Man Quotes
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Every man is a book in which God himself writes.
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When a rules man gives you a ruling, that’s it. Amen.
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If a man can tell if he's been successful in his life by having great friends, then I have been very successful.
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Truly God was good, to make man so blind.
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Although man is not armed by nature nor is naturally swiftest in flight, yet he has something better by far—reason. For by the possession of this function he exceeds the beasts to such a degree that he subdues. … You see, therefore, how much the gift of reason surpasses mere physical equipment.
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His constant fight is with the Nafs self-interest, the root of all disharmony and the only enemy of man. By crushing this enemy man gains mastery over himself; this wins for him mastery over the whole universe, because the wall standing between the self and the Almighty has been broken down. Gentleness, mildness, respect, humility, modesty, self-denial, conscientiousness, tolerance and forgiveness are considered by the Sufi as the attributes which produce harmony within one's own soul as well as within that of another.
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To the man grown the long crowded mile of his boyhood becomes less than the throw of a stone.
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Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world's phenomena intersect, only once in this way, and never again.
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It is my conviction that no normal man ever fell in love, within the ordinary meaning of the term, after the age of thirty.
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The glutton is much more than an animal and much less than a man.
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Whenever there is a hard job to be done I assign it to a lazy man; he is sure to find an easy way of doing it.
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I may not be the man I want to be; I may not be the man I ought to be; I may not be the man I could be; I may not be the man I truly can be; but praise God, I'm not the man I once was.
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Man that is of woman born is apt to be as vain as his mother
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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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What can a man do with music who is not benevolent?
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Femininity doesn't always relate to being a woman and masculinity doesn't always relate to being a man; it's a quality of being-ness. Women have to portray the quality of masculinity; society wants it to be like a man; not necessarily male, but like a man. If that makes sense...In nature itself, there's yin and yang, there's masculine and feminine.
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It takes longer for man to find out man than any other creature that is made.
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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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Himsa does not need to be taught, Man as animal is violent, but as spirit is nonviolent.
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It should be easy for a man who's strong to say he's sorry or admit when he's wrong.
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That state of mind in which a man is impressed with invisible things is faith.
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A man who does not forget an agreement is resolved and honorable man.
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I never knew any man cured of inattention.