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Men are what their mothers made them.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Mom, Made, Mothers

Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.
Henry David Thoreau

Sports, After, Lives

Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.
Robert A. Heinlein

Pet, Women, Idea

Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.
Confucius

Wisdom, Courage, Compassion

Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.
Thomas Jefferson

Liberty, Calm, Sea

It has always seemed strange to me... the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.
John Steinbeck

Love, Success, Failure

The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it. You and you alone make me feel that I am alive. Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough.
George Edward Moore

Love, Art, Alone

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.
Socrates

Time, Yourself, Hard

The important thing is that men should have a purpose in life. It should be something useful, something good.
Dalai Lama

Life, Good, Important

All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.
Brian Tracy

Imagination, Work, Women

As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked for them.
Maya Angelou

Women, Lonely, Black

As our enemies have found we can reason like men, so now let us show them we can fight like men also.
Thomas Jefferson

Fight, Reason, Show

Before success comes in any man's life, he's sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and the most logical thing to do is to quit. That's exactly what the majority of men do.
Napoleon Hill

Failure, Life, Success

Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Friendship, Women, Football

Women may fall when there's no strength in men.
William Shakespeare

Women, Strength, May

What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.
Saint Augustine

Sympathy, Love, Help

It does not take a majority to prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.
Samuel Adams

Freedom, Rather, Minds

An association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing which has never yet existed, from the greatest confederacy of nations down to a town meeting or a vestry.
Thomas Jefferson

Greatest, Down, Another

I have no fear that the result of our experiment will be that men may be trusted to govern themselves without a master.
Thomas Jefferson

Fear, May, Themselves

Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital.
Thomas Jefferson

Life, Long, Book

A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men.
Plato

Wise, Hero, Might

Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed.
Oscar Wilde

Women, Tired, Both

Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Strength, Strong, Luck

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie

Age, Attention, Older

Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best; it removes all that is base. All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is the essence of manhood.
George S. Patton

Best, Fear, Human

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