Man Quotes

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.

It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.

When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.

I had the blues because I had no shoes until upon the street, I met a man who had no feet.

A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him.

It is in the admission of ignorance and the admission of uncertainty that there is a hope for the continuous motion of human beings in some direction that doesn't get confined, permanently blocked, as it has so many times before in various periods in the history of man.

All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages.

Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he has the whole world to act in, is not clear to me.

Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions.

Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.

A man can be short and dumpy and getting bald but if he has fire, women will like him.

A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights.

The strength of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts.

I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.

Every man dies. Not every man lives.

He's the kind of man a woman would have to marry to get rid of.

A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.

If a man can... make a better mousetrap, the world will make a beaten path to his door.

I submit to you that if a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

Passion is the evil in adultery. If a man has no opportunity of living with another man's wife, but if it is obvious for some reason that he would like to do so, and would do so if he could, he is no less guilty than if he was caught in the act.

I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man.

The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.

On neither the sun, nor death, can a man look fixedly.

A man who lives right, and is right, has more power in his silence than another has by his words.

The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic.

A clever man commits no minor blunders.

A man who was completely innocent, offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others, including his enemies, and became the ransom of the world. It was a perfect act.

Just as a man would not cherish living in a body other than his own, so do nations not like to live under other nations, however noble and great the latter may be.

Adventure is not outside man; it is within.

Non-violence requires a double faith, faith in God and also faith in man.