93 Inspiring Men And Women Quotes

In a world overflowing with noise, the words of truly inspiring individuals can serve as beacons of wisdom, offering guidance, hope, and motivation. Within this collection, we've gathered 93 remarkable quotes from both men and women who have left an indelible mark on history and culture. Each quote distills the essence of resilience, courage, and determination, capturing the human spirit's boundless potential. Whether you're seeking a dose of daily motivation or a spark for profound reflection, these quotes offer a treasure trove of insights and inspiration. Join us on this journey through words that have the power to transform perspectives and ignite personal growth.

1. “Why does a woman work ten years to change a man, then complain he's not the man she married?” - Barbra Streisand

2. “Just as women's bodies are softer than men's, so their understanding is sharper.” - Christine de Pizan

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

4. “Let me give you a tip on a clue to men's characters: the man who damns money has obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it has earned it.” - Ayn Rand

5. “Ladies, let me give you some advice. You can throw all your stupid fucking chick-lit, self-help, why-doesn't-he-love-me books out, because this is all you need to know: Men will treat you the way you let them. There is no such thing as "deserving" respect; you get what you demand from people.. if you demand respect, he will either respect you or he won't associate with you. It really is that simple.” - Tucker Max

6. “Women need to feel loved and men need to feel needed.” - Rita Mae Brown

7. “Men learn to love the woman they are attracted to. Women learn to become attracted to the man they fall in love with.” - Woody Allen

8. “A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.” - Robert Frost

9. “There are two theories to arguing with a woman. Neither works.” - Will Rogers

10. “Sometimes I think that the biggest difference between men and women is that more men need to seek out some terrible lurking thing in existence and hurl themselves upon it like Ahab with the White Whale. Women know where it lives but they can let it alone. Even in matriarchal societies I doubt that there were ever female Beowulfs. Women lie with gods and demons but they don’t go looking for monsters to fight with. Ariadne gave Theseus a clew but the Minotaur was his business.” - Russell Hoban

11. “It was love, she thought, love that never clutch its object; but, like the love which mathematicians bear their symbols, or poets their phrases, was meant to be spread over the world and become part of human gain. The world by all means should have shared it, could Mr Bankes have said why that woman pleased him so; why the sight of her reading a fairy tale to her boy had upon him precisely the same effect as the solution of a scientific problem.” - Virginia Woolf

12. “At one point, she'd wanted to hurl the whole breakfast at the wall. And then she'd remember why it was that men had temper tantrums and women didn't: cleanup.” - Kristin Hannah

13. “That's it? That's your big goodbye?" Eve asked.Claire looked at Eve mystified. "I think I need guy CliffNotes.""Guys aren't deep enough to need CliffNotes.""What were you waiting for, flowery poetry?" Shane snorted. "I hugged. I'm done.” - Rachel Caine

14. “We women, as some one says, love with our ears, just as you men love with your eyes, if you ever love at all.” - Oscar Wilde

15. “Can you imagine a world without men? There'd be no crime, and lots of fat happy women.” - Nicole Hollander

16. “As a Texan, I say ma'm and sir to my age contemporaries and open doors for anyone that I can. This goes for men, too, though it is appreciated when they beat me to it and disappointing when they don't.” - Tiffany Madison

17. “We sensible often resist intrusive love and its chaos practically, employing measures to prevent the former for fear of the latter. But for all our wit and work, that desperation for control also prevents the pure, transcendental freedom more often delivered by both.” - Tiffany Madison

18. “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

19. “Women, in general, will find it difficult to turn from a man and stop demanding that he meets their needs, provides security, and protects their identity, and return to me. Men, in general, find it very hard to turn from the works of their hands, their own quests for power and security and significance, and turn to me.” - Wm. Paul Young

20. “The female mind is certainly a devious one, my lord." Vetinari looked at his secretary in surprise. "Well, of course it is. It has to deal with the male one.” - Terry Pratchett

21. “I felt in him what women feel in men, something so tender, swollen, tyrannical, absurd; I would never take the consequences of interfering with it.” - Alice Munro

22. “It is assured that men of all ages imagine a woman naked when they first meet.” - Tiffany Madison

23. “I would rather trust a woman's instinct than a man's reason.” - Stanley Baldwin

24. “Lone women shouldn't stop in the middle of nowhere for giant unkempt strangers with duct tape on their faces.” - Lee Child

25. “He - and if there is a God, I am convinced he is a he, because no woman could or would ever fuck things up this badly.” - George Carlin

26. “...sitting and waiting is one of the most miserable occupations known to man - not that it usually is known to men; women do it much more often.” - Diana Gabaldon

