Men famous quotes
Last updated: Jul 22, 2024
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Slavery is founded on the selfishness of man's nature - opposition to it on his love of justice. These principles are in eternal antagonism; and when brought into collision so fiercely as slavery extension brings them, shocks and throes and convulsions must ceaselessly follow.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
The leading rule for the lawyer, as for the man of every other calling, is diligence. Leave nothing for to-morrow [sic] which can be done to-day [sic]. Never let your correspondence fall behind. Whatever piece of business you have in hand, before stopping, do all the labor pertaining to it which can then be done.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
I do not think I could myself, be brought to support a man for office, whom I knew to be an open enemy of, and scoffer at, religion.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
The man does not live who is more devoted to peace than I am. None who would do more to preserve it.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
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The leading rule for a man of every calling is diligence; never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
Every man is born an original, but sadly, most men die copies.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
Gold is good in its place, but living, brave, patriotic men are better than gold.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
Man is not the only animal who labors; but he is the only one who improves his workmanship.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
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Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
You cannot help the poor man by destroying the rich.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
A man is about as happy as he makes up his mind to be.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
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I believe that every individual is naturally entitled to do as he pleases with himself and the fruits of his labor, so far as it in no way interferes with any other men's rights.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
You can tell the greatness of a man by what makes him angry
-- Abraham Lincoln -
Persuasion, kind, unassuming persuasion, should be adopted to influence the conduct of men. The opposite course would be a reversal of human nature, which is God's decree and can never be reversed.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
It is the man who does not want to express an opinion whose opinion I want.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
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I do not think I could myself, be brought to support a man for office, whom I knew to be an open enemy of, and scoffer at, religion. Leaving the higher matter of eternal consequences, between him and his Maker, I still do not think any man has the right thus to insult the feelings, and injure the morals, of the community in which he may live.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
And then, the negro being doomed, and damned, and forgotten, to everlasting bondage, is the white man quite certain that the tyrant demon will not turn upon him too?
-- Abraham Lincoln -
One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.
-- Abraham Maslow -
The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.
-- Abraham Maslow -
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What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualizat ion.
-- Abraham Maslow -
A stupid man behaves stupidly, not because he wants to, or tries to, or is motivated to, but simply because he is what he is.
-- Abraham Maslow -
The best product should be bought, the best man should be rewarded more. Interfering factors which befuddle this triumph of virtue, justice, truth, and efficiency, etc., should be kept to an absolute minimum or should approach zero as a limit.
-- Abraham Maslow -
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I have discovered the missing link between the anthropoid apes and civilized men. It's us!
-- Abraham Maslow -
Man has his future within him, dynamically alive at this present moment.
-- Abraham Maslow -
A man could spend the rest of his life trying to remember what he shouldn't have said.
-- Abraham Polonsky -
I think America is really in denial about the degree to which residents, particularly foreign medical graduates, man the county hospitals of this country, and but for their services, I'm not sure how exactly we could manage.
-- Abraham Verghese -
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When a man is a mystery to himself you can hardly call him mysterious.
-- Abraham Verghese -
What did it say when a man had fewer clothes than books?
-- Abraham Verghese -
A rich man's faults are covered with money, but a surgeon's faults are covered with earth.
-- Abraham Verghese -
Cursed is the man who dies, but the evil done by him survives.
-- Abu Bakr -
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A Man who is Shy and Modest, is An Amazing Character, but a Women who is Shy and Modest is Beyond Amazing.
-- Abu Bakr -
It is bad for a young man to sin; but it is worse for an old man to sin.
-- Abu Bakr -
O man you are busy working for the world, and the world is busy trying to turn you out.
-- Abu Bakr -
Pride in the case of a rich man is bad, but pride in the case of a poor man is worse.
-- Abu Bakr -
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Be just: the unjust never prosper. Be valiant: die rather than yield. Be merciful: slay neither old men, children, nor women. Destroy neither fruit trees, grain, nor cattle. Keep your word, even to your enemies.
-- Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi -
Many women I know think the ideal of happiness is to be in love with a great man, or to be the wife of a great public success; to share his triumph! They forget you share the man as well!
-- Ada Leverson -
an optimist is the man who looks after your eyes, and the pessimist the person who looks after your feet.
-- Ada Leverson -
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The marvellous instinct with which women are usually credited seems too often to desert them on the only occasions when it would be of any real use. One would say it was there for trivialities only, since in a crisis they are usually dense, fatally doing the wrong thing. It is hardly too much to say that most domestic tragedies are caused by the feminine intuition of men and the want of it in women.
-- Ada Leverson -
To a woman--I mean, a nice woman--there is no such thing as men. There is a man; and either she is so fond of him that she can talk of nothing else, however unfavourably, or so much in love with him that she never mentions his name.
