are born free, slavery has been the general lot of the human race. Ignorant--they have been cheated; asleep--they have been surprised; divided--the yoke has been forced upon them. But what is the lesson...? The people ought to be enlightened, to be awakened, to be united, that after establishing a government they should watch over it.... It is universally admitted that a well-instructed people alone can be permanently free.”

People Men Should Humans Wells Has Beens Government Born United Race Watches Ought Lessons Slavery Ignorant Human Race Enlightened Over It Divided Awakened Cheated Yoke Born Free

Author:James Madison

“The Afghansti have caused a great many people a great deal of grief and have themselves suffered - for a lie, let us not forget - the same ways we in the United States have caused much suffering in Southeast Asia, and have also suffered much in return, also for a lie. It was no small betrayal, no small lesson for a man to learn at the age of 19. Any soldier returning home must rediscover his humanity and establish a livable peace with the discovered, liberated, permanently dark places in his own heart -the darkness that is always with us.”

“The Wayshower is a compelling, multi-layered and complex spiritual journey about a guilt-ridden man searching to understand his connection to his guru J-R. Followers of the real-life guru, John-Roger, as well as a segment of new-thought seekers, will resonate with the messages and life lessons shared throughout.”

Men Wells Real Spiritual Journey Lessons Messages Connections Guilt Complexes Real Life Followers Life Lesson Compelling Seekers Guru New Thought Roger Spiritual Journey

Author:Arielle Ford

“Restaurant Man is kind of the story, an unabridged story of what happened in my life, the good bad and ugly. Some people might glean some life lessons. It is honest, not written as a press release.”

People Men Kind Stories Might Written Happened Honest Lessons Presses Ugly Release Restaurants Life Lesson Press Release

Author:Joe Bastianich

“... women learned one important lesson--namely, that it is impossible for the best of men to understand women's feelings or the humiliation of their position. When they asked us to be silent on our question during the War, and labor for the emancipation of the slave, we did so, and gave five years to his emancipation and enfranchisement.... I was convinced, at the time, that it was the true policy. I am now equally sure that it was a blunder.”

“Today's coastal development along with hurricane amnesia places modern man on a collision course with catastrophe if the lessons of history are ignored.”

Ifs Men Today Courses Modern Development Lessons Ignored Catastrophe Hurricanes Amnesia Collision Modern Man Coastal

Author:Max Mayfield

“Navajo infants get so attached to cradleboard that they cry to be tied into it. Kikuyu infants in Kenya get handed around several"mothers," all wives to one man. . . . Mothers in rural Guatemala keep their infants quiet, in dark huts. Middle-class American mothers talk a blue streak at them. Israeli kibbutz mothers give them over to a communal caretaker . . . Japanese mothers sleep with them. . . . All these tactics are compatible with normal health--physical and mental--and development in infancy. So one lesson for parents so far seems to be: Let a hundred flowers bloom.”

“How melancholy a thing is success. Whilst failure inspirits a man, attainment reads the sad prosy lesson that all our glories "Are shadows, not substantial things." Truly said the sayer, "disappointment is the salt of life" a salutary bitter which strengthens the mind for fresh exertion, and gives a double value to the prize.”

Men Giving Mind Said Values Lessons Glory Shadow Disappointment Bitter Prize Melancholy Salt Attainment Exertion

Book:First Footsteps in East Africa: Or, An Exploration of Harar

Source: First Footsteps in East Africa: Or, An Exploration of Harar

“The purest lesson our era has taught is that man, at his highest, is an individual, single, isolate, alone, in direct soul-communication with the unknown God, which prompts within him.”

Men Soul God Individual Taught Communication Lessons Highest Direct Separation Eras Individualism Prompts

Book:Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)

“If we suppose a sufficient righteousness and intelligence in men to produce presently, from the tremendous lessons of history, an effective will for a world peace - that is to say, an effective will for a world law under a world government - for in no other fashion is a secure world peace conceivable - in what manner may we expect things to move towards this end? . . . It is an educational task, and its very essence is to bring to the minds of all men everywhere, as a necessary basis for world cooperation, a new telling and interpretation, a common interpretation, of history.”

Ifs Men World Mind May Ends Government Moving Law Common Fashion Produce Lessons Tasks Essence Bases Educational Secure Sufficient Interpretation Righteousness Cooperation World Government

Author:H. G. Wells

“Though how nature works is way beyond man's ability to comprehend, I have found that observing how nature works offers innumerable lessons that can help us understand the realities that affect us.”

