Quotes
Quotes about Men
Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear-not absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward it is not a compliment to say it is brave.
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.
As to honorâyou knowâit's a very fine mediaeval inheritance which women never got hold of. It wasn't theirs.
We are all the President's men.
Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs. Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them. -Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; While others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before.
Men, like bullets, go farthest when they are smoothest.
To laugh, to lie, to flatter to face, Foure waies in court to win men's grace.
There is betwixt that smile we would aspire to, That sweet aspect of princes, and their ruin, More pangs and fears than wars or women have; And when he falls, he falls like Lucifer, Never to hope again.
When workmen strive to do better than well, They do confound their skill in covetousness, And oftentimes excusing of a fault Doth make the fault the worse by the excuse, As patches set upon a little breach Discredit more in hiding of the fault Than did the fault before it was so patched.
By Jove, I am not covetous for gold, Nor care I who doth feed upon my cost; It yearns me not if me my garments wear; Such outward things dwell not in my desires: But if it be a sin to covet honor, I am the most offending soul alive.
Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to the eyes of men.
A cowardly cur barks more fiercely than it bites. [Lat., Canis timidus vehementius latrat quam mordet.]
When all the blandishments of life are gone, The coward sneaks to death, the brave live on.
You souls of geese, That bear the shapes of men, how have you run From slaves that apes would men!
Wouldst thou have that Which thou esteem'st the ornament of life, And live a coward in thine own esteem, Letting 'I dare not' wait upon 'I would,' Like the poor cat i' th' adage?
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear-not absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward it is not a compliment to say it is brave.
Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to the eyes of men.
Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
Had I been present at the creation of the world I would have proposed some improvements.
The lash may force men to physical labor, it cannot force them to spiritual creativity.
Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun.
Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
Men often applaud an imitation and hiss the real thing.
