Man Quotes

The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.

The man in the street is always a stranger.

Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography of the man himself cannot be written.

Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even.

Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults.

Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.

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

A man is truly free, even here in this embodied state, if he knows that God is the true agent and he by himself is powerless to do anything.

The life of an uneducated man is as useless as the tail of a dog which neither covers its rear end, nor protects it from the bites of insects.

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.

One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do.

I would like to be remembered as a man who had a wonderful time living life, a man who had good friends, fine family - and I don't think I could ask for anything more than that, actually.

O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!

Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another.

The security fence is reversible. Human lives are irreversible.

There are three principles in a man's being and life, the principle of thought, the principle of speech, and the principle of action. The origin of all conflict between me and my fellow-men is that I do not say what I mean and I don't do what I say.

I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinions of himself than on the opinions of others.

A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.

The white man is not indigenous to Africa. Africa is for Africans. Zimbabwe is for Zimbabweans.

A house must be built on solid foundations if it is to last. The same principle applies to man, otherwise he too will sink back into the soft ground and becomes swallowed up by the world of illusion.

A woman can be anything the man who loves her would have her be.

There's nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It's a thing no married man knows anything about.

What a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron back, with a hinge in it.

I am in love - and, my God, it is the greatest thing that can happen to a man. I tell you, find a woman you can fall in love with. Do it. Let yourself fall in love. If you have not done so already, you are wasting your life.

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.

Roll on, deep and dark blue ocean, roll. Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain. Man marks the earth with ruin, but his control stops with the shore.

There is a sufficiency in the world for man's need but not for man's greed.

What is man's ultimate direction in life? It is to look for love, truth, virtue, and beauty.

The measure of a man is what he does with power.

I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.