Able Quote by Mencius

Let men decide firmly what they will not do, and they will be free to do vigorously what they ought to do.

— Mencius

Men, to act with vigour and effect, must have time to mature measures, and judgment and experience, as to the best method of applying…

— Joseph Story

One of the greatest of all principles is that men can do what they think they can do.

— Norman Vincent Peale

The motions of men must be such as suggest their dignity or their baseness.

— Leonardo da Vinci

For some men, the stronger their desire, the more difficult it is for them to act.

— Gustave Flaubert

Men cannot improve a society by setting fire to it: they must seek out its old virtues, and bring them back into the light.

— Russell Kirk

A man can do what he ought to do; and when he says he cannot, it is because he will not.

— Johann Gottlieb Fichte

Men are often capable of greater things than they perform.

— Hugh Walpole

The mind as well as the body must be not only strong but well disciplined in order to act with promptness and vigor in…

— Benjamin Robbins Curtis

Men indulge those opinions and practices that favor their pretensions.

— Roger L'Estrange

The conduct of men depends upon the temperament, not upon a bunch of musty maxims.

— Benjamin Disraeli

When men know not what to do, they ought not to do they know not what

— Anonymous