Man Quotes
There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.
I am what I have always been: the last Renaissance man, if I may be allowed to say so.
The good man is the only excellent musician, because he gives forth a perfect harmony not with a lyre or other instrument but with the whole of his life.
It tires me to talk to rich men. You expect a man of millions, the head of a great industry, to be a man worthhearing; but as a rule they don't know anything outside their own business.
If a man tried to take his time on earth and prove before he died, what one man's life could be worth, well I wonder what would happen to this world?
Credulity is always a ridiculous, often a dangerous failing: it has made of many a clever man, a fool; and of many a good man, a knave.
The purified righteous man has become a coin of the Lord, and has the impress of his King stamped upon him.
The great secret...is not having bad manners or good manners...but having the same manner for all human souls.
If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.
Of all human activities, man's listening to God is the supreme act of his reasoning and will.
The statistician cannot excuse himself from the duty of getting his head clear on the principles of scientific inference, but equally no other thinking man can avoid a like obligation.
If there is one thing upon this earth that mankind love and admire better than another, it is a brave man, - it is the man who dares to look the devil in the face and tell him he is a devil.
every man is free to rise as far as he's able or willing, but the degree to which he thinks determines the degree to which he'll rise.
Every man is a diary in which he writes one story while intending to write another. His humblest moment is when he compares the two
Every man is what he is, because of the DOMINATING THOUGHTS which he permits to occupy his mind.
Any gun in the hands of a bad man is a bad thing. Any gun in the hands of a decent person is no threat to anybody — except bad people.
A pretty girl will always have the toughest time learning to play golf, because every man wants to give her lessons.
The average man is a conformist, accepting miseries and disasters with the stoicism of a cow standing in the rain.
Every man is born with the ability to do something well. This is what the Lord intended him to do. Using that ability - what life is all about.
Self-sacrifice of one innocent man is a million times more potent than the sacrifice of a million men who die in the act of killing others.
All I've ever tried to tell anyone is that I'm not a black man or a white man or anything else. All I've ever been was an American.
He who has renounced all violence towards all living beings, weak or strong, who neither kills nor causes others to kill - him I do call a holy man.
There is in every man a certain feeling that he has been what he is from all eternity, and by no means become such in time.
Everybody, my friend, everybody lives for something better to come. That's why we want to be considerate of every man - Who knows what's in him, why he was born and what he can do?
Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.
The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.
He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.