For Men Quotes

What makes a man a man? It's the choices he makes. Not how he starts things but how he finishes them.

The goal of all inanimate objects is to resist man and ultimately defeat him.

When you suffer an attack of nerves you're being attacked by the nervous system. What chance has a man got against a system?.

Adult women are able to make decisions about their own lives' course no less than men are.

You know, there's nobody where I've said, 'Man, I really want that guy's career.' I mean, each of us has to make our own go of it.

When man meets an obstacle he can't destroy, he destroys himself.

A tree, freshly rooted, may be pulled up by one man on his own. Give it time, and it will not be moved, even with a crane

The whelp of a wolf must prove a wolf at last, notwithstanding he may be brought up by a man.

It is a sin to judge any man by his post

The heart of man is restless until he finds rest in Thee.

A man does not possess all the gifts, lest he think that grace is nature.

It is a shame for a man to desire honor because of his noble progenitors, and not to deserve it by his own virtue.

All men who would surpass the other animals should do their best not to pass through life silently like the beasts whom nature made prone, obedient to their bellies.

The astronauts who came in with me in my astronaut class - my class had 29 men and 6 women - those men were all very used to working with women.

He passes from lyric to epic poetry in order to speak about the world and the torment in the world through man, rationally and emotionally. The poet then becomes a danger.

Religious poetry, civic poetry, lyric or dramatic poetry are all categories of man's expression which are valid only if the endorsement of formal content is valid.

If you think you're a leader, and you look over your shoulder and there ain't nobody following you, man, you're just takin' a walk.

I firmly believe that the benevolent Creator designed the republican Form of Government for Man.

Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

The one thing that is said to have surprised God is that the voice of intercession had ceased. 'And He saw that there was no man, and wondered that there was no intercessor' (Isaiah 59:16).

Labor Day is devoted to no man, living or dead, to no sect, race or nation.

Babies haven't any hair; Old men's heads are just as bare; between the cradle and the grave lie a haircut and a shave.

That observation which is called knowledge of the world will be found much more frequently to make men cunning than good.

Pride is a vice, which pride itself inclines every man to find in others, and to overlook in himself

A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.

It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done.

As I know more of mankind I expect less of them, and am ready now to call a man a good man upon easier terms than I was formerly.

No man was more foolish when he had not a pen in his hand, or more wise when he had

A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good.

It is a maxim that no man was ever enslaved by influence while he was fit to be free.

No man likes to live under the eye of perpetual disapprobation.

Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree. We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.

Is not a patron one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and, when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help?

Everybody knows worse of himself than he knows of other men.

I doubt if there ever was a man who was not gratified by being told that he was liked by the women.

No man sympathizes with the sorrows of vanity.

Man is a transitory being, and his designs must partake of the imperfections their author.

Men have solicitude about fame; and the greater share they have of it, the more afraid they are of losing it.

In traveling, a man must carry knowledge with him, if he would bring home knowledge.

Go into the street, and give one man a lecture on morality, and another a shilling, and see which will respect you most.

A man is very apt to complain of the ingratitude of those who have risen far above him.

The certainty that life cannot be long, and the probability that it will be much shorter than nature allows, ought to awaken every man to the active prosecution of whatever he is desirous to perform.

Man to the last is but a froward child; So eager for the future, come what may, And to the present so insensible.

For want of self-restraint many men are engaged all their lives in fighting with difficulties of their own making.

Man cannot aspire if he looked down; if he rise, he must look up.

The highest culture is not obtained from the teacher when at school or college, so much as by our ever diligent self-education when we become men.

If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all?.

As a man without forethought scarcely deserves the name of a man, so forethought without reflection is but a metaphorical phrase for the instinct of a beast.

A man may devote himself to death and destruction to save a nation; but no nation will devote itself to death and destruction to save mankind.

The only man who has stolen my heart is my son.