Inspiring Words: A Powerful Collection of Inspirational Quotes About Men

"Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one."

- Marcus Aurelius

"He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior."

- Confucius

"There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self."

- Ernest Hemingway

"It takes more courage to reveal insecurities than to hide them, more strength to relate to people than to dominate them, more ‘manhood’ to abide by thought-out principles rather than blind reflex. Toughness is in the soul and spirit, not in muscles and an immature mind."

- Alex Karras

"Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value."

- Albert Einstein

"The value of a man should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive."

- Albert Einstein

"A man may conquer a million men in battle but one who conquers himself is, indeed, the greatest of conquerors."

- Buddha

"I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed."

- Michael Jordan

"Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one."

- Marcus Aurelius

"Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve."

- Napoleon Hill

"Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game."

- Babe Ruth

"Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life."

- Steve Jobs

"What’s money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do."

- Bob Dylan

"Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men."

- Mahatma Gandhi

"The best revenge is massive success."

- Frank Sinatra

"Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?"

- Confucius

"Winning isn’t everything, but wanting to win is."

- Vince Lombardi

"If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men."

- Francis of Assisi

"I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions."

- Stephen R. Covey

"Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties."

- Charles Spurgeon

"Men do not fail; they give up trying."

- Elihu Root

"Fall seven times and stand up eight."

- Japanese Proverb

"Dream big and dare to fail."

- Norman Vaughan

"Commitment means that it is possible for a man to yield the nerve center of his consent to a purpose or cause, a movement or an ideal, which may be more important to him than whether he lives or dies."

- Howard Thurman

"It's at the borders of pain and suffering that the men are separated from the boys."

- Emil Zatopek

"The big lesson in life, baby, is never be scared of anyone or anything."

- Frank Sinatra

"Ultimate vulnerability. That’s manly."

- Cameron Conaway

"The greatest thing a man can possibly do in this world is to make the most possible out of the stuff that has been given him. This is success, and there is no other…"

- Orison Swett Marden

"No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child."

- Abraham Lincoln

"First find the man in yourself if you will inspire manliness in others."

- Amos-Bronson-Alcott

"One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes."

- Benjamin Disraeli

"A man who has committed a mistake and doesn’t correct it is committing another mistake."

- Confucius Kongzi

"The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way."

- Dale Carnegie

"A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him."

- David Brinkley

"One man with courage makes a majority."

- Andrew Jackson

"The true index of a man's character is the health of his wife."

- Cyril Connolly

"There are no traffic jams along the extra mile."

- Roger Staubach

"Treat all men alike. Give them the same law. Give them an even chance to live and grow."

- Chief Joseph

"We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light."

- Plato

"I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse."

- Florence Nightingale

"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter."

- Martin Luther King Jr.

"'Tis easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows along like a song; But the man worth while is the one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong."

- Ella Wheeler Wilcox

"The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation."

- Henry David Thoreau

"Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men."

- E. B. White

"Stronger by weakness, wiser men become."

- Edmund Waller

"Do not trust all men, but trust men of worth; the former course is silly, the latter a mark of prudence."

- Democritus

"The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person who is doing it."

- Chinese Proverb

"One must judge men not by their opinions, but by what their opinions have made of them."

- Georg C. Lichtenberg

"Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness."

- George Orwell

"The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions."

- Leonardo da Vinci

"Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing."

- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

"Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him."

- Booker T. Washington

"He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has."

- Epictetus

"You take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing, no one to blame."

- Erica Jong

"Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances."

- Herodotus

"A lot of times, women don't get the male perspective in regards to a relationship, what men go through when they're not really dealing well."

- Morris Chestnut

"Culture makes all men gentle."

- Menander

"Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens."

- Daniel Webster

"For tis not in mere death that men die most."

- Elizabeth Barrett Browning

"When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues."

- Honore de Balzac

"Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance."

- Oscar Wilde

"All men have an instinct for conflict: at least, all healthy men."

- Hilaire Belloc

"Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues."

- Napoleon Bonaparte

"We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death."

- Montesquieu

"Men rise from one ambition to another: first, they seek to secure themselves against attack, and then they attack others."

- Niccolo Machiavelli

"Either men will learn to live like brothers, or they will die like beasts."

- Max Lerner

"A woman simply is, but a man must become."

- Camille Paglia

"Men must know their limitations."

- Clint Eastwood

"Honor is simply the morality of superior men."

- H. L. Mencken

"Men are like steel. When they lose their temper, they lose their worth."

- Chuck Norris

"It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little."

- Diogenes

"Most men, when they think they are thinking, are merely rearranging their prejudices."

- Knute Rockne

"You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have."

- Maya Angelou

"Ask and it will be given to you; search, and you will find; knock and the door will be opened for you."

- Jesus

"Life is so damn short. For f***’s sake, just do what makes you happy."

- Bill Murray

"The heart of man is very much like the sea; it has its storms, it has its tides, and in its depths, it has its pearls too."

- Vincent Van Gogh

"A gentleman is simply a patient wolf."

- Lana Turner

"Pride, envy, avarice - these are the sparks have set on fire the hearts of all men."

- Dante Alighieri

"I am an agnostic; I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of."

- Clarence Darrow

"Men often act knowingly against their interest."

- David Hume

"The less men think, the more they talk."

- Montesquieu

"Men get to be a mixture of the charming mannerisms of the women they have known."

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

"Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever."

- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

"I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds, and I very rarely change it."

- Margaret Thatcher

"Men tend to feel threatened; women tend to feel guilty."

- Edwin Louis Cole

"Neutral men are the devil's allies."

- Edwin Hubbel Chapin

"Men are like sheep, of which a flock is more easily driven than a single one."

- Richard Whately

"Men tire themselves in pursuit of rest."

- Laurence Sterne

"Men aren't necessities. They're luxuries."

- Cher

"By nature, men love newfangledness."

- Geoffrey Chaucer

"Every man needs two women: a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph."

- Iris Murdoch

"If the world were a logical place, men would ride side saddle."

- Rita Mae Brown

"Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could."

- Abigail Adams

"A bachelor is a guy who never made the same mistake once."

- Phyllis Diller

"Like all young men I set out to be a genius, but mercifully laughter intervened."

- Lawrence Durrell

"Boys will be boys, and so will a lot of middle-aged men."

- Kin Hubbard

"Men don't care what's on TV. They only care what else is on TV."

- Jerry Seinfeld