Men Quotes

"Fathers, like mothers, are not born. Men grow into fathers and fathering is a very important stage in their development."

Frank Pittman

"By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong."

Charles Wadsworth

"I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren't trying to teach us."

Umberto Eco

"My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, 'You're tearing up the grass.' 'We're not raising grass,' Dad would reply. 'We're raising boys.'"

Harmon Killebrew

"One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters."

George Herbert

"The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother."

Theodore Hesburgh

"It is almost a definition of a gentleman to say he is one who never inflicts pain."

John Henry Newman

"When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people."

Abraham Joshua Heschel

"When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, 'Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.'"

Fred Rogers

"Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way."

Viktor E. Frankl

"Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point."

"The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him."

G. K. Chesterton

"All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost."

J. R. R. Tolkien

"The best way out is always through."

Robert Frost

"The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them."

"And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good."

John Steinbeck

"Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need."

Kahlil Gibran

"Be patient and tough; some day this pain will be useful to you."

Ovid

"Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others."

Marcus Tullius Cicero

"The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend, as to find a friend worth dying for."

Homer

"Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness."

Euripides

"No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted."

Aesop

"If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else."

"Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will."

Frederick Douglass

"A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything."

Malcolm X