“Happy the man, of mortals happiest he, Whose quiet mind from vain desires is free; Whom neither hopes deceive, nor fears torment, But lives at peace, within himself content; In thought, or act, accountable to none But to himself, and to the gods alone.” MenMindDesireHe ManQuietMortalsVainContentmentDeceivingTormentPeace Within Author:George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne
“"There is nothing," says a correspondent of the New York Times, "which the business world discards as unpractical and useless so much as the quiet, thinking scholar. But this is the man who makes revolutions. Politicians are mere puppets in the hands of men of thought.” ThinkingMenWorldHandsNew YorkHe ManRevolutionPoliticianQuietMereUselessScholarNew York TimesPuppetsBusiness World Author:Christian Nestell Bovee
“All the inducements of early society tend to foster immediate action; all its penalties fall on the man who pauses; the traditional wisdom of those times was never weary of inculcating that "delays are dangerous," and that the sluggish man the man "who roasteth not that which he took in hunting" will not prosper on the earth, and indeed will very soon perish out of it. And in consequence an inability to stay quiet, an irritable desire to act directly, is one of the most conspicuous failings of mankind.” MenActionEarthDesireFallFailingMankindDangerousHe ManQuietConsequenceTraditionalHuntingPenaltiesWearyPausesDelayInabilitySluggishImmediate Action Book:Physics and Politics: Or, Thoughts on the Application of the Principles of Source: Physics and Politics: Or, Thoughts on the Application of the Principles of
“I have had the accomplishment of something like this at heart ever since I was a boy.... So I feel tonight like the man who is lodging happily in the inn which lies half way along the journey and that in time, with a fresh impulse, we shall go the rest of the journey and sleep at the journey's end like men with a quiet conscience.” MenWayFeelsHeartEndsLyingSleepHalfBoysJourneyHe ManQuietAmbitionConscienceImpulseAccomplishmentTonightInnsHalf WayTariffs Author:Woodrow Wilson
“What do women do when they get together? We sit around and talk! Men, not so much. My theory is that this difference is genetic and dates back to the hunter-gatherer societies, when the men had to be quiet as they hunted, lest they scare away the bison and then everyone starved to death and it was all their fault.” MenTogetherDifferencesHe ManTheoryQuietFaultsScareHuntersGet TogetherHuntedHunter GatherersBison Author:Jenna McCarthy
“The man who loves God with a true heart, and prizes him above all things, sometimes sheds floods of tears at prayer, and has in abundance of favours and spiritual feelings coming upon him with such vehemence, that he is forced to cry out, "Lord! let me be quiet!” MenHeartSometimesFeelingsSpiritualPrayerLordCryTearsHe ManQuietAll ThingsLet MeGod LoveAbundancePrizeShedFloodFavourVehemenceTrue Heart Book:The Maxims and Sayings of St Philip Neri Source: The Maxims and Sayings of St Philip Neri
“A best friend is someone with whom you can sit on the porch, without a word, and then walk away with the feeling that it was the best conversation that ever had in your life. I would like to see next to me was the man in whose presence my heart beat would be evenly and uniformly, the man next to whom I would be calm, because I was not afraid to be the next day to lose him. And the time would have flowed more slowly, and we could just keep quiet, knowing that to talk with us there is still a whole life. Only one thing makes a dream impossible - it is the fear of failure.” MenHeartStillsWholeFeelingsDreamWould BeNextLosesWalksKnowingImpossibleOne ThingHe ManMy HeartQuietConversationBeatsCalmWhole LifeNot AfraidNext DayCalmnessFear Of FailureBest FriendHeart BeatPorchTrue Best Friend Author:Paulo Coelho