Men Quotes

Civil rights laws were not passed to protect the rights of white men and do not apply to them.

I think I'm the first man to sit on top of the world.

I will feel equality has arrived when we can elect to office women who are as unqualified as some of the men who are already there.

Alekhine is a poet who creates a work of art out of something that would hardly inspire another man to send home a picture post card.

If you want to live your whole life free from pain you must become either a god or else a corpse. Consider other men's troubles and that will comfort you.

The gap between enthusiasm and indifference is filled with failures. The great man is he that does not lose his child's heart.

Captain Clarke who had gone out yesterday with eighteen men to bring in the meat we had killed the day before, and to continue the hunt, came in at twelve o'clock.

Before the Beatles and yesterday, when a man could still work and still would.

It is your virtue, being men, to try; And it is ours, by virtue to deny.

Barack Obama was a black man that lived on the South Side of Chicago, who had his share of troubles catching cabs.

I think the most moving part of my trip [to Africa] so far was seeing 92-year-old Nelson Mandela, and just thinking about his life. This man has lived through a struggle that few nations have known.

I don't like people who take drugs... Customs men for example.

Marriage is one of the most sacred human institutions. I asked our Senators, as many South Dakotans have done, to protect marriage as a union between a man and a woman.

Man is only truly free only among equally free men.

Leave off looking to men to find out what you are not - seek within yourselves to find out what you are.

The warrior is different in that studying the Way of strategy is based on overcoming men

The greatness of a man is measured by the way he treats the little man. Compassion for the weak is a sign of greatness

Waste no words on a man who dislikes you. Actions will impress him more.

We see men who have accumulated great fortunes, but we often recognize only their triumph, overlooking the temporary defeats which they had to surmount before arriving.

Fatalism is the lazy man's way of accepting the inevitable.

Good order makes men bold, and confusion, cowards.

No one should therefore fear that he cannot accomplish what others have accomplished, for, men are born, live, and die in quite the same way they always have.

The progressive development of man [has as its] ultimate purpose the complete mastery of mind over the material world.

Science is a way of life which can only flourish when men are free to have faith.

Man lives, not directly or nakedly in nature like the animals, but within a mythological universe, a body of assumptions and beliefs developed from his existential concerns.

With the young man starting in business, let him understand the value of money by earning it.

You cannot go against nature. She is stronger than the strongest of men. We can permit ourselves some liberties, but in details only.

The deeper the Self-realization of a man, the more he influences the whole universe by his subtle spiritual vibrations, and the less he himself is affected by the phenomenal flux.

The man form is higher than the angel form; of all forms it is the highest. Man is the highest being in creation, because he aspires to freedom.

It is quite a thing. There are so many men, all endlessly trying to sweep me off my feet. And there is one of you, trying just the opposite. Making sure my feet are firm beneath me lest I fall.

Violence is never ever a choice that a man should make.

Every man is the author of his own life.

Since the world began has any man ever been able to know what would happen tomorrow? The world of men is today. I'm asking you to open your heart today. Tomorrow belongs to Allah.

Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.

A young man who is unable to commit a folly is already an old man.

All men are different. And should do everything possible to continue to be so.

There are two kinds of talent, man-made talent and God-given talent. With man-made talent you have to work very hard. With God-given talent, you just touch it up once in a while.

In a society of criminals, the innocent man goes to jail.

(Insanity) is not hubris, not pride; it is inflation of the ego to its ultimate - confusion between him who worships and that which is worshipped. Man has not eaten God; God has eaten man.

The man who pardons easily courts injury.

Sport is part of every man and woman's heritage and its absence can never be compensated for.

As man seeks justice in equality, so society seeks order in anarchy.

Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.

A man is not learned until he can read, write and swim.

A sensible man will remember that the eyes may be confused in two ways - by a change from light to darkness or from darkness to light; and he will recognize that the same thing happens to the soul.

Property is unstable, and youth perishes in a moment. Life itself is held in the grinning fangs of Death, Yet men delay to obtain release from the world. Alas, the conduct of mankind is surprising.

A man shows himself a true disciple of Christ by carrying the cross in his turn every day in the activity that he is called to perform.

Failing to be there when a man wants her is a woman's greatest sin, except to be there when he doesn't want her.

Bless us, divine number, who generated gods and men. Number contains the root and source of eternally flowing creation.

A strong, successful man is not the victim of his environment. He creates favorable conditions. His own inherent force and energy compel things to turn out as he desires.