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QUOTES AND APHORISMS ON MEN 16
God gives every bird a worm, but he does not throw it into the nest.
Swedish Proverb (Sayings of Swedish origin)
A person should live if only for curiosity's sake.
Yiddish Proverb (Sayings of Yiddish origin)
If you're skilled, your wallet will be filled.
Yiddish Proverb (Sayings of Yiddish origin)
Rich man down and poor man up -- they are still not even.
Yiddish Proverb (Sayings of Yiddish origin)
Be always displeased at what thou art, if thou desire to attain to what thou art not; for where thou hast pleased thyself, there thou abidest.
Francis Quarles (1592-1644, British poet)
Temper your enjoyments with prudence, lest there be written on your heart that fearful word "satiety."
Francis Quarles (1592-1644, British poet)
It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities in our air and water that are doing it.
Dan Quayle (1947-, American politician, vice-president)
One of the greatest resources people cannot mobilize themselves is that they try to accomplish great things. Most worthwhile achievements are the result of many little things done in a single direction.
Nido Qubein (1948, Lebanese-born American businessman, speaker, consultant, author) Author's website: www.nidoqubein.com
Who so taketh in hand to frame any state or government ought to presuppose that all men are evil, and at occasions will show themselves so to be.
Sir Walter Raleigh (1552-1618, British courtier, navigator, writer)
Time is at once the most valuable and the most perishable of all our possessions.
John Randolph (1773-1833, American politician)
What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.
Otto Rank (1884-1939, Austrian-born psychoanalyst)
The individual woman is required a thousand times a day to choose either to accept her appointed role and thereby rescue her good disposition out of the wreckage of her self-respect, or else follow an independent line of behavior and rescue her self-respect out of the wreckage of her good disposition.
Jeannette Rankin (1880-1973, American feminist and pacifist)
Man was created as a being who should constantly keep improving, a being who on reaching one goal sets a higher one.
Ralph Ransom
Many without punishment, none without sin.
John Ray (1627-1705, British naturalist)
The whole point of getting things done is knowing what to leave undone.
Lady Stella Reading
A woman is like a teabag -- only in hot water do you realize how strong she is.
Nancy Reagan (1923-, American First Lady)
Every new day begins with possibilities. It's up to us to fill it with the things that move us toward progress and peace.
Ronald Reagan (1911-2004, American President (40th))
Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.
Ronald Reagan (1911-2004, American President (40th))
Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.
Ronald Reagan (1911-2004, American President (40th))
Governments tend not to solve problems, only to rearrange them.
Ronald Reagan (1911-2004, American President (40th))
Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authority, and don't interfere.
Ronald Reagan (1911-2004, American President (40th))
Today, if you invent a better mousetrap, the government comes along with a better mouse.
Ronald Reagan (1911-2004, American President (40th))
Unemployment insurance is a pre-paid vacation for freeloaders.
Ronald Reagan (1911-2004, American President (40th))
Not a day passes over this earth but men and women of note do great deeds, speak great words and suffer noble sorrows.
Charles Reed
I would rather have a first-class manager running a second-rate business than a second-rate manager running a first-rate business.
Jack E. Reichert
Even the wisest men make fools of themselves about women, and even the most foolish women are wise about men.
Theodor Reik (1888-1969, Austrian psychoanalyst)
Don't tell a woman she's pretty; tell her there's no other woman like her, and all roads will open to you.
Jules Renard (1864-1910, French author, dramatist)
I consider that women who are authors, lawyers, and politicians are monsters.
Pierre Auguste Renoir (1841-1919, French impressionist artist)
Make time for getting big tasks done every day, Plan your daily work load in advance. Single out the relatively few small jobs that absolutely must be done immediately in the morning. Then go directly to the big tasks, try to pursue them to completion.
Boardroom Reports
It is in his pleasure that a man really lives.
Agnes Repplier (1858-1950, American author, social critic)
A government is the only vessel that leaks from the top.
James Reston (1909-1995, Dutch-born American journalist)
The ship of state is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
James Reston (1909-1995, Dutch-born American journalist)
No woman is really an insider in the institutions fathered by masculine consciousness. When we allow ourselves to believe we are, we lose touch with parts of ourselves defined as unacceptable by that consciousness; with the vital toughness and visionary strength of the angry grandmothers, the fierce market women of the Ibo's Women's War, the marriage-resisting women, silk workers of pre-Revolutionary China, the millions of widows, midwives, and the women healers tortured and burned as witches for three centuries in Europe.
Adrienne Rich (1929-, American poet)
Don't be fooled by the calendar. There are only as many days in the year as you make use of. One man gets only a week's value out of a year while another man gets a full year's value out of a week.
Charles Richards
Our works and our play. All our pleasures experienced as the pleasure of love. What could be better than that? To feel in one's work the tender and flushed substance of one's dearest concern.
Mary Caroline Richards
Carry on any enterprise as if all future success depended on it.
