O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!
William Shakespeare

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.
Henry David Thoreau

I have never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.
Henry David Thoreau

Every man casts a shadow; not his body only, but his imperfectly mingled spirit. This is his grief. Let him turn which way he will, it falls opposite to the sun; short at noon, long at eve. Did you never see it?
Henry David Thoreau

Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.
Henry David Thoreau

I am sorry to think that you do not get a man's most effective criticism until you provoke him. Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness.
Henry David Thoreau

Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.
Henry David Thoreau

If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn't need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.
Jim Rohn

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.
Aristotle

A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side.
Aristotle

You'll never get ahead of anyone as long as you try to get even with him.
Lou Holtz

If he's got golf clubs in his truck or a camper in his driveway, I don't hire him.
Lou Holtz

There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in.
Will Rogers

If the other fellow sells cheaper than you, it is called dumping. 'Course, if you sell cheaper than him, that's mass production.
Will Rogers

I bet after seeing us, George Washington would sue us for calling him "father."
Will Rogers

We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Napoleon Bonaparte

You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.
Napoleon Bonaparte

You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.
Napoleon Bonaparte

A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

A man is a method, a progressive arrangement; a selecting principle, gathering his like to him; wherever he goes.
Ralph Waldo Emerson