A Quote by Robert Baden-Powell
A man carries out suggestions the more wholeheartedly when he understands their aim.
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A boy carries out suggestions more wholeheartedly when he understands their aim.
Every man carries his kingdom within, and no one knows what is taking place in another's kingdom. 'No one understands me!' Of course they don't, each one of us is a mystery. There is only One Who understands you, and that is God. Hand yourself over to Him.
When a man is getting better he understands more and more clearly the evil that is still left in him. When a man is getting worse he understands his own badness less and less.
Politicians are enormously smart and rational. They don't have the same interests as businessmen ... But a man rises to the top of the United States. He's clawed his way out of 330 million people. OK. He didn't do that because he was dumb, or lucky, or something like that. He understands power. And he understands how to take it. And he understands how to keep it.
A man is not to aim at innocence, any more than he is to aim at hair, but he is to keep it.
The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.
Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim. It is, one is told, the unforgivable sin, but it is a sin the corrupt or evil man never practices. He always has hope. He never reaches the freezing-point of knowing absolute failure. Only the man of goodwill carries always in his heart this capacity for damnation.
Every man carries the seed of his own death, and you will not be more than a man. You will have everything; you cannot have more.
The Master said, “The gentleman understands what is right, whereas the petty man understands profit.” (Analects 4.16)
I think we got off the track, as many societies do, who follow successfully one aim, and yet are not capable of seeing at what point the pursuit of this aim prevents them from following a more total aim. That is to say, they get into a blind alley.
Don't fall victim to what I call the ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome. You must be willing to fire.
A man is not a dictator when he is given a commission from the people and carries it out.
Man's many desires are like the small metal coins he carries about in his pocket. The more he has the more they weight him down.
That cry of the soul to be lifted out of the bondage of the narrow circle of life, which carries up to God the protest and yearning of suffering man, never finds a more sublime expression than where humanity is oppressed and religion is corrupt.
There is no argument in the world that carries the hatred that a relioious belief does. The more learned a man is, the less consideration he has for another man's belief.
I have never belonged wholeheartedly to a country, a state, nor to a circle of friends, nor even to my own family. When I was still a rather precocious young man, I already realized most vividly the futility of the hopes and aspirations that most men pursue throughout their lives. Well-being and happiness never appeared to me as an absolute aim. I am even inclined to compare such moral aims to the ambitions of a pig.
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