“Bad luck with women is a determined man's road to success. For every affliction, he makes, out of indignation, yet another advancement in order to exceed the man that the woman chose over him. This goes to show that great men are made great because they once learned how to fight the feeling of rejection.” MenMadeShowsFeelingsOrderFightingHe ManLuckDeterminedRejectionGreat MenAfflictionAdvancementExceedRoad To SuccessBad LuckIndignationMake Out Book:Venus in Arms Source: Venus in Arms
“Lincoln, answering friends who advised him to seek protection against assassination: "If they kill me the next man will be just as bad for them. In a country like this, where our habits are simple, and must be, assassination is always possible, and will come if they are determined upon it.” IfsMenCountryNextSimpleHabitKillingDeterminedProtectionKill MeAssassination Author:William Herndon
“We might define an eccentric as a man who is a law unto himself, and a crank as one who, having determined what the law is, insists on laying it down to others.” MenMightLawDeterminedEccentricCrank Author:Louis Kronenberger
“The curse of the intelligent man is that he will always find himself surrounded by the ignorant. The measure of the intelligent man is determined by his tolerance toward them.” MenLifeIntelligentDeterminedToleranceIgnorantCurseIntelligent Man Author:Derek R. Audette
“Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it.” MenWayMeanStatesReasonLyingChoicesConcernedExcellenceDetermineDeterminedPracticalsRelativeMoral Excellence Book:Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation Source: Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation