There is no surprise more magical than the surprise of being loved: It is God’s finger on man’s shoulder.
You might win some, you might lose some. But you go in, you challenge yourself, you become a better man, a better individual, a better fighter.
In a position of utter desolation, when man cannot express himself in positive action, when his only achievement may consist in enduring his sufferings in the right way – an honorable way – in such a position man can, through loving contemplation of the image he carries of his beloved, achieve fulfillment.
No man knows the value of innocence and integrity but he who has lost them.
The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can’t be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.
Build a man a fire, and he’ll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he’ll be warm for the rest of his life.
Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.
Life is as tedious as twice-told tale, vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.
A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.
All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages.
A man is already halfway in love with any woman who listens to him.
The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.
A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children.
I love not man the less, but Nature more.
You can kill a man, but you can’t kill an idea.
A great man is a torch in the darkness, a beacon in superstition’s night, an inspiration and a prophecy.
Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.
Geography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends. Economics has made us partners, and necessity has made us allies. Those whom God has so joined together, let no man put asunder.
Any man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
A man who was completely innocent, offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others, including his enemies, and became the ransom of the world. It was a perfect act.
The condition of man… is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.
And above all things, never think that you’re not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning.
Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography of the man himself cannot be written.
Every woman needs one man in her life who is strong and responsible. Given this security, she can proceed to do what she really wants to do-fall in love with men who are weak and irresponsible.
A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men.
Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?
Every man has three characters – that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.
The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself.
It is a wise man who said that there is no greater inequality than the equal treatment of unequals.
Every man has his own destiny: the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him.
A man who works with his hands is a laborer; a man who works with his hands and his brain is a craftsman; but a man who works with his hands and his brain and his heart is an artist.
Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.
The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.
My mother used to tell me man gives the award, God gives the reward. I don’t need another plaque.
There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.
Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man.
Nature is a temple in which living columns sometimes emit confused words. Man approaches it through forests of symbols, which observe him with familiar glances.
Seems like God don’t see fit to give the black man nothing but dreams – but He did give us children to make them dreams seem worthwhile.
Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say, for one, that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow-men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem. How far I shall succeed in gratifying this ambition is yet to be developed.
Nothing shows a man’s character more than what he laughs at.
Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.
Those who give themselves to prayer should in a special manner have always a devotion to St. Joseph; for I know not how any man can think of the Queen of the angels, during the time that she suffered so much with the Infant Jesus, without giving thanks to St. Joseph for the services he rendered them then.
War is to man what maternity is to a woman. From a philosophical and doctrinal viewpoint, I do not believe in perpetual peace.
Man’s loneliness is but his fear of life.
A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.
Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man’s heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.
Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
Revenge… is like a rolling stone, which, when a man hath forced up a hill, will return upon him with a greater violence, and break those bones whose sinews gave it motion.
Conscience is a man’s compass.
None of us wants to be judged by our worst act on our worst day, and we consistently judge Burr for that. He was not a perfect man, but he’s not a villain. He’s a dude, just a guy.
There’s a lot of us out here that are birds, man. We all need to just fly.
Every moment and every event of every man’s life on earth plants something in his soul.
Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can’t sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can’t sleep with the window open.
Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all.
In the good old days when I was a senator, I was my own man.
The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who’ll get me a book I ain’t read.
A man’s country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle and patriotism is loyalty to that principle.
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
Any man is liable to err, only a fool persists in error.
To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.
A man doesn’t plant a tree for himself. He plants it for posterity.
Black man, you are on your own.
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.
There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in.
No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means.
Literature and butterflies are the two sweetest passions known to man.
A lot of y’all are lonely and y’all lonely because you’re overlooking a good man. Why? Because y’all wanna be with the hardcore thug. The man that is pretending to be everything that he isn’t.
Before success comes in any man’s life, he’s sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and the most logical thing to do is to quit. That’s exactly what the majority of men do.
Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn’t matter to me. Going to bed at night saying we’ve done something wonderful, that’s what matters to me.
A wise man fights to win, but he is twice a fool who has no plan for possible defeat.
To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.
One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.
A man who becomes conscious of the responsibility he bears toward a human being who affectionately waits for him, or to an unfinished work, will never be able to throw away his life. He knows the ‘why’ for his existence, and will be able to bear almost any ‘how.’
