A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve not by the desire to beat others.
Ayn RandMen can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.
George OrwellOnly the unknown frightens men. But once a man has faced the unknown that terror becomes the known.
Antoine de Saint-ExuperyMen must live and create. Live to the point of tears.
Albert CamusMan can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.
Mahatma GandhiIt is not for me to judge another man's life. I must judge, I must choose, I must spurn, purely for myself. For myself, alone.
Herman HesseAll men by nature desire to know.
AristotleNearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character give him power.
Abraham LincolnBroad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all of one’s lifetime.
Mark TwainNot one or two, Subhuti, not one or two, but all the beings - men, women, animals, birds, trees, rocks. All the beings in the world. One should create such a determination that `I will lead all of them into nirvana'.
BuddhaJust as a candle cannot burn without fire men cannot live without a spiritual life.
BuddhaSecurity is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
Helen KellerMen acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.
AristotleLife is full of chances and changes and the most prosperous of men may...meet with great misfortunes.
AristotleLove all men without distinction, Know that mankind is a single community.
Sai BabaAs long as you know men are like children, you know everything!
Coco ChanelIt 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.
Helen KellerFrailty, thy name is woman.
William ShakespeareGreat men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force - that thoughts rule the world.
Ralph Waldo EmersonWomen and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.
Robert A. HeinleinWith men he can be rational and unaffected, but when he has ladies to please every feature works.
Jane AustenPride is still aiming at the best houses: Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods if angels fell, aspiring to be angels men rebel.
Alexander PopeEvil draws men together.
AristotleMen aren't the way they are because they want to drive women crazy, they've been trained to be that way for thousands of years. And that training makes it very difficult for men to be intimate.
Barbara de AngelisMen cling to life even at the cost of enduring great misfortune
AristotleGood men abandon lusting after things, they take no pleasure in sensual speech, when touched by happiness or sorrow, the wise show no elation or dejection.
BuddhaBig jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.
Theodore RooseveltMy atheism, like that of Spinoza, is true piety towards the universe and denies only gods fashioned by men in their own image, to be servants of their human interests.
George SantayanaMen are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.
Bertrand RussellThe superior man is distressed by the limitations of his ability, he is not distressed by the fact that men do not recognize the ability that he has.
ConfuciusIf 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.
George S. PattonNot to go back is somewhat to advance, and men must walk at least before they dance.
Alexander PopeLive as brave men, and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.
Marcus Tullius CiceroThe most dangerous criminal now is the entirely lawless modern philosopher. Compared to him, burglars and bigamists are essentially moral men.
Gilbert K. ChestertonHow strangely men act. They will not praise those who are living at the same time and living with themselves, but to be themselves praised by posterity by those whom they have never seen or ever will see, this they set much value on.
Marcus AureliusIf we know that our own men are in a condition to attack, but are unaware that the enemy is not open to attack, we have gone only halfway towards victory.
Sun TzuDo not have evil-doers for friends, do not have low people for friends: have virtuous people for friends, have for friends the best of men.
George SantayanaGod hates violence. He has ordained that all men fairly possess their property, not seize it.
EuripidesI have yet to meet a man as fond of high moral conduct as he is of outward appearances.
ConfuciusThe Bible remained for me a book of books still divine - but divine in the sense that all great books are divine which teach men how to live righteously.
Joseph JoubertAll men are children and of one family. The same tale sends them all to bed and wakes them in the morning.
Henry David ThoreauWise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it.
Benjamin FranklinIn the affairs of this world men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it.
Benjamin FranklinAmerican business long ago gave up on demanding that prospective employees be honest and hardworking. It has even stopped hoping for employees, who are educated enough, that they can tell the difference between the men's room and the women's room without having little pictures on the doors.
Dave BarryA great many men's gratitude is nothing but a secret desire to hook in more valuable kindnesses hereafter.
Francois de La RochefoucauldThe most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold.
Kahlil GibranMoney demands that you sell not your weakness to men's stupidity, but your talent to their reason.
Ayn RandMen's natures are alike, it is their habits that separate them.
ConfuciusIf I err in belief that the souls of men are immortal, I gladly err nor do I wish this error which gives me pleasure to be wrested from me while I live.
Marcus Tullius CiceroThe worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.
William Butler YeatsBy nature men are nearly alike, by practice they get to be wide apart.
ConfuciusAmerican men as a group seem to be interested in only two things: money and breasts. It seems a very narrow outlook.
Hedy LamarrGreat hopes make great men.
Thomas FullerMelancholy men are, of all others, the most witty.
AristotleThe 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.
Abraham LincolnEducated men are as much superior to uneducated men as the living are to the dead.