-- Ada Leverson -
When I see a cheerful young man shrieking about how full of life he is, banging on a drum, and blowing on a tin trumpet, and speaking of his good spirits, it depresses me, since naturally it gives the contrary impression. It can't be real. It ought to be but it isn't. If the noisy person meant what he said, he wouldn't say it.
-- Ada Leverson -
Tossed into the Secaucus graveyard are about 25 centuries of classical culture and the standards of style, elegance and grandeur that it gave to the dreams and constructions of Western man. That turns the Jersey wasteland into a pretty classy dump.
-- Ada Louise Huxtable -
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There is no such thing as unfortunate genius; if a man or woman is fit for work, God appoints the field.
-- Adah Isaacs Menken -
I really knew I wanted to be Adam, because Adam was the first man. Ant I chose because, if there's a nuclear explosion, the ants will survive.
-- Adam Ant -
Men look like pandas when they try and put make-up on.
-- Adam Ant -
It was never the fame or fortune that drove me to act. It was something I love and enjoy doing it. A lot of people identify who they are by what they do and that's not me. It's what I do but not who I am. Who I am is a parent. I'm a family man.
-- Adam Baldwin -
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The guys I grew up with, my cinematic heroes, have always been men of few words, but of action. Clint Eastwood, Eli Wallach.
-- Adam Baldwin -
Screw guilt -- I could have sex with 10 men and it wouldn't bother me. I'm an atheist!
-- Adam Carolla -
There are certain things women are better at than men.
-- Adam Carolla -
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Few men can be said to have inimitable excellencies: let us watch them in their progress from infancy to manhood, and we shall soon be convinced that what they attained was the necessary consequence of the line they pursued, and the means they used.
-- Adam Clarke -
This perfection is the restoration of man to the state of holiness from which he fell, by creating him anew in Christ Jesus, and restoring to him that image and likeness of God which he has lost.
-- Adam Clarke -
The Bible is proved to be a revelation from God, by the reasonableness and holiness of its precepts; all its commands, exhortations, and promises having the most direct tendency to make men wise, holy, and happy in themselves, and useful to one another.
-- Adam Clarke -
It is strictly and philosophically true in Nature and reason that there is no such thing as chance or accident; it being evident that these words do not signify anything really existing, anything that is truly an agent or the cause of any event; but they signify merely men's ignorance of the real an immediate cause.
-- Adam Clarke -
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Man may be considered as having a twofold origin - natural, which is common and the same to all - patronymic, which belongs to the various families of which the whole human race is composed.
-- Adam Clarke -
If you go forward in the spirit of the original apostles and followers of Jesus Christ, trusting not in man but in the living God, he will enable you to pull down the strong holds of sin and Satan, and that work by which he is pleased will prosper in your hands.
-- Adam Clarke -
However, all gifts seem now to be absorbed in one and a man must be either a Preacher or nothing.
-- Adam Clarke -
I don't think rock 'n roll is necessarily a young man's game. I think Neil Young is just as rock'n'roll now as he was in his 20s. I'd like to think we can still be edgy and challenging.
-- Adam Clayton -
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A man's respect for law and order exists in precise relationship to the size of his paycheck.
-- Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. -
Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality.
-- Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. -
Press forward at all times, climbing forward toward that higher ground of the harmonious society that shapes the laws of man to the laws of God.
-- Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. -
Mix a conviction with a man and...
-- Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. -
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The black man continues on his way. He plods wearily no longer-he is striding freedom road with the knowledge that if he hasn't got the world in a jug, at least he has the stopper in his hand.
-- Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. -
For me, becoming a man had a lot to do with learning communication, and I learned about that by acting.
-- Adam Driver -
One day in the shower, you figure it out. It's a special day in a man's life. I was like, 'Oh, I found me a hobby.'
-- Adam Ferrara -
If manufacturers are so sure there is nothing wrong with genetically modified foods, pesticides and cloned meats, they should have no problems labeling them as such. After all, cancer will kill one in every two men and one in every three women now alive, reports Samuel Epstein, chairman of the Cancer Prevention Coalition. Like our ancestors, we act in ways that will bemuse future societies. The military-industrial complex lubricates the mass-agriculture system with fossil fuels. Tons of heavy metals and other hazardous, even radioactive, waste is sprayed on American agricultural soil.
-- Adam Gollner -
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Men choose Hamlet because every man sees himself as a disinherited monarch. Women choose Alice [in Wonderland] because every woman sees herself as the only reasonable creature among crazy people who think they are disinherited monarchs.
-- Adam Gopnik -
The finest mode of transport known to man.
-- Adam Hart-Davis -
Tell you what, if there were gays in the army 'Saving Private Ryan' would have been a hell of a lot shorter film. There is no way it would take gay men three hours to find Matt Damon.
-- Adam Hills -
I'm sick of women telling other women what men want them to look like.
