That best portion of a man’s life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.
Most people can bear adversity; but if you wish to know what a man really is give him power.
No man goes before his time – unless the boss leaves early.
When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.
It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.
You can calculate the worth of a man by the number of his enemies, and the importance of a work of art by the harm that is spoken of it.
The wise man doesn’t give the right answers, he poses the right questions.
A woman’s guess is much more accurate than a man’s certainty.
Behind every successful man is a woman, behind her is his wife.
A man has to learn that he cannot command things, but that he can command himself; that he cannot coerce the wills of others, but that he can mold and master his own will: and things serve him who serves Truth; people seek guidance of him who is master of himself.
A man is no less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years.
Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.
Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him.
If man makes himself a worm he must not complain when he is trodden on.
Man’s main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality.
Criticism, like rain, should be gentle enough to nourish a man’s growth without destroying his roots.
It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.
A legend is an old man with a cane known for what he used to do. I’m still doing it.
A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.
A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.
Do what you love to do and give it your very best. Whether it’s business or baseball, or the theater, or any field. If you don’t love what you’re doing and you can’t give it your best, get out of it. Life is too short. You’ll be an old man before you know it.
Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.
The fight for freedom must go on until it is won; until our country is free and happy and peaceful as part of the community of man, we cannot rest.
The old adage about giving a man a fish versus teaching him how to fish has been updated by a reader: Give a man a fish and he will ask for tartar sauce and French fries! Moreover, some politician who wants his vote will declare all these things to be among his ‘basic rights.’
It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
Every man is a volume if you know how to read him.
Every man gotta right to decide his own destiny.
The only thing that comes to a sleeping man is dreams.
A man in the house is worth two in the street.
There is surely nothing other than the single purpose of the present moment. A man’s whole life is a succession of moment after moment. If one fully understands the present moment, there will be nothing else to do, and nothing else to pursue. Live being true to the single purpose of the moment.
Before the tribunal of nature, a man has no more right to life than a rattlesnake; he has no more right to liberty than any wild beast; his right to the pursuit of happiness is nothing but a license to maintain the struggle for existence, if he can find within himself the powers with which to do it.
Let no man write my epitaph… When my country takes her place among the nations of the earth, then shall my character be vindicated, then may my epitaph be written.
Money and corruption are ruining the land, crooked politicians betray the working man, pocketing the profits and treating us like sheep, and we’re tired of hearing promises that we know they’ll never keep.
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled.
To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.
It takes a great man to give sound advice tactfully, but a greater to accept it graciously.
It’s a funny thing that when a man hasn’t anything on earth to worry about, he goes off and gets married.
The scientific man does not aim at an immediate result. He does not expect that his advanced ideas will be readily taken up. His work is like that of the planter – for the future. His duty is to lay the foundation for those who are to come, and point the way.
‘Tis easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows along like a song; But the man worth while is the one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong.
But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?
As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.
And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with Me, to give every man according as his work shall be. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last.
One man with courage is a majority.
What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
I don’t pity any man who does hard work worth doing. I admire him. I pity the creature who does not work, at whichever end of the social scale he may regard himself as being.
The man dies in all who keep silent in the face of tyranny.
A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles.
The power of population is indefinitely greater than the power in the earth to produce subsistence for man.
God sent me on earth. He send me to do something, and nobody can stop me. If God want to stop me, then I stop. Man never can.
Beware of no man more than of yourself; we carry our worst enemies within us.
I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano; A stage where every man must play a part, And mine is a sad one.
If I could find a white man who had the Negro sound and the Negro feel, I could make a billion dollars.
Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.
A man is only as faithful as his options.
One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken.
In a rich man’s house there is no place to spit but his face.
It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance, and that, in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things.
We can have no ’50-50′ allegiance in this country. Either a man is an American and nothing else, or he is not an American at all.
Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face.
The object of the superior man is truth.
Not to be cheered by praise, not to be grieved by blame, but to know thoroughly one’s own virtues or powers are the characteristics of an excellent man.
Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes life endurable.
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.
Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.
I hope it is true that a man can die and yet not only live in others but give them life, and not only life, but that great consciousness of life.
That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.
A man is what he thinks about all day long.
Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather he must recognize that it is he who is asked.
When one man, for whatever reason, has the opportunity to lead an extraordinary life, he has no right to keep it to himself.
Art is the window to man’s soul. Without it, he would never be able to see beyond his immediate world; nor could the world see the man within.
It takes a mighty good man to be better than no man at all.
If you want to see the true measure of a man, watch how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.
The man of science has learned to believe in justification, not by faith, but by verification.
A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
A man dies when he refuses to stand up for that which is right. A man dies when he refuses to stand up for justice. A man dies when he refuses to take a stand for that which is true.
Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
