Best Men Quotes to Inspire, Uplift & Motivate You Every Day

“Fatherhood is an honor, and men should be strong enough to step up to the plate.”

“Men are apt to mistake the strength of their feeling for the strength of their argument. The heated mind resents the chill touch and relentless scrutiny of logic.”

“In nuclear war all men are cremated equal.”

“Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic.”

“In it not easy to remain rational and normal mentally in such a setting where, even in our airport in Montgomery, there is a white waiting room... There are restroom facilities for white ladies and colored women, white men and colored men. We stand outside after being served at the same ticket counter instead of sitting on the inside.”

“Can't you read? The score demands 'con amore', and what are you doing? You are playing it like married men!”

“Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records.”

“Suffering turns men towards their creator.”

“'Evil men have no songs.' How is it that the Russians have songs?”

“But what is the use of preaching the Gospel to men whose whole attention is concentrated upon a mad, desperate struggle to keep themselves alive?”

“Nothing is possible without men, but nothing lasts without institutions.”

“The six of us gathered at my house, and we walked to the polls. I'll never forget it. Not a Negro was on the streets, and when we got to the courthouse, the clerk said he wanted to talk with us. When we got into his office, some 15 or 20 armed white men surged in behind us - men I had grown up with, had played with.”

“Two men look out the same prison bars; one sees mud and the other stars.”

“Men are such power-seeking creatures, and they usually kill people to get to the throne.”

“Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood and probably themselves will not be realized.”

“Men are so willing to respect anything that bores them.”

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

“The Industrial Revolution has two phases: one material, the other social; one concerning the making of things, the other concerning the making of men.”

“There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self.”

“Painting is about the world that we live in. Black men live in the world. My choice is to include them.”

“Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.”

“To understand how any society functions you must understand the relationship between the men and the women.”

“I tread in the footsteps of illustrious men... in receiving from the people the sacred trust confided to my illustrious predecessor.”

“We are braver and wiser because they existed, those strong women and strong men... We are who we are because they were who they were. It's wise to know where you come from, who called your name.”

“There's a personality trait known as agreeableness. Agreeable people are compassionate and polite. And agreeable people get paid less than disagreeable people for the same job. Women are more agreeable than men.”

“It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles.”

“The depth of John Candy's talent did surprise me. He was one of my all-time favorite leading men.”

“Women need a reason to have sex. Men just need a place.”

“The ballot box is the surest arbiter of disputes among free men.”

“All the men I fall for seem to have a commitment problem.”

“Men are what their mothers made them.”

“I was taught to do math and read at the same time. So you're six years old, you're reading 'Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs' and it becomes rapidly obvious that there are only two kinds of men in the world: dwarves and Prince Charmings. And the odds are seven is to one against your finding the prince. That's why little girls don't do math.”

“Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.”

“The most positive men are the most credulous.”

“'Punk rock' is a word used by dilettantes and heartless manipulators about music that takes up the energies, the bodies, the hearts, the souls, the time and the minds of young men who give everything they have to it.”

“You will kill 10 of our men, and we will kill 1 of yours, and in the end it will be you who tire of it.”

“Our nation is forever indebted to the brave men and women who laid it all on the line for our country, especially those who made the ultimate sacrifice in defense of our freedoms.”

“Men and women have roles - their roles are different, but their rights are equal.”

“We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.”

“We were discussing civilization and the fact that young men among the Greeks at that time were idiots and uneducated, so the men had emotional and friendly relationships with members of their own sex.”

“I must quit marrying men who feel inferior to me. Somewhere there must be a man who could be my husband and not feel inferior.”

“All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.”

“There are Harvey Weinsteins in all walks of life, and especially in the entertainment industry where the power balance is tilted in favour of men.”

“All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages.”

“What was most significant about the lunar voyage was not that men set foot on the moon but that they set eye on the earth.”

“Fools admire, but men of sense approve.”

“The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.”

“I don't like people who take drugs... customs men for example.”

“It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves savage, or the vulture ravenous.”

“Neglect of appearance becomes men.”

“Men ought either to be indulged or utterly destroyed, for if you merely offend them they take vengeance, but if you injure them greatly they are unable to retaliate, so that the injury done to a man ought to be such that vengeance cannot be feared.”

“I'm supposed to have a Ph.D. on the subject of women. But the truth is I've flunked more often than not. I'm very fond of women; I admire them. But, like all men, I don't understand them.”

“As long as you know men are like children, you know everything!”

“The glory of the nation rests in the character of her men. And character comes from boyhood. Thus, every boy is a challenge to his elders.”

