Man Quotes
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Look at a man the way he is and he only becomes worse, but look at him as if he were what he could be, then he becomes what he should be.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
“Each man is the architect of his own fortune.”
Appius Claudius Caecus
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Do not praise an undeserving man because of his riches.
Bias of Priene -
Any fool can waste, any fool can muddle, but it takes something of a man to save, and the more he saves the more of a man does it make of him.
Rudyard Kipling -
You would fancy any man who gave you baklava," I tease. "You think I am some kind of sharmuta for sweets?
Camilla Gibb -
He who is by nature not his own but another's man is by nature a slave.
Aristotle -
It is the peculiarity of grief to bring out the childish side of man.
Victor Hugo -
In the world of high finance the shilling of the idle rich man can buy more than that of the poor, industrious man.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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My faith in man is, at bottom, a faith in God.
Martin Luther King, Jr. -
Any game where a man 60 can beat a man 30 ain't no game.
Burt Shotton -
A free man, who lives among ignorant people, tries as much as he can to refuse their benefits. .. He who lives under the guidance of reason endeavours as much as possible to repay his fellow's hatred, rage, contempt, etc. with love and nobleness.
Baruch Spinoza -
Man would be "otherwise." That's the essence of the specifically human.
Antonio Machado -
I lay it down as a general rule, Harriet, that if a woman doubts as to whether she should accept a man or not, she certainly ought to refuse him.
Jane Austen -
That was the fight. I knew that I had done something that no man had been able to do to a champion.
Thomas Hearns
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God never made anything else so beautiful as man.
Henry Ward Beecher -
“Man and not nature initiates, but nature in large measure controls.”
Halford Mackinder -
God is light, we are told, and Hell is outer darkness. But look at a desert mountain stripped bare by the sun, and you learn only geography. Watch darkness claim it, and for a moment you may grasp why God had to create Satan - or man to create both.
Colin Fletcher -
Man begets, but land does not beget.
Cecil Rhodes -
The mere mechanical technique of acting can be taught, but the spirit that is to give life to lifeless forms must be born in a man. No dramatic college can teach its pupils to think or to feel. It is Nature who makes our artists for us, though it may be Art who taught them their right mode of expression.
Oscar Wilde -
A wise man hears one word and understands two.
Edgar Allan Poe
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No man or woman in this dispensation will ever enter into the celestial kingdom of God without the consent of Joseph Smith...every man and woman must have the certificate of Joseph Smith, junior, as a passport to their entrance into the mansion where God and Christ are...
Brigham Young -
Freedom is the alone unoriginated birthright of man, and belongs to him by force of his humanity.
Immanuel Kant -
A man is never completely alone in this world. At the worst, he has the company of a boy, a youth, and by and by a grown man - the one he used to be.
Cesare Pavese -
A man can no more make a safe use of wealth without reason than he can of a horse without a bridle.
Socrates