Here we have the best Men Quotes from famous authors such as Julius Caesar, B. R. Ambedkar, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Bertrand Russell, John Adams. Find the perfect quotation from our collection.
Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.
If we take the generally accepted definition of bravery as a quality which knows no fear, I have never seen a brave man. All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are, the more they are frightened.
The World Trade Center is a living symbol of man’s dedication to world peace… a representation of man’s belief in humanity, his need for individual dignity, his beliefs in the cooperation of men, and, through cooperation, his ability to find greatness.
Kindness is the essence of greatness and the fundamental characteristic of the noblest men and women I have known.
By nature, men love newfangledness.
It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui.
The philosophy behind much advertising is based on the old observation that every man is really two men – the man he is and the man he wants to be.
The purpose of the mission must be thoroughly understood beforehand, and the men must be inspired with a sense of personal dedication that knows no limitations… In an age of high technology and Jedi Knights, we often overlook the need for personal involvement, but we do so at our own risk.
You will kill 10 of our men, and we will kill 1 of yours, and in the end it will be you who tire of it.
Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed.
Men are born to succeed, not to fail.
Men rise from one ambition to another: first, they seek to secure themselves against attack, and then they attack others.
Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.
Above all, we must realize that 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. It is a weapon our adversaries in today‘s world do not have.
Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.
All women have a perception much more developed than men. So all women somehow, being repressed for so many millennia, they ended up by developing this sixth sense and contemplation and love. And this is something that we have a hard time to accept as part of our society.
It would be a much better country if women did not vote. That is simply a fact. In fact, in every presidential election since 1950 – except Goldwater in ’64 – the Republican would have won, if only the men had voted.
All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it.
All men by nature desire knowledge.
I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.
Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.
There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.
Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.
Culture makes all men gentle.
It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles.
I believe in work, hard work, and long hours of work. Men do not breakdown from overwork, but from worry and dissipation.
Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.
He was one of those men who possess almost every gift, except the gift of the power to use them.
The more people we can attract to science and technology – men, women, everybody – the more economic opportunity we have as a nation.
All men are equal before fish.
The more I see of men the more I like dogs.
Wherever men and women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place must – at that moment – become the center of the universe.
Men become much more attractive when they start looking older. But it doesn’t do much for women, though we do have an advantage: make-up.
Men of lofty genius sometimes accomplish the most when they work least, for their minds are occupied with their ideas and the perfection of their conceptions, to which they afterwards give form.
Men! The only animal in the world to fear.
Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.
Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier.
Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so.
A lot of times, women don’t get the male perspective in regards to a relationship, what men go through when they’re not really dealing well.
I am not protesting against the conduct of the war, but against the political errors and insincerities for which the fighting men are being sacrificed.
Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.
These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have.
He was one of those men who possess almost every gift, except the gift of the power to use them.
Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.
The big divide in this country is not between Democrats and Republicans, or women and men, but between talkers and doers.
Gold is good in its place; but loving, brave, patriotic men are better than gold.
The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren’t enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.
Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves.
That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane human being has ever given his assent.
Time is the most valuable thing on earth: time to think, time to act, time to extend our fraternal relations, time to become better men, time to become better women, time to become better and more independent citizens.
The love of our private friends is the only preparatory exercise for the love of all men.
What was most significant about the lunar voyage was not that men set foot on the moon but that they set eye on the earth.
Women lie about their age; men lie about their income.
It’s not the men in my life that count, it’s the life in my men.
Men often act knowingly against their interest.
That a man be willing, when others are so too, as far forth as for peace and defense of himself he shall think it necessary, to lay down this right to all things; and be contented with so much liberty against other men, as he would allow other men against himself.
Men who wish to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details.
I shall argue that strong men, conversely, know when to compromise and that all principles can be compromised to serve a greater principle.
Women have very little idea of how much men hate them.
Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.
Men’s ideas are the most direct emanations of their material state.
Men freely believe that which they desire.
If all men are born free, how is it that all women are born slaves?
First find the man in yourself if you will inspire manliness in others.
