Men Quotes

Most great men and women are not perfectly rounded in their personalities, but are instead people whose one driving enthusiasm is so great it makes their faults seem insignificant.

Charles A. Cerami

Christianity taught men that love is worth more than intelligence.

Jacques Maritain

The especial genius of women I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, spiritual in tendency.

Margaret Fulle

Believe me! The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously!

Friedrich Nietzsche

If life were measured by accomplishments, most of us would die in infancy.

A. P. Gouthey

Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.

Seneca, Epistles

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

Tom Robbins

Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.

Soren Kierkegaard

There are some things which men confess with ease, and others with difficulty.

Epictetus

No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.

Thomas Carlyle

Let me tell you I am better acquainted with you for a long absence, as men are with themselves for a long affliction absence does but hold off a friend, to make one see him the truer.

Alexander Pope

I know of no great men except those who have rendered great service to the human race.

Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire

For health and the constant enjoyment of life, give me a keen and ever - Present sense of humor it is the next best thing to an abiding faith in providence.

George Barrell Cheeve

Inventions reached their limit long ago, and I see no hope for further development.

Julius Frontinus, 1st century A. D.

His mother had often said, When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action. She had emphasized the corollary of this axiom even more vehemently when you desired a consequence you had damned well better take the action that would create it.

Lois McMaster Bujold

Could Hamlet have been written by a committee, or the Mona Lisa painted by a club Could the New Testament have been composed as a conference report Creative ideas do not spring from groups. They spring from individuals. The divine spark leaps from the finger of God to the finger of Adam.

A. Whitney Griswold

Good government generally begins in the family, and if the moral character of a people once degenerate, their political character must soon follow.

Elias Boudinot

The measure of a master is his success in bringing all men around to his opinion twenty years later.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Most of our so - Called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believing as we already do.

James Harvey Robinson

You cannot acquire experience by making experiments. You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.

Albert Camus

Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil in its worst state, an intolerable one.

Thomas Paine

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

The moment of victory is much too short to live for that and nothing else.

Martina Navratilova

Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels - Men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.

Dwight D Eisenhowe

There are two ways of being creative. One can sing and dance. Or one can create an environment in which singers and dancers flourish.

Warren Bennis

Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Every improvement in communication makes the bore more terrible.

Frank Moore Colby

The character inherent in the American people has done all that has been accomplished; and it would have done somewhat more, if the government had not sometimes got in its way.

Henry David Thoreau

Neither can embellishments of language be found without arrangement and expression of thoughts, nor can thoughts be made to shine without the light of language.

Cicero

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".

Study men, not historians.

Harry S Truman

Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

Not being tense but ready. Not thinking but not dreaming. Not being set but flexible. Liberation from the uneasy sense of confinement. It is being wholly and quietly alive, aware and alert, ready for whatever may come.

Bruce Lee

The problems of the world cannot possible be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were.

John Keats

The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.

Mignon McLaughlin

What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage.

Bruce Barton

Diplomacy without arms is like music without instruments.

Frederick the Great