Man Quotes

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.

Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.

Every man is a creative cause of what happens, a primum mobile with an original movement.

I don't see myself being special; I just see myself having more responsibilities than the next man. People look to me to do things for them, to have answers.

One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't.

It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.

The basic tenet of black consciousness is that the black man must reject all value systems that seek to make him a foreigner in the country of his birth and reduce his basic human dignity.

If God had wanted man to play soccer, he wouldn't have given us arms.

A profound political question is suddenly on the table: Must the country continue to give precedence to private financial gain and market determinism over human lives and broad public values?

For the wise man looks into space and he knows there is no limited dimensions.

A life is either all spiritual or not spiritual at all. No man can serve two masters. Your life is shaped by the end you live for. You are made in the image of what you desire.

I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.

A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.

There's one way to find out if a man is honest - ask him. If he says, "Yes," you know he is a crook.

A man calumniated is doubly injured - first by him who utters the calumny, and then by him who believes it.

Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself.

But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?

A man that does not know how to be angry does not know how to be good.

A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding.

Man is not free unless government is limited.

A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.

Night, the beloved. Night, when words fade and things come alive. When the destructive analysis of day is done, and all that is truly important becomes whole and sound again. When man reassembles his fragmentary self and grows with the calm of a tree.

I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

For there is no defense for a man who, in the excess of his wealth, has kicked the great altar of Justice out of sight.

If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.

If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words.

It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.

A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life.

A man is not rightly conditioned until he is a happy, healthy, and prosperous being; and happiness, health, and prosperity are the result of a harmonious adjustment of the inner with the outer of the man with his surroundings.