111 Great Men Phrases

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Sherman Hoover
111 Great Men Phrases

I leave you the best phrases about men of great historical figures such as Voltaire, Nelson Mandela, Martin Luther King, Abraham Lincoln, Ernest Hemingway, William Shakespeare, Friedrich Nietzsche, Mark Twain, Isaac Newton and many more.

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-Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.-Voltaire.

-The brave man is not the one who does not feel fear, but the one who conquers fear.-Nelson Mandela.

-A man of character may be defeated, but never destroyed.-Ernest Hemingway.

-The fear of death is followed by the fear of life. A man who lives completely is prepared to die at any moment.-Mark Twain.

-Do not try to become a man of success, but a man of value.-Albert Einstein.

-In every true man there is a hidden child who wants to play.-Friedrich Nietzsche.

-The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.-Confucius.

-Anyone can make history; but only a great man can write it.-Oscar Wilde.

-Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be.-Charles de Gaulle.

-Almost all men can endure adversity, but if you want to test the character of a man, give him power.-Abraham Lincoln.

-The true man smiles at problems, gathers strength from difficulties and grows reflecting.-Thomas Paine.

-The ultimate measure of a man is not where he is in times of comfort and convenience, but where he is in times of challenge and controversy.-Martin Luther King, Jr.

-A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.-Jonathan Swift.

-A great man loves his wife and places his family as the most important thing in his life.-Frank Abagnale.

-A man who dares to waste an hour of his time has not discovered the value of life.-Charles Darwin.

-I never learned from a man who agreed with me.-Robert A. Heinlein.

-The happy man is the one who finds a true friend, and much happier the one who finds that true friend in his wife.-Franz Schubert.

-A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others have thrown at him.-David Brinkley.

-If you speak to a man in a language he understands, it goes to his head. If you speak to him in his language, it goes to his heart.-Nelson Mandela.

-The character of a man can be learned by the adjectives he habitually uses in his conversations.-Mark Twain.

-Men don't fail; stop trying.-Elihu Root.

-The successful man benefits from his mistakes and tries again in a different way.-Dale Carnegie.

-A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to win over others.-Ayn Rand.

-The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.-James A. Baldwin.

-A foolish man thinks he is wise, but a wise man thinks he is fool.-William Shakespeare.

-Give a man a fish and feed him for a day; teach him to fish and feed him for a lifetime.-Maimonides.

-Money has never made a man happy, nor will it. There is nothing in your nature that produces happiness. The more you have, the more you want.-Benjamin Franklin.

-Honor is simply the morality of the superior man.-H.L. Mencken.

-A wise man can learn more from a silly question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.-Bruce Lee.

-Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the coast.-Andre Gide.

-The greatest disappointment that a man suffers is of his own opinion.-Leonardo da Vinci.

-Men are born to succeed, not to fail.-Henry David Thoreau.

-Men are not necessities, they are luxuries.-Cher.

-As much as a man is worth, he will never have a higher value than that of being a man.-Antonio Machado.

-A flower cannot bloom without sun, and a man cannot live without love.-Max Muller.

-No man has a good enough memory to be a good liar.-Abraham Lincoln.

-No one can give you freedom. No one can give you equality or justice. If you are a man you take them.-Malcolm X.

-A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people.-Will Rogers.

-The superior man is impassive by nature: he does not care whether he is praised or censured.-Napoléon Bonaparte.

-The man who does not read anything is better educated than the man who only reads newspapers.-Thomas Jefferson.

-The wise man does not give the correct answers, he has the correct questions.-Claude Levi-Strauss.

-The measure of a man is what he does with his power.-Plato.

-Man needs difficulties because they are necessary to enjoy success.- A. P. J. Abdul Kalam.

-They say that a man is not a man until he hears his name from a woman's lips.-Antonio Machado.

-Men are like metal. When they lose their temper they lose their courage.-Chuck Norris.

-A gentleman is simply a patient wolf.-Lana Turner.

