Men Quotes

Knowledge is essential to conquest; only according to our ignorance are we helpless. Thought creates character. Character can dominate conditions. Will creates circumstances and environment.

Anne Besant

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

Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.

Peter Drucke

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

Edmond Burke

Your face is a book, where men may read strange matters.

William Shakespeare

The company of just and righteous men is better than wealth and a rich estate.

Euripides, Aegeus

The 1976 Bicentennial is not going to be invented in Washington, printed in triplicate by the Government Printing Office and mailed to you by the United States Postal Service.

Richard Milhous Nixon

The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools.

Herbert Spence

I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinions of himself than on the opinions of others.

Marcus Aelius Aurelius

You are not here merely to make a living. You are here to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, and with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world. You impoverish yourself if you forget this errand.

Woodrow Wilson

The best of men is he who blushes when you praise him and remains silent when you defame him.

Kahlil Gibran

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The love of our private friends is the only preparatory exercise for the love of all men.

John Henry Newman

An elephant is a mouse, built to government specifications.

John Herro

I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment, to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure? - That is all agnosticism means.

Clarence Darrow, Scopes Trial, 1925

Men go abroad to wonder the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars; and they pass by themselves without wondering.

St. Augustine

Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.

Herbert Spence

The fundamental error of their matrimonial union that of having based a permanent contract on a temporary feeling.

Thomas Hardy

All men have the stars, but they do not mean the same things for different people. For some they are guides, for others, no more than little lights in the sky. But all these are silent. You - - You alone have the stars as no one else has them.

Antoine De Saint - Exupery

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

Lawana Blackwell, The Dowry of Miss Lydia Clark, 1999

Few great men could pass Personnel.

Paul Goodman

Liberty is to faction, what air is to fire, an ailment without which it instantly expires. But it could not be a less folly to abolish liberty, which is essential to political life, because it nourishes faction, than it would be to wish the annihilation of air, which is essential to animal life, because it imparts to fire its destructive agency.

James Madison, Federalist 10

When it is darkest, men see the stars.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The men who really believe in themselves are all in lunatic asylums.

G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy; p. 14

All dimensions are critical dimensions, otherwise why are they there?

Russ Zandbergen

It will yet be the proud boast of women that they never contributed a line to the Bible.

George W. Foote

There is no such thing as a natural death: nothing that happens to a man is ever natural, since his presence calls the world into question. All men must die: but for every man his death is an accident and, even if he knows it and consents to it, an unjustifiable violation.

Simone de Beauvoir, "A Very Easy Death".

Do not trust all men, but trust men of worth; the former course is silly, the latter a mark of prudence.

Democritus

Being a woman is a terribly difficult task since it consists principally in dealing with men.

Joseph Conrad

All life is an experiment. The more experiments yoiu make the better.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I am among those who think that science has great beauty. A scientist in his laboratory is not only a technician: he is also a child placed before natural phenomena which impress him like a fairy tale.

Marie Curie

Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.

Gloria Steinem

The essential support and encouragement comes from within, arising out of the mad notion that your society needs to know what only you can tell it.

John Updike

Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.

Ghandi

The principle of liberty and equality, if coupled with mere selfishness, will make men only devils, each trying to be independent that he may fight only for his own interest. And here is the need of religion and its power, to bring in the principle of benevolence and love to men.

John Randolph

A sobering thought what if, at this very moment, I am.

Jane Wagne

Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley