Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote

Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.

Hippocrates

• God
• Prayer

You see many stars at night in the sky but find them not when the sun rises; can you say that there are no stars in the heaven of day? So, O man! because you behold not God in the days of your ignorance, say not that there is no God.

Voltaire

What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god.

William Shakespeare

You know what black hatred women feel toward me as soon as they see me, until I return inside my shell, they use every possible weapon. As soon as a generous man tries to help me out, a woman is here to hold his arm and prevent him from acting.

Camille Claudel

Every man makes a god of his own desire.

Virgil

• Man
• Desire

The man who does more than he is paid for will soon be paid for more than he does.

Napoleon Hill

To do all that one is able to do, is to be a man; to do all that one would like to do, is to be a god.

Napoleon Bonaparte

The test of any man lies in action.

Pindar

Conscience is God present in man.

Victor Hugo

• Conscience
• Present

Every man is as God made him, ay, and often worse.

Miguel de Cervantes

Man appoints, and God disappoints.

Miguel de Cervantes

I am at peace with God. My conflict is with Man.

Charlie Chaplin

Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

God must love the common man, he made so many of them.

Abraham Lincoln

For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God.

Saint Teresa

• Prayer
• Friendship

A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, Nothing else.

John Galsworthy

Man proposes, but God disposes.

Thomas Kempis

Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?

Friedrich Nietzsche

• Man

Whenever a man makes haste, God too hastens with him.

Aeschylus

When a man's willing and eager the god's join in.

Aeschylus

• God