The Man Quotes

In a rich man's house there is no place to spit but his face.

I never learned from a man who agreed with me.

The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.

The secret of success lies not in doing your own work, but in recognizing the right man to do it.

What one man calls God, another calls the laws of physics.

That's all a man can hope for during his lifetime - to set an example - and when he is dead, to be an inspiration for history.

A knife of the keenest steel requires the whetstone, and the wisest man needs advice.

To a brave man, good and bad luck are like his left and right hand. He uses both.

The white man’s victory soon became complete by fraud, violence, intimidation and murder.

A smart man can't beat a hardworking man and a hard working man can't beat a happy working man.

Behind every great man is not a woman, she is beside him, she is with him, not behind him

I was born to give the white man hell, and I will give him hell from the cradle to the grave.

The Negro enslaved by his inferiority, the white man enslaved by his superiority alike behave in accordance with a neurotic orientation.

Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality.

Every man has a wild beast within him.

The difference between a great man and a little man is their commitment to Integrity and Hard Work

The rich man who gives to the poor does not bestow alms but pays a debt.

When a free man dies, he loses the pleasure of life. A slave loses his pain. Death is the only freedom a slave knows. That's why he's not afraid of it. That's why we'll win.

We have to build a better man before we can build a better society.

Perfect as the wing of a bird may be, it will never enable the bird to fly if unsupported by the air. Facts are the air of science. Without them a man of science can never rise.

A poor man is not the one without a cent. A poor man is the one without a dream.

The bad man desires arbitrary power. What moves the evil man is the love of injustice.

Here every man may be master and owner of his owne labour and land...If he have nothing but his hands, he may...by industrie quickly grow rich.

The man don't make the vision; the vision makes the man.

The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.

One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do.

The main thing is to be moved, to love, to hope, to tremble, to live. Be a man before being an artist!

I am a free man, the slave of Christ.

A wise man once said, never discuss philosophy or politics in a disco environment.

Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age - as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.

Most women set out to try to change a man, and when they have changed him they do not like him.

Our government... teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy.

A tree is like a saint. It calls no one to itself, nor does it send anyone away. It offers to protect everyone who wants to come to it, whether this be a man, a woman, a child, or an animal.

One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

I don't stand for the black man's side, I don' t stand for the white man's side. I stand for God's side.

Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

And seeing every man is presumed to do all things in order to his own benefit, no man is a fit Arbitrator in his own cause

In my idea General Washington is the greatest man; for I look upon him as the most virtuous.

Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.

I'd marry again if I found a man who had fifteen million dollars, would sign over half to me, and guarantee that he'd be dead within a year.

Human beings are born with the instinct to express themselves through movement. Even before he could communicate with words, primitive man was dancing to the beat of his own heart.

White man goes into his churches to talk about Jesus, the Indian into his Tepee to talk to Jesus (with Peyote etc).

Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him.

No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.

A man's respect for law and order exists in precise relationship to the size of his paycheck.

Of course you want to be rich and famous. It's natural. Wealth and fame are what every man desires. The question is: What are you willing to trade for it?

This white man who is saying "it takes time." For three hundred and more years they have had "time," and now it is time for them to listen.

Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.

One man's transparency is another's humiliation.

There is no room for God in the man who is filled with himself.