Top 100 Quality Men Quotes
#1. We know we are called to act like quality men with urgency that is governed by clarity in the strength of the Lord. What remains is this matter of love.
James MacDonald
#2. I attract a different kind of boy when my hair's red. I get more quality men - like a more thoughtful, nerdy dude.
Kirsten Dunst
#3. The meaning of words had no longer the same relation to things ... Reckless daring was held to be loyal courage; prudent delay was the excuse of a coward; moderation was the disguise of unmanly weakness; to know everything was to do nothing. Frantic energy was the true quality of man.
Thucydides
#4. The saint and poet seek privacy to ends the most public and universal: and it is the secret of culture, to interest the man more in his public, than in his private quality.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#5. While strength is the natural quality of an individual seen in isolation, power springs up between men when they act together and vanishes the moment they disperse.
Hannah Arendt
#6. You know a one eyed woman, she do the best she can. She search the world over trying to find her a one eyed man.
Gary B.B. Coleman
#7. Half a man's life is devoted to what he calls improvements, yet the original had some quality which is lost in the process.
E.B. White
#8. Whether you're married or not, relationships - and the satisfaction tied to them - are extremely important for increasing men's and women's quality of life.
Helen Fisher
#9. Man and woman as coexistent and eternal with God forever reflect, in glorified quality, the infinite Father-Mother God.
Mary Baker Eddy
#10. The measure of life is revealed in the quality of our relationships: with God, our families, our fellow men. - A Perfect Day by Richard Paul Evans
Richard Paul Evans
#11. The quality you most admire in a man? Courage moral and physical: 'anima' - the ability to think like a woman. Also a sense of the absurd.
The quality you most admire in a woman? Courage moral and physical: "anima" - the ability to visualize the mind and need of a man. Also a sense of the absurd.
Christopher Hitchens
#12. Feminine intuition, a quality perhaps even rarer in women than in men.
Ada Leverson
#14. As the quality of water changes with the nature of the soil;So will a man's reason vary with the quality of his friends.
Thiruvalluvar
#15. The qualities that get a man into power are not those that lead him, once established, to use power wisely.
Lyman Bryson
#16. There's a point at which when I start to know a man well
this isn't true of women
I wonder whether there's something in him that's evil. Something that's pure and can't be touched. This quality of evil may be related to the quality of artistry, for an artist has the same characteristics.
Kathy Acker
#17. Sinatra is the essence of vocal style. This man has an innate quality of knowing what is good musically. You can sum that up best by saying that he has musical integrity. Even when he does a bad song, there's a good quality in the presentation.
Sammy Davis Jr.
#18. Too elevated qualities often unfit a man for society. We do not go to market with ingots, but with silver and small change.
Nicolas Chamfort
#19. Romance: That's one of the things that makes Spider-Man really unique, in terms of the comic books. There is a tender, romantic quality to it. And certainly, that's something that's always fascinated me about the cinema: good romance.
Marc Webb
#20. Man is an imitative animal. This quality is the germ of all education in him. From his cradle to his grave he is learning to do what he sees others do.
Thomas Jefferson
#21. The men in this station survive by virtue of their jellyfish quality. There isn't one who would stand against him. Trying to rally the others to put pressure on "Hallam" would be like asking strands of cooked spaghetti to come to attention.
Isaac Asimov
#22. When, indeed, men speak of Beauty, they mean, precisely, not a quality, as is supposed, but an effect - they refer, in short, just to that intense and pure elevation of soul - not of intellect, or of heart.
Edgar Allan Poe
#23. Men live, and then they die. It is the quality of the process of living which matters, that and that alone.
Janet Morris
#24. Rebukes are easy from our betters,
From men of quality and letters;
But when low dunces will affront,
What man alive can stand the brunt?
Jonathan Swift
#25. As one recalls some of the monstrous situations under which human beings have lived and live their lives, one marvels at man's meekness and complacency. It can only be explained by the quality of flesh to become calloused to situations that if faced suddenly would provoke blisters and revolt.