Cardinal De Richelieu (1585-1642, French statesman)
Give me six lines written by the most honorable person alive, and I shall find enough in them to condemn him to the gallows.
Cardinal De Richelieu (1585-1642, French statesman)
Management must speak with one voice. When it doesn't management itself becomes a peripheral opponent to the team's mission.
Pat Riley (1945-, American basketball coach)
The Ten Commandments were not a suggestion.
Pat Riley (1945-, American basketball coach)
The great renewal of the world will perhaps consist in this, that man and maid, freed of all false feelings and reluctance, will seek each other not as opposites, but as brother and sister, as neighbors, and will come together as human beings.
Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926, German poet)
There is here no measuring with time, no year matters, and ten years are nothing. Being an artist means not reckoning and counting, but ripening like the tree which does not force its sap and stands confident in the storms of Spring without the fear that after them may come no Summer. It does come. I learn it daily, learn it with pain, to which I am grateful…
Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926, German poet)
Commit to CANI! -- Constant And Never-ending Improvement
Anthony Robbins (1960-, American author, speaker, peak performance expert, coach) Author's website: www.anthonyrobbins.com
I believe life is constantly testing us for our level of commitment, and life's greatest rewards are reserved for those who demonstrate a never-ending commitment to act until they achieve. This level of resolve can move mountains, but it must be constant and consistent. As simplistic as this may sound, it is still the common denominator separating those who live their dreams from those who live in regret.
Anthony Robbins (1960-, American author, speaker, peak performance expert, coach) Author's website: www.anthonyrobbins.com
Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year -- and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade!
Anthony Robbins (1960-, American author, speaker, peak performance expert, coach) Author's website: www.anthonyrobbins.com
Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life's deepest joy: true fulfillment.
Anthony Robbins (1960-, American author, speaker, peak performance expert, coach) Author's website: www.anthonyrobbins.com
The truth of the matter is that there's nothing you can't accomplish if: (1) You clearly decide what it is that you're absolutely committed to achieving, (2) You're willing to take massive action, (3) You notice what's working or not, and (4) You continue to change your approach until you achieve what you want, using whatever life gives you along the way.
Anthony Robbins (1960-, American author, speaker, peak performance expert, coach) Author's website: www.anthonyrobbins.com
There's always a way -- if you're committed.
Anthony Robbins (1960-, American author, speaker, peak performance expert, coach) Author's website: www.anthonyrobbins.com
There's no abiding success without commitment.
Anthony Robbins (1960-, American author, speaker, peak performance expert, coach) Author's website: www.anthonyrobbins.com
Sacrifice alone, bare and unrelieved, is ghastly, unnatural, and dead; but self-sacrifice, illuminated by love, is warmth, and life.
Frederick W. Robertson
Nothing is as difficult as to achieve results in this world if one is filled full of great tolerance and the milk of human kindness. The person who achieves must generally be a one-idea individual, concentrated entirely on that one idea, and ruthless in his aspect toward other men and other ideas.
Corinne Roosevelt Robinson (1861-1933, American poet, sister of Theodore Roosevelt)
The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential... these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.
Eddie Robinson (1919-. American college football coach)
Individuals... make the decision to become involved... If they don't, they miss their most important chance to feel inner power and to become whole human beings.
John D. Rockefeller III
Good management consists in showing average people how to do the work of superior people.
John D. Rockefeller (1839-1937, American industrialist, philanthropist, founder Exxon)
Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.
Will Rogers (1879-1935, American humorist, actor)
Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.
Will Rogers (1879-1935, American humorist, actor)
I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.
Will Rogers (1879-1935, American humorist, actor)
Things will get better -- despite our efforts to improve them.
Will Rogers (1879-1935, American humorist, actor)
Better is not something you wish, it is something you become.
Jim Rohn (American businessman, author, speaker, philosopher) Author's website: www.jimrohn.com
Time is more valuable than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.
Jim Rohn (American businessman, author, speaker, philosopher) Author's website: www.jimrohn.com
Time is our most valuable asset, yet we tend to waste it, kill it, and spend it rather than invest it.
Jim Rohn (American businessman, author, speaker, philosopher) Author's website: www.jimrohn.com
What you become directly influences what you get.
Jim Rohn (American businessman, author, speaker, philosopher) Author's website: www.jimrohn.com
You can change all things for the better when you change yourself for the better.
Jim Rohn (American businessman, author, speaker, philosopher) Author's website: www.jimrohn.com
I buy women shoes and they use them to walk away from me.
Mickey Rooney (1920-, American actor)
The will of the people shall be the basis of th authority of government...
Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962, American First Lady, columnist, lecturer, humanitarian)
It is the duty of the President to propose and it is the privilege of the Congress to dispose.
Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945, American President (32nd))
Never before have we had so little time in which to do so much.
Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945, American President (32nd))
Not only our future economic soundness but the very soundness of our democratic institutions depends on the determination of our government to give employment to idle men.
Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945, American President (32nd))
I don't pity any man who does hard work worth doing; I admire him. I pity the creature who does not work, at whichever end of the social scale he may regard himself as being.
Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919, American President (26th))
The government is us; we are the government, you and I.
Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919, American President (26th))
There is something to be said for government by a great aristocracy which has furnished leaders to the nation in peace and war for generations; even a democrat like myself must admit this. But there is absolutely nothing to be said for government by a plutocracy, for government by men very powerful in certain lines and gifted with the "money touch," but with ideals which in their essence are merely those of so many glorified pawnbrokers.
Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919, American President (26th))
There is something to be said for government by a great aristocracy which has furnished leaders to the nation in peace and war for generations; even a democrat like myself must admit this. But there is absolutely nothing to be said for government by a plutocracy, for government by men very powerful in certain lines and gifted with the "money touch," but with ideals which in their essence are merely those of so many glorified pawnbrokers.
Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919, American President (26th))
Never invest your money in anything that eats or needs repairing.
Billy Rose (1899-1966, American composer of popular music)
American time has stretched around the world. It has become the dominant tempo of modern history, especially of the history of Europe.
Harold Rosenberg (1906-1978, American art critic, author)
There's nothing worse than someone coming up to me and going "Oh God, I really love your hair."
Gavin Rossdale (1967-, British-born American musician, singer, songwriter)
I don't judge a regime by the damning criticism of the opposition, but by the ingenuous praise of the partisan.
Jean Rostand (1894-1977, French biologist, writer)
To say of men that they are bad is to say they are worse than we think we are, or worse than the ideal man whose image we have built up on the basis of a certain few.
Jean Rostand (1894-1977, French biologist, writer)
The problem with self-improvement is knowing when to quit.
David Lee Roth (1954-, American rock musician)
All that time is lost which might be better employed.
Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778, Swiss political philosopher, educationist, essayist)
Do not judge, and you will never be mistaken.
Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778, Swiss political philosopher, educationist, essayist)
I have always said and felt that true enjoyment cannot be described.
Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778, Swiss political philosopher, educationist, essayist)
The body politic, as well as the human body, begins to die as soon as it is born, and carries within itself the causes of its destruction.
Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778, Swiss political philosopher, educationist, essayist)
The English think they are free. They are free only during the election of members of parliament.
Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778, Swiss political philosopher, educationist, essayist)
It takes one woman twenty years to make a man of her son -- and another woman twenty minutes to make a fool of him.
Helen Rowland (1875-1950, American journalist)
Some women can be fooled all of the time, and all women can be fooled some of the time, but the same woman can't be fooled by the same man in the same way more than half of the time.
Helen Rowland (1875-1950, American journalist)
There are only two kinds of men; the dead and the deadly.
Helen Rowland (1875-1950, American journalist)
There's so much saint in the worst of them, and so much devil in the best of them, that a woman who's married to one of them, has nothing to learn of the rest of them.
Helen Rowland (1875-1950, American journalist)
Woman! The peg on which the wit hangs his jest, the preacher his text, the cynic his grouch, and the sinner his justification!
Helen Rowland (1875-1950, American journalist)
The only place you can win a football game is on the field. The only place you can lose it is in your heart.
Darrell Royal (1924-, American college football coach)
Most men act so tough and strong on the outside because on the inside, we are scared, weak, and fragile. Men, not women, are the weaker sex.
Jerry Rubin (1938-1994, American activist, author, entrepreneur)
The art of government is the organization of idolatry. The bureaucracy consists of functionaries; the aristocracy, of idols; the democracy, of idolaters. The populace cannot understand the bureaucracy: it can only worship the national idols.
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950, Irish-born British dramatist)
To justify our likes and dislikes, we generally say that the work we dislike is not serious.
Walter Richard Sickert
We do not judge men by what they are in themselves, but what they are relatively to us.
Anne Sophie Swetchine (1782-1857, Russian author)
A president either is constantly on top of events or, if he hesitates, events will soon be on top of him. I never felt that I could let up for a moment.
Harry S. Truman (1884-1972, American President (33rd))
Everything in this life takes longer than you think, except life itself.
Author Unknown
I hear the singing of the lives of women. The clear mystery, the offering, the pride.
Muriel Rukeyser (1913-1980, American writer)
Listening to both sides does not necessarily bring about a correct judgment.
Donald Rumsfeld (1932-, American Secretary of Defense, 2000-present)
Hesitancy in judgment is the only true mark of the thinker.
Dagobert D. Runes (1902-1982, American philosophical writer)
Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing it.
John Ruskin (1819-1900, British critic, social theorist)
Punishment is the last and the least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the prevention of crime.
John Ruskin (1819-1900, British critic, social theorist)
A truer image of the world, I think, is obtained by picturing things as entering into the stream of time from an eternal world outside, than from a view which regards time as the devouring tyrant of all that is.
Bertrand Russell (1872-1970, British philosopher, mathematician, essayist)
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