Quote from Maurice Maeterlinck:
At every crossroad on the way that leads to the future, each progressive spirit is opposed by a thousand men appointed to guard the past.
Simimal Quotes:
James Allen
Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves.
Harry Truman
In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves. Self-discipline with all of them came first.
John F. Kennedy
We need men who can dream of things that never were.
Confucius
Even when walking in the company of two other men, I am bound to be able to learn from them. The good points of the one I copy; the bad points of the other I correct in myself.
Sophocles
Heaven ne'er helps the men who will not act.
Wallace D. Wattles
You must learn to see men and women…as perfect beings advancing to become complete.
Dumbledore
I make mistakes like the next man. In fact, being--forgive me--rather cleverer than most men, my mistakes tend to be correspondingly huger.
Socrates
Wealth does not bring about excellence (aka areté), but excellence (aka areté) brings about wealth and all other public and private blessings for men.
John Eliot, Ph.D.
Elevated levels of confidence are omnipresent among history’s greatest overachievers. Benjamin Franklin, one of the most famous men in the world even before he signed the Declaration of Independence once lamented about humility, “I cannot boast of much success in acquiring the reality of this virtue.”
Confucius
Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.
Rollo May
Finding the center of strength within ourselves is in the long run the best contribution we can make to our fellow men."