Quotes about men
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„Be an example to your men in your duty and in private life.“
— Erwin Rommel German field marshal of World War II 1891 - 1944
Context: Be an example to your men in your duty and in private life. Never spare yourself, and let the troops see that you don't, in your endurance of fatigue and privation. Always be tactful and well-mannered and teach your subordinates to be the same. Avoid excessive sharpness or harshness of voice, which usually indicates the man who has shortcomings of his own to hide.
Address as Director of the Military School in Weiner Neustadt at the passing out parade of the 1938 class of cadets.
A note by General Bayerlein in the Rommel Papers (1953), edited by Basil Henry Liddell Hart. p. 241.[[War without Hate ]]
„All that is done and said and thought and suffered upon the Earth combine together, and flow onward in one broad resistless current toward those great results to which they are determined by the will of God.
We build slowly and destroy swiftly. Our Ancient Brethren who built the Temples at Jerusalem, with many myriad blows felled, hewed, and squared the cedars, and quarried the stones, and car»ed the intricate ornaments, which were to be the Temples. Stone after stone, by the combined effort and long toil of Apprentice, Fellow-Craft, and Master, the walls arose; slowly the roof was framed and fashioned; and many years elapsed, before, at length, the Houses stood finished, all fit and ready for the Worship of God, gorgeous in the sunny splendors of the atmosphere of Palestine. So they were built. A single motion of the arm of a rude, barbarous Assyrian Spearman, or drunken Roman or Gothic Legionary of Titus, moved by a senseless impulse of the brutal will, flung in the blazing brand; and, with no further human agency, a few short hours sufficed to consume and melt each Temple to a smoking mass of black unsightly ruin.
Be patient, therefore, my Brother, and wait!
: The issues are with God: To do,
Of right belongs to us.
Therefore faint not, nor be weary in well-doing! Be not discouraged at men's apathy, nor disgusted with their follies, nor tired of their indifference! Care not for returns and results; but see only what there is to do, and do it, leaving the results to God! Soldier of the Cross! Sworn Knight of Justice, Truth, and Toleration! Good Knight and True! be patient and work!“
— Albert Pike Confederate States Army general and Freemason 1809 - 1891
Ch. XIX : Grand Pontiff, p. 321
„Men can have friends, statesmen cannot.“
— Charles de Gaulle eighteenth President of the French Republic 1890 - 1970
Les hommes peuvent avoir des amis, pas les hommes d'Etat.
Interview, December 9 1967.
„The gospel is a reasonable system, and it appeals to men's understanding; it is a matter for thought and consideration, and it appeals to the conscience and reflecting powers.“
— Charles Spurgeon British preacher, author, pastor and evangelist 1834 - 1892
„Wisdom is, I suppose, the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.“
— Charles Spurgeon British preacher, author, pastor and evangelist 1834 - 1892
The Fourfold Treasure (1871) No. 991 http://www.spurgeon.org/sermons/0991.htm
„People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.“
— Jean Jacques Rousseau Genevan philosopher 1712 - 1778
„Boy Scout is not merely to give you fun and adventure but that, like the backwoodsmen, explorers, and frontiersmen whom you are following, you will be fitting yourself to help your country and to be of service to other people who may be in need of help. That is what the best men are out to do.“
— Robert Baden-Powell, Robert Baden-Powell: Scouting for Boys, The Original
„Tolerance is the first principle of community; it is the spirit which conserves the best that all men think.“
— Helen Keller American author and political activist 1880 - 1968
Context: The highest result of education is tolerance. Long ago men fought and died for their faith; but it took ages to teach them the other kind of courage, — the courage to recognize the faiths of their brethren and their rights of conscience. Tolerance is the first principle of community; it is the spirit which conserves the best that all men think.
„All pretty girls are a trap, a pretty trap, and men expect them to be.“
— Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie
Amanda, Scene Six
„That is the corrosive paradox of gender feminism's misandrist stance: no group of women can wage war on men without at the same time denigrating the women who respect those men.“
— Christina Hoff Sommers, Who Stole Feminism?: How Women Have Betrayed Women
„Learning … should be a joy and full of excitement. It is life's greatest adventure; it is an illustrated excursion into the minds of noble and learned men, not a conducted tour through a jail.“
— Taylor Caldwell Novelist 1900 - 1985
Context: Learning … should be a joy and full of excitement. It is life's greatest adventure; it is an illustrated excursion into the minds of noble and learned men, not a conducted tour through a jail. So its surroundings should be as gracious as possible, to complement it.
The Sound of Thunder (1957) Pt. I, Ch. 9