-Either men learn to live as brothers, or they will die as beasts.-Max Lerner.

-Never give a sword to a man who cannot dance.-Confucius.

-A man of courage is also full of faith.-Cicero.

-Men, like women, are guided more often by their hearts than by their reasoning.-Philip Stanhope.

-The more man possesses, the less he possesses himself.-Arturo Graf.

-If you educate a man, you educate a man. If you educate a woman, you educate a generation.-Brigham Young.

-The true character of a man comes out when he is drunk.-Charlie Chaplin.

-A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without testing.-Seneca.

-Man is free the moment he wants to be.-Voltaire.

-A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One might believe that misery will end one day by getting tired, but then it is time that becomes our misery.-William Faulkner.

-Man is an experiment; Time will show if it was worth it.-Mark Twain.

-The man who stands in the middle is called sober and moderate.-Aristotle.

-With men who do not believe in me, I cannot and do not want to associate.-Ludwig van Beethoven.

-Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughing.-Joseph Addison.

-It is more necessary to study men than books.-François de La Rochefoucauld.

-There is in almost every man a poet who died young and whom man survived.-Vincent van Gogh.

-The honest man is the one who measures a right by his duty.-Herni Dominique Lacordaire.

-A man with laziness is a watch without a rope.-Jaime Luciano Balmes.

-We men build too many walls and not enough bridges.-Isaac Newton.

-There is always a place on the heights for the brave and mighty man.-Thomas Carlyle.

-The first duty of a man these days is to be a man of his time.-José Martí.

-The secret of the interesting man is that he himself is interested in everyone.-Charles Péguy.

-Do not go outside, come back to yourself. Truth dwells in the inner man.-Saint Augustine.

-The mind of a man is capable of everything, because everything is in it, the past and the future.-Joseph Conrad.

-Man cannot feel at ease without his own approval.-Mark Twain. 

-Not only of bread the man lives. From time to time, you also need a drink.-Woody Allen.

-One word is enough to make or break a man's fortune.-Sophocles.

-It takes a moment to make a hero and a whole life to make a good man.-Paul Brulat.

-Trust men and they will be loyal to you. Treat them like great lords and they will behave like such.-Ralph Waldo Emerson.

-The friend is another me. Without friendship man cannot be happy.-Aristotle.

-Man is the only animal that laughs and cries; because he is the only one who knows the difference between the things that are and those that should be.-William Hazlitt.

-Men are cruel, but man is good.-Rabindranath Tagore.

-The greatest number of the ills that man suffers comes from man himself.-Gaius Pliny the young man.

-Men are rewarded and punished, not for what they do, but rather for the way their actions define them.-Thomas Szasz.

-The moment of a closing of eyes is enough to turn a peaceful man into a warrior.-Samuel Butler.

-The personality of man determines in advance the measure of his possible fortune.-Arthur Schopenhauer.

-The man who pretends to see everything clearly before deciding never decides.-Henry Amiel.

-It takes not nine months, but sixty years to form a man.-André Malraux.

-Men go into two camps: those who love and found, and those who hate and undo.-José Martí.

-Fortunate is the man who has time to wait.-Pedro Calderón de la Barca.

-Monkeys are too good for man to descend from them.-Friedrich Nietzsche. 

-A competent man is a man who makes mistakes according to the rules.-Paul Ambroise Valéry.

-The outer appearance often proclaims the inner condition of man.-William Shakespeare. 

-The man who has begun to live more seriously on the inside, begins to live more simply on the outside.-Ernest Hemingway. 

-Fear the man of a single book.-Saint Thomas Aquinas.

-War is the normal state of man.-Arturo Pérez Reverte.

-The greatness of a man is in knowing how to recognize his own smallness.-Blaise Pascal.

-A single man screaming makes more noise than a hundred thousand who are silent.-José de San Martín.

-In man there are more things worthy of admiration than contempt.-Albert Camus.

-The most powerful man is the one who is master of himself.-Lucio Anneo Seneca.

