Men Quotes
Man may act according to that principle or inclination which for the present happens to be strongest, and yet act in a way disproportionate to, and violate his real proper nature.
Whenever men have looked for something solid on which to found their lives, they have chosen not the facts in which the world abounds, but the myths of an immemorial imagination.
What gods are there, what gods have there ever been, that were not from man's imagination?
There is a condescension on the part of the infinite to the mind of man. That is what looks like God.
The sea never changes and its works, for all the talks of men, are wrapped in mystery.
A man's real life is that accorded to him in the thoughts of other men by reason of respect or natural love.
I saw him open his mouth wide. . . as though he had wanted to swallow all the air, all the earth, all the men before him.
I remember my youth... the feeling that I could last forever, outlast the sea, the earth, and all men.
The blight of futility that lies in wait for men's speeches had fallen upon our conversation and made it a thing of empty sounds.
Christ Not Begotten of Holy Ghost... Christ was begotten of God. He was not born without the aid of Man, and that Man was God!
God is an exalted man. Some people are troubled over the statements of the Prophet Joseph Smith... that our Father in heaven at one time passed through a life and death and is an exalted man.
The Bible is the only credible guide either as to the real relationship between man and the earth and the great Creator of both or concerning the purpose of the creation of both.
Since the days of Abraham many men of unusual intellect not only have diligently studied the divine plan, but have devoted their lives to having a part in making it known to others.
The best ground untilled, soonest runs out into rank weeds. A man of knowledge that is negligent or uncorrected, cannot but grow wild and godless.
This field is so spacious that it were easy for a man to lose himself in it; and if I should spend all my pilgrimage in this walk, my time would sooner end than my way.
Nothing doth so fool a man as extreme passion. This doth make them fools which otherwise are not, and show them to be fools which are so.
The idle man is the Devil's cushion, on which he taketh his free ease: who, as he is uncapable of any good, so he is fitly disposed for all evil motions.
You wouldn’t be normal if you were never afraid. Even the bravest men experience fear. One of the biggest jobs we all face in combat is to overcome fear.
Men," he began his address to the officers, measuring his pauses carefully. "You're American officers. The officers of no other army in the world can make that statement. Think about it.
If a man is going to leave one wife to marry another, it's better if he divorces the first before he marries the second.
Prayer is a universal phenomenon in the soul-life of man. It is the soul's reaction to the terrors and joys, the uncertainties and dreams of life.
A wife is not a man's shadow or subordinate, but his other self, his "helper," in a sense which no other creature on earth can be.
Because man is endowed with Reason, he can subdue his impulses in the service of moral and religious ideals, and is born to bear rule over Nature.
Man's most sacred privilege is freedom of will, the ability to obey or disobey his Maker.
Though man comes from the dust, sin is not a part of his nature. Man can overcome sin, and through repentance attain to at-one-ment with his Maker.
Beware of suretyship for thy best friend; he that payeth another man's debt seeketh his own decay.
One should choose for a wife only such a woman as he would choose for a friend, were she a man.
If fortune wishes to make a man estimable, she gives him virtues; if she wishes to make him esteemed, she gives him success.
Men have torn up the roads which led to Heaven, and which all the world followed; now we have to make our own ladders.
One man finds in religion his literature and his science, another finds in it his joy and his duty.
Man is born with the faculty of speech. Who gives it to him? He who gives the bird its song.
Success serves men as a pedestal. It makes them seem greater when not measured by reflection.
One day, a daughter of Aristotle, Pythias by name, was asked what color pleased her most. She replied, "The color with which modesty suffuses the face of simple, inoffensive men.
There is graciousness and a kind of urbanity in beginning with men by esteem and confidence. It proves, at least, that we have long lived in good company with others and with our selves.
If, it was natural to reason, God punishes men with eternal torment, it is surely lawful for men to use doses of it in a good cause.
I'm completely cricketed out. If I never have to write another word about cricket again, I'll be a happy man.
When a man thinks he is reading the character of another, he is often unconsciously betraying his own.