A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.
I like a man who looks like a bad boy but knows how to treat a woman like a queen.
I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.
In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play.
A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man.
The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.
Man never made any material as resilient as the human spirit.
Stupid as a man, say the women: cowardly as a woman, say the men. Stupidity in a woman is unwomanly.
Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life.
Man does not weave this web of life. He is merely a strand of it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.
Man is a genius when he is dreaming.
Everybody is responsible for their own actions. It’s easy to point the finger at somebody else, but a real man, a real woman, a real person knows when it’s time to take the blame and when to take responsibility for their own actions.
How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.
If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned; it enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself and not to abandon it to his enemy.
If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life.
Man is the most intelligent of the animals – and the most silly.
No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.
Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals.
Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality.
If we take the generally accepted definition of bravery as a quality which knows no fear, I have never seen a brave man. All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are, the more they are frightened.
No man is good enough to govern another man without the other’s consent.
They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice… that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person.
Plans to protect air and water, wilderness and wildlife are in fact plans to protect man.
A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes.
A man can be himself only so long as he is alone, and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom, for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.
Man’s capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man’s inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.
The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.
I am a strong man, I am always looking forward and this is my main thing.
We’re only here for so long. Be happy, man. You could get hit by a truck tomorrow.
It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one.
Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms – to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.
God sleeps in the minerals, awakens in plants, walks in animals, and thinks in man.
Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it’s just the opposite.
Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.
Man’s enemies are not demons, but human beings like himself.
The greatest error of a man is to think that he is weak by nature, evil by nature. Every man is divine and strong in his real nature. What are weak and evil are his habits, his desires and thoughts, but not himself.
Work is not man’s punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure.
We would all like to vote for the best man but he is never a candidate.
The greatness of a man is measured by the way he treats the little man. Compassion for the weak is a sign of greatness.
The superior man blames himself. The inferior man blames others.
Firstly you must always implicitly obey orders, without attempting to form any opinion of your own regarding their propriety. Secondly, you must consider every man your enemy who speaks ill of your king; and thirdly you must hate a Frenchman as you hate the devil.
The soul that is within me no man can degrade.
My dad always said, ‘Champ, the measure of a man is not how often he is knocked down, but how quickly he gets up.’
You can’t have it all, all at once. Who – man or woman – has it all, all at once? Over my lifespan, I think I have had it all. But in different periods of time, things were rough. And if you have a caring life partner, you help the other person when that person needs it.
In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so.
To argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason, and whose philosophy consists in holding humanity in contempt, is like administering medicine to the dead, or endeavoring to convert an atheist by scripture.
With fools, there is no companionship. Rather than to live with men who are selfish, vain, quarrelsome, and obstinate, let a man walk alone.
Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.
A man is given the choice between loving women and understanding them.
The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.
Without a sign, his sword the brave man draws, and asks no omen, but his country’s cause.
O’ What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!
We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence.
A man’s face as a rule says more, and more interesting things, than his mouth, for it is a compendium of everything his mouth will ever say, in that it is the monogram of all this man’s thoughts and aspirations.
Beauty is the greatest seducer of man.
God lends a helping hand to the man who tries hard.
When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
Never envy a man his lady. Behind it all lays a living hell.
Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression. No man is free who cannot control himself.
There are practical little things in housekeeping which no man really understands.
A good man, is a good man, whether in this church, or out of it.
Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.
Man’s extremity is God’s opportunity.
Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.
I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.
Any man who wants to be president is either an egomaniac or crazy.
The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to keep the man from touching the equipment.
I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive.
Death is the solution to all problems. No man – no problem.
It is a man’s own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.
A strong man doesn’t have to be dominant toward a woman. He doesn’t match his strength against a woman weak with love for him. He matches it against the world.
The white man knows how to make everything, but he does not know how to distribute it.
When a man’s stomach is full it makes no difference whether he is rich or poor.
Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.
A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.
