Short Memorable Quotes About Man
Welcome to our collection of quotes about a man. Not any specific man... quotes about a man generally. This collection is all short quotes. We hope you enjoy them, and please share.
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.
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.
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.
Every man can transform the world from one of monotony and drabness to one of excitement and adventure.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Longer Version/[Notes]:
Every man must decide whether he will walk in the creative light of altruism or the darkness of destructive selfishness. This is the judgement.
A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.
Longer Version/[Notes]:
A person that started in to carry a cat home by the tail was getting knowledge that was always going to be useful to him, and warn't ever going to grow dim or doubtful.
Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.
Longer Version/[Notes]:
Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society. You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus. As in the words of Wayne Dyer, when you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change. Sometimes to know with certainty that a particular thing is "true", will actually be the very thing that keeps you from attaining the things you seek to achieve.
A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.
Longer Version/[Notes]:
A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval. There is nothing more satisfying than that sense of being completely "at home" in your own skin. When you achieve that as a natural state of "being", then you can finally look beyond yourself and fully contribute all your talents to the world.
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.
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.
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.
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.
A man is literally what he thinks.
Longer Version/[Notes]:
A man is literally what he thinks, his character being the complete sum of all his thoughts.
Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains.
Longer Version/[Notes]:
Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains. Those who think themselves the masters of others are indeed greater slaves than they.
