Men Quotes

We can gradually grow into any condition we desire, provided we first make ourselves in habitual mental attitude the person who corresponds to those conditions.

Thomas Troward

When a man feels throbbing within him the power to do what he undertakes as well as it can possibly be done, and all of his faculties say amen to what he is doing, and give their unqualified approval to his efforts, - This is happiness, this is success.

Orison Swett Marden

The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton, 1890

His life was gentle; and the elements So mixed in him, that Nature might stand up, And say to all the world, THIS WAS A MAN!

William Shakespeare

It was one of the deadliest and heaviest feelings of my life to feel that I was no longer a boy. From that moment I began to grow old in my own esteem - And in my esteem age is not estimable.

George Gordon Byron

If men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament.

Florynce Kennedy

The greatest masterpieces were once only pigments on a palette.

Henry S. Hoskins

Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.

Tom Robbins

I married beneath me - All women do.

Nancy Asto

A nation that continues to produce soft - Minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

I will demand a commitment to excellence and to victory, and that is what life is all about.

Vince Lombardi, Lombardi Winning is the only thing (by Jerry Kramer)

Baseball is 90 percent mental. The other half is physical.

Lawrence Peter Berra

I kep six honest serving - Men They taught me all I knew Their names are What and Why and When And How and Where and Who.

Rudyard Kipling

Fidelity to commitment in the face of doubts and fears is a very spiritual thing.

Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher. com Weblog, December 16, 2002

When the highest type of men hear Tao, They diligently practice it. When the average type of men hear Tao, They half believe in it. When the lowest type of men hear Tao, They laugh heartily at it. Without the laugh, there is no Tao.

Lao - Tzu, The Way of Lao - Tzu

Insanity: a perfectly rational adjustment to the insane world.

R. D. Laing

It meant that New York philanthropists, New York society, would now rediscover the library. ... that learning, books, education have glamour, that self - Improvement has glamour, that hope has glamour.

Vartan Gregorian

Let a short Act of Parliament be passed, placing all street musicians outside the protection of the law, so that any citizen may assail them with stones, sticks, knives, pistols, or bombs without incurring any penalties.

George Bernard Shaw

Some of your countrymen were unable to distinguish between their native dislike for war and the stainless patriotism of those who suffered its scars. But there has been a rethinking and now we can say to you, and say as a nation, thank you for your courage.

Ronald Reagan

We have rudiments of reverence for the human body, but we consider as nothing the rape of the human mind.

Eric Hoffe

What a pity, when Christopher Colombus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it.

Margot Asquith

If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace. We seek not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you and may posterity forget that ye were once our countrymen.

Samuel Adams

How much easier it is to be generous than just Men are sometimes bountiful who are not honest.

Junius

America is a young country with an old mentality.

George Santayana

The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.

Walter Lippmann

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

The fundamental defect of fathers is that they want their children to be a credit to them.

Bertrand Russell

If grass can grow through cement, love can find you at every time in your life.

Che

The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.

W. Somerset Maugham

Many books today suggest that the mass of women lead lives of noisy desperation.

Peter S. Prescott

I know how men in exile feed on dreams of hope.

Aeschylus, Agamemnon

For not many men, the proverb saith, can love a friend whom fortune prospereth unenvying.

Aeschylus

Seize the moment of excited curiosity on any subject to solve your doubts for if you let it pass, the desire may never return, and you may remain in ignorance.

William Wirt

Fabrizio In Sicily, women are more dangerous than shotguns.

Godfather, The

The greatest wealth consisteth in being charitable, And the greatest happiness in having tranquility of mind. Experience is the most beautiful adornment And the best comrade is one that hath no desire.

Tibetan Doctrine

By nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be wide apart.

Confucius, The Confucian Analects

Women can form a friendship with a man very well but to preserve it - - To that end a slight physical antipathy must probably help.

George Jean Nathan