Man Quotes

If a man achieves victory over this body, who in the world can exercise power over him? He who rules himself rules over the whole world.

At 30 a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects and qualities, know how far he can go, foretell his failures - be what he is. And, above all, accept these things.

What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts.

Man is the only animal that blushes - or needs to.

I'm convinced that the man who has learned to meditate upon the Lord will be able to run on his feet and walk in his spirit. Although he may be hurried by his vocation, that's not the issue. The issue is how fast his spirit is going. To slow it down takes a period of time.

The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers.

Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

That man is rich whose pleasures are the cheapest.

If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and stare.

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.

The Negro needs the white man to free him from his fears. The white man needs the Negro to free him from his guilt.

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.