Man Quotes

Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality; man, alone, can dream and make his dreams come true.

All ideologies are idiotic, whether religious or political, for it is conceptual thinking, the conceptual word, which has so unfortunately divided man.

Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.

Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.

Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.

Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.

A blessed thing it is for any man or woman to have a friend, one human soul whom we can trust utterly, who knows the best and worst of us, and who loves us in spite of all our faults.

Every man needs two women: a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.

If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.

If it were not for the company of fools, a witty man would often be greatly at a loss.

The petty man is eager to make boasts, yet desires that others should believe in him. He enthusiastically engages in deception, yet wants others to have affection for him. He conducts himself like an animal, yet wants others to think well of him.

The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection.

It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy to deprive a man of his natural liberty upon the supposition he may abuse it.

It only stands to reason that where there's sacrifice, there's someone collecting the sacrificial offerings. Where there's service, there is someone being served. The man who speaks to you of sacrifice is speaking of slaves and masters, and intends to be the master.

A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.

A broken heart is a very pleasant complaint for a man in London if he has a comfortable income.

I never learned from a man who agreed with me.

There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.

It is with an old love as it is with old age a man lives to all the miseries, but is dead to all the pleasures.

Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It's a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment.

No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not.

God... a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man's power to conceive.

The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

The right man is the one who seizes the moment.

The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.

Love is the expression of one's values, the greatest reward you can earn for the moral qualities you have achieved in your character and person, the emotional price paid by one man for the joy he receives from the virtues of another.

The man who lets a leader prescribe his course is a wreck being towed to the scrap heap.

As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes and threats of heaven and sea, himself standing unmoved.

The best way to hold a man is in your arms.