75 Quotes About Men

The really great man is the man who makes every man feel great.

The measure of a men's greatness is not the number of servants he has, but the number of people he serves.

God brings men into deep waters not to drown them, but to cleanse them.

Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.

You cannot make men good by law.

Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering.

Men are not made religious by performing certain actions which are externally good, but they must first have righteous principles, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous actions.

Conscience in most men is but the anticipation of the opinions of others.

The most holy men are always the most humble men; none so humble on earth as those that live highest in heaven.

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

Men never think their fortunes too great, nor their wit too little.

One great power of sin is that it blinds men so that they do not recognize its true character.

A good man is kinder to his enemy than bad men to their friends.

Some men, like a tiled house, are long before they take fire, but once on flame there is no coming near to quench them.

There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous.

Many men profess to hate another, but no man owns envy, as being an enmity or displeasure for no cause but another's goodness or felicity.

One great power of sin is that it blinds men so that they do not recognize its true character.

Men are like wine; not good before the lees of clownishness be settled.

All men will be Peters in their bragging tongue, and most men will be Peters in their base denial; but few men will be Peters in their quick repentance.

Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time.

The men who have done the most for God in this world have been early on their knees. He who fritters away the early morning, its opportunity and freshness, in other pursuits than seeking God will make poor headway seeking Him the rest of the day. If God is not first in our thoughts and efforts in the morning, He will be in the last place the remainder of the day.

All men have happiness as their object: there are no exceptions. However different the means they employ, they aim at the same end.

Men often take their imagination for their heart; and they believe they are converted as soon as they think of being converted.

When men comfort themselves with philosophy, 'tis not because they have got two or three sentences, but because they have digested those sentences, and made them their own: philosophy is nothing but discretion.

Two things control men's nature, instinct and experience.