Ancient Quote by David Hume

Wealth and rank are what men desire, but unless they be obtained in the right way they may not be possessed. Poverty and obscurity…

— Confucius

Rich men are neither better nor worse than all other humans. They contribute to greatness or mediocrity, strength of character or weakness in exactly…

— Julius Rosenwald

Men are often capable of greater things than they perform.

— Hugh Walpole

Strength of character and inner fortitude, however, are decisive factors. The confidence of the man in the ranks rests upon a man's strength of…

— Erich von Manstein

[Partly as a consequence of male authority] prestige value always attaches to the activities of men.

— Margaret Mead

Men are in the main alike, but they were made several in order that they might be various. If a low use is to…

— Henry David Thoreau

The difference in the stature, vitality, voice, development, muscular quality and physical strength of men and women shows that men are stronger and more…

— Hashemi Rafsanjani

Superiority to circumstances is one of the most prominent characteristics of great men.

— Horace Mann

men have been in charge of according value to literature, and ... they have found the contributions of their own sex immeasurably superior.

— Dale Spender

Men seem neither to understand their riches nor their strength. Of the former they believe greater things than they should; of the latter, less.

— Francis Bacon

In peace-armies discipline meant the hunt, not of an average but of an absolute; the hundred per cent standard in which the ninety-nine were…

— T. E. Lawrence

Riches are valuable at all times, and to all men, because they always purchase pleasures such as men are accustomed to and desire; nor…

— David Hume