Quotes about men
men said has-beens
The truth about any man can only be calculated by the sum of everything that has been said about him. Orson Welles
men fishing world
Man can learn a lot from fishing - when the fish are biting no problem in the world is big enough to be remembered. Orlando Aloysius Battista
men tyrants want
I didn't want to kill a man. I'm not capable of killing a man. I wanted to kill a tyrant. Oriana Fallaci
men shy mets
I have never met a man more shy than Clark Gable. He was so shy, you couldn't make him talk.
men world language
I know ours is a world made by men for men, their dictatorship is so ancient it even extends to language.
men snow silence
The silence of snow, thought the man sitting just behind the bus driver. Orhan Pamuk
men soul rivals
Concentrate . . . for the greatest achievements are reserved for the man of single aim, in whom no rival powers divide the empire of the soul. Orison Swett Marden
men perfect waking
The divine injunction to be perfect, even as He is perfect, was not given man to mock him. The possibility of our waking in His likeness is literally true.
men long vision
A man will remain a rag-picker as long as he has only the vision of a rag-picker.
men artist average
It is just the little difference between the good and the best that makes the difference between the artist and the artisan. It is just the little touches after the average man would quit that makes the master's fame.
men individuality world
Wanted, a man who will not lose his individuality in a crowd, a man who has the courage of his convictions, who is not afraid to say "No," though all the world say "Yes.
men average littles
It is just the little touches after the average man would quit that make the master's fame.
men air world
Let your air be that of a winner, a man who is resolved to make his way in the world, to make himself stand for something.
men soul secret
The man who has not learned the secret of taking the drudgery out of his task by flinging his whole soul into it, has not learned the first principles of success or happiness.
men law desire
To have done no man a wrong...to walk and live, unseduced, within arm's length of what is not your own, with nothing between your desire and its gratification but the invisible law of rectitude-this is to be a man.
men ideas will-and-determination
The world makes way for the man with an idea.
men self vision
The size of your accomplishments, the quality of your achievement, will depend very largely on how big a man you see in yourself, what sort of image you get of your possible self, yourself at your best.
men tests lost-everything
This is the test of your manhood: How much is there left in you after you have lost everything outside of yourself?
men firsts lasts
Man becomes a slave to his constantly repeated acts. What he at first chooses, at last compels.
men soul desire
No man can hope to accomplish anything great in this world until he throws his whole soul, flings the force of his whole life, into it. It is not enough simply to have a general desire to accomplish something. There is but one way to do that; and that is, to try to be somebody with all the concentrated energy we can muster.
men play balance
Work, love and play are the great balance wheels of man's being.
men excellence common
Great men are but common men more fully developed and ripened.
men feelings quiet
As a young man, I was very introverted and quiet, but with a lot of intensity and feelings. Om Puri
men heaven religion
Men talk of heaven, - there is no heaven but here; Men talk of hell, - there is no hell but here; Men of hereafters talk and future lives, - O love, there is no other life - but here. Omar Khayyam
men play political
See how he throws his baited lines about,/And plays his men as anglers play their trout. Oliver Wendell Holmes
men philanthropy ends
Man is born a predestined idealist, for he is born to act. To act is to affirm the worth of an end, and to persist in affirming the worth of an end is to make an ideal.
men umpires worry
The man who is always worrying about whether or not his soul would be damned generally has a soul that isn't worth a damn.
men thinking people
I guess you could say Alexander the Great was a man who completely transported me and moved me and inspired me because of his idealism, and I'd go back to the Greeks, and I always liked Homer and all the philosophers and their way of thinking and their concept of honor. I think their concept of honor does apply to the modern age, and certain people that walk around are pre-Christian. Oliver Stone
men despise
I couldn't despise a man more than George W. Bush.
men indifferent effects
Astounded—and indifferent—for he was a man who, in effect, had no ‘day before’. Oliver Sacks
men way willpower
Man has will, but woman has her way. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
men belief mark
The mark of a civilized man is his willingness to re-examine his most cherished beliefs.
men young old-man
Young men know the rules, but old men know the exceptions.