Gender is not an easy conversation to have. It makes people uncomfortable, sometimes even irritable. Both men and women are resistant to talk about gender or are quick to dismiss the problems of gender. Because thinking of changing the status quo is always uncomfortable.
It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves savage, or the vulture ravenous.
Most men, when they think they are thinking, are merely rearranging their prejudices.
Men are like the stars; some generate their own light while others reflect the brilliance they receive.
Men must know their limitations.
If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking.
As soon as the land of any country has all become private property, the landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed, and demand a rent even for its natural produce.
There is always inequality in life. Some men are killed in a war and some men are wounded and some men never leave the country. Life is unfair.
Women’s liberation is just a lot of foolishness. It’s men who are discriminated against. They can’t bear children. And no one is likely to do anything about that.
Yes, the pyramids have been built, but if you give me 300,000 disciplined men and give me 30 years, I could build a bigger one.
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
Women want mediocre men, and men are working to be as mediocre as possible.
I cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on every new theory as a danger, every innovation as a toilsome trouble, every social advance as a first step toward revolution, and that they may absolutely refuse to move at all.
Married men live longer than single men. But married men are a lot more willing to die.
Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men.
I would much rather have men ask why I have no statue than why I have one.
Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.
I want to congratulate all the men out there who are working diligently to be good fathers whether they are stepfathers, or biological fathers or just spiritual fathers.
Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
By indignities men come to dignities.
Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.
We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
If men are honest, everything they do and everywhere they go is for a chance to see women.
The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding.
The life which men praise and regard as successful is but one kind. Why should we exaggerate any one kind at the expense of the others?
Men should be like Kleenex, soft, strong and disposable.
Now the reason the enlightened prince and the wise general conquer the enemy whenever they move and their achievements surpass those of ordinary men is foreknowledge.
The ‘morality of compromise’ sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat. Strong men don’t compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised.
Why are women… so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
Men do not fail; they give up trying.
When all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
There’s a personality trait known as agreeableness. Agreeable people are compassionate and polite. And agreeable people get paid less than disagreeable people for the same job. Women are more agreeable than men.
Punishment is now unfashionable… because it creates moral distinctions among men, which, to the democratic mind, are odious. We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility.
Art is the fatal net which catches these strange moments on the wing like mysterious butterflies, fleeing the innocence and distraction of common men.
A lawyer who does not know men is handicapped.
Men should strive to think much and know little.
Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.
There’s three things men always talk about – women, sports, and cars.
The greatest enemy to human souls is the self-righteous spirit which makes men look to themselves for salvation.
The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.
The glory of justice and the majesty of law are created not just by the Constitution – nor by the courts – nor by the officers of the law – nor by the lawyers – but by the men and women who constitute our society – who are the protectors of the law as they are themselves protected by the law.
Women need a reason to have sex. Men just need a place.
For those who have made the ultimate sacrifice, we are grateful that such men and women were among us. For those who continue to serve, we honor their commitment. For those who return to civilian life, we honor their service.
It is not these well-fed long-haired men that I fear, but the pale and the hungry-looking.
Admiration of great men, living or dead, naturally evokes imitation of them in a greater or less degree.
Women prefer to talk in twos, while men prefer to talk in threes.
I know and do what is right better than many big men who read.
I’ve also seen that great men are often lonely. This is understandable, because they have built such high standards for themselves that they often feel alone. But that same loneliness is part of their ability to create.
When women go wrong, men go right after them.
I do not think you can name many great inventions that have been made by married men.
Men are the dreams of a shadow.
If you have men who will only come if they know there is a good road, I don’t want them. I want men who will come if there is no road at all.
Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this: to know so much and to have control over nothing.
Numbers don’t lie. Women lie, men lie, but numbers don’t lie.
Men lose more conquests by their own awkwardness than by any virtue in the woman.
When men and women are able to respect and accept their differences then love has a chance to blossom.
The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.
Men may live fools, but fools they cannot die.
Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.
Men trust their ears less than their eyes.
The goal of education is not to increase the amount of knowledge but to create the possibilities for a child to invent and discover, to create men who are capable of doing new things.
