Men Quotes

How does the poet speak to men with power, but by being still more a man than they?

Thomas Carlyle

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.

Charles Erwin Wilson

There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right and, again, making all crime mean and ugly.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.

Immanuel Kant

The world men inhabit is rather bleak. It is a world full of doubt and confusion, where vulnerability must be hidden, not shared; where competition, not co-operation, is the order of the day; where men sacrifice the possibility of knowing their own children and sharing in their upbringing, for the sake of a job they may have chosen by chance, which may not suit them and which in many cases dominates their lives to the exclusion of much else.

Anna Ford

Fires can't be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks.

James A. Baldwin

There are but very few men clever enough to know all the mischief they do.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Men, their rights, and nothing more women, their rights, and nothing less.

Susan B. Anthony

Men are strong so long as they represent a strong idea they become powerless when they oppose it.

Sigmund Freud

[Men] use thought only to justify their wrong-doings, and words only to conceal their thoughts.

Voltaire

Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbour to have them through envy.

Aristotle

Like all young men I set out to be a genius, but mercifully laughter intervened.

Lawrence Durrell

Even if society dictates that men and women should behave in certain ways, it is fathers and mothers who teach those ways to children not just in the words they say, but in the lives they lead.

Augustus Y. Napier

Wealthy men can't live in an island that is encircled by poverty. We all breathe the same air. We must give a chance to everyone, at least a basic chance.

Ayrton Senna

I once heard two ladies going on and on about the pains of childbirth and how men don't seem to know what real pain is. I asked if either of them ever got themselves caught in a zipper.

Emo Philips

You know well I couldn't bear to live with a low common man after you two; and it's wicked and cruel of you to insult me by pretending I could.

George Bernard Shaw

To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.

Abraham Lincoln

He that hath a beard is more than a youth, and he that hath no beard is less than a man.

William Shakespeare

If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe what they see.

Henry David Thoreau

All thinking beings have the same basic intellect. Therefore, all wise men share the same idea of perfection.

Leo Tolstoy