Quotes on Man

The leading rule for the lawyer, as for the man of every calling, is diligence.

Nothing exasperates the spirit in man more than power which seems unconquerable and which makes impotent all protest.

Who would set a limit to the mind of man? Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?

What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal.

It seems to me that man is made to act rather than to know: the principles of things escape our most persevering researches.

In the past the man has been first; in the future the system must be first... The first object of any good system must be that of developing first class men.

It is too great comfort which turns a man against himself. Life is most readily renounced at the time and among the classes where it is least harsh.

Man seeks to learn, and man kills himself because of the loss of cohesion in his religious society; he does not kill himself because of his learning. It is certainly not the learning he acquires that disorganizes religion; but the desire for knowledge wakens because religion becomes disorganized.

It is not possible that one man can convert another into a piece of property, thus at once annihilating all his personal rights, without the most flagrant injustice and usurpation.

I want to be a man who is truthful and who won't let pride get in the way of my ripping myself open to my partner and saying, 'Here I am. This is me.' I feel there's something powerful when a man reaches a point in his life when he can be completely vulnerable.

In this coming year, I will seek knowledge from those wiser than me and try to teach those who wish to learn from me. I love being alive, and I will be the best man I possibly can.

Imprisoned in every fat man a thin man is wildly signaling to be let out.

Hate is the consequence of fear; we fear something before we hate it; a child who fears noises becomes a man who hates noise.

I'm against retiring. The thing that keeps a man alive is having something to do.

We took this challenge before our Lord and our conscience, and it must be done, because this man, Hitler, he is the ultimate evil.

Day and night cannot dwell together. The Red Man has ever fled the approach of the White Man, as the morning mist flees before the morning sun.

The man who has done his best has done everything.

The hardest struggle of all is to be something different from what the average man is. I don't believe in 'super-men,' for the world is full of capable men, but it's the fellow with determination that wins out.

My father was short for a man, with a child's plaything for a name - Spinner. He had flawless dark brown skin and a head full of big, wet-looking curls, black as oil. And he had the smile of a scoundrel - the kind of smile that disarmed men and undressed women.

Never envy a man his lady. Behind it all lays a living hell.

When women apply for a job, we ask ourselves, 'Am I qualified? Do I have the experience? Do I have the education? Do I have the abilities?' When a man looks at that job, he thinks, 'How much does it pay?' We need to stop second-guessing our abilities. We need to stand up and make ourselves heard.