And so it is in politics, dear brother, Each for himself alone, there is no other. — Geoffrey Chaucer
More and more, when faced with the world of men, the only reaction is one of individualism. Man alone is an end unto himself. Everything one tries to do for the common good ends in failure. — Albert Camus
Every man's path is for himself; let him accomplish his own desires that he may thus be able to rise above them to the eternal goal. — Hazrat Inayat Khan
All for one and one for all, united we stand divided we fall. — Alexandre Dumas
Every man should bear his own grievances rather than detract from the comforts of another. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Men tend to be selfish. — Caprice Bourret
Every man is defenseless unless he has a brother or a friend. — Icelandic Proverbs
Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others. — Buddha
Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others. — Buddha
Do unto others, then run — Benny Hill
The strongest man in the world is he who stands alone. — Henrik Ibsen
You can depend on no man, on no friend, but him who can depend on himself. — Johann Kaspar Lavater
Every Man For Himself Image Quotes
Every man dies. Not every man really lives.
When A Man Has Everything Quotes
Perhaps man has a hundred senses, and when he dies the five senses that we know perish with him, and the other ninety-five remain alive... Everything that is unattainable for us now will one day be near and clear... But we must work. — Anton Chekhov
Enlightenment is not an attainment; it is a realization. And when you wake up, everything changes and nothing changes. If a blind man realizes that he can see, has the world changed? — Dan Millman
So with the man who has daily inured himself to habits of concentrated attention, energetic volition, and self-denial in unnecessary things. He will stand like a tower when everything rocks around him, and when his softer fellow-mortals are winnowed like chaff in the blast. — William James
Every man gotta right to decide his own destiny.
There is only one way to succeed in anything and that is to give everything. I do and I demand that my players do. Any man's finest hour is when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle... victorious. — Vince Lombardi
When you pray, things remain the same, but you begin to be different. The same thing when a man falls in love, his circumstances and conditions remain the same, but he has a sovereign preference in his heart for another person which transfigures everything! — Oswald Chambers
Smart Man Wise Man Quotes
Smart men walked on the moon, daring men walked on the ocean floor, but wise men walk with God. — Leonard Ravenhill
A smart man makes a mistake, learns from it, and never makes that mistake again.But a wise man finds a smart man and learns from him how to avoid the mistake altogether. — Roy H. Williams
Only fools use their mouth to speak. A smart man uses his brain, and a wise man uses his heart. — Jack Ma
Every man needs woman when his life is mess, because like in game of chess; queen protects king.
The difference between a smart man and a wise man is that a smart man knows what to say, a wise man knows whether or not to say it. — Frank M. Garafola
He who is surety is never sure himself. Take advice, and never be security for more than you are quite willing to lose. Remember the word of the wise man: He that is surety for a stranger shall smart for it; and he that hateth suretyship is sure. — Charles Spurgeon
The why is plain as way to parish church:
He that a fool doth very wisely hit
Doth very foolishly, although he smart,
Not to seem senseless of the bob; if not,
The wise man's folly is anatomiz'd
Even by the squand'ring glances of the fool. — William Shakespeare
Every man should view himself as equally balanced: half good and half evil. Likewise, he should see the entire world as half good and half evil.... With a single good deed he will tip the scales for himself, and for the entire world, to the side of good. — Maimonides
We do not wish to abolish teaching and to make every man his own master, but if the curates will not teach the gospel, the layman must have the Scripture, and read it for himself, taking God for his teacher. — William Tyndale
Our government... teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy. — Louis D. Brandeis
It is the duty of every man to uphold the dignity of every woman.
The phrase 'nature and nurture' is a convenient jingle of words, for it separates under two distinct heads the innumerable elements of which personality is composed. Nature is all that a man brings with himself into the world; nurture is every influence without that affects him after his birth. — Francis Galton
Every man can educate himself. It's shameful to put one's mind into the hands of those whom you wouldn't entrust with your money. Dare to think for yourself. — Voltaire
Every man is the smith of his own fortune.
