Man Quotes
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A man must rise by his own efforts and walk by faith.
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The Superior Man is aware of Righteousness, the inferior man is aware of advantage.
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The best years of a man's life are after he is forty. A man at forty has ceased to hunt the moon.
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A successful surgeon should be a man who, when asked to name the three best surgeons in the world, would have difficulty deciding on the other two.
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The way is light and fluid for the man with no preferences.
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The Parisan, sauntering the streets idly, is as often a man in despair as a lounger.
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Neither man nor nation can exist without a sublime idea.
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Existence alone had never been enough for him; he had always wanted more. Perhaps it was only from the force of his desires that he had regarded himself as a man to whom more was permitted than to others.
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I thought of my mother. Freud wrote that no man is secure in the love of his mother can ever be a failure. Well, I had been busy proving that theory wrong.
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You should not take old people who are already dead seriously. It does them injustice. We immortals do not like things to be taken seriously. We like joking. Seriousness, young man, is an accident of time. It consists, I don't mind telling you in confidence, in putting too high a value on time. I, too, once put too high a value on time. For that reason I wished to be a hundred years old. In eternity, however, there is no time, you see. Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke.
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If a man has character, he has also his typical experience, which always recurs.
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I felt exactly like the man in the advertisement who has not devoted fifteen minutes a day to the study of the classics. If only I thought I had devoted fifteen minutes a day to the cultivation of the aesthetic attitude! I could bound Afghanistan.
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A man that is afraid is never a man.
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He is the truly courageous man who never desponds.
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God exalts the man who humbles himself.
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While a man is stringing a harp, he tries the strings, not for music, but for construction. When it is finished it shall be played for melodies. God is fashioning the human heart for future joy. He only sounds a string here and there to see how far His work has progressed.
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[On his father] He was a man of another age, really, holding a set of values that differed in essence from those that most men hold today. The son of a pioneer settler, he grew up believing along with most of the men of his world that a man’s physical strength was his measure.
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The good man is he for whom, because he is virtuous, the things that are absolutely good are good; it is also plain that his use of these goods must be virtuous and in the absolute sense good.
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Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.
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A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.
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Nothing degrades a man do more than the allowed stoop so low as to hate someone.
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Maybe the difference between being a boy and being a man is that boys couldn’t control the awful things they sometimes felt. And men could. That afternoon, I was just a boy. Not even close to being a man.
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Of course, it wasn't my fault. I didn't shoot the man. But he was a civilian, and I ask myself, 'What was his fault?'
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There is no such thing as a fallen woman - you just need to look for the man who pushed her.
