- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
Few Men Quotes
Words on rarity, talent, and the few who rise above the rest.
This collection gathers quotes on how few men truly use their full talent, echoing sentiments on Genius and the rare satisfaction that comes with it. Other lines touch on leadership as a burden only a few are foolish or brave enough to accept.
- Last Updated on Aug 03, 2026
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
If a man has talent and can't use it, he's failed. If he uses only half of it, he has partly failed. If he uses the whole of it, he has succeeded, and won a satisfaction and triumph few men ever know.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is no article of men's clothing that can make a man look more like a douche than the ascot. There are, however, a few men who can pull it off. Context is everything.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
Homes make patriots. He who has sat by his own fireside with wife and children will defend it. Few men have been patriotic enough to shoulder a musket in defense of a boarding house. The prosperity and glory of our country depend upon the number of people who are the owners of homes.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've lost a lot of teeth and square yards of hide. But I've never lost my self-respect, and I've kept what I find in few men of my age - my enthusiasm.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
Men and women shop very differently, and where women are open to edgy, conceptual looks, very, very few men are.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are few men more superstitious than soldiers. They are, after all, the men who live closest to death.
- Leadership
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- Nov 07, 2020
A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world.
- Enough
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- Nov 07, 2020
Very few men are fortunate enough to gain distinction during their first term in Congress.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
The longer you live and the more you learn, the more clearly you will feel the difference between the few men who are truly great and the mere virtuosi.
- Guilty
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- Nov 07, 2020
Very few men imprisoned for economic crimes or even crimes of passion against the oppressor feel that they are really guilty.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
A few men own from ten thousand to two hundred thousand acres each. The poor Laborer can find no resting place, save on the barren mountain, or in the trackless desert.
- Genius
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are very few men of genius in advertising agencies. But we need all we can find. Almost without exception they are disagreeable. Don't destroy them. They lay golden eggs.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
Churchill was one of the few men I have met who even in the flesh give me the impression of genius. George Bernard Shaw is another. It is amusing to know that each thinks the other is overrated.
- Army
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- Nov 07, 2020