Men Quote by J. G. Holland

In the measure to which a man cuts off and humbles his own will, he proceeds toward success. But insofar as he stubbornly guards…

— Ephrem the Syrian

Nothing can resist the will of man when he knows what is true and wills what is good.

— Eliphas Levi

Here is the manliness of manhood, that a man has a good reason for what he does, and has a will in doing it.

— Alexander MacLaren

There are men who could neither be distressed nor won into a sacrifice of their duty; but this stern virtue is the growth of…

— Alexander Hamilton

The will of man is his happiness.

— Friedrich Schiller

“When a man desires a thing too much, he at once becomes ill at ease. A proud and avaricious man never rests, whereas he…

— Thomas à Kempis

So much is man the slave of his heart that he will shut his eyes to what does not please him and believe all…

— Anonymous

Why is there this criminal indifference to the lostness of men? Our condemnation is that we know how to live better than we are…

— Leonard Ravenhill

The will of man is by his reason swayed.

— Izaak Walton

God takes men's hearty desires and will, instead of the deed, where they have not power to fulfill it; but he never took the…

— Richard Baxter

No man is without some quality, by the due application of which he might deserve well of the world; and whoever he be that…

— Samuel Johnson

There will be certain things in a man that have to be won, not forced; inspired, not compelled.

— Alfred Whitney Griswold