Man Quotes

It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important.

It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance, and that, in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things.

The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.

A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.

Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.

The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.

Searching for what I need, and I don't even know precisely what that is, I was going from a man to a man, and I saw that all of them together have less than me who has nothing, and that I left to each of them a bit of that what I don't have and I've been searching for.

Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.

I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.

A man can do only what he can do. But if he does that each day he can sleep at night and do it again the next day.

The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.

If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest.

Laws control the lesser man... Right conduct controls the greater one.

Every man regards his own life as the New Year's Eve of time.

I know you are here to kill me. Shoot, coward, you are only going to kill a man.

All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can't be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot.

No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned... a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company.

No man ever achieved worth-while success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure.

Man cannot live without joy; therefore when he is deprived of true spiritual joys it is necessary that he become addicted to carnal pleasures.

The man who never in his mind and thoughts travel'd to heaven is no artist.

I like a man who's good, but not too good - for the good die young, and I hate a dead one.

Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.

When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.

If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear.

Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.

The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.

A man must be willing to die for justice. Death is an inescapable reality and men die daily, but good deeds live forever.

For Africa to me... is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place.

Ridicule dishonors a man more than dishonor does.