George Amos Dorsey
#26. The silver ore of pure charity is an expensive article in the catalogue of a man's good qualities.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
#27. What is courage? Let me tell you what I think it is. An indefinable quality that makes a man put out that extra something, when it seems there is nothing else to give. I dare you to be better than you are. I dare you to be a thoroughbred.
Herb Brooks
#28. Some great men owe most of their greatness to the ability of detecting in those they destine for their tools the exact quality of strength that matters for their work.
Joseph Conrad
#29. He's a wizard with his feet and is blessed with a gift for scoring goals. His best quality is his speed while the ball is at his feet. He may be the fastest man ever to lace up a football boot. No defender in the world can keep up with him.
Lilian Thuram
#30. We are nearly all composed of such a complex mixture of human qualities that in each one of us reside both masculine and feminine principles: what man is without any female attribute and what woman never demonstrates any masculine characteristics?
Natalie Clifford Barney
#31. The form of government, when it has been prudently established, produces citizens distinguished for bravery, justice, and every other good quality; whereas, on the other hand, bad institutions render men cowardly, rapacious, and slaves of every foul desire.
Dionysius Of Halicarnassus
#32. Capitalism is always in danger of inspiring men to be more concerned about making a living than making a life. We are prone to judge success by the index of our salaries or the size of our automobiles, rather than by the quality of our service and relationship to humanity.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#33. I've never gone anywhere where the men have come up to my infantile expectations. I always have gone through life constantly being surprised by the extreme, marvelous qualities of a small minority of men. But I can't see the rest of them. They seem awful rubbish.
Rebecca West
#34. The very quality of books to read and facts to master with which the twentieth-century man is confronted encourages him to think broadly and superficially about much, but hinders him from thinking deeply and thoroughly about anything.
J.I. Packer
#35. The quality of the box matters little. Success depends upon the man who sits in it.
Manfred Von Richthofen
#36. Do all men kill the things they do not love ... The quality of mercy is not strain'd
It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven
Upon the place beneath: it is twice blest
It blesseth him that gives and him that takes
William Shakespeare
#37. Turbulent, discontented men of quality, in proportion as they are puffed up with personal pride and arrogance, generally despise their own order.
Edmund Burke
#38. The great commander knows that in order to win one needs to know the remote and also the immediate reasons for the war, the capacities of the soldiers, which is to say the social and political make-up of the states, determining the variety, the quality and the character of the men.
Claudio Magris
#39. Every physical quality admired by men in women is in direct connection with the manifold functions of women for the propagation of the species.
James Joyce
#40. Generosity is nothing more seen than in a candid estimation of other men's virtues and good qualities.
Isaac Barrow
#41. Beauty is a hard thing. Beauty is a mean story. Beauty is slender girls who die young, fine-featured delicate creatures about whom men write poems. Beauty, my first girlfriend said to me, is that inner quality often associated with great amounts of leisure time. And I loved her for that.
Dorothy Allison
#42. Old age takes from the man of intellect no qualities save those that are useless to wisdom.
Joseph Joubert
#43. I want to have time. When you're doing a monthly book, you're like a man racing after a bus. You're breathless and red-faced. I want to build in quality control.
J. Michael Straczynski
#44. I see men's judgments are A parcel of their fortunes; and things outward Do draw the inward quality after them, To suffer all alike.
William Shakespeare
#45. If there is a single quality that is shared by all great men, it is vanity.
Yousuf Karsh
#46. Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it; most people aim at it, all people fear it, and few love it unless in themselves. A man must have a good share of wit himself to endure a great share of it in another.
Lord Chesterfield
#47. Many great ideas are not unique. They only become unique when the men who have the wherewithal actually to implement them come together.
Robin Hobb
#48. No amount of study or learning will make a man a leader unless he has the natural qualities of one.
