The Man Quotes
It doesn't take the most powerful nations on Earth to create the next global conflict. Just the will of a single man.
Any church may have a mighty man of God for its pastor, if it is willing to pay the price, and that price is not a big salary, but great praying.
Whenever there is a hard job to be done I assign it to a lazy man; he is sure to find an easy way of doing it.
The fight for the right to life is not the cause of a special few, but the cause of every man, woman and child who cares not only about his or her own family, but the whole family of man.
The strength of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts.
How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted.
But man has still another powerful resource: natural science with its strictly objective methods.
When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.
With my old man I got no respect. He told me never take candy from a stranger unless he offered me a ride.
You do not have to be the son of a rich man to be an entrepreneur. Today kids are far more willing to take risks because they've seen high rewards.
It is every man's obligation to put back into the world at least the equivalent of what he takes out of it.
The Little Man does not know that he is little, and he is afraid of knowing it. He covers up his smallness and narrowness with illusions of strength and greatness...
The downfall of every civilization comes, not from the moral corruption of the common man, but rather from the moral complacency of common men in high places.
One can know a man from his laugh, and if you like a man's laugh before you know anything of him, you may confidently say that he is a good man.
Never say you cannot afford something. That is a poor man's attitude. Ask HOW to afford it.
A free man will ask neither what his country can do for him nor what he can do for his country.
Fighting, to me, seems barbaric. I don't really like it. I enjoy out-thinking another man and out-maneuvering him, but I still don't like to fight.
President Eisenhower was a fine general and a good, decent man, but if he had fought World War II the way he fought for civil rights, we would all be speaking German now.
The three most destructive words that every man receives when he's a boy is when he's told to 'be a man'.
Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even.
A man acquainted with history may, in some respect, be said to have lived from the beginning of the world, and to have been making continual additions to his stock of knowledge in every century.
When I was a young man, I was poor. In a war with other nations, I was in eighty-seven fights. There I received my name and was made Chief of my nation. But now I am old and am for peace.
The heart is like a woman, and the head is like a man, and although man is the head of woman, woman is the heart of man, and she turns man's head because she turns his heart.
Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth.
They let dangerous men out of prison now, yes sir, I'm afraid it's so. Cause they're over crowded and it was only his fifth offense.
Individualism regards man-every man-as an independent, sovereign entity who possesses an inalienable right to his own life, a right derived from his nature as a rational being.
The American dream is not that every man must be level with every other man. The American dream is that every man must be free to become whatever God intends he should become.
The city of Memphis has demonstrated that neither character nor standing avails the Negro if he dares to protect himself against the white man or become his rival.
Every man's story is important, eternal and sacred. That is why every man, as long as he lives and fulfills the will of nature, is wondrous and worthy of every consideration.
The superior man... does not set his mind either for or against anything, he will pursue whatever is right. The superior man thinks of virtue, the common man of comfort.
The superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest; success only comes later.
Well, killing a man isn't clean and quick and simple. It's bloody and awful. And maybe if enough people come to realize that shooting somebody isn't just fun and games, maybe we'll get somewhere.
The devil would gladly give a Bible to every man and promote obedience to its commands if in exchange we would surrender to him the Gospel