Short Memorable Quotes About Man

Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.

Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.

A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.

Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.

A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast.

The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men.

There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.

It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.

Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself.

If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.

The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.

Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.

Man never made any material as resilient as the human spirit.

A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.

No man's credit is as good as his money.

The more I see of man, the more I like dogs.

Every man of courage is a man of his word.

A man is only as good as what he loves.

A successful man is built of 1,000 failures.

Men argue. Nature acts.

Every man can transform the world from one of monotony and drabness to one of excitement and adventure.

I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.

Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.

Wise kings generally have wise counselors; and he must be a wise man himself who is capable of distinguishing one.

Man should not consider his material possession his own, but as common to all, so as to share them without hesitation when others are in need.

Literature and butterflies are the two sweetest passions known to man.

Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man.

A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.

The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.

No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people.

He was a wise man who invented beer.

Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.

There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.

It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.

The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win.

I cannot trust a man to control others who cannot control himself.

A great man is always willing to be little.

Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.

Patience is the most necessary quality for business, many a man would rather you heard his story than grant his request.

When you can whip any man in the world, you never know peace.

A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.

Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.

Property is intended to serve life, and no matter how much we surround it with rights and respect, it has no personal being. It is part of the earth man walks on. It is not man.

Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.

A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.

Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.

He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing.

The good man is the friend of all living things.

One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.

A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.

I believe the first test of a truly great man is in his humility.

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.

There is no road too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste; there are no honors too distant to the man who prepares himself for them with patience.

Do not underestimate the determination of a quiet man.

I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.

No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.

Behind every successful man is a woman, behind her is his wife.

Adventure is not outside man; it is within.

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.

Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.

The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.

The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned; it enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself and not to abandon it to his enemy.

By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich.

Man becomes his most creative during war.

The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.

Man is a genius when he is dreaming.

A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.

The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.

Man is by nature a political animal.

The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.

My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.

The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself a fool.

I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.

First find the man in yourself if you will inspire manliness in others.

One man excels in eloquence, another in arms.

Every man makes a god of his own desire.

Nothing is so sexy in a man as talent.

Man is primarily governed by passion and instinct.

Man should be ever better than he seems.

A gentleman is just a patient wolf.

No man is a hero in his own country.

Hazard not your wealth on a poor man's advice.

The average man is not hard to mystify.

Man is a messenger who forgot the message.

A man's home is his wife's castle.

Man knows much more than he understands.

The truthful man is usually a liar.

A man's measure is his will.

All art is a revolt against man's fate.

A man's homeland is wherever he prospers.

Let each man exercise the art he knows.

A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.

Let's judge a man on what he's done.

Desire is the very essence of man.

No man can discover his own talents.

The more a man knows, the more he forgives.

There is a great deal of human nature in man.

Man cannot live by incompetence alone.

A man without enemies is a dishonest man.

Life must go on, Though good men die.

A man of pleasure is a man of pains.

Beware of a man with manners.

The gift of a bad man can bring no good.

It is the lot of man but once to die.

No noble man ever hated good wine.

A man endures misfortune without complaint.

The happy man does not notice the flight of time.

The strong man is strongest when alone.

A little man often casts a long shadow.

No man can become a saint in his sleep.

No public man can be just a little crooked.

Man is everywhere still in chains.

The destiny of man is in his own soul.

No man is ever old enough to know better.

A man is literally what he thinks.

The only greatness for man is immortality.

Respect a man, he will do it the more.

A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains.

The free man never thinks of escape.

A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.

Lucky men are favorites of Heaven.

I never trust a man that doesn't drink.

Modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense.

No wise man ever wished to be younger.

He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.

Never test another man by your own weakness.

What one man can think, another man can do.

The wisest man may be a blind father.

Man is never perfect nor contented.

A man convinced against his will is not convinced.

The wise man reads both books and life itself.

The perfect man? A poet on a motorcycle.

To measure the man, measure his heart.

A man who lives everywhere lives nowhere.

Even the strongest man needs friends.

Sensual excess drives out pity in man.

All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.

The man who runs may fight again.

Every man is the son of his own works.

Man appoints, and God disappoints.

Man dies of cold, not of darkness.

Man's world is the planet of inexperience.

A man is known by the silence he keeps.

A man's got to know his limitations.

A learned man has always riches in himself.

No man should have another man's voice in his head.

Every man is the architect of his own fortune.

Let every man be true and every god a liar.

A man may keep a woman, but not his estate.

Stupidity of man makes the world burn.

A fearful man is always hearing things.

No man loves the bearer of bad tidings.

Even a poor man can receive honors.

To be doing good deeds is man's most glorious task.

A man is known by the company his mind keeps.

No man is wise enough by himself.

It well becomes a young man to be modest.

No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach.

God made the country, and man made the town.

Man will not merely endure; he will prevail.

No young man ever thinks he shall die.

Remember that every man is a variation of yourself.

Modern man is a hard-working human.

Darwin was Wrong! Man's still an ape.

No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.

Man, an animal that makes bargains.

No one man is superior to the game.

One man's faith is another man's delusion.

A man can preach no better than he prays.

Procrastination is a lazy man's apology.

The life of a good man is a continual prayer.

Man blindly works the will of fate.

No man is an island. No man stands alone.

Necessity makes an honest man a knave.

One man's poison Ivy is another man's spinach.

Man makes holy what he believes.

Man is too quick at forming conclusions.

Modern man has both feet firmly planted in mid-air.

Man as a pure animal does not exist.

The essence of a man is found in his faults.

Tomorrow is no man's gift.

A man always looks good in a dark suit.

Few men think, yet all will have opinions.

No man can lose what he never had.

Man must be associated with his fellows.

Every man thinks god is on his side.

An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

All things do help the unhappy man to fall.

Man is a substance clad in shadows.

You can just fight one man at a time.

No one can harm the man who does himself no wrong.