Quotes on Men

In Africa, when an old man dies, it's a library burning.

He who has wealth has friends and relations; he alone survives and is respected as a man.

Men will work hard for money. They will work harder for other men. But men will work hardest of all when they are dedicated to a cause. Until willingness overflows obligation, men fight as conscripts rather than following the flag as patriots. Duty is never worthily performed until it is performed by one who would gladly do more if only he could.

A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.

If a man be gloomy let him keep to himself. No one has the right to go croaking about society, or what is worse, looking as if he stifled grief.

Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth.

Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful.

As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.

The commander of the forces of a large State may be carried off, but the will of even a common man cannot be taken from him.

Men of principle are sure to be bold,_x000D_ but those who are bold may not always be men of principle.

Grieve not that men do not know you;_x000D_ grieve that you do not know men.

Like the mind-set that places men above women, whites above blacks, and rich above poor, the mentality that places humans above nature is a dysfunctional delusion.

Man is only great when he acts from passion.

From the very depth of my being, I challenge the right of any man or any group of men, in business or in government, to tell a fellow human being that he or she is expendable.

Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive. This facility makes it the most versatile and explicit means of communication yet devised for quick mass appreciation.

Why, I ask, isn't it possible that advertising as a whole is a fantastic fraud, presenting an image of America taken seriously by no one, least of all by the advertising men who create it?

A man should never neglect his family for business.

When people start talking of man's inhumanity to man it means they haven't actually walked far enough.

It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little.

Man is always inclined to regard the small circle in which he lives as the center of the world and to make his particular, private life the standard of the universe and to make his particular, private life the standard of the universe. But he must give up this vain pretense, this petty provincial way of thinking and judging.

Where is your ancient courage? You were used to say extremities was the trier of spirits; That common chances common men could bear; That when the sea was calm all boats alike showed mastership in floating.