“The man who is meek is not even sensitive about himself. He is not always watching himself and his own interests. He is not always on the defensive… To be truly meek means we no longer protect ourselves, because we see there is nothing worth defending… The man who is truly meek never pities himself, he is never sorry for himself. He never talks to himself and says, “You are having a hard time, how unkind these people are not to understand you.” PeopleMenMeanHardInterestHe ManProtectSorryPitySensitiveHard TimesMeekUnkindHaving A Hard Time Author:Martyn
“At the approach of danger two voices speak with equal force in the heart of man: one very reasonably tells the man to consider the nature of the danger and the means of avoiding it and the other, even more reasonable, says that it is too painful and harassing to think of the danger... better to turn aside from the painful subject till it has come, and to think of what is pleasant. In solitude a man generally yields to the first voice; in society to the second.” ThinkingMenFirstsHeartMeanTwoTurnsSpeakForceVoiceSubjectsDangerHe ManSolitudeEqualApproachPainfulPleasantReasonableYieldAvoiding Author:Leo Tolstoy
“I read an article on me once that described my machine-method of silk-screen copying and painting: 'What a bold and audacious solution, what depths of the man are revealed in this solution!' What does that mean?” MenMeanDoeHe ManPaintingSolutionsMachinesMethodDepthScreensArticlesSilkCopyingAudacious Author:Andy Warhol
“My enemy is not the man who wrongs me, but the man who means to wrong me.” MenMeanEnemyHe Man Author:Democritus
“The man who is fond of complaining likes to remain amid the objects of his vexation. He will most strongly revolt against every means proposed for his deliverance. This is what suits him. He asks nothing better than to sigh over his position and to remain in it.” MenMeanAsksResponsibilityPositionObjectsHe ManComplainingLikesSuitsSighRevoltDeliveranceVery MeanVexation Author:Francois Guizot
“The vice of envy is not only a dangerous, but a mean vice; for it is always a confession of inferiority. It may promote conduct which will be fruitful of wrong to others, and it must cause misery to the man who feels it.” MenFeelsMayMeanCausesDangerousHe ManMiseryVicesEnvyConfessionInferiority Author:Theodore Roosevelt
“When I was very little, say five or six, I became aware of the fact that people wrote books. Before that, I thought that God wrote books. I thought a book was a manifestation of nature, like a tree. When my mother explained it, I kept after her: What are you saying? What do you mean? I couldn't believe it. It was astonishing. It was like--here's the man who makes all the trees. Then I wanted to be a writer, because, I suppose, it seemed the closest thing to being God.” PeopleMenBelieveMeanLittlesBookFactsWantedMotherFiveTreeHe ManSixManifestationClosestAstonishing Author:Fran Lebowitz
“The man who accused Richard Simmons of slapping him in an airport has dropped the assault charge. Dropped it! Upon hearing the news, Simmons sadly responded, "You mean I'm not going to prison?"” MenMeanHe ManNewsPrisonHearingAssaultAccusedAirportsSlapping Author:Dennis Miller
“Success is in the student, not in the university; greatness is in the individual, not in the library; power is in the man, not in his crutches. A great man will make opportunities, even out of the commonest and meanest situations. If a man is not superior to his education, is not larger than his crutches or his helps, if he is not greater than the means of his culture, which are but the sign-boards pointing the way to success, he will never reach greatness. Not learning, not culture alone, not helps and opportunities, but personal power and sterling integrity, make a man great.” IfsMenWayMeanHelpingCultureOpportunityIndividualSituationGreaterStudentsGreatnessHe ManIntegrityLibraryUniversitySuperiorsBoardsGreat MenPointingPersonal PowerCrutchesSterlingWay To Success Author:Orison Swett Marden