“If ever you feel like an animal among men, be a lion.” ― Criss Jami
Looking for short Instagram captions and bios that aren’t cringey? Instead of cheesy and overused captions and bios, you might want to look to the words of the wise for short but profound quotes. You could keep the words in quotations and remove the author—it can be sort of a game to people to guess who said it.
These are quotes about courage, life, success, etc… to add some depth and life to your captions and bios on Instagram. We are in favor of travel and taking chances, so many of these quotes reflect those sentiments. We’ve tried to attribute them correctly, so if you ever find any discrepancies in a quote, please let us know asap. We really don’t like the weird Internet misrepresentations of quotes (we’re looking at you, fake Einsteins and MLK Jr.’s!!
So anyway… Dare to be #deep and stuff— CAPTIONS first and BIOS down below. Here are some options that we personally like:
Short Instagram Captions for Guys
1. Genius must be born; it can never be taught. –John Dryden
2. “Get busy living, or get busy dying.” – The Shawshank Redemption
3. Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it. –George Bernard Shaw
4. The fool, with all his other faults, has this also: he is always getting ready to live. –Epicurus
5. A jackass can kick a barn down, but it takes a carpenter to build one. –Sam Rayburn
6. Life is not so important as the duties of life. –John Randolph
7. The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. –Henry David Thoreau
8. Never complain and never explain. –Benjamin Disraeli
9. “A flute without holes is not a flute. A donut without a hole is a Danish.” – Caddyshack
10. Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry. –Mark Twain
11. All mankind love a lover. –Ralph Waldo Emerson
12. Man is a fallen god who remembers the heavens. –Alphonse de Lamartine
13. There are as many opinions as there are experts. –Franklin D. Roosevelt
14. There are no uninteresting things, there are only uninterested people. –Gilbert Keith Chesterson
15. If we face our tasks with the resolution to solve them, who shall say that anything is impossible. –Wilfred Grenfell
16. “You’re so money and you don’t even know it.” – Swingers
17. All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream –Edgar Allan Poe
18. The more a man dreams, the less he believes. –H.L. Mencken
19. The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind is curiosity. –Edmund Burke
20. They damn what they do not understand. –Quintilian
21. The strongest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage. –Michel de Montaigne
22. It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees. –La Pasionaria
23. Courage consists, not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing and conquering it. –Jean Paul Richter
24. Often the test of courage is not to die but to live. –Vittorio Alfieri
25. Fortune befriends the bold. –John Dryden
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26. Every man of courage is a man of his word. –Pierre Corneille
27. You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man; a contented mind confers it all. –Horace
28. “Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.” ― Albert Einstein
29. “You’re not how much money you have in the bank. You’re not the car you drive. You’re not the contents of your wallet. You’re not your f*cking khakis.” – Fight Club
30. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong. –Oscar Wilde
31. “Let the improvement of yourself keep you so busy that you have no time to criticize others.” ― Roy T. Bennett
32. Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed. –Disraeli
33. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
34. No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself. – Seneca
35. “A man should be able to hear, and to bear, the worst that could be said of him.” –Saul Bellow
35. “There are two questions a man must ask himself: The first is ‘Where am I going?’ and the second is ‘Who will go with me?’ If you ever get these questions in the wrong order you are in trouble.” –Sam Keen
36. “Men of ideas and men of action have much to learn from each other, and the truly great are men of both action and abstraction.” –Jack Donovan
37. “You’re a thousand beautifully broken pieces, welded together again. Made stronger. More resilient.” ― Candace Knoebel
38. “Endurance precedes success.” ― Wayne Chirisa
Short Instagram Bios for Guys
1. “I don’t want to die without any scars.” – Fight Club
2. “I’m preparing for a tough war. It will bring us neither money or fame. Want to join?” – Seven Samurai
3. Greetings, my excellent friends. – Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure
4. “Are you not entertained?” – Gladiator
5. “It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.” ― Herman Melville
6. The ground that a good man treads is hallowed. –Goethe
7. The absurd man is one who never changes. –Auguste Barthelemy
8. Man is born to live, not to prepare for life. –Boris Pasternak
9. One man in his time plays many parts. –Shakespeare
10. Character is what you are in the dark. –Attributed to Dwight L. Moody
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11. I walk slowly but I never walk backward. –Attributed to Abraham Lincoln
12. “This is the test of your manhood: How much is there left in you after you have lost everything outside of yourself?” –Orison Swett Marden
13. ‘I awake to do the work of a man.’” –Marcus Aurelius
14. “Manhood is the defeat of childhood narcissism.” –David Gilmore
15. “A man’s got to have a code, a creed to live by, no matter his job.” –John Wayne
16. “It is not the situation which makes the man, but the man who makes the situation.” –Frederick William Robertson
17. If boys don’t learn, men won’t know. – Douglas Wilson
18. “Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one.” –Marcus Aurelius
19. “To be a man is, precisely, to be responsible.” –-Antoine de Saint-Exupery
20. “To be a man requires that you accept everything life has to give you, beginning with your name.” –Burl Ives
21. “This life makes no room for cowards.” ― C. JoyBell
22. “If ever you feel like an animal among men, be a lion.” ― Criss Jami, Diotima
23. “Be humble: have the courage to speak the truth.” ― Ken Poirot
24. “Love me, hate me, hurt me or kill me. I keep fighting.” ― Jonathan Harnisch, The Brutal Truth
25. “Courage never disappoints.” ― Archana Chaurasia Kapoor
26. “Think of strength, dream of strength, live of strength.” ― Abhijit Naskar, Principia Humanitas