Quotes on Man

There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering.

Tis not what man Does which exalts him, but what man Would do!

I don't know if I should care for a man who made life easy; I should want someone who made it interesting.

Nevertheless, it is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.

I should like to know if, taking this old Declaration of Independence, which declares that all men are equal upon principle, you begin making exceptions to it, where will you stop? If one man says it does not mean a Negro, why not another say it does not mean some other man?

I think that what we need to do is say, 'Reading is going to really affect your life.' You take a black man who doesn't have a job, but you say to him, 'Look, you can make a difference in your child's life, just by reading to him for 30 minutes a day.' That's what I would like to do.

Before the advent of the white man, black people were doing all kinds of things with their hair. The rejection of kinks and curls did come with the white man.

My father was a man of principle who found his principles confirmed in the unremitting failure which they brought on him.

The foolish man conceives the idea of 'self.' The wise man sees there is no ground on which to build the idea of 'self;' thus, he has a right conception of the world and well concludes that all compounds amassed by sorrow will be dissolved again, but the truth will remain.

He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise.

It's like the first man to go to the moon, I will be the first man to run under two hours, this is crucial.

I love to flirt, and I've never met a man I didn't like.

Men rarely worry about using or being used because all relationships work that way. A man perceives himself as owning and being owned by a woman. 'Use' is a dirty word only when there's an imbalance in the relationship.

Thought is more than a right - it is the very breath of man. Whoever fetters thought attacks man himself. To speak, to write, to publish, are things, so far as the right is concerned, absolutely identical. They are the ever-enlarging circles of intelligence in action; they are the sonorous waves of thought.

Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.

Man has evolved a mutual relationship with nature on earth, but his power to change its surface has grown so tremendously that this may become a curse instead of a blessing.

The man who does more than he is paid for will soon be paid for more than he does.

Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

Every day without fail one should consider himself as dead. There is a saying of the elders that goes, 'Step from under the eaves and you're a dead man. Leave the gate and the enemy is waiting.' This is not a matter of being careful. It is to consider oneself as dead beforehand.

To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.

Even if my fellow man has proven faithless time after time, I can at least retain a hope that he will improve, pray for him, and think kindly without frustration and disappointment.