Man Quotes

Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it; and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him.

What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualization.

A man is born alone and dies alone; and he experiences the good and bad consequences of his karma alone; and he goes alone to hell or the Supreme abode.

Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer. In both cases, a man is responsible for his choice and must accept the consequences, whatever they may be.

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.

Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes.

Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.

When man lives under government, he is fallen, his worth is gone, and his nature tarnished.

Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise.

Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.

The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.

A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle and patriotism is loyalty to that principle.

If a man or woman is born ten years sooner or later, their whole aspect and performance shall be different.

There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.

The only time a woman really succeeds in changing a man is when he is a baby.

Man, I just feel blessed... I was in a situation where the only way I could come out of it was by putting my faith in God. No matter how good my lawyers were, no matter how much celebrity I had, everything was just stacked up against me.

No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.

I have a different constitution. I have a different brain; I have a different heart; I got tiger blood, man.

By the time a man gets to be presidential material, he's been bought ten times over.

Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.

Great and good are seldom the same man.

I am for violence if non-violence means we continue postponing a solution to the American black man's problem just to avoid violence.

When man learns to understand and control his own behavior as well as he is learning to understand and control the behavior of crop plants and domestic animals, he may be justified in believing that he has become civilized.

Every man over forty is a scoundrel.

A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man.

Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face.

Alcohol may be man's worst enemy, but the bible says love your enemy.

A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man in fever. Just so should a wise man treat all mankind, as a physician does his patient, and look upon them only as sick and extravagant.

Although I do wrong, I do not the wrongs that I am charged with doing; the wrong that I do is through the frailty of human nature, like other men. No man lives without fault.

If a man knows not what harbor he seeks, any wind is the right wind.