Top 1000 Men Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.

I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.

The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.

The breakdown of the black community, in order to maintain slavery, began with the breakdown of the black family. Men and women were not legally allowed to get married because you couldn't have that kind of love. It might get in the way of the economics of slavery. Your children could be taken from you and literally sold down the river.

Rocks and waters, etc., are words of God, and so are men. We all flow from one fountain Soul. All are expressions of one Love.

Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company.

We must begin to tell black women's stories because, without them, we cannot tell the story of black men, white men, white women, or anyone else in this country. The story of black women is critical because those who don't know their history are doomed to repeat it.

Before success comes in any man's life, he's sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and the most logical thing to do is to quit. That's exactly what the majority of men do.

The first and most imperative necessity in war is money, for money means everything else - men, guns, ammunition.

The best teamwork comes from men who are working independently toward one goal in unison.

The goal of education is not to increase the amount of knowledge but to create the possibilities for a child to invent and discover, to create men who are capable of doing new things.

Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

It is the knowledge that all men have weaknesses and that many have vices that makes government necessary.

The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that men may become robots.

Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men, the balance-wheel of the social machinery.

Women deeply want men who are competent and powerful. And I don't mean power in that they can exert tyrannical control over others. That's not power. That's just corruption.

If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love.

I think God made a woman to be strong and not to be trampled under the feet of men. I've always felt this way because my mother was a very strong woman, without a husband.

'Tis easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows along like a song; But the man worth while is the one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong.

Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon. July 1969 AD. We came in peace for all mankind.

I do not believe in God; his existence has been disproved by Science. But in the concentration camp, I learned to believe in men.

Men and women have strengths that complement each other.

Gaming in general is a male thing. It isn't that gaming is designed to exclude women. Everybody who's tried to design a game to interest a large female audience has failed. And I think that has to do with the different thinking processes of men and women.

I am truly free only when all human beings, men and women, are equally free. The freedom of other men, far from negating or limiting my freedom, is, on the contrary, its necessary premise and confirmation.

No struggle can ever succeed without women participating side by side with men.

Make women rational creatures, and free citizens, and they will quickly become good wives; - that is, if men do not neglect the duties of husbands and fathers.

People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.

There is no development strategy more beneficial to society as a whole - women and men alike - than the one which involves women as central players.

Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.

We are the only class in history that has been left to fight its battles alone, unaided by the ruling powers. White labor and the freed black men had their champions, but where are ours?

The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.

Men want a battle to fight, an adventure to live, and a beauty to rescue. That is what is written in their hearts. That is what little boys play at. That is what men's movies are about. You just see it. It is undeniable.

The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.

During the Great Depression, when people laughed their worries disappeared. Audiences loved these funny men. I decided to become one.

Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.

The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done.

Today is Valentine's Day - or, as men like to call it, Extortion Day!

Freedom does not die from frontal attack. It dies because men in power no longer believe in a system based upon liberty.

Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men.

You must make women count as much as men; you must have an equal standard of morals; and the only way to enforce that is through giving women political power so that you can get that equal moral standard registered in the laws of the country. It is the only way.

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.

The history of progress is written in the blood of men and women who have dared to espouse an unpopular cause, as, for instance, the black man's right to his body, or woman's right to her soul.

Beauty makes idiots sad and wise men merry.

We can be knowledgable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.

A lot of times, women don't get the male perspective in regards to a relationship, what men go through when they're not really dealing well.

What do women do when they get together? We sit around and talk! Men, not so much. My theory is that this difference is genetic and dates back to the hunter-gatherer societies, when the men had to be quiet as they hunted, lest they scare away the bison and then everyone starved to death and it was all their fault.

The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.

The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice; their choice!

The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design.

Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.

Space and light and order. Those are the things that men need just as much as they need bread or a place to sleep.

Women make natural anarchists and revolutionaries because they've always been second-class citizens, kinda having had to claw their way up. I mean, who made up all the rules in the culture? Men - white male corporate society. So why wouldn't a woman want to rebel against that?

Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.

I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.

Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.

Smart women love smart men more than smart men love smart women.

Politics separate men by bringing them together only superficially. Art and culture unite us in a common anguish that is our only possible fraternity, that of our existential and metaphysical community.

The Bible is one of the greatest blessings bestowed by God on the children of men. It has God for its author; salvation for its end, and truth without any mixture for its matter. It is all pure.

I have said this many times, that there seems to be enough room in the world for mediocre men, but not for mediocre women, and we really have to work very, very hard.