Men make their own happiness, and a man may be respected even though only a slave.
– GA Henty
Related Quotes:
- Quing-Jao: I am a slave to the gods, and I rejoice in it.Jane: A slave who rejoices is a slave indeed. – Orson Scott Card
- The good man is free, even if he is a slave. The evil man is a slave, even if he is a king. – Augustine of Hippo
- Don’t seek to be respected by everyone, rather seek to be worthy of being respected by everyone. – Bohdi Sanders
- All of us, as human beings, seek to be respected. Even those who do not respect others have a deep seated desire to be respected. – Abhishek Ratna
- A person who is another man’s slave is better than one who is a slave to lust. – Michael Bassey Johnson
- Be a slave of your potential and not a slave of circumstances – Sunday Adelaja
- I am free. I am ransomed. I’ve never felt this way before, like a slave set free who was born a slave and never knew what freedom was like. – Frank E Peretti
- The unspiritual is a slave to sin.-¦! But spiritual is slave to righteousness in Christ Jesus. – Lailah Gifty Akita
- The stomach is a slave that must accept everything that is given to it, but which avenges wrongs as slyly as does the slave. – mile Souvestre
- Do you want to work like a slave and live like a king or do you want to work like a king and live like a slave? Your choice – Nathanael Kanyinga
- I have also fantasised myself to be his female slave, but this does not suffice, for after all every woman can be the slave of her husband. – Richard von KrafftEbing
- A man can own a woman, and a man can own a knife, but no man can own both, – George RR Martin
- Here and there a man respected the operator. Instinctively the man felt in him a glowing resentment of something he had not the courage to resent. – Sherwood Anderson
- Happiness is ours for the taking and take it we must without any apologies. We deserve to be happy, loved, and respected……nothing less. – Omoakhuana Anthonia
- MAN is a slave only to his own mental lethargy. – Mina Loy
- The man who does not do his own thinking is a slave, and is a traitor to himself and to his fellowmen. – Robert G Ingersoll
- Is there a price too great to pay for your own happiness? What is the price that you are willing to pay for your own happiness? – Lenon Honor
- Fame means being respected by everybody, or having some quality that is desired by all men, or by most, or by the good, or by the wise. – Aristotle
- People cannot accept their own evil if they do not at the same time feel loved, respected and trusted. – Jean Vanier
- The small hopes and plans and pleasures of children should be tenderly respected by grown-up people, and never rudely thwarted or ridiculed. – Louisa May Alcott
- Your position may be highly powerful, but you will be a hero only when you are highly respected. – Amit Kalantri
- Your position may be highly powerful, but you will be a hero only when you are highly respected. – Amit Kalantri
- Men define intelligence, men define usefulness, men tell us what is beautiful, men even tell us what is womanly – Sally Kempton
- A man could love only what he respected, not pitied. – Ninotchka Rosca
- The secret to my own happiness, my own good future, is within my own hands. I must not miss that opportunity! – Dalai Lama XIV
- Be a hard worker. Work and happiness are like mother and daughter. Work brings forth happiness. Hard work brings great happiness. Enjoy life. – Israelmore Ayivor
- Work and happiness are like mother and daughter; work brings forth happiness, but hard work brings forth great happiness! – Israelmore Ayivor
- When African slave Phillis Wheatley wrote poetry, 18 men came to assess whether that was possible. – Jacky Fleming
- Poverty makes a slave out of men. In order to eat he will accept work that gives no pleasure. – Andr Gide
- Do what YOU want to do because if you don’t, you are nothing but your own slave.-RVM – RVM
- If you care about what people think about you, you will end up being their slave. Reject and pull your own rope. – Auliq Ice
- And I have wondered often, was I master in my soul, or did I become the slave of my own blade? – Diana Gabaldon
- All the world seemed suddenly dream, for in what waking world would a prince deceive his own people for the benefit of a slave? ~ Ayden – Rachel Haimowitz
- The very essence of your true self is the ability to recognize what you think is not always what you may feel.The heart is the slave~bns – Bluenscottish
- There is only one way in which one can endure man’s inhumanity to man and that is to try, in one’s own life, to exemplify man’s humanity to man. – Alan Paton
- A man after God’s own heart is…a man who yearns to please God,a man who desires to grow spiritually,a man who had a heart that obeys. – Jim George
- Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory. – George S Patton Jr
- I am beautifully on my own. I am free. At the end of the day, we should be our own heroes. Our own savers. Our own heroes. – Robert Black
- I personally like being unique. I like being my own person with my own style and my own opinions and my own toothbrush. – Ellen DeGeneres
- Words have their own hierarchy, their own protocol, their own artistic titles, their own plebeian stigmas. – Jos Saramago