Quotes on Men

Time perfects men as well as destroys them.

For a man to attain to an eminent degree in learning costs him time, watching, hunger, nakedness, dizziness in the head, weakness in the stomach, and other inconveniences.

I always knew that someday I would once again feel the grass under my feet and walk in the sunshine as a free man.

More wisdom is latent in things as they are than in all the words men use.

I found that the men and women who got to the top were those who did the jobs they had in hand, with everything they had of energy and enthusiasm and hard work.

The first virtue of all really great men is that they are sincere. They eradicate hypocrisy from their hearts.

In the march towards Truth, anger, selfishness, hatred, etc., naturally give way, for otherwise Truth would be impossible to attain. A man who is swayed by passions may have good enough intentions, may be truthful in word, but he will never find the Truth.

Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.

Never forget what a man has said to you when he was angry. If he has charged you with anything, you had better look it up.

Fair peace is becoming to men; fierce anger belongs to beasts.

To be angry is easy. But to be angry with the right man at the right time and in the right manner, that is not easy.

The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.

A man who cannot control his temper is not very likely to control his passions, and no matter what his pretensions in religion, he moves in daily life very close to the animal plane.

If a man meets with injustice, it is not required that he shall not be roused to meet it; but if he is angry after he has had time to think upon it, that is sinful. The flame is not wrong, but the coals are.

A quarrelsome man has no good neighbours.

I want to fall in love in such a way that the mere sight of a man, even a block away from me, will shake and pierce me, will weaken me, and make me tremble and soften and melt.

If a man never contradicts himself, the reason must be that he virtually never says anything at all.

To judge a man by his weakest link or deed is like judging the power of the ocean by one wave.

sleep is the most innocent creature there is and a sleepless man the most guilty.

The old man looked at him with his sun-burned, confident loving eyes.

That is why faith, wherever it develops into hope, causes not rest but unrest, not patience but impatience. It does not calm the unquiet heart, but is itself this unquiet heart in man. Those who hope in Christ can no longer put up with reality as it is, but begin to suffer under it, to contradict it. Peace with God means conflict with the world, for the goad of the promised future stabs inexorably into the flesh of every unfulfilled present.