Man Quotes

Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance - the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it; better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen.

Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another.

What is a television apparatus to man, who has only to shut his eyes to see the most inaccessible regions of the seen and the never seen, who has only to imagine in order to pierce through walls and cause all the planetary Baghdads of his dreams to rise from the dust.

What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do.

In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so.

History proves abundantly that pure science, undertaken without regard to applications to human needs, is usually ultimately of direct benefit to mankind.

Ain't no man can avoid being born average, but there ain't no man got to be common.

A man can be himself only so long as he is alone.

As a man sow, shall he reap. and I know that talk is cheap. But the heat of the battle is as sweet as the victory.

As a man is, so he sees. As the eye is formed, such are its powers.

Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess.

A hard man is good to find.

She is a friend of mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It's good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind.

It takes a great man to be a good listener.

Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man.

The man who builds a factory builds a temple, that the man who works there worships there, and to each is due, not scorn and blame, but reverence and praise.

If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.

Think where man's glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.

Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.

No man is rich enough to buy back his past.

A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.

One man with a gun can control 100 without one.

The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows whither he is going.

The word "good" has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.

There is a God shaped vacuum in the heart of every man which cannot be filled by any created thing, but only by God, the Creator, made known through Jesus.

No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged to reveal themselves, their perceptions and emotions, and to build confidence in the creative spirit.

Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive. This facility makes it the most versatile and explicit means of communication yet devised for quick mass appreciation.

The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time.