Quotes on Men

Mr. Attlee is a very modest man. Indeed he has a lot to be modest about.

The great object of Education should be commensurate with the object of life. It should be a moral one; to teach self-trust: to inspire the youthful man with an interest in himself; with a curiosity touching his own nature; to acquaint him with the resources of his mind, and to teach him that there is all his strength.

Great and good are seldom the same man.

The greatness of a man's power is the measure of his surrender.

There is no failure for the man who realizes his power, who never knows when he is beaten; there is no failure for the determined endeavor, the conquerable will. There is no failure for the man who gets up every time he falls, who rebounds like a rubber ball, who persists when everyone else gives up, who pushes on when everyone else turns back.

A man is sorry to be honest for nothing.

Nothing is there more friendly to a man than a friend in need.

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.

He who says there is no such thing as an honest man, you may be sure is himself a knave.

Children find everything in nothing; men find nothing in everything.

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

A man who correctly guesses a woman`s age may be smart, but he's not very bright.

The Man who never in his Mind & Thoughts travel'd to Heaven Is No Artist.

The history of the world is the history of a few men who had faith in themselves

Once and for all the idea of glorious victories won by the glorious army must be wiped out. Niether side is glorious. On either side they're just frightened men messing their pants and they all want the same thing - not to lie under theearth, but to walk upon it - without crutches.

No man is fit to command another that cannot command himself.

Men love their ideas more than their lives. And the more preposterous the idea, the more eager they are to die for it. And to kill for it.

Men may come and men may go but I go on forever.

I refuse to accept the idea that man is mere flotsam and jetsam in the river of life, unable to influence the unfolding events which surround him. I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality.

There lurks, perhaps, in every human heart a desire of distinction, which inclines every man first to hope, and then to believe, that Nature has given him something peculiar to himself.

This, books can do-nor this alone; they give New views to life, and teach us how to live; They soothe the grieved, the stubborn they chastise; Fools they admonish, and confirm the wise. Their aid they yield to all: they never shun The man of sorrow, nor the wretch undone; Unlike the hard, the selfish, and the proud, They fly not sullen from the suppliant crowd; Nor tell to various people various things, But show to subjects, what they show to kings.