Man Quotes

The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.

A man needs to look, not down, but up to standards set so much above his ordinary self as to make him feel that he is himself spiritually the underdog.

I've often said there's nothing better for the inside of a man than the outside of a horse.

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

I keep waiting to meet a man who has more balls than I do.

No man was ever wise by chance.

The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.

Man is lost and is wandering in a jungle where real values have no meaning. Real values can have meaning to man only when he steps on to the spiritual path, a path where negative emotions have no use.

A woman's mind is cleaner than a man's: She changes it more often.

The less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice.

Man was made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.

I believe the first test of a truly great man is in his humility.

I like a man who grins when he fights.

Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.

A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.

Death solves all problems - no man, no problem.

The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.

The man who has no inner-life is a slave to his surroundings.

The first test of a truly great man is his humility. By humility I don't mean doubt of his powers or hesitation in speaking his opinion, but merely an understanding of the relationship of what he can say and what he can do.

There is no better proof of a man's being truly good than his desiring to be constantly under the observation of good men.

We must cultivate our own garden. When man was put in the garden of Eden he was put there so that he should work, which proves that man was not born to rest.

The work of an advertising agency is warmly and immediately human. It deals with human needs, wants, dreams and hopes. Its 'product' cannot be turned out on an assembly line.

A child who does not play is not a child, but the man who doesn't play has lost forever the child who lived in him and who he will miss terribly.

Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic.

If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life.

The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.

The man in the street is always a stranger.

Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography of the man himself cannot be written.

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.