-The best man is never the one who was less of a child, but the other way around: the one who, upon reaching thirty years of age, finds accumulated in his heart the most splendid treasure of childhood.-José Ortega y Gasset.

-The unhappy man seeks consolation in the amalgamation of his sorrow with the sorrow of another.-Milan Kundera.

-When man does not find himself, he finds nothing.-Johann Wolfgang Goethe.

-Passions make man live, wisdom only makes him last.-Chamfort.

-Education is the development in man of all the perfection of which his nature is capable.-Immanuel Kant.

-Young men want to be faithful and they can't; Old men want to be unfaithful and they don't succeed.-Oscar Wilde.

-Also a great man can be exasperated by a miserable fly.-José Martí.

-When a man wants to kill a tiger, he calls it sport; When it is the tiger who wants to kill him, he calls it ferocity.-George Bernard Shaw.

-No man is happy unless he thinks he is.-Publio Siro.

-No sane man engages unplanned in a fencing pun with a woman.-Wilkie Collins.

-At his best, man is the noblest of animals. When he is separated from law and justice, he becomes the worst.-Aristotle.

-A man is always responsible for his ignorance.-Milan Kundera.

-What a woman wants is a reaction, what a man wants is a woman.-Charles Bukowski.

-A man can never be a failure who has not lost his courage, his character, his self-respect, or his self-confidence. He is still a king.-Orison Swett Marden.

-A man travels the world in search of what he needs and finally returns home to find it.-George A. Moore.

-Going and getting up early from bed makes a man healthy, rich and wise.-Benjamin Franklin.

-It is always difficult for a man to realize that he may have finally lost the love of a woman, no matter how badly he has treated her.-Arthur Conan Doyle.

-No man walks the same river twice, because he is not the same river and neither is the same man.-Heraclitus.

-Men are jealous of any woman, even when they have no interest in them.-Jan Neruda.

-After all, a woman who is not capable of loving cats can never make a man happy.-Orhan Pamuk.

-Men are as faithful as the options they have.-Chris Rock.

-I do not defend the position of the black man, nor do I defend the position of the white man, I defend the side of God.-Bob Marley.

-Any woman who is confident of herself is a suitable match at any time for a man who is doubtful of his temperament.-Wilkie Collins.

-Death is not what a man should fear. What he must fear is never to start living.-Marco Aurelio.

-No matter what dimension you are in, there is always a hard headed man trying to take over the world.-Eoin Colfer.

-I often think that men do not perceive what it is to be noble and what it is to be ignorant, although they always talk about it.-Leo Tolstoy.

-The only man who never makes a mistake is the one who never does anything.-Theodore Roosevelt.

-Alcohol may be man's infamous enemy, yet the Bible says: love your enemy.-Frank Sinatra.

-When women are weak they lie out of fear. Men lie out of arrogance.-Julian Barnes.

-What would man profit if he wins the whole world and suffers the total loss of his soul? .- Jesus Christ.

-It is not titles that honor men, but men that allow titles to be honored.-Niccoló Machiavelli.

-Anyone who considers that the path to a man's heart is through his stomach, has lost geography.-Robert Byrne.

-The difference associated with the possible and impossible lies in the determination that a man possesses.-Tommy Lasorda. 

-One step towards happiness is to stay healthy, strong and useful as a child, so that you can enjoy life more when you are a man.-Robert Baden Powell.

-Men should be what they seem.-William Shakespeare.

-Only the man who swims against the current knows his strength.-Woodrow Wilson.

-Temporality belongs to man as something that is his own.-José María de Estrada.

-Women, like men, should try to do the impossible. And when they fail, their defeat should be a challenge to others.-Amelia Earhart.

-Men are like wine; some go to vinegar, but the best correct with age.-Pope John XXIII.

-If men were angels, no government would be necessary.-James Madison.

-The best teamwork comes from men working independently towards the same goal.-James Cash Penney.

-The main objective of education in schools should be to create men and women capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done.-Jean Piaget.


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