Motivational Quotes

Men

The man, most man, works best for men: and, if most man indeed, he gets his manhood plainest from his soul.

- Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

Best Quotes about Men

Man is the only animal of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid of.

Shaw, George Bernard

The male has been persuaded to assume a certain onerous and disagreeable role with the promise of rewards -- material and psychological. Women may in the first place even have put it into his head. BE A MAN! may have been, metaphorically, what Eve uttered at the critical moment in the garden of Eden.

Lewis, Wyndham

Sometimes I have a notion that what might improve the situation is to have women take over the occupations of government and trade and to give men their freedom. Let them do what they are best at. While we scrawl interoffice memos and direct national or extranational affairs, men could spend all their time inventing wheels, peering at stars, composing poems, carving statues, exploring continents -- discovering, reforming, or crying out in a sacramental wilderness. Efficiency would probably increase, and no one would have to worry so much about the Gaza Strip or an election.

Mcginley, Phyllis

Men are happy to be laughed at for their humor, but not for their folly.

Swift, Jonathan

All men are two meters tall... give or take a meter.

I go for two kinds of men. The kind with muscles, and the kind without.

West, Mae

The test of man is how well he is able to feel about what he thinks. The test of a woman is how well she is able to think about what she feels.

Mcdowell, Mary

Since I am a man, my heart is three or four times less sensitive, because I have three or four times as much power of reason and experience of the world -- a thing which you women call hard-heartedness. As a man, I can take refuge in having mistresses. The more of them I have, and the greater the scandal, the more I acquire reputation and brilliance in society.

Stendhal, Henri B.

In the United States adherence to the values of the masculine mystique makes intimate, self-revealing, deep friendships between men unusual.

Miedzian, Myriam

10.

The things a man has to have are hope and confidence in himself against odds, and sometimes he needs somebody, his pal or his mother or his wife or God, to give him that confidence. He's got to have some inner standards worth fighting for or there won't be any way to bring him into conflict. And he must be ready to choose death before dishonor without making too much song and dance about it. That's all there is to it.

Gable, Clark

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I'm not the man to balk at a low smell, I not the man to insist on asphodel. This sounds like a He-fellow, don't you think? It sounds like that. I belch, I bawl, I drink.

Sitwell, Dame Edith

12.

The most unhappy and frail creatures are men and yet they are the proudest.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

13.

Men were only made into men with great difficulty even in primitive society: the male is not naturally a man any more than the woman. He has to be propped up into that position with some ingenuity, and is always likely to collapse.

Lewis, Wyndham

14.

The tragedy of machismo is that a man is never quite man enough.

Greer, Germaine

15.

Men aren't necessities. They're luxuries.

Cher

16.

It is funny the two things most men are proudest of is the thing that any man can do and doing does in the same way, that is being drunk and being the father of their son.

Stein, Gertrude

17.

The question arises as to whether it is possible not to live in the world of men and still to live in the world.

Bernikow, Louise

18.

There are three classes of men; the retrograde, the stationary and the progressive.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

19.

You have to be very fond of men. Very, very fond. You have to be very fond of them to love them. Otherwise they're simply unbearable.

Duras, Marguerite

20.

Men's private self-worlds are rather like our geographical world's seasons, storm, and sun, deserts, oases, mountains and abysses, the endless-seeming plateaus, darkness and light, and always the sowing and the reaping.

Baldwin, Faith

21.

He may have hair upon his chest but, sister, so has Lassie.

Porter, Cole

22.

There are only two kinds of men; the dead and the deadly.

Rowland, Helen

23.

Men are not to be told anything they might find too painful; the secret depths of human nature, the sordid physicalities, might overwhelm or damage them. For instance, men often faint at the sight of their own blood, to which they are not accustomed. For this reason you should never stand behind one in the line at the Red Cross donor clinic.

Atwood, Margaret

24.

Some men are like nails, very easily drawn; others however are more like rivets never drawn at all.

Burroughs, John

25.

Only when manhood is dead -- and it will perish when ravaged femininity no longer sustains it -- only then will we know what it is to be free.

Dworkin, Andrea

26.

A woman simply is, but a man must become. Masculinity is risky and elusive. It is achieved by a revolt from woman, and it is confirmed only by other men. Manhood coerced into sensitivity is no manhood at all.

Paglia, Camille

27.

If it's true that men are such beasts, this must account for the fact that most women are animal lovers.

Day, Doris

28.

Not only is it harder to be a man, it is also harder to become one.

Stassinopoulos, Arianna

29.

Providing for one's family as a good husband and father is a water-tight excuse for making money hand over fist. Greed may be a sin, exploitation of other people might, on the face of it, look rather nasty, but who can blame a man for doing the best for his children?

Figes, Eva

30.

Men are the dreams of a shadow.

Pindar

31.

I only like two kinds of men; domestic and foreign.

West, Mae

32.

There is hardly an American male of my generation who has not at one time or another tried to master the victory cry of the great ape as it issued from the androgynous chest of Johnny Weissmuller, to the accompaniment of thousands of arms and legs snapping during attempts to swing from tree to tree in the backyards of the Republic.

Vidal, Gore

33.

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

Plato

34.

It is easier to know men in general, than men in particular.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

35.

Because it is in the nature of things that they become extreme, we have passed down from manliness to cruelty. If I had been told when I was 20 that there was a tavern in the town where the brave and the cruel were gathered together, I would have run all the way and I would have gone up to the largest and leatheriest of the denizens and said: If you truly love me, kill the bartender.

Crisp, Quentin

36.

Men aren't the way they are because they want to drive women crazy; they've been trained to be that way for thousands of years. And that training makes it very difficult for men to be intimate.

Angelis, Barbara De

37.

I mean to make myself a man, and if I succeed in that, I shall succeed in everything else.

Garfield, James A.

38.

Some men demand rough treatment everywhere!

Hall, S. C.

39.

I require three things in a man. He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.

Parker, Dorothy

40.

Don't accept rides from strange men, and remember that all men are as strange as hell.

Morgan, Robin

41.

All societies on the verge of death are masculine. A society can survive with only one man; no society will survive a shortage of women.

Greer, Germaine

42.

Poor little men, poor little cocks! As soon as they're old enough, they swell their plumage to be conquerors. If they only knew that it's enough to be just a little bit wounded and sad in order to obtain everything without fighting for it.

Anouilh, Jean

43.

Masculinity is not something given to you, but something you gain. And you gain it by winning small battles with honor.

Mailer, Norman

44.

Men are creatures with eight hands.

Mansfield, Jane

45.

Silent men like still waters, are deep and dangerous.

Proverb

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A bachelor is a man who comes to work each morning from a different direction.