Men Quotes

Note how good you feel after you have encouraged someone else. No other argument is necessary to suggest that never miss the opportunity to give encouragement.

George Burton Adams

There is no legitimacy on earth but in a government which is the choice of the nation.

Joseph Bonaparte

True repentance means making amends with the person when at all possible.

Lawana Blackwell, The Dowry of Miss Lydia Clark, 1999

No nation is fit to sit in judgement upon any other nation.

Woodrow Wilson, Speech in New York, Apr. 20, 1915

News is history shot on the wing. The huntsmen from the Fourth Estate seek to bag only the peacock or the eagle of the swifting day.

Gene Fowle

It is men who wait to be selected, and not those who seek, from whom we may expect the most efficient service.

Ulysses S. Grant, Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Chapter 46

The future does not belong to those who are content with today, apathetic toward common problems and their fellow man alike, timid and fearful in the face of bold projects and new ideas. Rather, it will belong to those who can blend passion, reason and courage in a personal commitment to the ideals of American society.

Robert Francis Kennedy

The consensus seemed to be that if really large numbers of men were sent to storm the mountain, then enough might survive the rocks to take the citadel. This is essentially the basis of all military thinking.

Terry Pratchett, Eric

Life is a wave, which in no two consecutive moments of its existence is composed of the same particles.

John Tyndall

Ethics is not definable, is not implementable, because it is not conscious; it involves not only our thinking, but also our feeling.

Valdemar W. Setze

How sweet and soothing is this hour of calm! I thank thee, night! for thou has chased away these horrid bodements which, amidst the throng, I could not dissipate; and with the blessing of thy benign and quiet influence now will I to my couch, although to rest is almost wronging such a night as this.

Lord Byron

Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; seek what they sought.

Matsuo Basho

There are moments on most days when I feel a deep and sincere gratitude, when I sit at the open window, and there is a blue sky or moving clouds.

Kathe Kollwitz

The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbor.

Hubert H. Humphrey

The lip of truth shall be established for ever: but a lying tongue is but for a moment.

Proverbs 12: 19, The King James Bible

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds.

William Shakespeare, Sonnet cxvi

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

Harry S. Truman

Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders, than from the arguments of its opposers.

William Penn

So many men so many questions.

Terence

Man is not the creature of circumstances. Circumstances are the creatures of men.

Benjamin Disraeli

Punishment is not for revenge, but to lessen crime and reform the criminal.

Elizabeth Fry, Journal entry

The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves.

William Ellery Channing

In all things preserve integrity; and the consciousness of thine own uprightness will alleviate the toil of business, soften the hardness of ill - Success and disappointments, and give thee an humble confidence before God, when the ingratitude of man, or the iniquity of the times may rob thee of other rewards.

Barbara Paley

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

If, after all, men cannot always make history have meaning, they can always act so that their own lives have one.

Albert Camus

Experience is never limited, and it is never complete it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every airborne particle in its tissue.

Henry James

Good intentions will always be pleaded for every assumption of authority. It is hardly too strong to say that the Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions. There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters.

Daniel Webste

Confessed faults are half mended.

Scottish Prove

Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the sense shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourse of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.

Hellen Kelle

The reluctance to put away childish things may be a requirement of genius.

Rebecca Pepper Sinkle

The strength of women comes from the fact that psychology cannot explain us. Men can be analyzed, women? merely adored.

Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband

As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.

Publilius Syrus

Men are more accountable for their motives, than for anything else; and primarily, morality consists in the motives, that is in the affections.

Archibald Alexande

There is a tide in the affairs of men Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and in miseries.

William Shakespeare, "Julius Caesar", Act 4 scene 3

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

There is a demand in these days for men who can make wrong appear right.

Terence

To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there is no birth in our lifetime.

Erich Fromm