109 Inspirational Quotes For Men

In today's fast-paced world, finding moments of inspiration can often feel like searching for a needle in a haystack. Whether you're navigating the challenges of personal growth, professional ambitions, or everyday life, the right words often have the power to refocus and recharge your spirit. That's why we've carefully compiled a list of 109 inspirational quotes tailored specifically for men, each one chosen to resonate deeply and provoke thought. These quotes are more than just words; they're a guide to help you harness strength, embrace resilience, and face the world with renewed confidence. Dive into this collection and discover the motivation you need to conquer life's adventures, one inspiring quote at a time.

1. “It's not the men in your life that matters, it's the life in your men.” - Mae West

2. “Women may fall when there's no strength in men.Act II” - William Shakespeare

3. “A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.” - Oscar Wilde

4. “The advantages of natural folly in a beautiful girl have been already set forth by the capital pen of a sister author; and to her treatment of the subject I will only add, in justice to men, that though to the larger and more trifling part of the sex, imbecility in females is a great enhancement of their personal charms, there is a portion of them too reasonable and too well informed themselves to desire anything more in woman than ignorance.” - Jane Austen

5. “I am not an angel,' I asserted; 'and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself. Mr. Rochester, you must neither expect nor exact anything celestial of me - for you will not get it, any more than I shall get it of you: which I do not at all anticipate.” - Charlotte Brontë

6. “A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty.” - Rudyard Kipling

7. “No woman really wants a man to carry her off; she only wants him to want to do it.” - Elizabeth Peters

8. “I often think that men don't understand what is noble and what is ignorant, though they always talk about it.” - Leo Tolstoy

9. “I do not think I ever opened a book in my life which had not something to say upon woman's inconstancy. Songs and proverbs, all talk of woman's fickleness. But perhaps you will say, these were all written by men.""Perhaps I shall. Yes, yes, if you please, no reference to examples in books. Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything.” - Jane Austen

10. “Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything.” - Jane Austen

11. “Anybody who believes that the way to a man's heart is through his stomach flunked geography. ” - Robert Byrne

12. “he knows that it's impossible to tell a wolffrom a man ifhe keeps his chin upand his teeth clean.” - Toby Barlow

13. “Believe me, for certain men at least, not taking what one doesn't desire is the hardest thing in the world.” - Albert Camus

14. “The only way a woman can ever reform a man is by boring him so completely that he loses all possible interest in life.” - Oscar Wilde

15. “No woman wants to be in submission to a man who isn't in submission to God!” - T D Jakes

16. “Sometimes a woman needs a man for company, no matter how useless he is.” - Lisa Kleypas

17. “As lovers, the difference between men and women is that women can love all day long, but men only at times.” - W. Somerset Maugham

18. “For men, as a rule, love is but an episode which takes place among the other affairs of the day, and the emphasis laid on it in novels gives it an importance which is untrue to life. There are few men to whom it is the most important thing in the world, and they are not the very interesting ones; even women, with whom the subject is of paramount interest, have a contempt for them.” - W. Somerset Maugham

19. “Of the Seven Dwarfs, the only one who shaved was Dopey. That should tell us something about the wisdom of shaving.” - Tom Robbins

20. “Never worry for fear you have broken a man's heart; at the worst it is only sprained and a week's rest will put it in perfect working condition again.” - Helen Rowland

21. “You're not going to tell me they built fifty-foot-high killer golems, are you?""Only a man would think of that.It's our job," said Moist. "If you don't think of fifty-foot-high killer golems first, someone else will.” - Terry Pratchett

22. “men do not suspect faults which they do not commit” - Samuel Johnson

23. “My own sex, I hope, will excuse me, if I treat them like rational creatures, instead of flattering their fascinating graces, and viewing them as if they were in a state of perpetual childhood, unable to stand alone.” - Mary Wollstonecraft

