Man Quotes

A man can be destroyed but not defeated.

Man is by nature a political animal.

A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.

Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob.

America is a Nation with a mission - and that mission comes from our most basic beliefs. We have no desire to dominate, no ambitions of empire. Our aim is a democratic peace - a peace founded upon the dignity and rights of every man and woman.

Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

I believe in the dignity of labor, whether with head or hand; that the world owes no man a living but that it owes every man an opportunity to make a living.

Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness... and so frivolous is he that, though full of a thousand reasons for weariness, the least thing, such as playing billiards or hitting a ball, is sufficient enough to amuse him.

Is the babe young? When I behold it, it seems more venerable than the oldest man.

One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him.

A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.

Let men see, let them know, a real man, who lives as he was meant to live.

Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the headless monster, a great, brutish idiot that goes where prodded.

Man does not control his own fate. The women in his life do that for him.

Classic economic theory, based as it is on an inadequate theory of human motivation, could be revolutionized by accepting the reality of higher human needs, including the impulse to self actualization and the love for the highest values.

A man is known by the silence he keeps.

If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.

No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.

I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.

I love not man the less, but Nature more.

There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price only are this man's lawful prey.

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.

A man's heart may have a secret sanctuary where only one woman may enter, but it is full of little anterooms which are seldom vacant.

I have never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.

From the smallest necessity to the highest religious abstraction, from the wheel to the skyscraper, everything we are and everything we have comes from one attribute of man - the function of his reasoning mind.

The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.

A man can't ride your back unless it's bent.

Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.

If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.