I’d like every man who doesn’t call himself a feminist to explain to the women in his life why he doesn’t believe in equality for women. — Louise Brealey
Golf is the only sport I know of where a player pays for every mistake. A man can muff a serve in tennis, miss a strike in baseball, or throw an incomplete pass in football and still have another chance to square himself. In golf, every swing counts against you. — Lloyd Mangrum
He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself; for every man has need to be forgiven. — Thomas Fuller
Though violence is not lawful, when it is offered in self-defense or for the defense of the defenseless, it is an act of bravery far better than cowardly submission. The latter befits neither man nor woman. Under violence, there are many stages and varieties of bravery. Every man must judge this for himself. No other person can or has the right. — Mahatma Gandhi
Art is like a shipwreck; it's every man for himself. — Marcel Duchamp
It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others: or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own. — Thomas Jefferson
The true civilization is where every man gives to every other every right that he claims for himself. — Robert Green Ingersoll
A man who has any relish for fine writing either discovers new beauties or receives stronger impressions from the masterly strokes of a great author every time he peruses him; besides that he naturally wears himself into the same manner of speaking and thinking. — Joseph Addison
Kindly politeness is the slow fruit of advanced reflection; it is a sort of humanity and kindliness applied to small acts and every day discourse: it bids man soften towards others, and forget himself for the sake of others: it constrains genuine nature, which is selfish and gross. — Hippolyte Taine
Every man thinks meanly of himself for not having been a soldier, or not having been at sea. — Samuel Johnson
The discrimination between good and evil is in man's soul. Every man can judge that for himself, because in every man is the sense of admiration of beauty. Happiness only lies in thinking or doing that which one considers beautiful. Such an act becomes a virtue or goodness. — Hazrat Inayat Khan
The proper method for hastening the decay of error is by teaching every man to think for himself. — William Godwin
More power than all the success slogans ever penned by human hand is the realization for every man that he has but one boss. That boss is the man -- he -- himself. — Gabriel Heatter
More power than all the success slogans ever penned by human hand is the realization for every man that he has but one boss. That boss is the man - he - himself. — Gabriel Heatter
I have often expressed my sentiments, that every man, conducting himself as a good citizen, and being accountable to God alone for his religious opinions, ought to be protected in worshipping the Deity according to the dictates of his own conscience. — George Washington
Man—every man—is an end in himself, not a means to the ends of others; he must live for his own sake, neither sacrificing himself to others nor sacrificing others to himself; he must work for his rational self-interest, with the achievement of his own happiness as the highest moral purpose of his life. — Ayn Rand
When security comes, every man for himself — Si Robertson
The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him. — Abraham Lincoln
Every man for himself, and the Devil take the hindmost. — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
True brevity of expression consists in a man only saying what is worth saying, while avoiding all diffuse explanations of things which every one can think out for himself. — Arthur Schopenhauer
There will always be some people who think for themselves, even among the self-appointed guardians of the great mass who, after having thrown off the yoke of immaturity themselves, will spread about them the spirit of a reasonable estimate of their own value and of the need for every man to think for himself. — Immanuel Kant
The great living experience for every man is his adventure into the woman. The man embraces in the woman all that is not himself, and from that one resultant, from that embrace, comes every new action. — D. H. Lawrence
When a man has so far corrupted and prostituted the chastity of his mind, as to [profess] things he does not believe, he has prepared himself for the commission of every other crime. — Thomas Paine
There is within me a friend who consoles me every time that troubles overwhelm me and misfortunes afflict me. The man who does not feel friendship towards himself is a public enemy, and he who finds no confidant within himself will die of despair. For life streams out of man's inner self and in no way from what surrounds him. — Kahlil Gibran
The proper method for hastening the decay of error, is not, by brute force, or by regulation which is one of the classes of force, to endeavour to reduce men to intellectual uniformity; but on the contrary by teaching every man to think for himself. — William Godwin
As for a future life, every man must judge for himself between conflicting vague probabilities. — Charles Darwin
Not only does democracy make every man forget his ancestors, but also clouds their view of their descendants and isolates them from their contemporaries. Each man is for ever thrown back on himself alone, and there is danger that he may be shut up in the solitude of his own heart. — Alexis de Tocqueville
There cannot any one moral rule be proposed whereof a man may not justly demand a reason. Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has any right to but himself. The people cannot delegate to government the power to do anything which would be unlawful for them to do themselves. — John Locke
Every man stamps his value on himself. The price we challenge for ourselves is given us by others. -Man is made great or little by his own will. — Harold B. Lee
There is no crime more infamous than the violation of truth. It is apparent that men can be social beings no longer than they believe each other. When speech is employed only as the vehicle of falsehood, every man must disunite himself from others, inhabit his own cave and seek prey only for himself. — Samuel Johnson
It is impossible for a man to conceal himself. In every act, word or gesture he stands revealed as he is, and not as he would have himself appear to be. From the Universe, nothing is or an be hidden. — Ernest Holmes
If one man can be allowed to determine for himself what is law, every man can. That means first chaos, then tyranny. Legal process is an essential part of the democratic process. — Felix Frankfurter
Every man for himself and God for us all. — Proverbs
In every ascetic morality man worships a part of himself as God and for that he needs to diabolize the other part. — Friedrich Nietzsche
God gave every man individuality of constitution, and a chance for achieving individuality of character. He puts special instruments into every man's hands by which to make himself and achieve his mission. — J. G. Holland
Every man hath the right to doubt his task, and to forsake it from time to time; but what he must not do is forget it. Whoever doubteth not himself is unworthy -for in his unquestioning belief in his ability, he commiteth the sin of pride. Blessed are they who go through moments of indecision. — Paulo Coelho
In true democracy every man and woman is taught to think for himself or herself. — Mahatma Gandhi
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