24. “Men should be what they seem.” - William Shakespeare

25. “Finally he said that among men there was no such communion as among horses and the notion that men can be understood at all was probably an illusion.” - Cormac McCarthy

26. “You have to be very fond of men. Very, very fond. You have to be very fond of them to love them. Otherwise they're simply unbearable.” - Marguerite Duras

27. “Men are like dogs," Stacy was fond of saying. And she usually went on to add that, like dogs, they all took up too much space on the bed, and they always went for the crotch.” - Lisa Kleypas

28. “In particular, husbands and wives who do poorly at nonverbal communication tend to be dissatisfied with their marriages. Moreover, when such problems occur, it's usually the husband's fault .In the first ingenious study of this sort, Patricia Noller (1980) found thathusbands in unhappy marriages sent more confusing messages and made more decoding errors than happy husbands did. There were no such differences among the wives, so the poorer communication Noller observed in the distressed marriages appeared to be the husbands' fault. Men in troubled marriages were misinterpreting communications from their wives that were clearly legible to total strangers.Even worse, such husbands were completely clueless about their mistakes; they assumed that they were doing a fine job communicating with their wives, and were confident that they understood their wives and that their wives understood them. The men were doing a poor job communicating and didn't know it, and that's why they seemed to be at fault.” - Rowland Miller

29. “MenThey hail you as their morning starBecause you are the way you are.If you return the sentiment,They'll try to make you different;And once they have you, safe and sound,They want to change you all around.Your moods and ways they put a curse on;They'd make of you another person.They cannot let you go your gait;They influence and educate.They'd alter all that they admired.They make me sick, they make me tired.” - Dorothy Parker

30. “The language of Cat's generation was far harder than that of her own, and more pithily correct: in their terms, he was a hunk. But why, she wondered, should anybody actually want a hunk, when non-hunks were so much more interesting?” - Alexander McCall Smith

31. “I like men to behave like men. I like them strong and childish.” - Francois Sagan

32. “Sarah learnt a lot from Alex. Like the way men could say one thing, then another, then act in a way inconsistent with both positions and somehow still be convinced of their own integrity.” - Emily Maguire

33. “Good God. Men everywhere.” - Richelle Mead

34. “For a long time, I used to think that I had a man's brain that I thought more like a man than a woman. But now I've come to realise that whatever it is I do think like, it's not like men; because men don't really think like men, they think like boys.” - David Baddiel

35. “Shouldering the duffel bag with the Marine Corps bulldog, Old Man knocked Jan's photo off the bed table. He turned to stone staring down at the photo. His face then splintered into hurt. Tears seeped into his eyes. He grappled for the nearest bedpost and slumped forward on extended arms. His shoulders jerked and head sagged a little while his heart broke. Old Man cried the mute cry of men of his generation.” - Ed Lynskey

36. “He had carefully avoided her out of the natural cowardice that characterizes the stronger sex.” - Gustave Flaubert

37. “All discarded lovers should be given a second chance, but with somebody else.” - Mae West

38. “I don't think he was ever happy unless someone was in love with him, responding to him like filings to a magnet, helping him to explain himself, promising him something. What it was I do not know. Perhaps they promised that there would always be women in the world who would spend their brightest, freshest, rarest hours to nurse and protect that superiority he cherished in his heart.” - F. Scott Fitzgerald

39. “This particular strand of feminism is characterized by two tenets: 1. men are jerks, and 2. women should strive by all means to become like them.” - Douglas Wilson

40. “I am an ordinary sort of fellow, not braver than other people, but I hate to see a good man downed, and that long knife would not be the end of Scudder if I could play the game in his place.” - John Buchan

41. “A man once asked me ... how I managed in my books to write such natural conversation between men when they were by themselves. Was I, by any chance, a member of a large, mixed family with a lot of male friends? I replied that, on the contrary, I was an only child and had practically never seen or spoken to any men of my own age till I was about twenty-five. "Well," said the man, "I shouldn't have expected a woman (meaning me) to have been able to make it so convincing." I replied that I had coped with this difficult problem by making my men talk, as far as possible, like ordinary human beings. This aspect of the matter seemed to surprise the other speaker; he said no more, but took it away to chew it over. One of these days it may quite likely occur to him that women, as well as men, when left to themselves, talk very much like human beings also.” - Dorothy L. Sayers