“Baseball is a red-blooded sport for red-blooded men. It's no pink tea, and mollycoddles had better stay out. It's a struggle for supremacy, a survival of the fittest.”

“You ask men in office to be honest; I ask them to serve the public.”

“War, I thought, was the most negative aspect of male heterosexuality. If more men were homosexual, there would be no wars, because homosexual men would never kill other men, whereas heterosexual men love killing other men.”

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

“Money laundering is not a crime. It's just because certain men with guns don't like what other people are doing with their own money, so they decide it's okay to lock those people in a cage.”

“When the men are silent, it is our duty to raise our voices in behalf of our ideals.”

“Victory usually goes to the army who has better trained officers and men.”

“The true reason of Ms. Rice's attack against Russia is very simple. Condoleezza Rice is a very cruel, offended woman who lacks men's attention.”

“Mythology has largely been written by men and focusses on men - on wars and men, who went to war. But, there are women who influence the decisions of men.”

“When good people in any country cease their vigilance and struggle, then evil men prevail.”

“A mother deserves a day off to care for a sick child or sick parent without running into hardship - and you know what, a father does, too. It's time to do away with workplace policies that belong in a 'Mad Men' episode.”

“Men don't pay attention to small things.”

“The Lord showed me, so that I did see clearly, that he did not dwell in these temples which men had commanded and set up, but in people's hearts... his people were his temple, and he dwelt in them.”

“At Athens, wise men propose, and fools dispose.”

“All men can live together, if they wish to.”

“Women want mediocre men, and men are working to be as mediocre as possible.”

“Indeed, the existence of class, of social hierarchy, is as old as man himself. It prevails in the jungle where strength determines hierarchy; among men, it has also been savagely the same, whereby rulers vested with power through personal combat, or through lineal heritage as in the case of royalty, ravage their subjects.”

“I don't think feminism, as I understand the definition, implies the rejection of maternal values, nurturing children, caring about the men in your life. That is just nonsense to me.”

“Being the boss anywhere is lonely. Being a female boss in a world of mostly men is especially so.”

“As soon as the land of any country has all become private property, the landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed, and demand a rent even for its natural produce.”

“The sovereign being is burdened with a servitude that crushes him, and the condition of free men is deliberate servility.”

“All the reasonings of men are not worth one sentiment of women.”

“Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.”

“Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom.”

“Two aged men, that had been foes for life, Met by a grave, and wept - and in those tears They washed away the memory of their strife; Then wept again the loss of all those years.”

“There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.”

“They say that women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men.”

“You know when you're young and you see a play in high school, and the guys all have gray in their hair and they're trying to be old men and they have no idea what that's like? It's just that stupid the other way around.”

“Give to everyone who begs from you; and of him who takes away your goods do not ask them again. And as you wish that men would do to you, do so to them.”

“Let men see, let them know, a real man, who lives as he was meant to live.”

“It's true that, in Iran, women have half of the rights men do. And yet 66 per cent of students are women.”

“More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.”

“The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.”

“In my solitude, many miles from men and houses, I am in a childishly happy and carefree state of mind, which you are incapable of understanding unless someone explains it to you.”

“There are no hopeless situations; there are only men who have grown hopeless about them.”

“May we all, as a nation of believers, fight for the achievement of America; may we make sacrifices worthy of those proud men and women who fought for us, labored for us, bled soil from the beaches of Normandy to the fields of Gettysburg for us.”

“The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.”

“Study strategy over the years and achieve the spirit of the warrior. Today is victory over yourself of yesterday; tomorrow is your victory over lesser men.”

“I never really liked Hollywood. I found it unreal - unreal and full of men and women whose lives were confused and full of pain.”

“Men may be popular without being ambitious, but there is hardly an ambitious man who does not try to be popular.”

“There is no greater calling than to serve your fellow men. There is no greater contribution than to help the weak. There is no greater satisfaction than to have done it well.”

“As an infantry officer who served in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Guantanamo Bay, I have led men in combat and trained them on tactics and strategy. The mission of the infantry is to 'close with, and destroy, the enemy.' Our job, in a direct way, is to fight and win wars.”

“All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.”

“For Jesus, there are no countries to be conquered, no ideologies to be imposed, no people to be dominated. There are only children, women and men to be loved.”

“Yes, we become stronger when men and women, young and old, gay and straight, native-born and immigrant fight together to create the kind of country we all know we can become.”

“If any civilization is to survive, it is the morality of altruism that men have to reject.”