Men Quotes

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

~ Matthew Arnold

Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.

~ Confucius

I was a little doubtful about the propriety of going to the Mammoth Cave without a gentleman escort, but if two ladies travel alone they must have the courage of men.

~ Maria Mitchell

Men was formed for society, and is neither capable of living alone, nor has the courage to do it.

~ William Blackstone

Remember that the good angels do what they can to preserve men from sin and obtain God's honor. But they do not lose courage when men fail.

~ Saint Ignatius

We need men with moral courage to speak and write their real thoughts, and to stand by their convictions, even to the very death.

~ Robert Green Ingersoll

Every man ultimately falls into the company with which he affiliates. And he is the strongest who draws men to himself, who creates the company; and this is through having a positive quality - courage and physical prowess.

~ Orison Swett Marden

In the many roles I have played in my acting career as military figures, I have simply drawn upon the acts of courage, large and small, I have seen in the men and women with whom I served, and the countless others I met or have come to know through the years.

~ Chuck Norris

To say that I could manipulate one of the men who has shown the most courage before the Cuban government, who gets beaten every day, who did a hunger strike that freed political prisoners... I think that's absurd.

~ Joe Garcia

I very much admired Lancaster. George Clooney reminds me of him today. Not all the macho, swinging around that Burt used to do, but the courage. You know where you stand with men like that.

~ Norman Lloyd

Stripped of its plot, the 'Iliad' is a scattering of names and biographies of ordinary soldiers: men who trip over their shields, lose their courage or miss their wives. In addition to these, there is a cast of anonymous people: the farmers, walkers, mothers, neighbours who inhabit its similes.

~ Alice Oswald

Since dogs could hear and smell better than men, we could concentrate on sight. Since courage is commonplace in dogs, men's adrenal glands could shrink. Dogs, by making us more efficient predators, gave us time to think. In short, dogs civilized us.

~ Donald Mccaig

Women's courage is rather different from men's. The fact that women have to bring up children and look after husbands makes them braver at facing long-term issues, such as illness. Men are more immediately courageous. Lots of people are brave in battle.

~ Mary Wesley

Before I begin talking about the threats we face, the vulnerabilities that we have, and frankly the courage of the men and women in uniform that stand in harm's way on behalf of a very grateful Nation, let me first honor the sacrifices of September 11.

~ Zach Wamp

At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they have not the courage to face public opinion.

~ Edwin Hubbel Chapin

It is easy enough to praise men for the courage of their convictions. I wish I could teach the sad young of this mealy generation the courage of their confusions.

~ John Ciardi

In this work I have received the opposition of a number of men who only advocate the unobtainable because the immediately possible is beyond their moral courage, administrative ability, and their political prescience.

~ John Burns

Great things are done when men and mountains meet.

~ William Blake

The planter, the farmer, the mechanic, and the laborer... form the great body of the people of the United States, they are the bone and sinew of the country men who love liberty and desire nothing but equal rights and equal laws.

~ Andrew Jackson

Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men, the balance-wheel of the social machinery.

~ Horace Mann

In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves... self-discipline with all of them came first.

~ Harry S Truman

In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place, oblige it to control itself.

~ Alexander Hamilton

The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.

~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.

~ Arthur Schopenhauer

Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force - that thoughts rule the world.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Grown men can learn from very little children for the hearts of little children are pure. Therefore, the Great Spirit may show to them many things which older people miss.

~ Black Elk

The practice of charity will bind us - will bind all men in one great brotherhood.

~ Conrad Hilton

Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the headless monster, a great, brutish idiot that goes where prodded.

~ Charlie Chaplin

The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion.

~ Blaise Pascal

I've also seen that great men are often lonely. This is understandable, because they have built such high standards for themselves that they often feel alone. But that same loneliness is part of their ability to create.

~ Yousuf Karsh

Most men who have really lived have had, in some share, their great adventure. This railway is mine.

~ James J. Hill

When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity.

~ Napoléon Bonaparte

There would be no great men if there were no little ones.

~ George Herbert

The great men of a nation reach out to all mankind. They are unifying, not divisive; internationally conciliating and still great nationally.

~ Gustav Stresemann

Admiration of great men, living or dead, naturally evokes imitation of them in a greater or less degree.

~ Samuel Smiles

The making of the far-famed New York Central Park was opposed by even good men, with misguided pluck, perseverance, and ingenuity, but straight right won its way, and now that park is appreciated. So we confidently believe it will be with our great national parks and forest reservations.

~ John Muir

Our constitution works. Our great republic is a government of laws, not of men.

~ Gerald R. Ford

Heaven and hell suppose two distinct species of men, the good and the bad. But the greatest part of mankind float betwixt vice and virtue.

~ David Hume

The greatest public health threat for many American women is the men they live with.

~ Anna Quindlen