Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dale Carnegie

All men have fears, but the brave put down their fears and go forward, sometimes to death, but always to victory.

Dale Carnegie

Make a man laugh a good hearty laugh, and you've paved the way for friendship. When a man laughs with you, he, to some extent, likes you.

Dale Carnegie

Five hundred years before Christ was born, the Greek philosopher Heraclitus told his students that "everything changes except the law of change". He said: "You cannot step in the same river twice." The river changes every second; and so does the man who stepped in it. Life is a ceaseless change. The only certainty is today. Why mar the beauty of living today by trying to solve the problems of a future that is shrouded in ceaseless change and uncertainty-a future that no one can possibly foretell?

Dale Carnegie

This is a hurried age we're living in. If you've got anything to say, say it quickly, get to the point and stop, and give the other man a chance to talk.

Dale Carnegie

Always have something to say. The man who has something to say and who is known never to speak unless he has, is sure to be listened to.�

Dale Carnegie

An old man was asked what had robbed him of joy in his life. His reply was, "Things that never happened."

Craig Washington

I prefer a man who will burn the flag and then wrap himself in the constitution to a man who will burn the constitution and then wrap himself in the flag.

Colin Powell

A mirror reflects a man's face, but what he is really like is shown by the kind of friends he chooses.

Colin Powell

Always be looking for that which you do well and that which you love doing, and when you find those two things together — man, you got it.

Claud Cockburn

What arouses the indignation of the honest satirist is not, unless the man is a prig, the fact that people in positions of power or influence behave idiotically, or even that they behave wickedly. It is that they conspire successfully to impose upon the public a picture of themselves as so very sagacious, honest and well-intentioned.

Clark Moustakas

The most dramatic conflicts are perhaps, those that take place not between men but between a man and himself - where the arena of conflict is a solitary mind.

All men have an equal disposition for understanding.

What makes men happy is liking what they have to do. This is a principle on which society is not founded

Claude C. Hopkins

The man who wins out and survives does so only because of superior science and strategy.

Clara Barton

I may sometimes be willing to teach for nothing, but if paid at all, I shall never do a man's work for less than a man's pay.

Claire McCaskill

I think that I was just on the cusp of the generation that was beginning to really challenge some of the assumptions about the role of women and the role of men on campus.

Claude Levi-Strauss

Natural man did not precede society, nor is he outside it.

Claude Levi-Strauss

Since music is the only language with the contradictory attributes of being intelligible and untranslatable, the musical creator is a being comparable to the gods, and music itself the supreme mystery of the science of man.

Claude Levi-Strauss

Just as the individual is not alone in the group, nor anyone in society alone among the others, so man is not alone in the universe.

Claude Levi-Strauss

The world began without man, and it will complete itself without him.

Claude Levi-Strauss

Language is a form of human reason, which has its internal logic of which man knows nothing.

Daniel Quinn

With man gone, will there be hope for gorilla?

Daniel Quinn

In effect, you're saying that if you knew how you oughtt to live, then the flaw is man could be controlled. If you knew how you ought to live, you wouldn't be forever screwing up the world. perhaps in fact the two things are actually one thing. Perhaps the flaw in man is exactly this: that he doesn't know how he ought to live.

Daniel Quinn

The premise of the Taker story is 'the world belongs to man'. … The premise of the Leaver story is 'man belongs to the world'.

Daniel Quinn

Do you see the slightest evidence anywhere in the universe that creation came to an end with the birth of man? Do you see the slightest evidence anywhere out there that man was the climax toward which creation had been straining from the beginning? ...Very far from it. The universe went on as before, the planet went on as before. Man's appearance caused no more stir than the appearance of jellyfish.

Daniel Quinn

I have amazing news for you. Man is not alone on this planet. He is part of a community, upon which he depends absolutely.

Daniel Radcliffe

I always saw Michael Gambon wearing madly psychedelic socks, and I always thought that's it is one of the few areas where men can really express colour and have a bit of a dandyish quality to their outfit.

Daniel Radcliffe

A friend often says I'm an old man in a young man's husk. I like that. I am old-fashioned in some ways.

Daniel Boone

Nothing embitters my old age [like] the circulation of absurd stories that I retire as civilization advances, that I shun the white men and seek the Indians, and that now even when old, I seek to retire beyond the second Alleganies.

Daniel Boone

I wouldn't give a tinker's damn for a man who isn't sometimes afraid. Fear's the spice that makes it interesting to go ahead.

Daniel Berrigan

But how shall we educate men to goodness, to a sense of one another, to a love of truth? And more urgently, how shall we do this in a bad time?

Dan Hill

There are certain men born in this world, and they're supposed to die setting an example for the rest of the weak bastards we're surrounded with.

Dan Harmon

I feel like I am a good person and a professional, very able leader of men.