Motivational Quotes

Men

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

- Whately, Richard

Best Quotes about Men

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

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

What God wants are men great enough to be small enough to be used.

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

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

Mailer, Norman

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

Stassinopoulos, Arianna

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

Plato

Next to the striking of fire and the discovery of the wheel, the greatest triumph of what we call civilization was the domestication of the human male.

Lerner, Max

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

10.

Men are the dreams of a shadow.

Pindar

11.

The world men inhabit is rather bleak. It is a world full of doubt and confusion, where vulnerability must be hidden, not shared; where competition, not co-operation, is the order of the day; where men sacrifice the possibility of knowing their own children and sharing in their upbringing, for the sake of a job they may have chosen by chance, which may not suit them and which in many cases dominates their lives to the exclusion of much else.

Ford, Anna

12.

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

Aleichem, Sholom

13.

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

Garfield, James A.

14.

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

15.

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

Miedzian, Myriam

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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

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The Ideal Man should talk to us as if we were goddesses, and treat us as if we were children. He should refuse all our serious requests, and gratify every one of our whims. He should encourage us to have caprices, and forbid us to have missions. He should always say much more than he means, and always mean much more than he says.

Wilde, Oscar

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To call a man an animal is to flatter him; he's a machine, a walking dildo.

Solanis, Valerie

19.

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.

20.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

21.

Someone has to stand up for wimps.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

22.

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

West, Mae

23.

Men in general are quick to believe that which they wish to be true.

Caesar, Julius

24.

Prudent men woo thrifty women.

Proverb, German

25.

Men are the enemies of women. Promising sublime intimacy, unequalled passion, amazing security and grace, they nevertheless exploit and injure in a myriad subtle ways. Without men the world would be a better place: softer, kinder, more loving; calmer, quieter, more humane.

Oakley, Ann

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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

27.

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

Porter, Cole

28.

The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

29.

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

Day, Doris

30.

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

31.

A hairy body, and arms stiff with bristles, give promise of a manly soul.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

32.

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

Greer, Germaine

33.

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

34.

Men are creatures with eight hands.

Mansfield, Jane

35.

No man flatters the woman he truly loves.

Tuckerman

36.

Unlike femininity, relaxed masculinity is at bottom empty, a limp nullity. While the female body is full of internal potentiality, the male is internally barren. Manhood at the most basic level can be validated and expressed only in action.

Gilder, George

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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

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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

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

40.

I love the male body, it's better designed than the male mind.

Newman, Andrea

41.

A true man hates no one.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

42.

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

Parker, Dorothy

43.

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

West, Mae

44.

Men's second childhood begins when a woman gets a hold of him.

Barrie, Sir James M.

45.

Men aren't necessities. They're luxuries.

Cher

46.

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

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

48.

A man is in love when something in his head, something in his and chest and something in his pants react to a certain woman.

Hwang, Brian

49.

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

50.

Man is not the enemy here, but the fellow victim.

Friedan, Betty