Human Nature Quotes - Page 22

• It is a law of life that human beings, even the geniuses among them, do not pride themselves on their actual achievements but thatthey want to impress others, want to be admired and respected because of things of much lower import and value.

  Stefan Zweig

  Pride, Law, Achievement

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• One never gets to know a person's character better than by watching his behavior during decisive moments.... It is always only danger which forces the most deeply hidden strengths and abilities of a human being to come forth.

  Stefan Zweig

  Strength, Character, Moments

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• Success is not about who never fails. It is about who can spring - or even stagger - back up.

  Samantha Power

  Inspirational, Success, Wisdom

  "Message to Graduates: 'Be a Good Ancestor'" by Samantha Power, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 5, 2008.

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• I'm tired of the naked, raped, beaten black woman body. I want to see an image of black femaleness that alters our universe in some way.

  Bell Hooks

  Leadership, Wisdom, Tired

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• I can't play the game of basketball and live my life on what other people expect me to do or what they think I should do. That doesn't make me happy. What makes me happy is being able to make plays for my teammates, to be able to represent the name on the back of my jersey.

  LeBron James

  Family, Basketball, Thinking

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• [Hillary Clinton] and I are fine. Are we going to be besties for the rest of our lives? No.

  Claire McCaskill

  Reality, Comedy, Civility

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• Speak out, educate, do not be intimidated by the apologists, and do not let extreme racism be mainstreamed. Hopefully there will come a time when we don't need to tell our kids that Halloween is no excuse for hate, and that blackface has no place in a civilized society.

  Christine Pelosi

  Leadership, Halloween, Hate

  "Halloween Is No Excuse for Hate: Blackface Has No Place" by Christine Pelosi, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 27, 2013.

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• In the 2012 election, Obamacare, as it's called, and I'll be more polite - the ACA ...was a major issue in the campaign. I campaigned all over America for two months, everywhere I could. And in every single campaign rally I said, 'We have to repeal and replace Obamacare.' Well, the people spoke. They spoke, much to my dismay, but they spoke. And they reelected the President of the United States.

  John McCain

  Leadership, Party, Health

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• Never underestimate the human capacity for delusion.

  Roger Cohen

  Underestimate, Capacity, Delusion

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• Look, we'll have to confront the pathologies of poverty at some point. We can deal with them cheaply at the front end, in infancy. Or we can wait and jail a troubled adolescent at the tail end. To some extent, we face a choice between investing in preschools or in prisons.

  Nicholas D. Kristof

  Education, Money, Reality

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• I have a feeling-as compelling as a religious conviction-that if industry will constantly pass on to the worker and the customer all the savings of labor-saving machinery and invention, rather than siphon them off into the pools of watered securities, it will by that process keep distribution and production in balance and go as far toward Utopia as our poor human natures will go or be driven.

  Samuel B. Pettengill

  Religious, Feelings, Balance

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• Thirty-five is half a life. I can't lose the other half. I've lost so much living as a shadow of a person.

  Vicky Beeching

  Wisdom, Reality, Justice

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• The really great athletes make their news on the field, not off the field.

  Jimmy Haslam

  Leadership, Wisdom, Athlete

  "Johnny Manziel attracts thousands to first Cleveland Browns training camp". www.theguardian.com. July 26, 2014.

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• Putting women's traditional needs at the center of social planning is not reverse sexism. It's the best way to reverse the increasing economic vulnerability of men and women alike.

  Stephanie Coontz

  Family, Money, Work

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• With grace and a keen appreciation of human nature, Nicholas Thompson has written a revealing, moving history of the Cold War through two fascinating men.

  Evan Thomas

  Appreciation, War, Moving

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• I think if you write humor, then people don't - you know - they don't give you that much credit. They tend to think you just dictate your stories into a tape recorder. And I'm not necessarily insulted by that, because I think that just means that it looks easy.

  David Sedaris

  Writing, Mean, Thinking

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• The most melancholy thing about human nature, is, that a man may guide others into the path of salvation, without walking in it himself; that he may be a pilot, and yet a castaway.

  Prince Augustus William of Prussia

  Men, Hypocrisy, May

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• It's human nature to want to keep going, but you have to fight against the "I'm just gonna keep doing it" when you know the possibility of not looking great on the way out.

  Nikki Sixx

  Fighting, Want, Way

  Source: forbassplayersonly.com

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• This fond reiteration of the oldest expressions of truth by the latest posterity, content with slightly and religiously retouchingthe old material, is the most impressive proof of a common humanity.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Truth, Expression, Common Humanity

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.59, Delphi Classics

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• Worst, when this sensualism intrudes into the education of young women, and withers the hope and affection of human nature, by teaching that marriage signifies nothing but a housewife's thrift, and that woman's life has no other aim.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Marriage, Education, Women

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.103, Courier Corporation

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• A small knowledge of human nature will convince us, that, with far the greatest part of mankind, interest is the governing principle... Few men are capable of making a continual sacrifice of all views of private interest, or advantage, to the common good. It is vain to exclaim against the depravity of human nature on this account; the fact is so, the experience of every age and nation has proved it and we must in a great measure, change the constitution of man, before we can make it otherwise. No institution, not built on the presumptive truth of these maxims can succeed.

  George Washington

  Sacrifice, Men, Views

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• Men cannot conceive of a state of things so fair that it cannot be realized.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Imagination, Optimism

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.357, Penguin

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• Human nature, as manifested in tribalism and nationalism, provides the momentum of the machinery of human evolution.

  Arthur Keith

  Momentum, Evolution, Tribalism

  Sir Arthur Keith (1947). “Evolution and Ethics”

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• I don't think women can have it all. I just don't think so...My husband and I have been married for 34 years, and we have two daughters. And every day you have to make a decision about whether you are going to be a wife or a mother. In fact, many times during the day you have to make those decisions...We co-opted our families to help us. We plan our lives meticulously so we can be decent parents. But if you ask our daughters, I'm not sure they will say that I've been a good mom.

  Indra Nooyi

  Family, Leadership, Mom

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• We must not suppose that, because a man is a rational animal, he will, therefore, always act rationally; or, because he has such or such a predominant passion, that he will act invariably and consequentially in pursuit of it. No, we are complicated machines; and though we have one main spring that gives motion to the whole, we have an infinity of little wheels, which, in their turns, retard, precipitate, and sometime stop that motion.

  Doug Stanhope

  Spring, Passion, Men

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