Archibald Wavell
#49. By exchanging quality time for 'turn-up' times, what many of today's wayward youngsters have become - men and women of the village have failed them.
T.F. Hodge
#50. It is exceptional and difficult to find in one man all the qualities necessary for a great general.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#51. I recently rewatched Stand By Me and was like, "Wow, this is so powerful because these young men are so vulnerable and so emotional, and love each other." That's a rare quality for a film.
Ellen Page
#52. True love does not paralyze, but doubles the high qualities of man.
Georg Ebers
#53. A government of five hundred country attornies and obscure curates is not good for twenty-four millions of men, though it were chosen by eight and forty millions; nor is it the better for being guided by a dozen of persons of quality, who have betrayed their trust in order to obtain that power.
Edmund Burke
#54. The duty of motherhood, which the vast majority of woman will always undertake, requires the qualities which men need not possess.
Mahatma Gandhi
#55. Every man is prompted by the love of himself to imagine that he possesses some qualities superior, either in kind or degree, to those which he sees allotted to the rest of the world.
Samuel Johnson
#56. A good shot must necessarily be a good man since the essence of good marksmanship is self-control and self-control is the essential quality of a good man.
Theodore Roosevelt
#57. Kraut was a stand-up guy in the old tradition, in a strange way reminiscent of my father in his steadfast refusal to abandon a position once he had taken it. It was a quality I lacked, and so admired in others when they weren't using it to beat me to the canvas or break my heart.
Miles Watson
#58. Most people don't wear glasses in the U.S., and we're not conditioned to finding men and women who wear glasses sexy. If you need your glasses to see, find a good optometrist who can outfit you with a great frame, thin lenses, and a high-quality anti-reflective coating.
Amy Webb
#59. All men are lonely. But sometimes it seems to me that we Americans are the loneliest of all. Our hunger for foreign places and new ways has been with us almost like a national disease. Our literature is stamped with a quality of longing and unrest, and our writers have been great wanderers.
Carson McCullers
#60. If we take the generally accepted definition of bravery as a quality which knows no fear, I have never seen a brave man. All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are, the more they are frightened.
George S. Patton
#61. Wild as man was, and disgusting as the more degraded tribes and communities were, the best of them, and all those from which further advance came, were marked by good qualities, or they could never have risen to a higher stage.
Henry Adams
#62. Men tend to gain wholeness by acquiring the qualities that are wrongly called feminine.
Gloria Steinem
#64. Men should be judged, not by their tint of skin,
the Gods they serve, the Vintage they drink,
nor by the way they fight, or love, or sin,
But by the quality of the thought they think.
Laurence Hope
#65. Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation.
Barack Obama
#66. Kinsey was six foot five, and he had this leader of men quality.
Bill Condon
#67. The one quality that can be developed by studious reflection and practice is the leadership of men.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
#68. A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership.
John Updike
#69. [It] was the first time in my life I ever knew the meaning of that rare thing, tenderness. A quality different from kindliness, affectionateness, or benevolence; a quality which can exist only in strong, deep, and undemonstrative natures, and therefore in its perfection is oftenest found in men.
Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
#70. The wise man will always reflect concerning the quality not the quantity of life.
Seneca The Younger
#71. The professional military mind is by necessity an inferior and unimaginative mind; no man of high intellectual quality would willingly imprison his gifts in such a calling.
H.G.Wells
#72. The vain.- We are like shop windows in which we are continually arranging, concealing or illuminating the supposed qualities other ascribe to us - in order to deceive ourselves.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#73. Men are found to be vainer on account of those qualities which they fondly believe they have than of those which they really have.
Vincent Voiture
#74. A woman holds dreadful power over a man who is in love with her but she should realize that the quality and force of his love is the index of his potential contempt and hatred.
John Steinbeck
#75. Henry Kissinger is possessed of a truly superior intelligence, in addition to which he has two qualities which, unfortunately, many great men lack: he is able to listen and he has a very subtle sense of humour.
Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
#76. Love is a heavenly quality that is given to prepare men to enjoy the heavenly city more.
Jack Hyles
#77. There is a quality about women who choose
men sparingly;
it appears in their walk
in their eyes
in their laughter and in their
gentle hearts.
Charles Bukowski
#78. Intelligence alone is not courage, we often see that the most intelligent people are irresolute. Since in the rush of events a man is governed by feelings rather than by thought, the intellect needs to arouse the quality of courage, which then supports and sustains it in action.
Carl Von Clausewitz
#79. Thus we have given to man a pedigree of prodigious length, but not, it may be said, of noble quality.
Charles Darwin
#80. Humility is the part of wisdom, and is most becoming in men. But let no one discourage self-reliance; it is, of all the rest, the greatest quality of true manliness.
Lajos Kossuth
#81. And yet the quality of the life is good. All human potentialities are in it. Given proper conditions, it could live through the centuries, and great men, heroes and masters, spring from it and make the world better by having lived.
Jack London
#82. A true politeness does not result from any hasty and artificial polishing, it is true, but grows naturally in characters of the right grain and quality, through a long fronting of men and events, and rubbing on good and bad fortune.
Henry David Thoreau
#83. A man must have very eminent qualities to hold his own without being polite.
Jean De La Bruyere
#84. But in science the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the idea first occurs. Not the man who finds a grain of new and precious quality but to him who sows it, reaps it, grinds it and feeds the world on it.
Francis Darwin
#85. How great a quality is horse sense! Someone has defined it as that something which keeps horses from betting on men!
Vincent Massey
#86. We must guarantee the quality of the existence of the men and women of tomorrow.
Marc Forne Molne
#87. Nevertheless, some men turn every quality or art into a means of making money; this they conceive to be the end, and to the promotion of the end all things must contribute.
Aristotle.
#88. Women are beginning to lose their identity. They have jumped with teeth clenched, fists braced and eyes aglow, into the competitive man's world. They're losing the vibrant quality of femininity, the aura of mystery.
Tony Curtis
#89. Women are at once the guardians and the well-spring of the world's faith, morality, and tenderness; and if ever they are degraded to a commonplace level with men, this fine essential quality will be impaired, and their weakness will have to beg and follow where now it guides and controls.
John Boyle O'Reilly
#90. Nature, in giving tears to man, confessed that he Had a tender heart; this is our noblest quality.
Juvenal
#91. I am sure that in estimating every man's value either in private or public life, a pure integrity is the quality we take first into calculation, and that learning and talents are only the second.
Thomas Jefferson
#92. Boris Johnson is a man of great attributes and great qualities.
Michael Gove
#93. Faith is an awareness of divine mutuality and companionship, a form of communion between God and man. It is not a psychical quality, something that exists in the mind only, but a force from the beyond.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
#94. It is a very good quality in a man to have a trout-stream.
George Eliot
#95. No man is without some quality, by the due application of which he might deserve well of the world; and whoever he be that has but little in his power should be in haste to do that little, lest he be confounded with him that can do nothing.
Samuel Johnson
#96. We must infer that all things are produced more plentifully and easily and of a better quality when one man does one thing which is natural to him and does it at the right time, and leaves other things.
Plato
#97. One of the greatest of a great man's qualities is success; 't is the result of all the others; 't is a latent power in him which compels the favor of the gods, and subjugates fortune.
William Makepeace Thackeray
#98. Life is an error-making and an error-correctin g process, and nature in marking man's papers will grade him for wisdom as measured both by survival and by the quality of life of those who survive.
Jonas Salk
#99. Many men absorbed in business show such a rare quality of culture that we are surprised at it. The reason invariably is partly because hard work and even the weariness it leaves carry a nobility with them, but also because there is no room in such lives for inferior mental occupation.
Ernest Dimnet
#100. The value of books is proportionate to what may be called their plasticity
their quality of being all things to all men, of being diversely moulded by the impact of fresh forms of thought.
Edith Wharton