42. “I mean that gods do not limit men. Men limit men.” - Tom Robbins

43. “Maybe I should let my faithful manservant answer the rest of your questions, since he seems to have all the answers.""I'm saving her time," Bodie replied. "She brings you a redhead, you'll give her grief. Look for women with class, Annabelle. That's most important. The sophisticated types who went to boarding schools and speak French. She has to be the real thing because he can spot a phony a mile away. And he likes them athletic.""Of course he does," she said dryly. "Athletic, domestic, gorgeous, brilliant, socially connected, and pathologically submissive. It'll be a snap.""You forgot hot." Heath smiled. "And defeatist thinking is for losers. If you want to be a success in this world, Annabelle, you need a positive attitude. Whatever the client wants, you get it for him. First rule of a successful business.""Uh-huh. What about career women?""I don't see how that would work.""The kind of potential mate you're describing isn't going to be sitting around waiting for her prince to show up. She's heading a major corporation. In between those Victoria's Secret modeling gigs."He lifted an eyebrow. "Attitude, Annabelle. Attitude.” - Susan Elizabeth Phillips

44. “I know that men are so eager to be one among the stars.I feel that damaged earth will never let men go off hand.” - Toba Beta

45. “Besides we are men, and after all it is our business to risk our lives.” - Alexandre Dumas

46. “Arti i burrave është: të prishin punë ose të vrasin mendjen.” - Christine Grän

47. “It's always seemed to me that flirtation is a man's device for avoiding responsibility. He can say whatever he wants and knows he won't be taken seriously.” - G.G. Vandagriff

48. “We [-women and men-] are all equal in our creaturehood, whatever our sex, color, age, background, or abilities. But we are all different in the functions we were created to perform, as different as water from stones, and engineering from imaginative fiction.” - Mary McDermott Shideler

49. “But when a man is really in love he can't help looking like a sheep. Now whenever that young man looked he looked like a sheep I take back all is this morning. It is genuine.” - Agatha Christie

50. “I've always loved strong women, which is lucky for me because once you're over about twenty-five there is no other kind. Women blow my mind. The stuff that routinely gets done to them would make most men curl up and die, but women turn to steel and keep on coming. Any man who claims he's not into strong women is fooling himself mindless; he's into strong women who know how to pout prettily and put on baby voices, and who will end up keeping his balls in her makeup bags.” - Tana French

51. “Are you listening, Jasper? Sometimes you'll be walking in the city late at night, and a woman walking in front of you will spin her head around and then cross the street simply because some members of your gender rape women and molest children!” - Steve Toltz

52. “Even if there were only two men left in the world and both of them saints they wouldn't be happy. One them would be bound to try and improve the other. That is the nature of things.” - Frank O'Connor

53. “Weakness' is weakness only in light of the aims man sets for himself, the instruments at his disposal and the laws he imposes.” - Simone de Beauvoir

54. “Come, lady, come; you have lost the heart of Signior Benedick.BEATRICEIndeed, my lord, he lent it me awhile; and I gave him use for it, a double heart for his single one: marry, once before he won it of me with false dice, therefore your grace may well say I have lost it.DON PEDROYou have put him down, lady, you have put him down.BEATRICESo I would not he should do me, my lord, lest I should prove the mother of fools.” - William Shakespeare

55. “Beautiful women are always drawn to men they think will keep them beautiful.” - Mark Z. Danielewski

56. “Guys don't want women with good taste, guys want women who taste good.” - Sheryl J. Anderson