27. “I am sorry the only outlet for her troubled mind was in clumsy foreplay with an inadequate partner."He threw the rest of her sandwich at the swinging door as she passed through it.” - Jennifer Armintrout

28. “Can I have a glass of water?" Her voice was hoarse, probably from screaming. She'd always sounded like that after they'd-He didn't just force the thought aside. He clubbed it unconscious, threw it into a crawl space and walled it up alive.” - Jennifer Armintrout

29. “I have to go. I have a finite amount of life left and I don't want to spend it arguing with you.” - Jennifer Armintrout

30. “I couldn't take much more of this. Being the object two men competed for wasn't as glamorous as it sounded in the movies. The two men who both wanted one hundred percent of my time weren't dashing, international playboys. They were undead and surprisingly immature, considering the youngest was just over a hundred years old.” - Jennifer Armintrout

31. “I harbor ill feelings toward a society, and a clergy, that allows marriage partners to split over the smallest incompatibility, where divorce comes in a multitude of flavors, like Baskin Robbins ice cream, where men and women can blame one another and everything except themselves for matrimony's mess. They look for externals over which they have no control and, fingering them, take no responsibility.” - Robert Dykstra

32. “She's a woman, you're a dude. You're not supposed to understand her. That's not what she's after.... She doesn't want you to understand her. She knows that's impossible. She just wants you to understand yourself. Everything else is negotiable.” - Neal Stephenson

33. “A man does what he can; a woman does what a man cannot.” - Isabel Allende

34. “A man is lucky if he is the first love of a woman. A woman is lucky if she is the last love of a man.” - Charles Dickens

35. “Women were created from the rib of man to be beside him, not from his head to top him, nor from his feet to be trampled by him, but from under his arm to be protected by him, near to his heart to be loved by him.” - Matthew Henry

36. “A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle." I really hate this expression. I bet fish would totally want bicycles.” - Meg Cabot

37. “How could you love us being together?" he asked me "We are nothing alike and we are not meant for each other and we drive each other crazy, you love that? How can you love that?" So I told him "I know that we're not meant for each other, that we drive each other crazy, and that we are so different. But that's us. That's what we have; a wild nonsense. We are not good together, but together we are bad for each other. I love us together this way just like this. Because even if it's no good, it's what we have! It's us.” - C. JoyBell C.

38. “The difference between a house and a home is like the difference between a man and a woman-- it might be embarrassing to explain, but it would be very unusual to get them confused.” - Lemony Snicket

39. “Ariel laughed and now her goose bumps had goose bumps.” - Lisa Mantchev

40. “How can men be such lummoxes, such wads of chewing gum on our ballet slippers and still feel so good?” - Tom Robbins

41. “Мой дядя утверждал,что его офицерам в первый день отпуска нравятся все женщины, включая статую Отчаяния на Картском мемориале.” - Генри Лайон Олди

42. “I was planning on starting a new file on my computer with the title "Phrases That Sound One Way to Witches but Mean Something Else to Vampires.” - Deborah Harkness

43. “Now? I'm just another female faking orgasms to make a man not feel so inadequate.” - Jess C. Scott

44. “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.

45. “Men are not dogs. We merely think we are and, on occasion, act as if we are. But, by believing in our nobler nature, women have the amazing power to inspire us to live up to it.” - Neil Strauss

46. “Something wrong with your child? Feed them and put them to bed. Something wrong with your man? Feed him and take him to bed. Lady Jeeha "Wolf Dawn” - Susan Cartwright

47. “There will never be a good time, financially, to get married, unless you're Shaq or Ray Romano. But somehow people manage. If your man is using money as an excuse not to marry you, it's your relationship that's insecure, not his bank account.” - Greg Behrendt

48. “The difference between the love of a man and the love of a woman is that a man will always give reasons for loving, but a woman gives no reasons for loving.” - Fulton J. Sheen

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

50. “Lots of women read fiction. Most men don't. Women read fiction written by women and by men. Most men don't. If a man opens a novel,. he likes to have a masculine name on the cover; it's reassuring somehow. You never know what might happen to that external genitalia if you immerse yourself in imaginary doings concocted by someone with the goods on the inside.” - Siri Hustvedt

51. “When men talk about the agony of being men, they can never quite get away from the recurrent theme of self-pity. And when women talk about being women, they can never quite get away from the recurrent theme of blaming men.” - Pat Conroy

52. “I sort of got off on making bad guys sweat. Which was not unlike my love of making good guys sweat, just by very different means.” - Darynda Jones

53. “Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult.” - Charlotte Whitton

54. “Women leave their marriages when they can't take any more. Men leave when they find someone new.” - J. Courtney Sullivan