-- Adam Hills -
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Where we are from... [s]tories are factual. If a farmer is declared a music virtuoso by the state, everyone had better start calling him maestro. And secretly, he'd be wise to start practicing the piano. For us, the story is more important than the person. If a man and his story are in conflict, it is the man who must change.
-- Adam Johnson -
Nowadays in pop, there's not a lot of men that are singing big and loud and high - it's not as common as it once was.
-- Adam Lambert -
We don't have a lot of men on stage doing flamboyant or theatrical. We have a lot of female pop stars doing it, but where are the guys? Where's the classic pop-rock showman?
-- Adam Lambert -
Female performers have been doing this for years - pushing the envelope about sexuality - and the minute a man does it, everybody freaks out.
-- Adam Lambert -
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There are two kinds of men. There are men who are f**king misogynist pigs and then there are men who really love women, who think they’re the most amazing people in the world. And that’s me. Maybe the reason I was promiscuous and wanted to sleep with a lot of them, is that I love them so much.
-- Adam Levine -
Men are not as sophisticated as women. They're not as mature as women. They're not as connected with their emotions as women...There's a very Neanderthal quality that still exists in a lot of men... And if you're in the public eye, to me, it's very boring to say what you have to say and be media trained to the extent that you don't ever reveal any truth. There was a time in my life when I lived probably a bit more on the primal level. And it was amazing.
-- Adam Levine -
I would live the same life over if I had to live again, And the chances are I go where most men go.
-- Adam Lindsay Gordon -
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I believe that a man can only be useful to his country when he can look at it clearly.
-- Adam Michnik -
I am what they call a chubby-skinny guy. I appear to be normal and have the look of an in-shape man, but if we were to go to a pool party I would go with my shirt on.
-- Adam Pally -
Eventually I got the call for 'Iron Man,' and I read sides that had nothing to do with what I did in the movie, and I performed it once while no one was in the room - it was videotaped, and I'm sure Shane Black was watching it from his helicopter or something. And then I got a call the next day that I was going down to shoot it.
-- Adam Pally -
It definitely has learning a lesson about the way you're living your life. I wouldn't compare our movie to that, but it has a structure where it's about a man who doesn't appreciate all that he has and finds out at the end that life has been great and he has to enjoy that.
-- Adam Sandler -
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In one day, I have times where I'm feeling great, I feel like I love my life, and then 2:30 rolls around and I'm the angriest man alive. My wife sees it.
-- Adam Sandler -
The pretended physical philosophy of modern days strips Man of all his moral attributes, or holds them of no account in the estimate of his origin and place in the created world.
-- Adam Sedgwick -
If the [Vestiges] be true, the labours of sober induction are in vain; religion is a lie; human law is a mass of folly, and a base injustice; morality is moonshine; our labours for the black people of Africa were works of madmen; and man and woman are only better beasts!
-- Adam Sedgwick -
Considered as a mere question of physics, (and keeping all moral considerations entirely out of sight,) the appearance of man is a geological phenomenon of vast importance, indirectly modifying the whole surface of the earth, breaking in upon any supposition of zoological continuity, and utterly unaccounted for by what we have any right to call the laws of nature.
-- Adam Sedgwick -
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Man is an animal that makes bargains: no other animal does this - no dog exchanges bones with another.
-- Adam Smith -
The first thing you have to know is yourself. A man who knows himself can step outside himself and watch his own reactions like an observer.
-- Adam Smith -
As soon as the land of any country has all become private property, the landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed, and demand a rent even for its natural produce.
-- Adam Smith -
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Great ambition, the desire of real superiority, of leading and directing, seems to be altogether peculiar to man, and speech is the great instrument of ambition.
-- Adam Smith -
The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals.
-- Adam Smith -
The statesman who should attempt to direct private people in what manner they ought to employ their capitals would not only load himself with most unnecessary attention but assume an authority which could safely be trusted to no council and senate whatever, and which would nowhere be so dangerous as in the hands of man who have folly and presumption enough to fancy himself fit to exercise it.
-- Adam Smith -
Wherever there is great property there is great inequality. For one very rich man there must be at least five hundred poor, and the affluence of the few supposes the indigence of the many. The affluence of the rich excites the indignation of the poor, who are often both driven by want, and prompted by envy, to invade his possessions.
-- Adam Smith -
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When man lives under government, he is fallen, his worth is gone, and his nature tarnished.
-- Adam Weishaupt -
Oh mortal man, is there anything you cannot be made to believe?
-- Adam Weishaupt -
Oh mortal man, is there anything you cannot be made to believe?. Of all the means I know to lead men, the most effectual is a concealed mystery.The hankering of the mind is irresistible.
-- Adam Weishaupt -
Of all the means I know to lead men, the most effectual is a concealed mystery.
-- Adam Weishaupt -