Adversity introduces a man to himself

They carry back bright to the coiner the mintage of man,
The lads that will die in their glory and never be old.

A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself and hates them for it

I believe that the worst sorrows of man’s life lie only in fear and nothing else. And this is what the man must always be aware of in his life.

To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

We want men who will fix their eyes on the stars, but who will not forget that their feet must walk on the ground.

It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance, and that in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things.

No man is above the law, and no man is below it.

Women should have free access to every field of labor which they care to enter, and when their work is as valuable as that of a man it should be paid as highly.

No man should receive a dollar unless that dollar has been fairly earned.

I am only an average man, but by George, I work harder at it than the average man.

There is not a man of us who does not at times need a helping hand to be stretched out to him, and then shame upon him who will not stretch out the helping hand to his brother.

No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expediency.

It is not often that a man can make opportunities for himself. But he can put himself in such shape that when or if the opportunities come he is ready.

No man needs sympathy because he has to work, because he has a burden to carry. Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

A man who has never gone to school may steal a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.

The only man who never makes mistakes is the man who never does anything.

Universal brotherhood is not even a beautiful dream. Antagonism is essential to man’s greatest efforts.

Whoever would change men must change the conditions of their lives.

To study the meaning of man and of life — I am making significant progress here. I have faith in myself. Man is a mystery: if you spend your entire life trying to puzzle it out, then do not say that you have wasted your time. I occupy myself with this mystery, because I want to be a man.

There is no sin , and there can be no sin on all the earth , which the Lord will not forgive to the truly repentant! Man cannot commit a sin so great as to exhaust the infinite love of God . Can there be a sin which could exceed the love of God?

Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man.

Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.

Man only likes to count his troubles, but he does not count his joys.

Man, so long as he remains free, has no more constant and agonizing anxiety than find as quickly as possible someone to worship.

Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering…

I think the devil doesn’t exist, but man has created him, he has created him in his own image and likeness.

Men like to to count their troubles; few calculate their happiness.

The man who is happy is fulfilling the purpose of existence

Man has it all in his hands, and it all slips through his fingers from sheer cowardice.

I believe the best definition of man is the ungrateful biped.

Man is a creature that can get accustomed to anything, and I think that is the best definition of him.

Nothing on earth consumes a man more quickly than the passion of resentment.

Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.

After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands.

Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.

Man is the cruelest animal.

I am loved by thousands, but I feel like the loneliest man in the world

Logic may indeed be unshakeable, but it cannot withstand a man who is determined to live.

Most men are not wicked… They are sleep-walkers, not evil evildoers.

A radical is a man with both feet firmly planted in the air

No man can tame a tiger into a kitten by stroking it

The ablest man I ever met is the man you think you are.

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.

When you do what I do for a living you have to have a positive mental attitude; when that positive mental attitude isn’t enough to get you across that jump you have to be man enough to deal with the circumstances. In my case, I’m man enough.

Let him think that I am more man than I am and I will be so.

No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.

In order to write about life first you must live it.

An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.

Shame on the man who goes to his grave escorted by the miserable hopes that have kept him alive.

Torment, for some men, is a need, an appetite, and an accomplishment.

The truly solitary being is not the man who is abandoned by men, but the man who suffers in their midst, who drags his desert through the marketplace and deploys his talents as a smiling leper, a mountebank of the irreparable.

Man starts over again everyday, in spite of all he knows, against all he knows

It is because we are all impostors that we endure each other. The man who does not consent to lie will see the earth shrink under his feet: we are biologically obliged to the false

Trees are massacred, houses go up — faces, faces everywhere. Man is spreading. Man is the cancer of the earth.

Better to be an animal than a man, an insect than an animal, a plant than an insect, and so on. Salvation? Whatever diminishes the kingdom of consciousness and compromises its supremacy.

Paradise was unendurable, otherwise the first man would have adapted to it; this world is no less so, since here we regret paradise or anticipate another one. What to do? Where to go? Do nothing and go nowhere, easy enough.

A man can laugh while he suffers.

Each man was his own executioner and his own victim.

Life belongs to man, but the meaning of life is beyond him.

Human suffering anywhere concerns men and women everywhere.

The man who is anybody and who does anything is surely going to be criticized, vilified, and misunderstood. This is a part of the penalty for greatness, and every great man understands it; and understands, too, that it is no proof of greatness. The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure contumely without resentment

Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.