AristotleTo learn is a natural pleasure not confined to philosophers, but common to all men.
AristotleBachelors have consciences, married men have wives.
Samuel JohnsonFondly we think we honor merit then, When we but praise ourselves in other men.
Alexander PopeReflection makes men cowards.
William HazlittIt occurred to me that there was no difference between men in intelligence or race so profound as the difference between the sick and the well.
F. Scott FitzgeraldWoman and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves, but the first to rescue when others are in danger.
Jean PaulGreat men, or men of great gifts, you shall easily find, but symmetrical men never.
Ralph Waldo EmersonAmerica was established not to create wealth, but to realize a vision, to realize an ideal - to discover and maintain liberty among men.
Woodrow WilsonThe separation of church and state is a source of strength, but the conscience of our nation does not call for separation between men of state and faith in the Supreme Being.
Lyndon B. JohnsonThere's very little advice in men's magazines because men don't think there's a lot they don't know. Women do. Women want to learn. Men think "I know what I'm doing just show me somebody naked."
Jerry SeinfeldMan becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.
Mahatma GandhiSome men are just as sure of the truth of their opinions as are others of what they know.
AristotleThe only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law.
AristotleAll men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.
Walter ScottBlessed be Providence which has given to each his toy: the doll to the child, the child to the woman, the woman to the man, the man to the devil!
Victor HugoA vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth.
Charles SpurgeonMen despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true.
Blaise PascalMen are swayed more by fear than by reverence.
AristotleOur defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men in all lands everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors.
Abraham LincolnMen, at most, differ as Heaven and Earth, but women, worst and best, as Heaven and Hell.
Alfred Lord TennysonIt was pride that changed angels into devils, it is humility that makes men as angels.
Saint AugustineContent makes poor men rich, discontent makes rich men poor.
Benjamin FranklinMen are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.
William ShakespeareMen of lofty genius, when they are doing the least work, are most active.
Leonardo da VinciScientists now believe that the primary biological function of breasts is to make males stupid.
Dave BarryCulture: the cry of men in face of their destiny.
Albert CamusOld men are dangerous: it doesn't matter to them what is going to happen to the world.
George Bernard ShawVirtue is more to man than either water or fire. I have seen men die from treading on water and fire but I have never seen a man die from treading the course of virtue.
ConfuciusInstead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged.
Helen KellerWithout recognizing the ordinances of Heaven it is impossible to be a superior man.
ConfuciusNo sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness, than disbelief in great men.
Thomas CarlyleMen and girls, men and girls: Artificial swine and pearls.
Gertrude SteinTo sin by silence, when they should protest, makes cowards of men.
Abraham LincolnAdvertising nourishes the consuming power of men. It sets up before a man the goal of a better home, better clothing, better food for himself and his family. It spurs individual exertion and greater production.
Winston ChurchillIf I am walking with two other men, each of them I 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.
ConfuciusMen have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree, the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything.
Jane AustenTrust men and they will be true to you, treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.
Ralph Waldo EmersonDemocracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects, because men are equally free they claim to be absolutely equal.
Aristotle'Evil men have no songs.' How is it that the Russians have songs?
Friedrich NietzscheWe cannot learn men from books.
Benjamin DisraeliLet me embrace thee sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.
William ShakespeareModesty and unselfishness - these are the virtues which men praise - and pass by.
Andre MauroisMen of genius are often dull and inert in society, as the blazing meteor when it descends to earth is only a stone.
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowBut this is a true saying among men: the gifts of enemies are no gifts and profitless.
SophoclesObserve all men, thyself most.
Benjamin FranklinMen would be angels, angels would be gods.
Alexander PopeUntil justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men's skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact.
Lyndon B. JohnsonThere are things which seem incredible to most men who have not studied mathematics.
AristotleWhat are men to rocks and mountains?
Jane AustenThe natural thing, my lord, men and women joined.
HomerMore men die of jealousy than of cancer.
John F. KennedyWithout feelings of respect what is there to distinguish men from beasts?
ConfuciusI am for those who believe in loose delights, I share the midnight orgies of young men, I dance with the dancers and drink with the drinkers.
Walt WhitmanBut men are men, the best sometimes forget.
William ShakespeareSmall things make base men proud.
William ShakespeareMen are so simple and so much inclined to obey immediate needs, that a deceiver will never lack victims for his deceptions.
Niccolo MachiavelliThe lights of stars that were extinguished ages ago still reaches us. So it is with great men who died centuries ago, but still reach us with the radiations of their personalities.
Kahlil GibranI 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.
E. M. ForsterYou are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves. A whole society composed of men afraid of the unknown within them!
