Men - Quotes & Sayings

All men can see these tactics whereby I conquer, but what none can see is the strategy out of which victory is evolved.

Sun Tzu

Now the reason the enlightened prince and the wise general conquer the enemy whenever they move and their achievements surpass those of ordinary men is foreknowledge.

Sun Tzu

Men think highly of those who rise rapidly in the world; whereas nothing rises quicker than dust, straw, and feathers.

Lord Byron

The difference between men is in energy, in the strong will, in the settled purpose and in the invincible determination.

Vince Lombardi

I know now that there are men out there who are, for me, the whole package, who are supportive of my successes because they know I will be just as supportive of theirs. I'm less tolerant of foolishness now; I know that it's important I not tie myself up with the wrong person, because then I will miss the right person coming along.

Ginnifer Goodwin

Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Henry David Thoreau

Men who are in earnest are not afraid of consequences.

Marcus Garvey

Great men or men of great gifts you shall easily find, but symmetrical men never.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition, as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a method of settling international disputes.

Ernest Hemingway

Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

Charles Dickens

If you ask, do you like strong men or weak men, I'd say, I like who I like.

Miuccia Prada

It seems strange that bears, so fond of all sorts of flesh, running the risks of guns and fires and poison, should never attack men except in defense of their young. How easily and safely a bear could pick us up as we lie asleep! Only wolves and tigers seem to have learned to hunt man for food, and perhaps sharks and crocodiles.

John Muir

The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

The Hebrews have done more to civilize men than any other nation. If I were an atheist, and believed blind eternal fate, I should still believe that fate had ordained the Jews to be the most essential instrument for civilizing the nations.

John Adams

Soldiers, I had lately like to have been taken from you by the attempt of a few desperate men, but by the grace and providence of the gods, I am still preserved.

Alexander the Great

If 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 Tzu

Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine.

Sigmund Freud

It may be true, that men, who are mere mathematicians, have certain specific shortcomings, but that is not the fault of mathematics, for it is equally true of every other exclusive occupation.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

Most men who have really lived have had, in some share, their great adventure. This railway is mine.

James J. Hill

It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.

Mae West

I told them how excited I would be to go into space and how thrilled I was when Alan Shepard made his historic flight, and when John Kennedy announced on the news that the men had landed safely on the moon, and how jealous I was of those men.

Christa McAuliffe

My feminism is humanism, with the weakest being those who I represent, and that includes many beings and life forms, including some men.

Sandra Cisneros

I shall argue that strong men, conversely, know when to compromise and that all principles can be compromised to serve a greater principle.

Andrew Carnegie

Men are like the stars; some generate their own light while others reflect the brilliance they receive.

Jose Marti

Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.

Abigail Adams

Men are not allowed to think freely about chemistry and biology: why should they be allowed to think freely about political philosophy?

Auguste Comte

The spirit of liberalism is to create free men; it is not the regimentation of men.

Herbert Hoover

Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.

Napoleon Bonaparte

To prejudge other men's notions before we have looked into them is not to show their darkness but to put out our own eyes.

John Locke

In the past, men created witches: now they create mental patients.

Thomas Szasz

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

Diogenes

The truth is, I've never fooled anyone. I've let men sometimes fool themselves.

Marilyn Monroe

Revenge by young men is considered gain, even at the cost of their own lives, but old men who stay at home in times of war, and mothers who have sons to lose, know better.

Chief Seattle

Injustice boils in men's hearts as does steel in its cauldron, ready to pour forth, white hot, in the fullness of time.

Mother Jones

You can find all types of men anywhere, but a smart man will always make you feel important and understood. And a woman can always tell when a man does it genuinely and effortlessly.

James Marsden

The Old Testament teaches us that if we humble ourselves and pray, God will hear from heaven and heal our land. And the New Testament assures us that the fervent prayers of righteous men can make a difference.

David Jeremiah

Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.

Leonardo da Vinci

No human being is constituted to know the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth; and even the best of men must be content with fragments, with partial glimpses, never the full fruition.

William Osler

Some men like a dull life - they like the routine of eating breakfast, going to work, coming home, petting the dog, watching TV, kissing the kids, and going to bed. Stay clear of it - it's often catching.

Hedy Lamarr

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.

Martin Heidegger

When I came up to bat with three men on and two outs in the ninth, I looked in the other team's dugout and they were already in street clothes.

Bob Uecker

I think men, growing up, you have to go through some form of hardship. You've got to harden the metal.

Ice T

The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, peculiar to myself and to a few other solitary men, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence.

Tom Wolfe

All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why.

James Thurber

Labor disgraces no man; unfortunately, you occasionally find men who disgrace labor.

Ulysses S. Grant

The more comfortable men are with dealing with their own vulnerability and their own ideas of masculinity and feeling emasculated, the healthier they are. It's a healthy thing to deal with.

Ben Schnetzer

Time is the king of all men, he is their parent and their grave, and gives them what he will and not what they crave.

Pericles

The work of many of the greatest men, inspired by duty, has been done amidst suffering and trial and difficulty. They have struggled against the tide, and reached the shore exhausted.

Samuel Smiles

Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live.

Margaret Fuller