Man Quotes

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.

I would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because once I have persuaded him, he will stick. If I scare him, he will stay just as long as he is scared, and then he is gone.

Faith is a living, daring confidence in God's grace, so sure and certain that a man could stake his life on it a thousand times.

Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.

The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.

A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.

God is everywhere but He is most manifest in man. So serve man as God. That is as good as worshipping God.

Man learns through experience, and the spiritual path is full of different kinds of experiences. He will encounter many difficulties and obstacles, and they are the very experiences he needs to encourage and complete the cleansing process.

Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock.

When I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.

Man lives for science as well as bread.

As soon as you set foot on a yacht you belong to some man, not to yourself, and you die of boredom.

If you can keep your wits about you while all others are losing theirs, and blaming you. The world will be yours and everything in it, what's more, you'll be a man, my son.

No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.

One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.

Many a man will have the courage to die gallantly, but will not have the courage to say, or even to think, that the cause for which he is asked to die is an unworthy one.

I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.

A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.

When a man must force himself to be faithful in his love, this is hardly better than unfaithfulness.

Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

God works wonders now and then; Behold a lawyer, an honest man.

A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.

We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.

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.

I blame my mother for my poor sex life. All she told me was 'the man goes on top and the woman underneath.' For three years my husband and I slept in bunk beds.

Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.

Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.

Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.

A great artist is a great man in a great child.

If you want to see the true measure of a man, watch how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.