Herman HesseThere's no evidence whatsoever that men are more rational than women. Both sexes seem to be equally irrational.
Albert EllisThere are certainly are not so many men of large fortune in the world as there are of pretty woman to deserve them.
Jane AustenAssociate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation, for it is better to be alone than in bad company.
George WashingtonTechnology is making gestures precise and brutal, and with them men.
Theodor W. AdornoFor my name and memory I leave it to men's charitable speeches to foreign nations and to the next ages.
Francis BaconThe danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that man may become robots.
Erich FrommMen have a sufficient natural instinct for what is true and usually do arrive at the truth.
AristotleUntil the men of action clear out the talkers, we who have social consciences are at the mercy of those who have none.
George Bernard ShawBetter the man that conquer a thousand-thousand men is the one who conquer one himself.
BuddhaMen of integrity, by their very existence, rekindle the belief that as a people we can live above the level of moral squalor. We need that belief, a cynical community is a corrupt community.
John W. GardnerThe only use of an obstacle is to be overcome. All that an obstacle does with brave men is not to frighten them, but to challenge them.
Woodrow WilsonA hero is born among a hundred; a wise man is found among a thousand; but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men.
PlatoIt is in men, as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not.
Jonathan SwiftMen always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself, the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle, or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.
Gilbert K. ChestertonBad men are full of repentance.
AristotleWisdom, compassion and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.
ConfuciusLet me tell you I am better acquainted with you for a long absence, as men are with themselves for a long affliction: absence does but hold off a friend, to make one see him the truer.
OvidMen die in despair while spirits die in ecstasy.
Honore de BalzacI have never seen a man as fond of virtue as of women.
ConfuciusMen are what their mothers made them.
Ralph Waldo EmersonHe who studies books alone will know how things ought to be and he who studies men will know how they are.
Charles Caleb ColtonThe greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.
Leonardo da VinciIt has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow beings.
Mahatma GandhiFew men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
George WashingtonMen shrink less from offending one who inspires love, than one who inspires fear.
Niccolo MachiavelliA man may conquer a million men in battle, but one who conquers himself is indeed the greatest of conquerors.
BuddhaWhy do Jewish men die before their wives? They want to.
Henny YoungmanI have never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men, than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.
Henry David ThoreauArm yourselves and be ye men of valour, and be in readiness for the conflict, for it is better for us to perish in battle than to look upon the outrage of our nation and our altar.
Winston ChurchillBut men must know that in this theater of man's life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on
Francis BaconQuite often good things have hurtful consequences. There are instances of men who have been ruined by their money, or killed by their courage.
AristotleSome of my best leading men have been dogs and horses.
Elizabeth TaylorMen often take their imagination for their heart, and they believe they are converted as soon as they think of being converted.
Blaise PascalI dress for the image. Not for myself not for the public not for fashion not for men.
Marlene DietrichBelieve that all hearts are motivated by the one and Only God - that all faiths glorify the One and the Only God, that all names in all languages and all Forms men can conceive denote the One and Only God.
Sai BabaBattle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best, it removes all that is base. All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is the essence of manhood.
George S. PattonRisk is a part of God's game alike for men and nations.
Warren BuffettThere have been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them.
William ShakespeareWe are much beholden to Machiavel and others that write what men do and not what they ought to do.
Francis BaconThe worst of madmen is a saint run mad.
Alexander PopeI have thought there was some advantage even in death by which we mingle with the herd of common men.
Henry David ThoreauMen might as well be imprisoned as excluded from the means of earning their bread.
John Stuart MillSome men have a necessity to be mean as if they were exercising a faculty which they had to partially neglect since early childhood.
F. Scott FitzgeraldThe story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.
Abraham MaslowThe dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.
Samuel ButlerWhat is most important for democracy is not that great fortunes should not exist but that great fortunes should not remain in the same hands. In that way there are rich men but they do not form a class.
Alexis de TocquevilleAll men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.
H. L. MenckenMen must be taught as if you taught them not and things unknown proposed as things forgot.
Alexander PopeThere are three difficulties in authorship: to write anything worth publishing to find honest men to publish it and to find sensible men to read it.
Charles Caleb ColtonI have no ambition to govern men, it is a painful and thankless office.
Thomas JeffersonAs 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.
Blaise PascalIf men had to have babies they would only ever have one each.
Princess DianaMen seldom or rather never for a length of time and deliberately rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against.
Thomas CarlyleTo tax and to please no more than to love and to be wise is not given to men.
Edmund BurkeHistories make men wise, poets witty, the mathematics subtle, natural philosophy deep, moral grave, logic and rhetoric able to contend.
Francis BaconFable is more historical than fact because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men.