The men you see waiting in the lobbies of doctors’ offices are, in a vast majority of cases, suffering through poisoning caused by an excess of food.

ne machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.

I do not believe that God ever created a man and then got so “put out” over the job that He damned him.

Every man has his little weakness. It often takes the form of a desire to get something for nothing.

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.

A failure is a man who has blundered but is not capable of cashing in on the experience.

Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit

Man, look at you, been walking in here looking all pretty and angry and mean and good

I was your man and you were my girl It was you and me against the world

A man is powerful on his knees.

A common man marvels at uncommon things. A wise man marvels at the commonplace.

Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.

By nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be wide apart.

The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.

The Man who says he can, and the man who says he can not.. Are both correct

Never give a sword to a man who can’t dance.

The nobler sort of man emphasizes the good qualities in others, and does not accentuate the bad. The inferior does.

The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort.

The man of wisdom is never of two minds; the man of benevolence never worries; the man of courage is never afraid.

The man who asks a question is a fool for a minute, the man who does not ask is a fool for life.

The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.

I don’t know why women want any of the things men have when one of the things that women have is men.

Women have always been the strong ones of the world. The men are always seeking from women a little pillow to put their heads down on. They are always longing for the mother who held them as infants.

It’s probably not just by chance that I’m alone. It would be very hard for a man to live with me, unless he’s terribly strong. And if he’s stronger than I, I’m the one who can’t live with him.

Men always remember a woman who caused them concern and uneasiness.

If a man speaks badly about all women, it usually means he was burned by one woman.

When a man’s got money in his pocket, he begins to appreciate peace.

Man becomes his most creative during war.

Prime time for men is, say, 35 to 45. Then they level off and fall off.

With a small mass of our men, we can make them do anything.

No man however great is greater than his people

When a mad man walks naked, it is his kinsmen who feel shame, not himself.

A man who calls his kinsmen to a feast does not do so to save them from starving. They all have food in their own homes. When we gather together in the moonlit village ground it is not because of the moon. Every man can see it in his own compound. We come together because it is good for kinsmen to do so.

The white man is very clever. He came quietly and peaceably with his religion. We were amused at his foolishness and allowed him to stay. Now he has won our brothers, and our clan can no longer act like one. He has put a knife on the things that held us together and we have fallen apart.

A man who makes trouble for others is also making trouble for himself.

I’ll take care of my men first. Frozen troops can’t fight. If we run out of ammunition, we’ll go to the bayonet.

I know you are here to kill me. Shoot, coward, you are only going to kill a man.
It’s not my fault if reality is Marxist

I’m a peaceful man with bad intentions.

I’m different. I have a different constitution, I have a different brain, I have a different heart. I got tiger blood, man. Dying’s for fools, dying’s for amateurs.

I am at peace with God. My conflict is with Man.

We might preach till our tongues rotted, till we should exhaust our lungs and die, but never a soul would be converted unless there were mysterious power going with it – the Holy Ghost changing the will of man.

If Christ is not all to you He is nothing to you. He will never go into partnership as a part Saviour of men. If He be something He must be everything, and if He be not everything He is nothing to you.

The mind of God is greater than all the minds of men, so let all men leave the gospel just as God has delivered it unto us.

Really, for a man who had been out of practice for so many years it was a splendid laugh!

There is a man who would give his life to keep a life you love beside you.

Reflect upon your present blessings—of which every man has many—not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some

Each man’s hell is in a different place: mine is just up and behind my ruined face.

Man cannot stand a meaningless life.

Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you

But being a feminist is real simple; it’s that a woman can do things the same as a man. Anything a man can do, I can do. I can finesse, I can hustle. We have the same freedom. I was top of the charts. I’m a woman and I did that. I do feel equal to a man

Any man who does not like dogs and wants them about, does not deserve to be in the White House.

It is only when men begin to worship that they begin to grow

Democracy is not a tearing down; it is a building up. It does not deny the divine right of kings; it asserts the divine right of all men

There is no way by which we can substitute the authority of law for the virtue of man

Heroism is not only in the man, but in the occasion.

It is a man’s own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.

What important is man should live in righteousness, in natural love for mankind

If I want to go to a party with a few male friends, it doesn’t mean I’m gay.