Man Sayings and Quotes
Sayings about Man
Every child comes with the message
that God is not yet discouraged of man.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
- George Eliot 
As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
- The Bible
To measure the man, measure his heart.
- Malcolm Forbes
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As long as a man stands in his own way,
everything seems to be in his way.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The wise man does not lay up his own treasures.
The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.
- Lao Tzu
Circumstances make man, not man circumstances.
- Mark Twain
An honest man is always a child.
- Socrates
Great and good are seldom the same man.
- Winston Churchill
The man who has no imagination has no wings.
- Muhammad Ali
If thou wilt make a man happy,
add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.
- Epicurus
No man is free who is not master of himself.
- Epictetus
Talent is God-given; be humble.
Fame is man-given; be thankful.
Conceit is self-given; be careful.
- John Wooden
Circumstance does not make the man: it reveals him to himself.
- James Allen
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
- Anonymous
No man is a failure who enjoys life.
- William Feather
Man's enemies are not demons, but human beings like himself.
- Lao Tzu
The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.
- B. C. Forbes
A man in debt is so far a slave.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.
Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
- Oscar Wilde
Each man is the architect of his own fate.
- Appius Claudius
A man who is a master of patience is master of everything else.
- George Savile
A man is not old until his regrets take the place of his dreams.
- Yiddish Proverb
How could man rejoice in victory
and delight in the slaughter of men?
- Lao Tzu
A man is as unhappy as he has convinced himself he is.
- Seneca
Man plans, God laughs
- Yiddish Proverb
A man's good name is his best monument
- from an old churchyard at Lockerbie, Scotland
A man who won't die for something is not fit to live.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.
- Meister Eckhart
It is what a man thinks of himself
that really determines his fate.
- Henry David Thoreau
I wept because I had no shoes
until I met a man who had no feet.
- old Persian Proverb
If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought,
happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him.
- The Buddha
Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.
- Albert Schweitzer
Only a man's character is the real criterion of worth.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe,
that lures him to evil ways.
- The Buddha
Mystery creates wonder, and wonder is the basis
of man's desire to understand.
- Neil Armstrong
Try not to become a man of success,
but rather try to become a man of value.
- Albert Einstein
If a man does his best, what else is there?
- George S. Patton
A man can succeed at almost anything
for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.
- Charles M. Schwab
No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone
who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson
Man becomes great exactly in the degree
in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Non-violence requires a double faith,
faith in God and also faith in man.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The man of genius inspires us with
a boundless confidence in our own powers.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
He is a wise man who does not grieve
for the things which he has not,
but rejoices for those which he has.
- Epictetus
If a man loses his reverence for any part of life,
he will lose his reverence for all of life.
- Albert Schweitzer
The best friend is the man who in wishing me well
wishes it for my sake.
- Anonymous
The fear of death follows from the fear of life.
A man who lives fully, is prepared to die at any time.
- Mark Twain
For man with no forgiveness in heart,
life worse punishment than death.
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid 2
If the stars should appear
but one night every thousand years
how man would marvel and stare.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I like a man who grins when he fights.
- Winston Churchill
The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.
- Anatole France
Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.
- Carl Jung
The gem cannot be polished without friction,
nor man perfected without trials.
- Confucius
I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing,
and that is that I know nothing.
- Socrates
I submit to you that if a man hasn't
discovered something that he will die for,
he isn't fit to live.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The man who can't dance thinks the band is no good.
- Polish Proverb
What is happiness except the simple harmony
between a man and the life he leads?
- Albert Camus
Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
- Francis Bacon
I don't like that man.
I must get to know him better.
- Abraham Lincoln
Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.
- Socrates
A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.
- Mark Twain
Never give a sword to a man who can't dance.
- Confucius
I cannot trust a man to control others
who cannot control himself.
- Robert E. Lee
There are other measures of self-respect for a man,
than the number of clean shirts he puts on every day.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for,
he isn't fit to live.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Every man dies. Not every man truly lives.
- the movie Braveheart
New Year's Day is every man's birthday.
- Charles Lamb
If a man does not know what port he is steering for,
no wind is favorable to him.
- Seneca
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