Men Quotes

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.

Ambrose Redmoon

The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.

Jeseph Joubert

The real object of those who resorted to Secession, as well as those who sustained it, was not to overthrow the Government of the United States but to perpetuate the principles upon which it was founded. The object in quitting the Union was not to destroy, but to save the principles of the Constitution.

Alexander Hamilton Stephens

If we could only share our hopes, our dreams, our disappointments, our fears, our achievements, and our discoveries.... the world would be a little kinder and a lot more forgiving.

Robert Anthony, Great American Poets 2002

Commitment in the face of conflict produces character.

Unknown

Humility is the embarrassment you feel when you tell people how wonderful you are.

Laurence Pete

Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure.

Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine, September 2002

People call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute.

Rebecca West

If there is one basic element in our Constitution, it is civilian control of the military.

Harry S. Truman

As soon as laws are necessary for men, they are no longer fit for freedom.

Pythagorus

The men who are great live with that which is substantial, they do not stay with that which is superficial they abide with realities, they remain not with what is showy. The one they discard, the other they hold.

Lao Tzu

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

Women are cursed, and men are the proof.

Rosanne Ba

Arms are instruments of ill omen.... When one is compelled to use them, it is best to do so without relish. There is no glory in victory, and to glorify it despite this is to exult in the killing of men.... When great numbers of people are killed, one should weep over them with sorrow. When victorious in war, one should observe mourning rites.

Lao - Tzu

Real life is, to most men, a long second - Best, a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible but the world of pure reason knows no compromise, no practical limitations, no barrier to the creative activity.

Bertrand Russell

From their experience or from the recorded experience of others history, men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn.

Aldous Huxley

Law is the embodiment of the moral sentiment of the people.

William Blackstone

The argument of the broken pane of glass is the most valuable argument in modern politics.

Emmeline Pankhurst

Trees, though they are cut and lopped, grow up again quickly, but if men are destroyed, it is not easy to get them again.

Pericles, from Plutarch, Lives

This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; the being a force of Nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.

George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman, Epistle Dedicatory

Tomorrow is the day when idlers work, and fool reform, and mortal men lay hold on heaven.

Young

Nothing more clearly show how little God esteems his gift to men of wealth, money, position and other wordly goods, than the way he distributes these, and the sort of men who are most amply provided with them.

La Bruyere

The most powerful factors in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.

J. Arthur Thomson

Somehow he Tim gets thoughtful sitting by himself so much, and thinks the strangest things you ever heard. He told me, coming home, that he hoped the people saw him in the church, because he was a cripple, and it might be pleasant for them to remember upon Christmas Day, who made lame beggars walk, and blind men see.

Charles Dickens

Mere sorrow, which weeps and sits still, is not repentance. Repentance is sorrow converted into action; into a movement toward a new and better life.

M. R. Vincent

Wise men profit more from fools than fools from wise men; for the wise men shun the mistakes of fools, but fools do not imitate the successes of the wise.

Cato the Elder, from Plutarch, Lives

Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society.

Edmund Burke

Without glasnost there is not, and there cannot be, democratism, the political creativity of the masses and their participation in management.

Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev

Unless men see a beauty and delight in the worship of God, they will not do it willingly.

John Owen

The power of hiding ourselves from one another is mercifully given, for men are wild beasts, and would devour one another but for this protection.

Henry Ward Beecher, "Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit", 1887

The world is full of women blindsided by the unceasing demands of motherhood, still flabbergasted by how a job can be terrific and torturous.

Anna Quindlen, O Magazine, May 2003

So many men so many questions.

Terence

Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better.

George Santayana

The more I know about men the more I like dogs.

Gloria Allred

If we take in our hand any volume; of divinity or school metaphysics, for instance; let us ask, Does it contain any abstract reasoning concerning quantity or number? No. Does it contain any experimental reasoning concerning matter of fact and existence? No. Commit it then to the flames: for it can contain nothing but sophistry and illusion.

David Hume

There is no calamity greater than lavish desires. There is no greater guilt than discontentment. And there is not greater disaster than greed.

Lao - Tzu, The Way of Lao - Tzu

Confessed faults are half mended.

Scottish Prove