Gilbert K. ChestertonThe wish to acquire more is admittedly a very natural and common thing, and when men succeed in this they are always praised rather than condemned. But when they lack the ability to do so and yet want to acquire more at all costs they deserve condemnation for their mistakes.
Niccolo MachiavelliMen 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.
Harry S. TrumanAs a rule men worry more about what they can't see than about what they can.
Julius CaesarEvery actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well.
Ralph Waldo EmersonA democracy is a government in the hands of men of low birth no property and vulgar employment.
AristotleWe must conceive of this whole universe as one commonwealth of which both gods and men are members.
Marcus Tullius CiceroHalf the pictures directed by men of reputation fail.
Carroll O'ConnorTime and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.
Henry FordIdeas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured human nature will cure itself perhaps.
Honore de BalzacWise men speak because they have something to say, Fools because they have to say something.
PlatoPrinceton is no longer a thing for Princeton men to please themselves with. Princeton is a thing with which Princeton men must satisfy the country.
Woodrow WilsonMen who never get carried away should be.
Malcolm ForbesMen like a ref decision because they just want to get back to the game.
Jerry SeinfeldIf you do not wish a man to do a thing you had better get him to talk about it, for the more men talk the more likely they are to do nothing else.
Thomas CarlyleThe woman who thinks she is intelligent demands equal rights with men. A woman who is intelligent does not.
Sidonie Gabrielle ColetteThe mountains the forest and the sea render men savage, they develop the fierce but yet do not destroy the human.
Victor HugoWise men should never go into a country where there are no means of earning one's livelihood where the people have no dread of anybody have no sense of shame no intelligence or a charitable disposition.
ChanakyaThere is a great discovery still to be made in literature that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write.
Thomas CarlyleWe sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.
George OrwellThe Lord takes the human form and comes amongst men to restore his sense of values.
Sai BabaSome men change their party for the sake of their principles, others their principles for the sake of their party.
Winston ChurchillIf God listened to the prayers of men all men would quickly have perished: for they are forever praying for evil against one another.
EpicurusMen may know many things by seeing, but no prophet can see before the event nor what end waits for him.
SophoclesWe are so obsessed with doing that we have no time and no imagination left for being. As a result men are valued not for what they are but for what they do or what they have - for their usefulness.
Thomas MertonA man's brain has a more difficult time shifting from thinking to feeling than a women's brain does.
Barbara de AngelisLittle do men perceive what solitude is and how far it extendeth. For a crowd is not company and faces are but a gallery of pictures, and talk but a tinkling cymbal where there is no love.
Francis BaconWomen don't want to hear what you think. Women want to hear what they think - in a deeper voice.
Bill CosbyControversy equalizes fools and wise men - and the fools know it.
Oliver Wendell HolmesMen are so simple and yield so readily to the desires of the moment, that he who will trick will always find another who will suffer to be tricked.
Niccolo MachiavelliIt is nothing won to admit men with an open door yet to receive them with a shut and reserved countenance.
Francis BaconLife levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.
George Bernard ShawMen reap the fruits of their deeds and intellects bear the mark of deeds performed in previous lives, even so the wise act after due circumspection.
ChanakyaWhoever thinks that he alone has speech or possesses speech or mind above others when unfolded such men are seen to be empty.
SophoclesAmbition is a drug that makes its addicts potential madmen.
Emile M. CioranIf two men agree on everything you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking.
Lyndon B. JohnsonOnly free men can negotiate. A prisoner cannot enter into contracts.
Nelson MandelaWhat distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their ability to act according to their beliefs.
Henry MillerMen do change and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass.
John SteinbeckI love all men who think even those who think otherwise than myself.
Victor HugoThe evil that men do lives after them, the good is oft interred with their bones.
William ShakespeareIf at the end of the week's work and on receiving his wages he were to ask his employer for a larger sum pleading that though he could not justly claim it and did not really deserve it yet he expected it he would not only receive the larger sum but would doubtless be discharged from his post. Yet in spiritual things men do not think it to be either foolish or selfish to ask for these blessings
James AllenAll men can see these tactics whereby I conquer but what none can see is the strategy out of which victory is evolved.
Sun TzuAh lives of men! When prosperous they glitter - Like a fair picture, when misfortune comes - A wet sponge at one blow has blurred the painting.
AeschylusThe root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits but not when it misses.
Francis BaconFew men have been admired of their familiars.
Michel de MontaigneI begin with the principle that all men are bores. Surely no one will prove himself so great a bore as to contradict me in this.
Soren KierkegaardMen 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.
Francis BaconThe duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them.
MoliereThe reason why men do not obey us is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.
Ralph Waldo EmersonOne man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't.
George Bernard Shaw