Quotes on Man

My father died when I was 7. I was his favorite child, and he was my beloved father. I brought him along with me all through my life. Every elderly man has a bit of my father in him for me.

Man is supposed to be the maker of his destiny. It is only partly true. He can make his destiny, only in so far as he is allowed by the Great Power.

The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.

The best argument I know for an immortal life is the existence of a man who deserves one.

Woe to the man who is always busy - hurried in a turmoil of engagements, from occupation to occupation, and with no seasons interposed of recollection, contemplation and repose! Such a man must inevitably be gross and vulgar, and hard and indelicate - the sort of man with whom no generous spirit would desire to hold intercourse.

It is necessary for him who would endure existence with patience that he should conceive himself to be something - that he should be persuaded he is not a cipher in the muster-roll of man.

As a black man, I actually had naturally sort of comedic curiosity about the Klan.

Two things a man should never be angry at: what he can help, and what he cannot help.

No man loves the bearer of bad tidings.

If you are truly offended by an 80-year-old man saying you're not funny, then you're probably not funny.

Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.

The ways of the Lord are different from the ways of man. Man's ways remove people from office or business when they grow old or become disabled. But man's ways are not and never will be the Lord's ways.

There is no common sense in going to the field to fight and leaving a man at home to undo all that you accomplish.

Perish the infamous doctrine that man can have property in man. Let us resent with indignation every effort to put a chain upon our minds.

I think the man who eats the bread of idleness is under a certain obligation to speak well of labor.

I concluded that all religions had the same foundation - a belief in the supernatural - a power above nature that man could influence by worship - by sacrifice and prayer.

The place does not make the man, nor the sceptre the king. Greatness is from within.

The American people do not like neutrality. They would rather a man were on the wrong side than on neither.

The more nobly a man wills and acts, the more avid he becomes for great and sublime aims to pursue. He will no longer be content with family, country, and the remunerative aspect of his work. He will want wider organisations to create, new paths to blaze, causes to uphold, truths to discover, an ideal to cherish and defend.

From a purely positivist point of view, man is the most mysterious and disconcerting of all the objects met with by science.

It is always right to detect a fraud, and to perceive a folly; but it is very often wrong to expose either. A man of business should always have his eyes open, but must often seem to have them shut.