Quotes on Men

The man who is truly good and wise will bear with dignity whatever fortune sends, and will always make the best of his circumstances.

Hope is the bedrock of this nation. The belief that our destiny will not be written for us, but by us, by all those men and women who are not content to settle for the world as it is, who have the courage to remake the world as it should be.

In popular government results worth while can only be achieved by men who combine worthy ideals with practical good sense.

Kinship among nations is not determined in such measurements as proximity of size and age. Rather we should turn to those inner things - call them what you will - I mean those intangibles that are the real treasures free men possess.

Animals are molded by natural forces they do not comprehend. To their minds there is no past and no future. There is only the everlasting present of a single generation, its trails in the forest, its hidden pathways in the the air and in the sea. There is nothing in the Universe more alone than Man. He has entered into the strange world of history.

History is for human self-knowledge. Knowing yourself means knowing, first, what it is to be a person; secondly, knowing what it is to be the kind of person you are; and thirdly, knowing what it is to be the person you are and nobody else is. Knowing yourself means knowing what you can do; and since nobody knows what they can do until they try, the only clue to what man can do is what man has done. The value of history, then, is that it teaches us what man has done and thus what man is.

History belongs above all to the man...who needs models, teachers, comforters and cannot find them among his contemporaries.

In a certain sense all men are historians.

Man in a word has no nature; what he has... is history.

A man without a bias cannot write interesting history - if indeed such a man exists.

Man is a history-making creature, who can neither repeat his past, nor leave it behind.

I think women dress for other women to let them know what their deal is. Because if women were only dressing for men, there would be nothing but Victoria's Secret. There would be no Dior.

Health is a precious thing, and the only one, in truth, meriting that a man should lay out not only his time, sweat, labor and goods, but also life itself to obtain it.

Rich bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others.

God intends no man to live in this world without working, but it seems to me no less evident that He intends every man to be happy in his work.

No man knows how bad he is till he has tried very hard to be good...Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is.

Be compassionate to everyone. Don't just search for whatever it is that annoys and frightens you-see beyond those things to the basic human being. Especially see the child in the man or woman. Even if they are destroying you, allow a moment to see how lost in their own delusion and suffering they are.

As man is, so is his God. And thus is God oft strangely odd.

A man with God is always in the majority.

Man proposes, but God blocks the game.

When we build ... let it not be for present delights nor for present use alone. Let it be such work as our descendants will thank us for, and let us think ... that a time is to come when these stones will be held sacred because our hands have touched them, and that men will say as they look upon the labor, and the wrought substance of them, See! This our fathers did for us!