57. “Ellen's life was not easy, nor was it happy, but she did not expect life to be easy, and, if it was not happy, that was woman's lot. It was a man's world, and she accepted it as such. The man owned the property, and the woman managed it. The man took credit for the management, and the woman praised his cleverness. The man roared like a bull when a splinter was in his finger, and the woman muffled the moans of childbirth, lest she disturb him. Men were rough of speech and often drunk. Women ignored the lapses of speech and put the drunkards to bed without bitter words. Men were rude and outspoken, women were always kind, gracious and forgiving.” - Margaret Mitchell

58. “She gathered herself together. No one could describe the scorn of her expression or the contemptuous hatred she put into her answer. "You men! You filthy dirty pigs! You're all the same, all of you. Pigs! Pigs!” - William Somerset Maugham

59. “So, for her, I'll try. I'll trust. I'll ... open myself. I'll ... be this guy I've never been before and don't even known how to be—this goofy "in love" guy, this guy who takes care of his woman, this guy who gives more than he takes.” - Toni Blake

60. “Henry liked fun and avoided when he could any solemn or serious matter, for he confused these with sorrow.” - John Steinbeck

61. “It really is something ... that men disapprove even of our doing things that are patently good. Wouldn't it be possible for us just to banish these men from our lives, and escape their carping and jeering once and for all? Couldn't we live without them? Couldn't we earn our living and manage our affairs without help from them? Come on, let's wake up, and claim back our freedom, and the honour and dignity that they have usurped from us for so long. Do you think that if we really put our minds to it, we would be lacking the courage to defend ourselves, the strength to fend for ourselves, or the talents to earn our own living? Let's take our courage into our hands and do it, and then we can leave it up to them to mend their ways as much as they can: we shan't really care what the outcome is, just as long as we are no longer subjugated to them.” - Moderata Fonte

62. “[I]f you seek in every way to minimise my firm beliefs by your anti-feminist attacks, please recall that a small dagger or knife point can pierce a great, bulging sack and that a small fly can attack a great lion and speedily put him to flight.” - Christine de Pizan

63. “I cannot have a man who is afraid of everything, I don't have the time to soothe insecurities and fears, I cannot have a man who is standing on a stone by a creek, watching for the fish to swim by and every time he sees a fish he says "Oh look, this fish scares me, I wonder what this fish means, this fish might mean- this, or this fish might mean- that" for God's sake, they are just fish, and they don't mean anything! Such a sad thing, so many fine, strong men standing on top of little stones, pointing at fish all the time! Such a waste! Such a waste of time! I can only have a man who will leap into the water, not minding the damn fish and whatever other little things that scare him. I need to have someone who is braver than me; if I am a pirate, he has to be the pirate Captain, if I am a pirate Captain he has to be the flying dragon.” - C. JoyBell C.

64. “One way, he thought, the whole thing of ring fighting was hurting somebody else, deliberately, and particularly when it was not necessary. Two men who have nothing against each other get in a ring and try to hurt each other, to provide vicarious fear for people with less guts than themselves. And to cover it up they called it sports and gambled on it. He had never looked at that way before, and if there was any single thing he could not endure it was to be a dupe.” - James Jones

65. “Waiting turns men into bears in a barn, and women into cats in a sack.” - Robert Jordan

66. “What’s the worst possible thing you can call a woman? Don’t hold back, now.You’re probably thinking of words like slut, whore, bitch, cunt (I told you not to hold back!), skank.Okay, now, what are the worst things you can call a guy? Fag, girl, bitch, pussy. I’ve even heard the term “mangina.”Notice anything? The worst thing you can call a girl is a girl. The worst thing you can call a guy is a girl. Being a woman is the ultimate insult. Now tell me that’s not royally fucked up.” - Jessica Valenti

67. “Men don't ask other men if they're getting home OK, they just assume that beneath the frail, weak exterior lurks a muscle-building kung fu master fearless of ever being mugged.” - Kate Griffin