Men Way Life Helping Reality Found Growth Ability Lessons Offers Personal Growth Investing Observing

Author:Ray Dalio

“That man can interrogate as well as observe nature was a lesson slowly learned in his evolution.”

Men Wells Evolution Lessons

Author:William Osler

“Sympathy is the first great lesson which man should learn. It will be ill for him if he proceeds no farther; if his emotions are but excited to roll back on his heart, and to be fostered in luxurious quiet. But unless he learns to feel for things in which he has no personal interest, he can achieve nothing generous or noble.”

Ifs Men Feels Should Firsts Heart Interest Emotion Achieve Lessons Quiet Ill Excited Noble Generous Sympathy Luxurious Personal Interest

Book:Critical and Miscellaneous Writings

Source: Critical and Miscellaneous Writings

“A culture that gave the world the spiritual creations of the Classical Music of Mozart, Beethoven, Wagner and Schubert, the paintings of Michelangelo, and Raphael, Da Vinci and Rembrandt, does not need lessons from societies whose idea of spirituality is a heaven peopled with female virgins for the use of men, whose idea of heaven resembles a cosmic brothel.”

Source: Virgins? What Virgins?: And Other Essays

“Strength, strength is what the Upanishads speak to me from every page. This is the one great thing to remember, it has been the one great lesson I have been taught in my life; strength, it says, strength, O man, be not weak. Are there no human weaknesses? - says man. There are, say the Upanishads, but will more weakness heal them, would you try to wash dirt with dirt? Will sin cure sin, weakness cure weakness? Strength, O man, strength, say the Upanishads, stand up and be strong.”

Men Trying Humans Has Beens Motivational Remember Speak Strong Sin Taught Lessons Pages Weakness Weak Heal Great Things Cures Dirt Life Strength

Book:The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

“These are the hands whose sturdy labor brings The peasant's food, the golden pomp of kings; This is the page whose letters shall be seen, Changed by the sun to words of living green; This is the scholar whose immortal penSpells the first lesson hunger taught to men; These are the lines that heaven-commanded Toil Shows on his deed, - the charter of the soil!”

Men Life Firsts Shows Hands Heaven Lines Sun Changed Taught Kings Lessons Pages Garden Labor Letters Green Hunger Deeds Golden Soil Immortal Scholar Toil Peasants Charter Sturdy

Author:Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

“There is a metaphysical honour in ending the world's absurdity. Conquest or play-acting, multiple loves, absurd revolt are tributes that man pays to his dignity in a campaign in which he is defeated in advance.... War cannot be negated. One must live it or die of it. So it is with the absurd: it is a question of breathing with it, of recognizing its lessons and recovering their flesh. In this regard the absurd joy par excellence is creation. "Art and nothing but art", said Nietzsche, "we have art in order not to die of the truth."”

“It takes a man a long time to learn all the lessons of all his mistakes.”

Men Long Mistake Lessons Long Time

Author:Jesse Lauriston Livermore

“A lamp kept on mound illumines the area; if kept in a pit, it is as if it were not. A virtue that is practised is a lamp that shines for all; good thoughts and good deeds have a way of influencing others. The gems of wisdom, the light of intuitive experience should not be kept away from fellow - men. They have to be shared, even at the cost od one's life. That was the lesson Jesus taught and symbolised.”

Ifs Men Way Should Light Jesus Virtue Influence Taught Lessons Cost Areas Fellows Shining Deeds Good Deeds Lamps Intuitive Fellow Man Pits Gems Good Thoughts

Author:Sathya Sai Baba

“Man becomes fit and functionally valid only when, along with scholarship and expert skills, he has imbibed these values. The person who is wedded to Truth and Love would need nothing more for peace and happiness. When Creation is witnessed through these values, it becomes holy scripture, an inspiring lesson and guide,. Therefore I exhort you: Let Truth and Love be the goals for all your efforts and studies.”

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Author:Sathya Sai Baba

“The Soviet Union began by banishing God. The United States began as a community of people who wanted to worship God as they chose. . . Man does not live by bread alone. Those in the United States whose desire to create a strictly secular society is as strong as Lenin's was should study this Cold War lesson closely. Communism was defeated by an alliance spearheaded by 'one nation under God.'”

“In my creature impatience I am often caused to wish that there were some way to bring modern Christians into a deeper spiritual life painlessly by short, easy lessons; but such wishes are vain. No shortcut exists. God has not bowed to our nervous haste nor embraced the methods of our machine age. It is well that we accept the hard truth now: The man who would know God must give time to Him.”

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