30,129 Quotes About Men

The learned man aims for more. But the wise man decreases. And then decreases again.

Nature gives all, without reservation, and loses nothing; man or woman, grasping all, loses everything.

Man is buffeted by circumstances so long as he believes himself to be the creature of outside conditions, but when he realizes that he is a creative power, and that he may command the hidden soil and seeds of his being out of which circumstances grow, he then becomes the rightful master of himself.

No man is hindered by another; he is only hindered by himself. No man suffers because of another; he suffers only because of himself.

The circumstances which a man encounters with suffering are the result of his own mental inharmony.

Circumstances do not determine a man, they reveal him.

I was a kind of a one-man army. I could solder circuits together, I could turn out things on the lathe, I could work with rockets and balloons. I'm a kind of a hybrid between an engineer and a physicist and astronomer.

A man is a fabulous nuisance in space right now. He's not worth all the cost of putting him up there and keeping him comfortable and working.

It may be that without a vision men shall die. It is no less true that, without hard practical sense, they shall also die. Without Jefferson the new nation might have lost its soul. Without Hamilton it would assuredly have been killed in body.