68. “Men didn't understand that you couldn't let yourself be consumed with passion when there were so many people needing your attention, when there was so much work to do. Men didn't understand that there was nothing big enough to exempt you from your obligations, which began as soon as the sun rose over the paper company and ended only after you'd finished the day's chores and fell exhausted into sleep against the background noise of I-94.” - Bonnie Jo Campbell

69. “He was like her favorite type of candy, she realized, a bit sour at first but all sweetness in the long run. Admittedly . . . that tartness was part of the allure all along.” - Victoria Kahler

70. “Any time your life is at stake and you can't find even one woman to come forward and say, 'This is a good man,' your problem isn't what kind of woman THEY are. Your problem is what kind of men YOU are.” - Pearl Cleage

71. “Basically, all women are nurturers and healers, and all men are mental patients to varying degrees.” - Nelson DeMille

72. “I don't know why men like to barbecue so much. Maybe its the only thing they can cook. Or maybe they're just closet pyromaniacs.” - Cecelia Ahern

73. “I do not wish to be a coward like the father of mankind and throw the blame upon a woman.” - Ouida

74. “Is there a more pitiable spectacle than that of a wife contending with others for that charm in her husband's sight which no philters and no prayers can renew when once it has fled forever?Women are so unwise. Love is like a bird's song beautiful and eloquent when heard in forest freedom, harsh and worthless in repetition when sung from behind prison bars.You cannot secure love by vigilance, by environment, by captivity. What use is it to keep the person of a man beside you if his soul be truant from you?” - Ouida

75. “The truth is women need men, we are neither superior nor inferior to men. We are better at some things and worse at other things. Mature people take the hard road and choose to delay quick gratification for true love. Mature people realize that the world does not revolve around them, and their desires, but around commitment. Mature people are committed to something beyond themselves; God, good, the good of society, family etc. If men are the source of your problems, then you are doomed to wait for eternity for them to fix it.” - Osayi Osar-Emokpae

76. “We (men) would rather lose an arm out a city bus window than tell you simply, “You’re not theone.” We are quite sure you will kill us or yourself or both—or even worse, cry and yell at us.” - Greg Behrendt, Liz Tuccillo

77. “The sun was good. The men of the llano were men of the sun. The men of the farms along the river were men of the moon. But we were all children of the white sun.” - Rudolfo Anaya

78. “I took it for granted that there must be a few men left in the world who had that kind of strength. I assumed that those men would also be looking for women with principle. I did not want to be among the marked-down goods on the bargain table, cheap because they’d been pawed over. Crowds collect there. It is only the few who will pay full price. "You get what you pay for.” - Elisabeth Elliot

79. “He wore a white shirt with the sleeves rolled up to the good place, and a heart-shaped leaf lay trapped in the hollow if his throat as though it were planned, though of course it was so perfect it couldn't have been planned.” - Elizabeth Berg

80. “Yes, there are in me the makings of a very fine loafer, and also of a pretty spry sort of fellow. I often think of those lines of old Goethe: 'Schade, daß die Natur nur einen Menschen aus dir schuf; Denn zum würdigen Mann war und zum Schelmen der Stoff.'” - Arthur Conan Doyle

81. “...men are much softer than women, more sentimental. They cry at the movies and pretend not to. The male of the species is weak. He doesn’t tolerate pain well.” - Will Christopher Baer

82. “Hey, Hank, I notice all the women around your place lately ... good looking stuff; you're doing all right.""Sam," I say, "that's not true; I am one of God's most lonely men.” - Charles Bukowski

83. “I can't make sense out of that girl," he said to the bard, "Can you?" "Never mind," Fflewddur said, "We aren't really expected to.” - Lloyd Alexander

84. “War makes animals of men, and we can't let that happen to us. If we do, we won't have any chance of survival.” - Shannon A Thompson

