Be A Man Quotes

It would do the world good if every man would compel himself occasionally to be absolutely alone. Most of the world s progress has come out of such loneliness.

When you see a good man, think of emulating him; when you see a bad man, examine your own heart.

I do not fear the man who practices 1,000 kicks one time each. I fear the man who practices 1 kick 1,000 times.

Every man has his excuses, and the more vile the man becomes, the more touching the story has to be. What is my story now, I wonder?

Of a truth, men are mystically united: a mystic bond of brotherhood makes all men one.

Soft, sweet things with a lot of fancy dressing - that's what a little boy loves to eat and a grown man prefers to marry.

I think that feminists have definitely underestimated the role that women have had historically. I think I would be insecure if I were to be a man; there's so much pressure on you.

A healthy appetite for righteousness, kept in due control by good manners, is an excellent thing; but to hunger and thirst after it is often merely a symptom of spiritual diabetes.

There is no record in the Bible of a weak man falling.

Estimated from a wife's experience, the average man spends fully one-quarter of his life in looking for his shoes.

An honest man is all right even if he's an idiot...but a crook must have brains.

The good man's past begins to change so that his forgiven sins and remembered sorrows take on the quality of Heaven.

In France every man is either an anvil or a hammer; he is a beater or must be beaten.

If you bleed Black Label and you're going to be a man, you gotta get up there and do what you gotta do every day, relentless and as tired as you can be.

To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a far slower reformation, is what each begins and perfects on himself.

Good manners on a man are like wearing an exquisite suit. They never go out of style

It is of no consequence of what parents a man is born, as long as he be a man of merit.

Marriage entitles women to the protection of a strong man who will steady the stepladder while they paint the kitchen ceiling.

...they discovered only a small asteroid inhabited by a solitary old man who claimed repeatedly that nothing was true, though he was later discovered to be lying.

What counts alone is the innovator, the dissenter, the harbinger of things unheard of, the man who rejects the traditional standards and aims at substituting new values and ideas for old ones.

There are three things which the superior man guards against. In youth ... lust. When he is strong ... quarrelsomeness. When he is old ... covetousness.

When Jesus Christ shed his blood on the cross, it was not the blood of a martyr; or the blood of one man for another; it was the life of God poured out to redeem the world.

I made a mistake and I'll work in the season to be better. It's part of life to be a man and don't try to hide something if it's broken.

The proud man can learn humility, but he will be proud of it.

The gentleman is calm and at ease. The gentleman is dignified but not proud; the small man is proud but not dignified.

I'm a simple, simple man.

Without goodness a man cannot endure adversity for long, nor can he enjoy prosperity for long. The good man is naturally at ease with goodness. The wise man cultivates goodness for its advantage.

Im told Im like my father, and he was the most wonderful man. But I think he was gentler than me.

He (John Major) has the mulishness of a weak man with stupidity.

Heaven is on this earth. There are no angels on the clouds with twanging harps... That's just another man's fantasy.

It is easy enough to say that poverty is no crime. No; if it were men wouldn't be ashamed of it. It is a blunder, though, and is punished as such. A poor man is despised the whole world over.

When one man speaks to another man who doesn't understand him, and when a man who's speaking no longer understands, it's metaphysics.

Every man carries the entire form of human condition.

To an honest man, it is an honor to have remembered his duty.

Far from rejecting such a good man as you, He never even abandons a wicked man who hopes for His mercy.

Best is the man who thinks for himself.

Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.

A convinced man differs from a prejudiced man as an honest man from a liar.

Every good leader is part manager and every good manager is part leader.

We need to ditch the idea that there is any value in the strong and silent man being in any way attractive. Being silent isn't being strong, it's being a victim.

Youth doesn't reason, it acts. The old man reasons and would like to make the others act in his place.

Let every man come to God in his own way.

A man who takes away another man's freedom is a prisoner of hatred, he is locked behind the bars of prejudice and narrow mindedness.

African famine is not a visitation of fate. It is largely man-made, and the men who made it are largely Africans.

One man is born with a silver spoon in his mouth, and the other with a wooden ladle.

When the Muslims deliver the indictment of the American system, it is not the white man per se that is being doomed.

If I never do another show, I'll die a happy man.

The best of all the preachers are the men who live their creeds.

Good manners spring from just one thing - kind impulses.

The white man's God cannot love our people or He would protect them. They seem to be orphans who can look nowhere for help. How then can we be brothers?