Men Quotes

I have learned this at least by my experiment that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavours to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

Henry David Thoreau

Women and cats do as they damned well please, and men and dogs had best learn to live with it.

Alan Holbrook

Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, the post of honor is a private station.

Joseph Addison

I never seek to defeat the man I am fighting, I seek to defeat his confidence. A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory. Two men are equals - True equals - Only when they both have equal confidence.

Arthur S. Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha

A government that is big enough to give you all you want is big enough to take it all away.

Barry Goldwate

Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Spend everyday casual, but industrious Every moment alert, but relaxed.

Guy Finley

There are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes.

William Bennett

Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.

Thomas Carlyle

America is a land of wonders, in which everything is in constant motion and every change seems an improvement. No natural boundary seems to be set to the efforts of man and in his eyes what is not yet done is only what he has not attempted to do. - From Democracy in America.

Alexis Charles Henri Clrel de Tocqueville

Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.

Henry Mille

Memory depends very much on the perspicuity, regularity, and order of our thoughts. Many complain of the want of memory, when the defect is in the judgment; and others, by grasping at all, retain nothing.

Thomas Fulle

Strike from mankind the principle of faith and men would have no more history than a flock of sheep.

Mark Beltaire

If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world.

Blaise Pascal

A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.

Edward Abbey

Few men are willing to brave the disapproval of their fellows, the censure of their colleagues, the wrath of their society. Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence. Yet it is the one essential, vital quality for those who seek to change a world which yields most painfully to change.

Robert F. Kennedy, 1966 speech

That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.

Dorothy Parke

Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality.

Albert Schweitze

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

The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.

John Locke

Truth springs from argument amongst friends.

David Hume

The stream of thought flows on; but most of its segments fall into the bottomless abyss of oblivion. Of some, no memory survives the instant of their passage. Of others, it is confined to a few moments, hours or days. Others, again, leave vestiges which are indestructible, and by means of which they may be recalled as long as life endures.

William James

Perhaps this is our strange and haunting paradox here in America - - That we are fixed and certain only when we are in movement.

Thomas Wolfe

A life of peace, purity, and refinement leads to a calm and untroubled old age.

Cicero

For they are yet ear - Kissing arguments.

William Shakespeare

The Second Amendment reveals a profound principle of American government - The principle of civilian ascendency over the military.

William Orville Douglas

In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.

Ambrose Bierce

Few men during their lifetime come anywhere near exhausting the resources dwelling within them. There are deep wells of strength that are never used.

Richard Byrd

Character is what God and the angels know of us; reputation is what men and women think of us.

Horace Mann

Of all the properties which belong to honorable men, not one is so highly prized as that of character.

Henry Clay

Education is not merely a means for earning a living or an instrument for the acquisition of wealth. It is an initiation into life of spirit, a training of the human soul in the pursuit of truth and the practice of virtue.

Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit

Things that are holy are revealed only to men who are holy.

Hippocrates, Law

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

Rebecca West

The only thing that sustains one through life is the consciousness of the immense inferiority of everybody else, and this is a feeling I have always cultivated.

Oscar Wilde

Human misery is too great for men to do without faith.

Heinrich Heine

Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are not even capable of forming such opinions.

Albert Einstein