Quotes on Doe

The prouder a man is, the more he thinks he deserves, and the more he thinks he deserves, the less he really does deserve.

Where a man does his best with only moderate powers, he will have the advantage over negligent superiority.

Does a dragon still sing from within a withered tree?

If you add the value, you will become the brand. Find a way to add more value than anyone else does

Truth does not pay homage to any society, ancient or modern. Society has to pay homage to Truth or die.

I sincerely wish war was a pleasanter and easier business than it is, but it does not admit of holidays.

Does the human intellect, or "reason," really spring us free from our inherence in the depths of this wild proliferation of forms? Or on the contrary, is the human intellect rooted in, and secretly borne by, our forgotten contact with the multiple nonhuman shapes that surround us on every hand?

The Christians say that God has done miracles. The modern world, even when it believes in God, and even when it has see the defenselessness of nature, does not. It thinks God would not do that sort of thing.

The future does not get better by hope, it gets better by plan. And to plan for the future we need goals.

More will be accomplished, and better, and with more ease, if every man does what he is best fitted to do, and nothing else.

The best marketing strategy is to destroy your industry before your competition does.

What kind of world does the humanitarian contemplate as affording him full scope? It could only be a world filled with breadlines and hospitals, in which nobody retained the natural power of a human being to help himself or to resist having things done to him. And that is precisely the world that the humanitarian arranges when he gets his way.

Only the man who does not need it, is fit to inherit wealth, the man who would make his fortune no matter where he started.

And he that does one fault at first And lies to hide it, makes it two.

Mercy can purge the soul of sin, making room for a fresh start. Truth is vital in order that we have an unvarying standard by which to determine what we are to be and to do and what we are to rid ourselves of. All the cardinal virtues, therefore, carry their own intrinsic as well as outward reward. A merciful man does do good to his own soul.

People like to pigeonhole and say, Well, I'm a Washington insider, and you know, that's quite silly. What does that even mean?

The rationale that etiquette should be eschewed because it fosters inequality does not ring true in a society that openly admits to a feverish interest in the comparative status-conveying qualities of sneakers. Manners are available to all, for free.

Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not.

But knowledge does not protect one. Life is contemptuous of knowledge; it forces it to sit in the anterooms, to wait outside. Passion, energy, lies: these are what life admires. Still, anything can be endured if all humanity is watching. The martyrs prove it. We live in the attention of others. We turn to it as flowers to the sun.

Let us take some event in the life of humanity. For instance, war. There is a war going on at the present moment. What does it signify? It signifies that several millions of sleeping people are trying to destroy several millions of other sleeping people. They would not do this, of course, if they were to wake up. Everything that takes place is owing to this sleep.

Success doesn't come instantly. Neither does the ability to lead.