Quotes on Men

Whatever man prays for, he prays for a miracle. Every prayer reduces itself.

Of this blest man, let his just praise be given,_x000D_ _x000D_ Heaven was in him, before he was in Heaven.

Never marry anyone you could not sit next to during a three-day bus trip.

It is as hard to get a man to stay at home after you've married him as it was to get him to go home before you married him.

Instead of wishing to see more doctors made by women joining what there are, I wish to see as few doctors, either male or female, as possible. For, mark you, the women have made no improvement they have only tried to be "men" and they have only succeeded in being third-rate men.

Man's Unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his Greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, with which all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite... Try him with half of a Universe, of an Omnipotence, he sets to quarreling with the proprietor of the other half, and declares himself the most maltreated of men. Always there is a black spot in our sunshine: It is even, as I said, the Shadow of Ourselves.

The development of man is a return to an original perfection.

All progress and power are already in every man; perfection is man's nature, only it is barred in and prevented from taking its proper course.

Infinite perfection is in every man, though unmanifested. Every man has in him the potentiality of attaining to perfect saintliness, Rishihood, or to the most exalted position of an Avatâra, or to the greatness of a hero in material discoveries.

I am a true laborer: I earn that I eat, get that I wear, owe no man hate, envy no man's happiness, glad of other men's good, content with my harm.

I have achieved my seventy years in the usual way: by sticking strictly to a scheme of life which would kill anybody else... I will offer here, as a sound maxim, this: That we can't reach old age by another man's road.

His scorn of the great is repeated too often to be real; no man thinks much of that which he despises.

A man is very apt to complain of the ingratitude of those who have risen far above him.

To me it seems not unreasonable to find a re-enforcement of optimism, a renewal of courage and hope, in the modern theory that man has mounted to what he is from the lowest step of potentiality, through toilsome grades of ever-expanding existence, even thought it have been by a spiral stairway, mainly dark or dusty, with loop-holes at long intervals only, and these granting but a narrow and one-sided view.

Optimism is not only a false but also a pernicious doctrine, for it presents life as a desirable state and man's happiness as its aim and object. Starting from this, everyone then believes he has the most legitimate claim to happiness and enjoyment. If, as usually happens, these do not fall to his lot, he believes that he suffers an injustice, in fact that he misses the whole point of his existence.

O powerful love, that in some respects makes a beast a man, in some other, a man a beast.

The superior man is easy to serve, but difficult to please ... The inferior man is difficult to serve, but easy to please.

....try the mustard, - a man can't know what turnips are in perfection without mustard.

To arrive at perfection, a man should have very sincere friends or inveterate enemies; because he would be made sensible of his good or ill conduct, either by the censures of the one or the admonitions of the other.

A man's perfection is his work.

Self reliance, the height and perfection of man, is reliance on God.