85. “Adeline was really rather charming, she always had a man in her life, but it never worked out: either they were nice but she didn't find them very exciting; or they were exciting but she didn't find them particularly nice, or they were neither nice nor exciting and she wondered why she was with them at all. She found a way of making the exciting men nicer and that was by leaving them. But then, they weren't exciting anymore either.” - Francois Lelord

86. “Both men had made her feel as if she were the one who was at fault, a typically masculine reaction to a woman who was able to act independently of them.” - Flora Kidd

87. “Take pride away from a man and you might as well run a knife through his heart.” - Julie Garwood

88. “Everything I do is going to contain the message that men who are going to be comfortable with powerful women are going to be more powerful men” - Joss Whedon

89. “When the Rule of Law disappears, we are ruled by the whims of men.” - Tiffany Madison

90. “His voice is like a thunderstorm, and his hands know every secret hidden deep beneath the cool, dark earth.” - Patrick Rothfuss

91. “Men command the world that they know . Everything that men know they make their own. Everything that they learn, they claim for themselves. They are like the alchemists who took for the laws that govern the world, and then want to own them and keep them secret. Everything they discover,they hug to themselves: they shape knowledge into their own selfish image. What is left to us women but the realms of the unknown?” - Philippa Gregory

92. “How men envy and often hate these warm clocks, these wives, who know they will live forever. So what do we do? We men turn terribly mean, because we can't hold to the world or ourselves or anything. We are blind to continuity, all breaks down, falls, melts, stops, rots, or runs away. So, since we cannot shape Time, where does that leave men? Sleepless. Staring.” - Ray Bradbury

93. “Nine women possess the same rights as a man... to learning and knowledge.” - Kathleen Krull quote by Eliza Orzeskowa

94. “… la muerte, por sí misma, sola, sin ninguna ayuda exterior, siempre ha matado mucho menos que el hombre.” - José Saramago

95. “Kate was never going to understand the extent to which men were stupid.” - Chris Pavone

96. “A man fishes for two reasons: he’s either sport fishing or fishing to eat, which means he’s either going to try to catch the biggest fish he can, take a picture of it, admire it with his buddies and toss it back to sea, or he’s going to take that fish on home, scale it, fillet it, toss it in some cornmeal, fry it up, and put it on his plate. This, I think, is a great analogy for how men seek out women.” - Steve Harvey

97. “If she could find a man who could feel and laugh as well as desire, she might even think about thinking about marriage.” - Melanie Rawn

98. “Scopul existenței fiecărui individ este plăcerea și cine o contestă ori e ipocrit, ori imbecil.” - Rodica Ojog - Brasoveanu

99. “The laws of men are not infallible.” - Wayne Gerard Trotman

100. “Me daba vergüenza estar así por un hombre, ser tan infeliz y volverme dichosa sin que dependiera para nada de mí” - Angeles Mastretta

101. “Perempuan memang tidak bisa diajak berpikir jernih jika menyangkut perihal lelaki. Dalam situasi seperti ini, kepala mereka dipenuhi kabur merah muda bernama dopamine yang meracuni sel-sel kelabu mereka dengan berbagai ide romantis yang absurd.” - Windry Ramadhina

102. “Love tames the benumbed beast. A man is put to use regarding a woman's physical safety, but a woman is put to use regarding a man's mental safety.” - Criss Jami

103. “No more men. I swear it. They’re nothing but trouble. Them, and their damned penises.” - Rosanna Leo

104. “Did you know I have always suspected that men were idiots," Daphne ground out, "but I was never positive until today.” - Julia Quinn

105. “My brother believed in all sorts of mythical creatures: pixies, dragons, werewolves, honest men.” - Jodi Picoult

106. “The gods are blind. And men see only what they wish.” - George R.R. Martin

107. “If you want to be an honorable man, then be what you pretend to be.” - Shannon L. Alder

108. “If God didn't make men equal, Samuel Colt did.” - Colt

109. “She simply didn't have an interest in men anymore. It wasn't that she didn't like them, she just knew how easily they broke.” - Erica Bauermeister