Inspirational Quotes on Men

“When men comfort themselves with philosophy, 'tis not because they have got two or three sentences, but because they have digested those sentences, and made them their own: philosophy is nothing but discretion.”

“A good man is kinder to his enemy than bad men to their friends.”

“Men have never been good, they are not good and they never will be good.”

“Our seminaries today are turning out dead men.”

“God uses lust to impel men to marry, ambition to office, avarice to earning, and fear to faith. God led me like an old blind goat.”

“Men are not made religious by performing certain actions which are externally good, but they must first have righteous principles, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous actions.”

“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.”

“Men are like wine; not good before the lees of clownishness be settled.”

“All men will be Peters in their bragging tongue, and most men will be Peters in their base denial; but few men will be Peters in their quick repentance.”

“A man who lives right, and is right, has more power in his silence than another has by his words.”

“It does not take great men to do great things; it only takes consecrated men.”

“All men commend patience, although few are willing to practice it.”

“By nature all men are equal in liberty, but not in other endowments.”

“Most men seem to live according to sense rather than reason.”

“Some men, like a tiled house, are long before they take fire, but once on flame there is no coming near to quench them.”

“Men never think their fortunes too great, nor their wit too little.”

“Comparison, more than reality, makes men happy or wretched.”

“He that resolves to deal with none but honest men, must leave off dealing.”

“Great hopes make great men.”

“Men are more prone to revenge injuries than to requite kindness.”