The world, we are told, was made especially for man – a presumption not supported by all the facts. A numerous class of men are painfully astonished whenever they find anything, living or dead, in all God’s universe, which they cannot eat or render in some way what they call useful to themselves.
But men are men; the best sometimes forget.
I don’t know why women want any of the things men have when one of the things that women have is men.
I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men; they are far superior and always have been.
Any religion that professes to be concerned about the souls of men and is not concerned about the slums that damn them, the economic conditions that strangle them and the social conditions that cripple them is a spiritually moribund religion awaiting burial.
A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men, and when he devotes himself helpfully to all life that is in need of help.
Those men are most apt to be obsequious and conciliating abroad, who are under the discipline of shrews at home.
Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less.
A state of society where men may not speak their minds cannot long endure.
There are seasons in every country when noise and impudence pass current for worth; and in popular commotions especially, the clamors of interested and factious men are often mistaken for patriotism.
Men who are in earnest are not afraid of consequences.
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
Men tire themselves in pursuit of rest.
There were some great clinicians in the 20th century – great men. Freud was a genius; Jung was a genius, Carl Rogers was a genius – there’s a half-dozen psychologists of the 1950s and humanists of the 1960s.
Boys will be boys, and so will a lot of middle-aged men.
Look! Don’t be deceived by appearances – men and things are not what they seem. All who are not on the rock are in the sea!
In our Country… one class of men makes war and leaves another to fight it out.
Everybody knows that England is the world of betting men, who are of a higher class than mere gamblers: to bet is in the English temperament.
The law will never make a man free; it is men who have got to make the law free.
If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love.
Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
It’s a small percentage of people who do the 80-hour-a-week high-powered career thing, and they’re almost all men. Why? Well, men are driven by socio-economic status more than women.
When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.
Space and light and order. Those are the things that men need just as much as they need bread or a place to sleep.
I do not wish women to have power over men; but over themselves.
Men still have to be governed by deception.
I only have ‘yes’ men around me. Who needs ‘no’ men?
Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.
A good boss makes his men realize they have more ability than they think they have so that they consistently do better work than they thought they could.
It is always in season for old men to learn.
When men and women agree, it is only in their conclusions; their reasons are always different.
As a rule, men worry more about what they can’t see than about what they can.
Men have become the tools of their tools.
We are living in a world of fear. The life of man today is corroded and made bitter by fear: fear of the future, fear of the hydrogen bomb, fear of ideologies. Perhaps this fear is a greater danger than the danger itself because it is fear, which drives men to act thoughtlessly, to act dangerously.
Labor disgraces no man; unfortunately, you occasionally find men who disgrace labor.
I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man‘s pleasure when they come a cropper.
Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.
A government of laws, and not of men.
If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.
Girls we love for what they are; young men for what they promise to be.
Whatever deceives men seems to produce a magical enchantment.
As soon as laws are necessary for men, they are no longer fit for freedom.
Give to everyone who begs from you; and of him who takes away your goods do not ask them again. And as you wish that men would do to you, do so to them.
It takes two men to make one brother.
The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice; their choice!
I consider my ability to arouse enthusiasm among men the greatest asset I possess. The way to develop the best that is in a man is by appreciation and encouragement.
Like all young men I set out to be a genius, but mercifully laughter intervened.
Not only our future economic soundness but the very soundness of our democratic institutions depends on the determination of our government to give employment to idle men.
No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged to reveal themselves, their perceptions and emotions, and to build confidence in the creative spirit.
The great liability of the engineer compared to men of other professions is that his works are out in the open where all can see them. His acts, step by step, are in hard substance. He cannot bury his mistakes in the grave like the doctors. He cannot argue them into thin air or blame the judge like the lawyers.
Sometimes a lot of us men think we are doing everything for the woman we love, but there is an aspect of a woman a man doesn’t understand.
The man who can put himself in the place of other men, who can understand the workings of their minds, need never worry about what the future has in store for him.
The men and women of Afghanistan are building a nation that is free, and proud, and fighting terror – and America is honored to be their friend.
