Men Quotes

The only geniuses produced by the chaos of society are those who do something about it. Chaos breeds geniuses. It offers a man something to be a genius about.

None of us have yet seen an ideally perfect man, and yet without that ideal we cannot progress.

The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots.

Men are strong so long as they represent a strong idea,they become powerless when they oppose it.

There seems to be no limit to which some men will go to avoid the labor of thinking. Thinking is hard work.

The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

Herein lies the tragedy of the age: Not that men are poor, – all men know something of poverty. Not that men are wicked, – who is good? Not that men are ignorant, – what is truth? Nay, but that men know so little of men.

Men at some time are masters of their fates.

Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest.

life lived only for oneself does not truly satisfy men or women. There is a hunger in Americans today for larger purposes beyond the self. That is the reason for the religious revival and the new resonance of ‘family.