Men must know their limitations.
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 fact is, when men carry the same ideals in their hearts, nothing can isolate them – neither prison walls nor the sod of cemeteries. For a single memory, a single spirit, a single idea, a single conscience, a single dignity will sustain them all.
Leadership consists of picking good men and helping them do their best.
There is a boundary to men’s passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.
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.
The assertion that ‘all men are created equal’ was of no practical use in effecting our separation from Great Britain and it was placed in the Declaration not for that, but for future use.
I shall argue that strong men, conversely, know when to compromise and that all principles can be compromised to serve a greater principle.
More men die of jealousy than of cancer.
Good men must not obey the laws too well.
When President Obama entered the White House, the economy was in a free-fall. The auto industry: on its back. The banks: frozen up. More than three million Americans had already lost their jobs. And America’s bravest, our men and women in uniform, were fighting what would soon be the longest wars in our history.
Within the covers of the Bible are the answers for all the problems men face.
All men of action are dreamers.
Money demands that you sell, not your weakness to men’s stupidity, but your talent to their reason.
Men think highly of those who rise rapidly in the world; whereas nothing rises quicker than dust, straw, and feathers.
Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.
Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.
The ballot box is the surest arbiter of disputes among free men.
Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.
For tis not in mere death that men die most.
Whether it is a tsunami, or whether it is a hurricane, whether it’s an earthquake – when we see these great fatal and natural acts, men and women of every ethnic persuasion come together and they just want to help.
There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.
The upward course of a nation’s history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women.
Everyone now knows how to find the meaning of life within himself. But mankind wasn’t always so lucky. Less than a century ago, men and women did not have easy access to the puzzle boxes within them.
Women have always been the strong ones of the world. The men are always seeking from women a little pillow to put their heads down on. They are always longing for the mother who held them as infants.
Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure; men love in haste but they detest at leisure.
In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, they had better aim at something high.
There is something good in men that really yearn for discipline.
If men can develop weapons that are so terrifying as to make the thought of global war include almost a sentence for suicide, you would think that man’s intelligence and his comprehension… would include also his ability to find a peaceful solution.
Every company has two organizational structures: The formal one is written on the charts; the other is the everyday relationship of the men and women in the organization.
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.
Gaming in general is a male thing. It isn’t that gaming is designed to exclude women. Everybody who’s tried to design a game to interest a large female audience has failed. And I think that has to do with the different thinking processes of men and women.
It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.
Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.
Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.
Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.
If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men?
If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him.
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
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.
I don’t know what effect these men will have upon the enemy, but, by God, they frighten me.
What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price of all the man hath, his house, his wife, his children.
Men may die, but the fabrics of free institutions remains unshaken.
As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be happy, not to think of them at all.
I believe in God, who made of one blood all nations that on earth do dwell. I believe that all men, black and brown and white, are brothers, varying through time and opportunity, in form and gift and feature, but differing in no essential particular, and alike in soul and the possibility of infinite development.
We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
The beauty of a strong, lasting commitment is often best understood by men incapable of it.
Wise men make more opportunities than they find.
Those men get along best with women who can get along best without them.
Men don’t pay attention to small things.
The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.
Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.
Women need a reason to have sex. Men just need a place.
Men may live fools, but fools they cannot die.
Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.
Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.
Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can.
Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.
It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.
It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little.
No men who really think deeply about women retain a high opinion of them; men either despise women or they have never thought seriously about them.
Women cannot complain about men anymore until they start getting better taste in them.
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.
You can tell the strength of a nation by the women behind its men.
There is a strange kind of human being in whom there is an eternal struggle between body and soul, animal and god, for dominance. In all great men this mixture is striking, and in none more so than in Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
A lawyer who does not know men is handicapped.
Men who do things without being told draw the most wages.
The men I idolized built their bodies and became somebody – like Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger – and I thought, ‘That can be me.’ So I started working out. The funny thing is I didn’t realize back then that I was having a defining moment.
If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.
Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.
All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why.