Men Quotes - Page 103

Have I done the world good, or have I added a menace?

A woman at 20 is like ice, at 30 she is warm and at 40 she is hot.

There is no place in contemporary Karate-do for different schools. Some instructors, I know, claim to have invented new and unusual kata, and so they arrogate to themselves the right to be called founders of "schools". Indeed, I have heard myself and my colleagues referred to as the Shoto-kan school, but I strongly object to this attempt at classification. My belief is that all these "schools" should be amalgamated into one so that Karate-do may pursue and orderly and useful progress into man's future.

A man's a man. But when you see a king, you see the work of many thousand men.

When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.

Men naturally rebel against the injustice of which they are victims. Thus, when plunder is organized by law for the profit of those who make the law, all the plundered classes try somehow to enter, by peaceful or revolutionary means, into the making of laws. According to their degree of enlightenment, these plundered classes may propose one of two entirely different purposes when they attempt to attain political power: Either they may wish to stop lawful plunder, or they may wish to share in it.

If anyone removes (one of the) anxieties of this world from a believer, God will remove (one of the) anxieties from him on the Day of Resurrection; if one smoothes the way for one who is destitute, God will smooth the way for him in this world and the next; and if anyone conceals the faults of a Muslim, God will conceal his faults in this world and the next. God helps a man as long as he helps his brother. If anyone pursues a path in search of knowledge God will thereby make easy for him a path to paradise.

Meditation is not a way to enlightenment, Nor is it a method of achieving anything at all. It is peace itself. It is the actualization of wisdom, The ultimate truth of the oneness of all things.

These people are very unskilled in arms... with 50 men they could all be subjected and made to do all that one wished.

As long as a man feels that he is the most important thing in the world he cannot really appreciate the world around him.

Our world has become dehumanized. Man feels himself isolated in the cosmos, because he is no longer involved in nature.

You might as well praise a man for not robbing a bank as to praise him for playing by the rules.

Chess is a matter of delicate judgement, knowing when to punch and how to duck.

Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day; teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime; give a man religion and he will die praying for a fish.

Faith is not a soft option offered to people who need a crutch to get through the rest of their lives. Faith is the supernatural activity of God whereby He opens blind eyes, unstops deaf ears, and a man or a woman says- “I see it now. I get it now. I am going to trust in God. I am going to trust in Jesus.

The interest of [businessmen] is always in some respects different from, and even opposite to, that of the public ... The proposal of any new law or regulation of commerce which comes from this order ... ought never to be adopted, till after having been long and carefully examined ... with the most suspicious attention. It comes from an order of men ... who have generally an interest to deceive and even oppress the public.

What can you say to a man who tells you he prefers obeying God rather than men, and that as a result he's certain he'll go to heaven if he cuts your throat?

Democracy is a form of government that cannot long survive, for as soon as the people learn that they have a voice in the fiscal policies of the government, they will move to vote for themselves all the money in the treasury, and bankrupt the nation.

Dream and deed are not as different as many think. All the deeds of men are dreams at first, and become dreams in the end.

To win takes a complete commitment of mind and body. When you can't make that commitment, they don't call you a champion anymore.

Defeat doesn't finish a man, quit does. A man is not finished when he's defeated. He's finished when he quits.

A man on a mission is far different from a drone on a deadline.

Government is not the generator of economic growth; working people are.

If we achieve our sustainability targets and no one else follows, we will have failed.

My purpose is to develop a country, to empower its population. It's from that same population that will emerge the man or woman who will succeed me. And they will be chosen based on the consensus that they have the capacity to lead the country.