55. “I have to say, her blonde bob was amazing. The delicate way it hugged her face and neck. The softness of it...” - James Lusarde

56. “Maybe you’re smiling as I stumble to put my feelings into words. But I’m trying to do her justice, you know?” - James Lusarde

57. “What would you like to do with my neck?’ I asked. ‘Seduce me with your words. Feel free.” - James Lusarde

58. “We laughed together. It’s so lovely laughing with a man. It feels positive. Relaxed…” - James Lusarde

59. “Ah, lust. It makes us forget anything we want to. The greatest relaxant, the greatest stimulant.” - James Lusarde

60. “I smile at you, hinting at the pleasures ahead, and silently point to the zip at the back of my dress…” - James Lusarde

61. “Men, being accustomed to act on reflection themselves, are a great deal too apt to believe that women act on reflection, too. Women do nothing of the sort. They act on impulse; and, in nine cases out of ten, they are heartily sorry for it afterward.” - Wilkie Collins

62. “We zijn inferieure schepselen, net goed genoeg om te jongen. We hebben eierstokken, moeten ons er iedere maand bij neerleggen dat we bloeden, we zijn afhankelijk van de maan. Onze hersenen zijn minder ontwikkeld dan die van onze metgezellen en onze lichaamskracht is geringer. In alle omstandigheden zijn we emotioneler. Als een vrouw ziet dat een rivale mooiere schoentjes draagt dan zij zelf, zal ze niet ophouden de ander omlaag te halen en te kwetsen. Kun je je twee mannen voorstellen die elkaar verfoeien vanwege hun molières? Mannen wedijveren met elkaar op het niveau van geld, ambitie en intelligentie. Zij hebben het vermogen tot afstand nemen en onthechting, terwijl vrouwen iedere beheersing verliezen zodra ze een poederdoos of een ring zien. Nooit zal een vrouw een Michelangelo, een Bach of een Palladio zijn. Grote filosofen met een rok aan bestaan niet. Hoe wil je dat ze systemen ontwerpen zoals Kant, Hegel of Marx? Een dergelijk abstraherend vermogen kan niet ontstaan in de geest van een pop.” - claire goll

63. “And verily, a woman need know but one man well, in order to understand all men; whereas a man may know all women and understand not one of them.” - Helen Rowland

64. “I grunted. It's something I picked up over a fifteen-year career in law enforcement. Men have managed to create a complex and utterly impenetrable secret language consisting of monosyllabic sounds and partial words—and they are apparently too thick to realize it exists. Maybe they really are from Mars. I'd been able to learn a few Martian phrases over time, and one of the useful ones was the grunt that meant "I acknowledge that I've heard what you said; please continue.” - Jim Butcher

65. “All men have a little badness in them,' she whispered.Milo looked at her. 'Sometimes, honey... a woman can be just as evil as a man.” - Kathy Hepinstall

66. “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

67. “What's your definition of dating?Lengthy social time spent with a woman during which we're not actively fucking” - Sylvia Day

68. “What's the point of changing who you are in order to impress a woman, when your intention is to return to who you were, a person she was never attracted to in the first place?” - Richelle E. Goodrich

69. “I rang the bell and she opened the door, dried her hands, and said heartily: 'Hello, stranger. I was just saying to Cliff only tonight, it's about time you showed up around here.' I wanted to detach him from her, but first I had to sit through about ten minutes of her. She was my sister, but you don't tell women things like I wanted to tell him. I don't know why, but you don't. You tell them the things you have under control; the things that you're frightened of, you tell other men if you tell anyone. ("Nightmare")” - Cornell Woolrich

70. “When men see an attractive woman, they fantasize about sex. When women see an attractive man they fantasize about a relationship.” - Alexandra Potter

71. “Just because women can bear children doesn't mean they're unable to harbour the same sort of career ambitions as a man.” - Cathy Kelly

72. “Men are pigs, darling. I really have every sympathy for women that they actually have to choose one of these arrogant, stupid morons to settle down with and marry.” - Michael Winner

73. “I have watched him as only a woman can watch a man upon whom her fate depends, but it has always been in vain.” - Émile Gaboriau

74. “But not we men. We weren't fit to be told. For so you women think, and hug your mysteries, getting your backs on us for the slight God did in not creating you in His image.” - Colleen McCullough

75. “Oyster Tom said that they were not talking about people but about men. He agreed that most men remain accountable to themselves only, and that but poorly. He said that the proper chore of a man is to be chargeable for those and that dear to him and that this was something women understood and knew how to do without being told. It was a thing women looked for in their men, and this was why most women lived lives of bottomless sorrow.” - Lance Weller

