Man Quotes

We must cultivate our own garden. When man was put in the garden of Eden he was put there so that he should work, which proves that man was not born to rest.

The work of an advertising agency is warmly and immediately human. It deals with human needs, wants, dreams and hopes. Its 'product' cannot be turned out on an assembly line.

A child who does not play is not a child, but the man who doesn't play has lost forever the child who lived in him and who he will miss terribly.

Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic.

If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life.

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.

I would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because once I have persuaded him, he will stick. If I scare him, he will stay just as long as he is scared, and then he is gone.

Faith is a living, daring confidence in God's grace, so sure and certain that a man could stake his life on it a thousand times.

Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.

The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.

A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.

God is everywhere but He is most manifest in man. So serve man as God. That is as good as worshipping God.

Man learns through experience, and the spiritual path is full of different kinds of experiences. He will encounter many difficulties and obstacles, and they are the very experiences he needs to encourage and complete the cleansing process.

Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock.

When I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.

Man lives for science as well as bread.

As soon as you set foot on a yacht you belong to some man, not to yourself, and you die of boredom.

If you can keep your wits about you while all others are losing theirs, and blaming you. The world will be yours and everything in it, what's more, you'll be a man, my son.

No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.

One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.

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.