Danh ngôn thuộc danh mục: men

A manager is not a person who can do the work better than his men; he is a person who can get his men to do the work better than he can.

The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design.

When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one.

'Evil men have no songs.' How is it that the Russians have songs?

Men do not accept their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and worship those whom they have tortured to death.

It occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well.

Men are not against you; they are merely for themselves.

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.

Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

Nothing is ever done in this world until men are prepared to kill one another if it is not done.

One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't.

Old men are dangerous: it doesn't matter to them what is going to happen to the world.

Young men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are fools.

Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious.

We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.

Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.

Men are only as good as their technical development allows them to be.

We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.

For gold is tried in the fire and acceptable men in the furnace of adversity.

Men are not hanged for stealing horses, but that horses may not be stolen.

If we take the generally accepted definition of bravery as a quality which knows no fear, I have never seen a brave man. All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are, the more they are frightened.

As I said, men value their independence in a weird way, above practically everything.

Men are actually the weaker sex.

Men still have to be governed by deception.

One must judge men not by their opinions, but by what their opinions have made of them.

Women prefer to talk in twos, while men prefer to talk in threes.

When we see men of worth, we should think of equalling them; when we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inward and examine ourselves.

We must become bigger than we have been: more courageous, greater in spirit, larger in outlook. We must become members of a new race, overcoming petty prejudice, owing our ultimate allegiance not to nations but to our fellow men within the human community.

The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are but different means chosen to arrive at it.

Rules are for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men.

In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves... self-discipline with all of them came first.

Those who want the Government to regulate matters of the mind and spirit are like men who are so afraid of being murdered that they commit suicide to avoid assassination.

Human misery is too great for men to do without faith.

Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged.

Why do Jewish men die before their wives? They want to.

It is always good men who do the most harm in the world.

Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.

Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it.

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.

Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, they had better aim at something high.

Great men, unknown to their generation, have their fame among the great who have preceded them, and all true worldly fame subsides from their high estimate beyond the stars.

The law will never make a man free; it is men who have got to make the law free.

The life which men praise and regard as successful is but one kind. Why should we exaggerate any one kind at the expense of the others?

I describe not men, but manners; not an individual, but a species.

I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can't be done.

You will find men who want to be carried on the shoulders of others, who think that the world owes them a living. They don't seem to see that we must all lift together and pull together.

The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other, whom he assumes to have perfect vision.

The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.