Across Quote by Gad Saad

Vigorous societies harbor a certain extravagance of objectives, so that men wander beyond the safe provision of personal gratifications.

— Alfred North Whitehead

Few men are brave by nature, but good discipline and experience make many so.

— Niccolo Machiavelli

men are undoubtedly more in danger from prosperity than from adversity. for when matters go smoothly, they flatter themselves, and are intoxicated by their…

— John Calvin

“Men cannot be men—much less good or heroic men—unless their actions have meaningful consequences to people they truly care about. Strength requires an opposing…

— Jack Donovan

For men are prone to go it blind along the calf-paths of the mind To do what other men have done. They follow in…

— Sam Walter Foss

Men go to sea, before they know the unhappiness of that way of life; and when they have come to know it, they cannot…

— Samuel Johnson

There aren't a lot of opportunities for that rite of passage that makes you a man. War is one of them, and violent sports…

— Sylvester Stallone

Men's activities are occupied into ways -- in grappling with external circumstances and in striving to set things at one in their own topsy-turvy…

— William James

Prudent and active men, who know their strength and use it with limit and circumspection, alone go far in the affairs of the world.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The histories of the lives and fortunes of men are full of instances of this nature,--where favorable times and lucky accidents have done for…

— Laurence Sterne

As many men as there are existing, so many are their different pursuits.

— Horace

Those unacquainted with the world take pleasure in intimacy with great men; those who are wiser fear the consequences.

— Horace