To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illuminate only the track it has passed.
Cats are the runes of beauty, invincibility, wonder, pride, freedom, coldness, self-sufficiency, and dainty individuality – the qualities of sensitive, enlightened, mentally developed, pagan, cynical, poetic, philosophic, dispassionate, reserved, independent, Nietzschean, unbroken, civilised, master-class men.
The greatest want of the world is the want of men – men who will not be bought or sold; men who in their inmost souls are true and honest; men who do not fear to call sin by its right name; men whose conscience is as true to duty as the needle to the pole; men who will stand for the right though the heavens fall.
If men were angels, no government would be necessary.
There are two types of men: the great and the small.
The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it.
Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.
Men’s arguments often prove nothing but their wishes.
Men, in a word, must necessarily be controlled, either by a power within them, or by a power without them; either by the word of God, or by the strong arm of man; either by the Bible, or by the bayonet.
The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
I dress for women and I undress for men.
The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.
War is big business. It’s a lot of money going to and fro, and unfortunately a lot of angst, and a lot of fear, and a lot of doubt. And eventually a lot of wonderful people, like soldiers, like men and women that are out there trying to do the best they can, they come back being wounded on many levels.
I have talked with great men, and I do not see how they differ from others.
Women deeply want men who are competent and powerful. And I don’t mean power in that they can exert tyrannical control over others. That’s not power. That’s just corruption.
There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.
Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.
Evil prospers when good men do nothing.
When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
Write in such a way as that you can be readily understood by both the young and the old, by men as well as women, even by children.
Honor is simply the morality of superior men.
Some men see things as they are, and say why. I dream of things that never were, and say why not.
If men knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they’d never marry.
All the women want to be with me, all the men want to be like me.
All the reasonings of men are not worth one sentiment of women.
All men’s gains are the fruit of venturing.
Every time a man expects, as he says, his money to work for him, he is expecting other people to work for him.
All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.
We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.
Men often applaud an imitation and hiss the real thing.
Men, as well as women, are much oftener led by their hearts than by their understandings.
Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.
Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land.
You can tell the strength of a nation by the women behind its men.
Don’t wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.
Young men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are fools.
To be a man is to suffer for others. God help us to be men!
Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.
It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.
Women want love to be a novel, men a short story.
We should not fret for what is past, nor should we be anxious about the future; men of discernment deal only with the present moment.
Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law.
All men are created equal, it is only men themselves who place themselves above equality.
Men don’t care what’s on TV. They only care what else is on TV.
There are no extraordinary men… just extraordinary circumstances that ordinary men are forced to deal with.
Leadership consists of picking good men and helping them do their best.
A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.
What men value in this world is not rights but privileges.
Most men today cannot conceive of a freedom that does not involve somebody’s slavery.
All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why.
The planter, the farmer, the mechanic, and the laborer… form the great body of the people of the United States, they are the bone and sinew of the country men who love liberty and desire nothing but equal rights and equal laws.
Men are different. When they are in love they may also have other girlfriends.
Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.
Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens.
People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.
When a man is no longer anxious to do better than well, he is done for.
Persuasion is achieved by the speaker‘s personal character when the speech is so spoken as to make us think him credible. We believe good men more fully and more readily than others: this is true generally whatever the question is, and absolutely true where exact certainty is impossible and opinions are divided.
It is always good men who do the most harm in the world.
Women, like men, should try to do the impossible. And when they fail, their failure should be a challenge to others.
When freedom does not have a purpose, when it does not wish to know anything about the rule of law engraved in the hearts of men and women, when it does not listen to the voice of conscience, it turns against humanity and society.
Death is not the worst that can happen to men.
I am not the first Buddha who came upon Earth, nor shall I be the last. In due time, another Buddha will arise in the world – a Holy One, a supremely enlightened One, endowed with wisdom in conduct, auspicious, knowing the universe, an incomparable leader of men, a master of angels and mortals.
To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a far slower reformation, is what each begins and perfects on himself.
The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones.
What we call Man’s power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.
Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.
Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company.
Wise men make more opportunities than they find.
The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers.
How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.