Men Quotes by John Steinbeck · Page 2

All Americans believe that they are born fishermen. For a man to admit a distaste for fishing would be like denouncing mother-love…

— John Steinbeck

...men in fear and hunger destroy their stomachs in the fight to secure certain food, where men hungering for love destroy everything…

— John Steinbeck

Man has become our greatest hazard, and our only hope.

— John Steinbeck

Maybe we all have in us a secret pond where evil and ugly things germinate and grow strong. But this culture is…

— John Steinbeck

We have usurped many of the powers we once ascribed to God. Fearful and unprepared, we have assumed lordship over the life…

— John Steinbeck

A man who tells secrets or stories must think of who is hearing or reading, for a story has as many versions…

— John Steinbeck

“But some men are friends with the whole world in their hearts, and there are others that hate themselves and spread their…

— John Steinbeck

In uncertainty I am certain that underneath their topmost layers of frailty men want to be good and want to be loved.…

— John Steinbeck

A woman holds dreadful power over a man who is in love with her but she should realize that the quality and…

— John Steinbeck

The last clear definite function of men—muscles aching to work, minds aching to create beyond the single need—this is man.

— John Steinbeck

And when that crop grew, and was harvested, no man had crumbled a hot clod in his fingers and let the earth…

— John Steinbeck

“That man who is more then his elements knows the land that is more than its analysis. ”

— John Steinbeck

But 'Thou mayest!'! Why, that makes a man great, that gives him stature with the gods, for in his weakness and his…

— John Steinbeck

It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him.

— John Steinbeck

The writer is delegated to declare and to celebrate man's proven capacity for greatness of heart and spirit—for gallantry in defeat, for…

— John Steinbeck

For every man in the world functions to the best of his ability, and no one does less than his best, no…

— John Steinbeck

“During the years he was never sick, except of course for the chronic indigestion which was universal, and still is, with men…

— John Steinbeck

A man, after he has brushed off the dust and chips of his life, will have left only the hard, clean question:…

— John Steinbeck

How can you frighten a man whose hunger is not only in his own cramped stomach but in the wretched bellies of…

— John Steinbeck

[Man] is the only animal who lives outside of himself, whose drive is in external things—property, houses, money, concepts of power. He…

— John Steinbeck

I have no choice of living or dying, you see, sir--but I do have a choice of how I do it. If…

— John Steinbeck

There is no lostness like that which comes to a man when a perfect and certain pattern has dissolved about him.

— John Steinbeck

The design of a book is the pattern of a reality controlled and shaped by the mind of the writer. This is…

— John Steinbeck

I am a little man and this is a little town, but there must be a spark in little men that can…

— John Steinbeck

Show me the man who isn't interested in discussing himself.

— John Steinbeck