Quotes on Man

People striving, being knocked down and coming back... this is what builds character in a man.

Our friend, Timothy J. Russert, was a man who awoke every morning as if he had just won the lottery the day before. He was determined to take full advantage of his good fortune that he couldn't quite believe and share it with everyone around him.

A man who always speaks the truth wholeheartedly is greater than those who do penance and deeds of charity.

A man who gives himself to be a possession of aliens leads a Yahoo life, having bartered his soul to a brute-master. He is not of them. He may stand against them, persuade himself of a mission, batter and twist them into something which they, of their own accord, would not have been.

The day may be approaching when the whole world will recognize woman as the equal of man.

We are living in a world of fear. The life of man today is corroded and made bitter by fear: fear of the future, fear of the hydrogen bomb, fear of ideologies. Perhaps this fear is a greater danger than the danger itself because it is fear, which drives men to act thoughtlessly, to act dangerously.

Nobody heard him, the dead man, But still he lay moaning. I was much further out than you thought, and not waving but drowning. I was much too far out all my life, And not waving but drowning.

Deem no man happy until he passes the end of his life without suffering grief.

Every man can see things far off but is blind to what is near.

Even a poor man can receive honors.

No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death. He and his are not neglected by the gods.

Call no man happy until he is dead, but only lucky.

It is idleness that is the curse of man - not labour. Idleness eats the heart out of men as of nations, and consumes them as rust does iron.

Not one man in a thousand has the strength of mind or the goodness of heart to be an atheist.

Man was created to praise, reverence, and serve God our Lord and in this way to save his soul. The other things on Earth were created for man's use, to help him reach the end for which he was created.

The poet existed among the cave men; he will exist among men of the atomic age, for he is an inherent part of man. Even religions have been born from the need for poetry, which is a spiritual need, and it is through the grace of poetry that the divine spark lives forever in the human flint.

There are some women I definitely would not want to succeed me... but a man like David Souter, that would be great.

In the '50s, too many women, even though they were very smart, they tried to make the man feel that he was brainier. It was a sad thing.

Knowledge has value only insofar as it contributes to the all-round development of the whole nature of man.

A great man is a torch in the darkness, a beacon in superstition's night, an inspiration and a prophecy.

Suspicion is only another form of cowardice. The man who suspects constantly suspects because he is afraid. Whenever you find a man with a free, frank, generous, brave nature, you will find that man without suspicion.