76. “A man who does not doubt the courage of a woman, is a man that is subjugated by her will and allure.” - Lionel Suggs

77. “If any man tries to stop us, cut him down.” - George R.R. Martin

78. “دانیال گفت : فرض دوم زنی در کار نیست . تلویزیون برنامه کودک پخش می کرد . " اگه زنی در کار نباشه ، عشقی هم در کار نیست . شکسپیر و حافظ و رومئو وژولیت و شیرین و فرهاد ول معطل اند . اگه روزی زن ها بخواند از این جا برند ، تقریبا همه ادبیات و سینما و هنر دنیا رو با خودشون باید ببرند . اما اگه قرار باشه مردا برند چی ؟ "اگه قرار باشه مردها از این دنیا گورشون رو گم کنند و برند بهت قول میدم که هر چی جنگ و کشتار و کثافت کاری های دیگه است رو با خودشون میبرند . دنیا عینهو گوشت خرگوش می مونه . نصف حلال نصف حرام . زن نصفه ی حلال دنیاست . هر چی کثافت کاری و گند کاری هست توی مردهاست . هرکی قبول نداره ورداره آمار رو بخونه . تاریخ رو بخونه . تلویزیون تماشا کنه .” - مصطفی مستور

79. “Most men have boxes in their waffle that have no words. There are thoughts, but they don’t always translate into words. Not all of the wordless boxes have thoughts, however. There are actually boxes in the average man’s waffle that contain neither words nor thoughts. To help relieve stress in his life, your husband will park in one of these boxes to relax.” - Bill Farrel

80. “Whilst men may play the game, women know the score.” - Habeeb Akande

81. “Women without men, I realized then, are totally different creatures.” - Shashi Deshpande

82. “Men and women play the same game but with different rules.” - Habeeb Akande

83. “Personally, I'd rather grow old alone than in the company of anyone I've met so far. I don't experience myself as lonely, incomplete, or unfulfilled, but I don't talk about that much. It seems to piss people off--especially men. (Kinsey Millhone)” - Sue Grafton

84. “I like the sounds of words. Words are very enjoyable. I like words because they are... seductive. And I like words because they can contain... fantasies.” - James Lusarde

85. “What organized dating sites fail to understand is that the people are far more interesting in what they don't say about themselves.” - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

86. “Half of the people lie with their lips; the other half with their tears” - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

87. “didnt men ever think about anything that really mattered?” - Mitchell Margaret

88. “Or maybe this wasn't a human-faerie translation problem at all. Maybe this was a male-female translation problem. I read an article once that said that when women have a conversation, they're communicating on five levels. They follow the conversation that they're actually having, the conversation that is specifically being avoided, the tone being applied to the overt conversation, the buried conversation that is being covered only in subtext, and finally the other person's body language. That is, on many levels, astounding to me. I mean, that's like having a freaking superpower. When I, and most other people with a Y chromosome, have a conversation, we're having a conversation. Singular. We're paying attention to what is being said, considerating that, and replying to it. All these other conversations that have apparently been going on for the last several thousand years? I didn't even know tht they existed until I read that stupid article, and I'm pretty sure I'm not the only one. I felt somewhat skeptical about the article's grounding. There were probably a lot of women who didn't communicate on multiple wavelenghts at once. There were probably men who could handle that many just fine. I just wasn't one of them. So, ladies, if you ever have some conversation with your boyfriend or husband or brother or male friend, and you are telling him something perfectly obvious, and he comes away from it utterly clueless? I know it's tempting to think to yourself, "The man can't possibly be that stupid!" But yes. Yes he can.” - Jim Butcher

89. “Ivanov: A naive man is a fool. But you women are clever enough to be naive so that it comes out in you as engaging and healthy and warm, and not so silly as it might seem. Only why do you all behave like this? While a man is healthy and strong and in good spirits, you pay him no attention, but as soon as he rolls down the slippery slope and starts complaining about his woes, you hang on his neck.” - Anton Chekhov

90. “Often, men want money to get women, or to use women to get money, or both at the same time.” - Bryant McGill

91. “Women eat ice-cream, men toast marshmallows.” - Dianna Hardy

92. “Women don't realize how much store men set on the regularity of their habits. We absorb their comings and goings into our bodies, their rhythms into our bones.” - Louise Erdrich

93. “Maybe there are just some men like that in the world, I thought. Men who have to be in charge, who have to punish those who awaken feelings in them which they cannot control. Men who will lure you with tenderness till you believe that you are safe then slap you down. Men whom it is impossible for anyone to love without losing their dignity. Men who have to damage those who love them most. But, then, I had fallen on love with one, so what did that make me?” - Helen Fielding