981 private quotes tagged men

“Men are only as great as they are kind.” — Elbert Hubbard

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“Great hopes make great men.” — Thomas Fuller

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“You will find men who want to be carried on the shoulders of others, who think that the world owes them a living. They don't seem to see that we must all lift together and pull together.” — Henry Ford

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“Observe all men, thyself most.” — Benjamin Franklin

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“Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.” — Charles Spurgeon

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“Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.” — Victor Hugo

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“Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing.” — Oliver Wendell Holmes

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“Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.” — Henry Ford

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“The skilful employer of men will employ the wise man, the brave man, the covetous man, and the stupid man.” — Sun Tzu

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“Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.” — Helen Keller

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“There is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a compact between men.” — Epicurus

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“Produce great men, the rest follows.” — Walt Whitman

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“The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.” — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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“The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men.” — Plato

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“Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.” — Gilbert K. Chesterton

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“Some men never feel small, but these are the few men who are.” — Gilbert K. Chesterton

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“Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.

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“The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.” — George Eliot

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“The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it.” — Ayn Rand

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“Men in general are quick to believe that which they wish to be true.” — Julius Caesar

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“One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't.” — George Bernard Shaw

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“Men are born to succeed, not to fail.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.” — H. L. Mencken

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“Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so.” — Aristotle

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“All men are children, and of one family. The same tale sends them all to bed, and wakes them in the morning.” — Henry David Thoreau

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