Famous Quotes & Sayings

David O. McKay

Pleasure is not the purpose of man's existence. Joy is.

David O. McKay

Man's greatest happiness comes from losing himself for the good of others.

David O. McKay

Only to the extent that men desire peace and brotherhood can the world be made better. No peace even though temporarily obtained, will be permanent, whether to individuals or nations, unless it is built upon the solid foundation of eternal principles.

David O. McKay

Next to the bestowal of life itself, the right to direct that life is God's greatest gift to man.

David O. McKay

A man may act as his conscience dictates so long as he does not infringe upon the rights of others. That is the spirit of true democracy, and all government by the Priesthood should be actuated by that same high motive.

David O. McKay

The purpose of the church is to make bad men good and good men better.

David O. McKay

True education seeks to make men and women not only good mathematicians, proficient linguists, profound scientists, or brilliant literary lights, but also honest men and women with virtue, temperance, and brotherly love.

David O. McKay

… The most worthy calling in life is that in which man can serve best his fellow man. … The noblest aim in life is to strive to live to make other lives better and happier.

David Ogilvy

The creative process requires more than reason. Most original thinking isn't even verbal. It requires 'a groping experimentation with ideas, governed by intuitive hunches and inspired by the unconscious.' The majority of business men are incapable of original thinking because they are unable to escape from the tyranny of reason. Their imaginations are blocked.

David Ogilvy

Few of the great creators have bland personalities. They are cantankerous egotists, the kind of men who are unwelcome in the modern corporation.

David Ogilvy

Our offices must always be headed by the kind of men who command respect. Not phonies, zeros or bastards.

David Ogilvy

The majority of business men are not capable of an original thought, simply because they cannot escape the tyranny of reason.

David Ogilvy

Madison Avenue is full of masochists who unconsciously provoke rejection by their clients. I know brilliant men who have lost every account they have ever handled.

David Ogilvy

Lazy and superficial men and women do not produce superior work.

David Ogilvy

There are very few men of genius in advertising agencies. But we need all we can find. Almost without exception they are disagreeable. Don't destroy them. They lay golden eggs.

David Ogilvy

If you ever find a man who is better than you are - hire him. If necessary, pay him more than you pay yourself.

David McCord

March is outside the door Flaming some old desire As man turns uneasily from his fire.

David Mamet

It's upsetting to be a man in our society.

David Mamet

The quality I most admire in a man is steadfastness.

Daunte Culpepper

I want to be the man. I want to do what it takes to win.

Darren Gough

Illy [Ray Illingworth] had the man-management skills of Basil Fawlty

Dario Argento

I'm very interested in portraying homosexual man and woman in my films because I'm interested in their lives and their problems.

Daniel Alarcon

I guess in my own life I don't really think much about manliness too much. I feel like a lot of men that I know don't sit around thinking, "How am I supposed to be a man?" I don't think that I have to prove anything.

Daisy Bates

No man or woman who tries to pursue an ideal in his or her own way is without enemies.

Daisy Fuentes

You are not alone with a guy until you are a proper age. You don't go to certain levels with men until you are married or you have a certain relationship.

Dada Vaswani

This is what happens to man in death. He puts off his overcoat, or what we call the physical, the gross body, and he is clothed in what, for the time being, I would call the astral body. The man continues to be the same, even as I would continue to be the same, if I took off this shawl. I would then appear to you in my shirt, but I would continue to be the same man.

Dag Hammarskjold

It is a little bit humiliating when I have to say that Chou En-lai to me appears as the most superior brain I have so far met in the field of foreign politics... so much more dangerous than you imagine because he is so much better a man than you have ever admitted.

Dag Hammarskjold

Respect for the word - to employ it with scrupulous care and an incorruptible heartfelt love of truth - is essential if there is to be any growth in a society or in the human race.To misuse the word is to show contempt for man. It undermines the bridges and poisons the wells. It causes Man to regress down the long path of his evolution.

Dag Hammarskjold

Here man is no longer the center of the world, only a witness, but a witness who is also a partner in the silent life of Nature, bound by secret affinities of the trees.

Connie Chung

I think men are allowed to be fat and bald and ugly and women aren't. And it's just not - there is no equality there

Condoleezza Rice

I think there are plenty of men out there who are capable and accomplished in their own realm. You don't have to be in the same field.

Condoleezza Rice

Search for role models you can look up to and people who take an interest in your career. But here's an important warning: you don't have to have mentors who look like you. Had I been waiting for a black, female Soviet specialist mentor, I would still be waiting. Most of my mentors have been old white men, because they were the ones who dominated my field.

Cokie Roberts

Women's roles are diminished for obvious reasons. It's the men whose names are on the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, and who were generals and soldiers.