Man Quotes

Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.

No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.

A man who is good enough to shed his blood for the country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards.

Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes but to get into accord with them: they are legitimately what directs his conduct in the world.

Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.

It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.

Before the throne of the Almighty, man will be judged not by his acts but by his intentions. For God alone reads our hearts.

He who is void of virtuous attachments in private life is, or very soon will be, void of all regard for his country. There is seldom an instance of a man guilty of betraying his country, who had not before lost the feeling of moral obligations in his private connections.

A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.

Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.

No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.

Every woman needs to know the facts. And the fact is, when it comes to breast cancer, every woman is at risk.

A liberal is a man who is willing to spend somebody else's money.

A round man cannot be expected to fit in a square hole right away. He must have time to modify his shape.

A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.

Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.

It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.

Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.

A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.

The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.

Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man.

The wise man does not grow old, but ripens.

A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty.

Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.

Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in the blood of his followers and the sacrifices of his friends.

A man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts.

For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts that are warring in man are not, as the law claims, constant forces in a state of equilibrium.