John Burroughs Quotes on Man (11 Quotes)

A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.

I see on a immense scale, and as clearly as in a demonstration in a laboratory, that good comes out of evil that the impartiality of the Nature Providence is best that we are made strong by what we overcome that man is man because he is as free to do evil as to do good that life is as free to develop hostile forms as to develop friendly that power waits upon him who earns it that disease, wars, the unloosened, devastating elemental forces have each and all played their part in developing and hardening man and giving him the heroic fiber.

Some men are like nails, very easily drawn; others however are more like rivets never drawn at all.

Travel and society polish one, but a rolling stone gathers no moss, and a little moss is a good thing on a man.

The spirit of man can endure only so much and when it is broken only a miracle can mend it.

There is hardly a man on earth who will take advice unless he is certain that it is positively bad.

Culture means the perfect and equal development of man on all sides

What is the best thing for a stream It is to keep moving. If it stops, it stagnates. So the best thing for a man is that which keeps the currents going the physical, the moral, and the intellectual currents. Hence the secret of happiness is something.

A man can get discouraged many times but he is not a failure until he begins to blame somebody else and stops trying.

Blessed is the man who has some congenial work, some occupation in which he can put his heart, and which affords a complete outlet to all the forces there are in him.

How many thorns of human nature hard, sharp, lifeless protuberances that tear and wound us, narrow prejudices, bristling conceits that repel and disgust us are arrested developments, calcified tendencies, buds of promise that should have lifted a branch up into the sunny day with fruit and flowers to delight the heart of men, but now all grown hard, petrified, for want of culture and a congenial soil and climate.