What Is Man Quotes

Baseball gives every American boy a chance to excel, not just to be as good as someone else but to be better than someone else. This is the nature of man and the name of the game.

We should work for simple, good, undecorated things, but things which are in harmony with the human being and organically suited to the little man in the street.

Here I am at the turn of the millennium and I'm still the last man to have walked on the moon, somewhat disappointing. It says more about what we have not done than about what we have done.

Character is what a man is in the dark.

To a woman nothing seems quite impossible to the powers of the man she worships.

I fear no man, no beast or evil, brother.

The ultimate end of all revolutionary social change is to establish the sanctity of human life, the dignity of man, the right of every human being to liberty and well-being.

A woman is gentle, soft, delicate, and a man's position is to protect her, help her up stairs, make sure she's in the car safely first. Take good care of your woman, and the sky's the limit!

I have believed the best of every man. And find that to believe is enough to make a bad man show him at his best, or even a good man swings his lantern higher.

The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him.

Music is given to us with the sole purpose of establishing an order in things, including, and particularly, the coordination between man and time.

Man is not what he thinks he is, he is what he hides.

To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one's responsibility as a free man.

The passing of an ordinary man is sad. The passing of a great man is tragic, and doubly tragic when the greatness passes before the man does.

Nothing inspires more reverence and awe in me than an old man who knows how to change his mind.

Never trust a man who combs his hair straight from his left armpit.

Religion is man-made. Even the men who made it cannot agree on what their prophets or redeemers or gurus actually said or did.

Everyone says that looks don't matter, age doesn't matter, money doesn't matter. But i never met a girl yet who has fallen in love with an old ugly man who's broke.

I have never seen a generous man go bankrupt.

White men make up 30% of America but they hold 70% of the board seats.

The only time the white man is brotherly toward you is when he can use you, when he can exploit you, when he will oppress you, when you will submit to him.

Love turns man into an ocean of happiness, an image of peace, a temple of wisdom. Love is every man's very Self, his true beauty, and the glory of his human existence.

How we lie to ourselves when we've fallen in love with the wrong man.

Since I came here I have learned that Chester A. Arthur is one man and the President of the United States is another.

I have always believed helping your fellow man is profitable in every sense, personally and bottom line.

If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.

A man ought to live so that everybody knows he is a Christian... and most of all, his family ought to know.

Seems like God don't see fit to give the black man nothing but dreams - but He did give us children to make them dreams seem worthwhile.

Not longer loved or fostered by religion, beauty is lifted from its face as a mask, and its absence exposes features on that face which threaten to become incomprehensible to man.

The battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man.

If you really believe in the brotherhood of man, and you want to come into its fold, you've got to let everyone else in, too.

Never trust a man with short legs. His brains are too near his bottom.

How can land be owned by another man. Warns one can not steal what was given as a gift. Is the sky owned by birds and the rivers owned by fish.

Racism is America's greatest disease, racism is a disease of the white man.

Every man is his own worst enemy

A legend is an old man with a cane known for what he used to do. I'm still doing it.

A new dynasty is never founded without a struggle. Blood makes good manure.

Pitch a lucky man into the Nile, says the Arabian proverb, and he will come up with a fish in his mouth!

Any alleged 'right' of one man, which necessitates the violation of the rights of another, is not and cannot be a right.

The man who can master his time can master nearly anything.

The militia is our ultimate safety. We can have no security without it. The great object is that every man be armed.

This is a team game and one man doesn't win and one man doesn't lose. In the end, the best team usually wins.

Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it.

Does not the gratitude of the dog put to shame any man who is ungrateful to his benefactors?

A speculator is a man who observes the future, and acts before it occurs.

Better to trust the man who is frequently in error than the one who is never in doubt.

Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which belie the idea that things cannot be changed.

A man is called selfish not for pursuing his own good, but for neglecting his neighbor's.

The historic ascent of humanity, taken as a whole, may be summarized as a succession of victories of consciousness over blind forces - in nature, in society, in man himself.

There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.