Men Quotes

You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are but you must approach each man by the right door.

Henry Ward Beeche

Anyone can revolt. It is more difficult silently to obey our own inner promptings, and to spend our lives finding sincere and fitting means of expression for our temperament and our gifts.

Georges Rouault

It is easier to find a score of men wise enough to discover the truth than to find one intrepid enough, in the face of opposition, to stand up for it.

A. A. Hodge

A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.

Greek Prove

What an immense power over the life is the power of possessing distinct aims. The voice, the dress, the look, the very motions of a person, define and alter when he or she begins to live for a reason.

Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

There are very few women in society whose virtue outlasts their beauty.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Reflexions ou Sentences et Maximes Morales

Judgement, not passion should prevail.

Epicharmus

The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away.

Ronald Reagan

It may be that the old astrologers had the truth exactly reversed, when they believed that the stars controlled the destinies of men. The time may come when men control the destinies of stars.

Arthur C. Clarke, First on the Moon, 1970

The renown which riches or beauty confer is fleeting and frail; mental excellence is a splendid and lasting possession.

Sallust, The War with Catiline

Life is not advancement. It is growth. It does not move upward, but expands outward, in all directions.

Russell G. Alexande

We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Heat and animosity, contest and conflict, may sharpen the wits, although they rarely do; they never strengthen the understanding, clear the perspicacity, guide the judgment, or improve the heart.

Walter Savage Lando

Brave men are all vertebrates they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.

G. K. Chesterton

So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.

Andre Gide

A Libertarian Movement slogan.

Robert A. Heinlein

The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.

Buddha

There was never in the history of the world a great politician who was not hated by large numbers of inferior men.

Unknown

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

Whenever the people are well informed, they can be trusted with their own government that whenever things get so far wrong as to attract their notice, they may be relied on to set them to rights.

Thomas Jefferson

Every culture has its distinctive and normal system of government. Yours is democracy, moderated by corruption. Ours is totalitarianism, moderated by assassination.

Unknown Russian

I visualize things in my mind before I have to do them. It is like having a mental workshop.

Jack Youngblood

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from a religious conviction.

Blaise Pascal

Government cannot make us equal it can only recognize, respect, and protect us as equal before the law.

Clarence Thomas

The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.

Robert Frost

Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul the blue prints of your ultimate accomplishments.

Napolean Hill

I see America, not in the setting sun of a black night of despair ahead of us, I see America in the crimson light of a rising sun fresh from the burning, creative hand of God. I see great days ahead, great days possible to men and women of will and vision.

Carl Sandburg

Sometimes being pushed to the wall gives you the momentum necessary to get over it!

Peter de Jage

No arsenal or no weapon in the arsenals of the world is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women.

Ronald Reagan

Ed, we just witnessed a peaceful transition in government. Do you realize how miraculous that is... Today, tiny Cicely, Alaska, stood up and put another W in the win category for democracy.

Jeff Melvoin

As an athlete, when you least expect it, you may find yourself standing on the threshold of an accomplishment so monumental that it strikes fear into your soul. You must stand ready, at any moment, to face the unknown. You must be ready to walk boldly thru the wall of uncertainty.

John "The Penguin" Bingham, The courage to start

This is the bitterest pain among men, to have much knowledge but no power.

Herodotus, The Histories of Herodotus

Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.

Sir Francis Bacon, "Of Death".

Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands?

Ernest Gaines

When I consider the small span of my life absorbed in the eternity of all time, or the small part of space which I can touch or see engulfed by the infinite immensity of spaces that I know not and that know me not, I am frightened and astonished to see myself here instead of there... now instead of then.

Blaise Pascal

The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.

Ayn Rand, The Virtue of Selfishness, 1964

All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers... Each one owes infinitely more to the human race than to the particular country in which he was born.

Franois de Salignac de la Mothe Fenelon

Insanity - - A perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world.

R. D. Lang