What Is Man Quotes

Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times, and what happens when he says, I am a failure.

Lucky that man whose children make his happiness in life and not his grief, the anguished disappointment of his hopes.

The man who has done his level best... is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.

Until Eve arrived, this was a man's world.

We emphasize that such a form of communication is not absent in man, however evanescent a naturally given object may be for him, split as it is in its submission to symbols.

A good farmer is nothing more nor less than a handy man with a sense of humus.

Man watches his history on the screen with apathy and an occasional passing flicker of horror or indignation.

It is not according to my mode of doing things, to bring a suit against a man that I have the power in my own hands to punish.

Credulity is the man's weakness, but the child's strength.

I think luck is the sense to recognize an opportunity and the ability to take advantage of it... The man who can smile at his breaks and grab his chances gets on.

All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.

Every man regards his own life as the New Year's Eve of time.

The most persistent sound which reverberates through man's history is the beating of war drums.

Man can embody truth but he cannot know it.

If there was anybody I could meet that I have not met, I would say David. David from the Bible. He was a mighty man of God, and he was a warrior, and he was a worshipper.

Every man should have a fair-sized cemetary in which to bury the faults of his friends.

The average man is not hard to mystify.

When one sees that everything exists as an illusion, one can live in a higher sphere than ordinary man.

The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity by contributing to the establishment of the kingdom of God, which can only be done by the recognition and profession of the truth by every man.

True prosperity is the result of well-placed confidence in ourselves and our fellow man.

As a dead man cannot inherit an estate, no more can a dead soul inherit heaven. The soul must be resurrected in Christ.

To age with dignity and with courage cuts close to what it is to be a man.

He is a man, who is to be a man; the fruit is always present in the seed.

The triumph of the philosophy of Atheism is to free man from the nightmare of gods; it means the dissolution of the phantoms of the beyond.

I'm a strong man, and usually I get over hurts and it makes me stronger when I come back.

Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.

I mistrust the judgment of every man in a case in which his own wished are concerned

I am the rich man's guru.

It is praiseworthy to be brave and fearless, but sometimes it is better to be a coward. We often stand in the compound of a coward to point at the ruins where a brave man used to live.

It is not every man who can be exquisitely miserable, any more than exquisitely happy.

The nature of man is such that people consider themselves put under an obligation as much by the benefits they confer as by those they receive.

Every man, for the sake of the great blessed Mother in Heaven, and for the love of his own little mother on earth, should handle all womankind gently, and hold them in all Honor.

The worse the man the better the soldier. If soldiers be not corrupt they ought to be made so.

Every man prefers virtue, when there is not some strong incitement to transgress its precepts.

Fear of women love more than hate the man.

A small room is enough; a small quantity of food is enough; a few clothes are enough; one lover, a very ordinary man

A good man enlarges the term of his own existence.

A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself, and a mean man, by one lower than himself.

School shootings were invented by blacks... and stolen by the white man.

Every man has a right to life, and this means that he has also a right to make a comfortable living.

The brave man, if he be compared with the coward, seems foolhardy; and, if with the foolhardy man, seems a coward.

One man doesn't believe in god at all, while the other believes in him so thoroughly that he prays as he murders men!

The philosopher should be a man willing to listen to every suggestion,but determined to judge for himself.He should not be a respector of persons,but of things.Truth should be his primary object.

I shall never get used to not being the most beautiful woman in the room. It was an intoxication to sweep in and know every man had turned his head. It kept me in form.

An old man is twice a child, and so is a drunken man.

A holy man is a mighty weapon in the hands of God.

Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime. Teach a man to create an artificial shortage of fish and he will eat steak.

The misery of a child is interesting to a mother, the misery of a young man is interesting to a young woman, the misery of an old man is interesting to nobody.

Any serious man or woman in search of spiritual ideas will find a surprising challenge and an authentic source of inspiration and intellectual nourishment in the writings of Paul Brunton.

Good men nowhere, but good boys at Sparta.