More men fail through lack of purpose than lack of talent. ...
by Billy Sunday
More men fail through lack of purpose than lack of talent.
- Billy Sunday
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Men Sayings
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph
is for enough good men to do nothing.
- Edmund Burke 
When It's Darkest, Men See the Stars.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Shallow men believe in luck.
Strong men believe in cause and effect.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Habits age men before their time.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Men are born to succeed, not to fail.
- Henry David Thoreau
How could man rejoice in victory
and delight in the slaughter of men?
- Lao Tzu
Men are what their mothers made them.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.
- Abraham Lincoln
Do not pray for easy lives.
Pray to be stronger men.
- John F. Kennedy
Men of lofty genius,
when they are doing the least work,
are most active.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Men are not prisoners of fate,
but only prisoners of their own minds.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Great men or men of great gifts
you shall easily find,
but symmetrical men never.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wise men put their trust in ideas
and not in circumstances
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Most men lead lives of quiet desperation
and go to the grave with the song still in them.
- Henry David Thoreau
Nearly all men can stand adversity,
but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
- Abraham Lincoln
There is a good ear, in some men,
that draws supplies to virtue
out of very indifferent nutriment.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The revelation of thought takes men
out of servitude into freedom.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
My heart bleeds at the death of every one of our gallant men.
- Robert E. Lee
Real friendships among men are so rare
that when they occur they are famous.
- Clarence Day
We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.
- Henry David Thoreau
Man becomes great exactly in the degree
in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
It is not work that kills men; it is worry.
Worry is rust upon the blade.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste
that they hurry past it.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Men are disturbed not by things,
but by the view which they take of them.
- Epictetus
Behind an able man there are always other able men.
- Chinese proverb
Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
There are times, sir, when men of good conscience
cannot blindly follow orders.
- Captain Picard, STAR TREK: The Next Generation
Truth is the property of no individual
but is the treasure of all men.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Who never walks save where he sees
men's tracks, makes no discoveries.
- J. G. Holland
The reason why men do not obey us,
is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Just as a candle cannot burn without fire,
men cannot live without a spiritual life.
- The Buddha
When men destroy their old gods,
they will find new ones to take their place.
- Pearl S. Buck
Instead of noblemen,
let us have noble villages of men.
- Henry David Thoreau
Trust men and they will be true to you;
treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men.
No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
- Elbert Hubbard
Men and women are not prisoners of fate,
but only prisoners of their own minds.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
The only good luck many great men ever had was
being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.
- Channing Pollock
In every society some men are born to rule,
and some to advise.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It takes time to persuade men to do even
what is for their own good.
- Thomas Jefferson
I do not believe in a fate that
falls on men however they act;
but I do believe in a fate
that falls on them unless they act.
- The Buddha
Men occasionally stumble over the truth,
but most of them pick themselves up
and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
- Winston Churchill
Men in general judge more from
appearances than from reality. All
men have eyes, but few have
the gift of penetration.
- Niccolo Machiavelli
The highest proof of the spirit is love.
Love is the eternal thing which men can already
on earth possess as it really is.
- Albert Schweitzer
Achievement seems to be connected with action.
Successful men and women keep moving.
They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
- Conrad Hilton
When men are easy in their circumstances,
they are naturally enemies to innovations.
- Joseph Addison
The difference between men friends and women friends
is that men tend to do things together,
women tend to just be together.
- Art Jahnke
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.
- Henry David Thoreau
In the long run, men hit only what they aim at.
Therefore, they had better aim at something high.
- Henry David Thoreau
If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right.
Men will believe what they see.
- Henry David Thoreau
Women must try to do things as men have tried.
When they fail their failure must be
but a challenge to others.
- Amelia Earhart
All men's souls are immortal,
but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
- Socrates
Many men go fishing all of their lives
without knowing that it is not fish they are after.
- Henry David Thoreau
The expert in battle seeks his victory
from strategic advantage
and does not demand it from his men.
- Sun Tzu
Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully
as when they do it from religious conviction.
- Blaise Pascal
Men have a respect for scholarship and learning
greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.
- Henry David Thoreau
All men are children, and of one family.
The same tale sends them all to bed,
and wakes them in the morning.
- Henry David Thoreau
Tolerance is the first principle of community;
it is the spirit which conserves
the best that all men think.
- Helen Keller
It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died.
Rather we should thank God that such men lived.
- George S. Patton
Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings,
so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.
- Socrates
Fail Sayings
In order to succeed, you must first be willing to fail.
- Anonymous
You may be disappointed if you fail,
but you are doomed if you don't try.
- Beverly Sills
Try again. Fail again. Fail better.
- Samuel Beckett
If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.
- Anonymous
Only aim to do your duty,
and mankind will give you credit where you fail.
- Thomas Jefferson
Failure to prepare is preparing to fail.
- John Wooden
Failing to plan is planning to fail.
- Anonymous
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
- Robert F. Kennedy
You ARE what you do - and what you fail to do.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Act as if it were impossible to fail.
- Dorthea Brande
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?
- Robert H. Schuller
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