Are All Men Mush?

Image by Thomas R. Stegelmann via FlickrThe meek shall inherit the earth: they won’t have the nerve to refuse. – John M. Henry




The meek shall inherit the earth – if that’s all right with you. – graffiti



Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time. – Thomas Edison



Men are much more unwillng to have their weaknesses and their imperfections known than their crimes. – Earl of Chesterfield



Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones. – Charles Caleb Colton



Weakness on both sides is, as we know, the motto of all quarrels. – Francois Voltaire



Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The Minute You Think You've Got It, You've Lost It

Image by stuant63 via FlickrMan’s highest merit always is, as much as possible, to rule external circumstances and as little as possible to let himself be ruled by them. – Johann wolfgang von Goethe




All cruelty springs from weakness. – Seneca



One time it pays to have a firm hand is when it shakes hands with a firmer one. – O.A. Battista



Our strength is often composed of the weakness we’re damned if we’re going to show. – Mignon McLaughlin



The greatest weakness of all is the great fear of appearing weak. – Jacques Benigne Boussuet



Humility is a strange thing. The minute you think you’ve got it, you’ve lost it. – E.D. Hulse



Let the meek inherit the earth – they have it coming to them. – James Thurber

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The Profanity of Uncompleted Tasks

Image via WikipediaNothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task. – William James




As a rule what is out of sight disturbs men’s minds more seriously than what they see. – Julius Caesar



Work and love – there are the basics. Without them, there is neurosis. – Theodor Reik



To carry care to bed is to sleep with a pack on your back. – Thomas C. Haliburton



In certain trying circumstances, urgent circumstances, desperate circumstances, profanity furnishes a relief denied even to prayer. – Mark Twain



Anxiety grows in solitude. Aloneness is the greatest breeding ground for the diffuse, unfocused, pervading uneasiness that makes us vulnerable to chronic worry. Almost anything can become a cause for concern to the solitary person; almost anything can make him fearful. – Allan Fromme



Anxiety in human life is what squeaking and grinding are in machinery that is not oiled. In life, trust is the oil. – Henry Ward Beecher

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Stress + Time = Trouble

Image by mastrobiggo via FlickrFor fast-acting relief, try slowing down. – Lily Tomlin




You’ll never have a nervous breakdown, but you sure are a carrier. – Fred Friendly



It all depends on how we look at things, and not on how they are in themselves. – Carl G. Jung



Don’t spend ten dollars’ worth of energy on a ten-cent problem. There are millions of want-to’s and have-to’s in life. Ultimately, these pressures create stress only when your time and energy-spending decisions aren’t consistent with your goals, beliefs and values. – Dr. Donald A Tubesing



When a man has reached a condition in which he believes that a thing must happen because he does not wish it, and that what he wishes to happen can never be, this is really the state called desperation. – Arthur Schopenhauer



The better work men do is always done under stress and at great personal cost. – William Carlos Williams



The bow too tensely strung is easily broken. – Publius Syrus

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All Powerful for Impotence

Image via WikipediaNothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile. – Bertrand Russell




There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision. – William James



They are decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all powerful for impotence. – Sir Winston Churchill



The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life, and you must accept regret. – Frederic Amiel



Indecision is fatal. It is better to make a wrong decision than build up a habit of indecision. If you’re wallowing in indecision, you certainly can’t act – and action is the basis of success. – Marie Beynon Ray



One way to get high blood pressure is to go mountain-climbing over molehills. – Earl Wilson



It is always our inabilities that vex. – Joseph Joubert

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