Quotes about men
men discipline defeated
No man is such a conqueror, as the one that has defeated himself. Henry Ward Beecher
men world principles
A man that puts himself on the ground of moral principle, if the whole world be against him, is mightier than all of them.
men battle legs
A man that has lost moral sense is like a man in battle with both of his legs shot off: he has nothing to stand on.
men blood grace
Some have supposed that the mosquito is of a devout turn, and never will partake of a meal without first saying grace. The devotions of some men are but a preface to blood-sucking.
men world telescopes
The Bible is like a telescope. If a man looks through his telescope, then he sees worlds beyond; but, if he looks at his telescope, then he does not see anything but that.
men coward public-opinion
There is nothing that makes more cowards and feeble men than public opinion.
men vices reason
The reason that men are so slow to confess their vices is because they have not yet abandoned them.
men america globes
Nowhere on the globe do men live so well as in America, or grumble so much.
men thinking riches
The prouder a man is, the more he thinks he deserves, and the more he thinks he deserves, the less he really does deserve.
men evil purpose
It takes a man to make a devil; and the fittest man for such a purpose is a snarling, waspish, red-hot, fiery creditor.
men perfect every-man
It is part and parcel of every man's life to develop beauty in himself. All perfect things have in them an element of beauty.
men temptation knows
No man knows what he will do till the right temptation comes.
men animal carrie
Every man carries a menagerie in himself; and, by stirring him up all around, you will find every sort of animal represented there.
men broken earth
The best stock a man can invest in, is the stock of a farm; the best shares are plow shares; and the best banks are the fertile banks of a rural stream; the more these are broken the better dividends they pay.
men trying sake
As plants take hold, not for the sake of staying, but only that they may climb higher, so it is with men. By every part of our nature we clasp things above us, one after another, not for the sake of remaining where we take hold, but that we may go higher.
men black poverty
They who refuse education to a black man would turn the South into a vast poorhouse, and labor into a pendulum, necessity vibrating between poverty and indolence.
men matrimony states
When men enter into the state of marriage, they stand nearest to God.
men names giving
Man is that name of power which rises above them all, and gives to every one the right to be that which God meant he should be.
men devil ought
God's men are better than the devil's men, and they ought to act as though they thought they were.
men thinking sea
As ships meet at sea a moment together, when words of greeting must be spoken, and then away upon the deep, so men meet in this world; and I think we should cross no man's path without hailing him, and if he needs giving him supplies.
men vanity excellence
When a man has no longer any conception of excellence above his own, his voyage is done, he is dead,--dead in trespasses and sin of blear-eyed vanity.
men glasses opaque
Before men we stand as opaque bee-hives. They can see the thoughts go in and out of us; but what work they do inside of a man they cannot tell. Before God we are as glass bee-hives, and all that our thoughts are doing within us he perfectly sees and understands.
men important habit
When young men or women are beginning life, the most important period, it is often said, is that in which their habits are formed. That is a very important period. But the period in which the ideals of the young are formed and adopted is more important still. For the ideal with which you go forward to measure things determines the nature, so far as you are concerned, of everything you meet.
men want states
If a man has come to that point where he is no content that he says; I do not want to know any more, or do any more or be any more, he is in a state in which he ought to be changed into a mummy.
men shrimp rats
Why is not a rat as good as a rabbit? Why should men eat shrimps and neglect cockroaches?
men law giving
That which distinguishes man from the brute is his power, in dealing with Nature, to milk her laws, and make them give forth their bounty.
men evil may
I beseech you to correct one fault - severe speech of others; never speak evil of any man, no matter what the facts may be.
men looks incentives
Men of dissolute lives have little incentive to look forward to the hopes and glories of immortality. A due conception of these would be incompatible with such a life.
men wrath house
Many men want wealth,--not a competence alone, but a live-story competence. Everything subserves this; and religion they would like as a sort of lightning-rod to their houses, to ward off by and by the bolts of Divine wrath.
men earth sides
A man in the right, with God on his side, is in the majority, though he be alone, for God is multitudinous above all populations of the earth.
men thinking soul
Now, men think, with regard to their conduct, that, if they were to lift themselves up gigantically and commit some crashing sin, they should never be able to hold up their heads; but they will harbor in their souls little sins, which are piercing and eating them away to inevitable ruin.
men evil use
Evil men of every degree will use you, flatter you, lead you on until you are useless; then, if the virtuous do not pity you, or God compassionate, you are without a friend in the universe.
men ideas heaven
There is a great deal more correctness of thought respecting manhood in bodily things than in moral things. For men's ideas of manhood shape themselves as the tower and spire of cathedrals do, that stand broad at the bottom, but grow tapering as they rise, and end, far up, in the finest lines, and in an evanishing point. Where they touch the ground they are most, and where they reach to the heaven they are least.