In this post, you will find great Man Quotes from famous people, such as Friedrich Nietzsche, Ludwig van Beethoven, Jacques Yves Cousteau, Niccolo Machiavelli, Francis Bacon. You can learn and implement many lessons from these quotes.
By a lie, a man… annihilates his dignity as a man.
A man’s only as old as the woman he feels.
You can lead a man to Congress, but you can’t make him think.
Time and tide wait for no man.
A man is born alone and dies alone; and he experiences the good and bad consequences of his karma alone; and he goes alone to hell or the Supreme abode.
No man is a hero in his own country.
A real man loves his wife, and places his family as the most important thing in life. Nothing has brought me more peace and content in life than simply being a good husband and father.
Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography of the man himself cannot be written.
A man’s kiss is his signature.
Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Man’s extremity is God’s opportunity.
It is best for the wise man not to seem wise.
What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.
There is only a finger‘s difference between a wise man and a fool.
War is to man what maternity is to a woman. From a philosophical and doctrinal viewpoint, I do not believe in perpetual peace.
Any man worth his salt will stick up for what he believes right, but it takes a slightly better man to acknowledge instantly and without reservation that he is in error.
The fact is that a man who wants to act virtuously in every way necessarily comes to grief among so many who are not virtuous.
I don’t know of any great man who ever had a great son.
Music is God’s gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.
Man is a universe within himself.
If a man has not discovered something that he will die for, he isn’t fit to live.
The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man.
I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.
I believe marriage is between a man and a woman. I am not in favor of gay marriage. But when you start playing around with constitutions, just to prohibit somebody who cares about another person, it just seems to me that’s not what America‘s about. Usually, our constitutions expand liberties, they don’t contract them.
Progress is man’s ability to complicate simplicity.
The superior man blames himself. The inferior man blames others.
I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.
A man who becomes conscious of the responsibility he bears toward a human being who affectionately waits for him, or to an unfinished work, will never be able to throw away his life. He knows the ‘why‘ for his existence, and will be able to bear almost any ‘how.’
There is a sufficiency in the world for man’s need but not for man’s greed.
The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
Every great man, every successful man, no matter what the field of endeavor, has known the magic that lies in these words: every adversity has the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit.
Every woman needs one man in her life who is strong and responsible. Given this security, she can proceed to do what she really wants to do-fall in love with men who are weak and irresponsible.
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
Man can embody truth but he cannot know it.
If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.
Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.
If a man does his best, what else is there?
By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich.
The great man is he who does not lose his child’s-heart.
Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
What we call Man’s power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.
A brave man is a man who dares to look the Devil in the face and tell him he is a Devil.
Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.
What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step. It is always the same step, but you have to take it.
But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?
Every man has three characters – that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
In view of the fact that God limited the intelligence of man, it seems unfair that He did not also limit his stupidity.
The white man knows how to make everything, but he does not know how to distribute it.
Man is the only animal that blushes – or needs to.
A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding.
The man who can keep a secret may be wise, but he is not half as wise as the man with no secrets to keep.
Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.
Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only by the man who is as well organized in his individuality as the mass itself.
The man of science is a poor philosopher.
If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.
Let us dedicate ourselves to what the Greeks wrote so many years ago: to tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world.
It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance, and that, in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things.
Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.
The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.
O man you are busy working for the world, and the world is busy trying to turn you out.
Seems like God don’t see fit to give the black man nothing but dreams – but He did give us children to make them dreams seem worthwhile.
What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.
The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.
I care not much for a man’s religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.
The man who does more than he is paid for will soon be paid for more than he does.
There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.
I would like to be remembered as a man who had a wonderful time living life, a man who had good friends, fine family – and I don’t think I could ask for anything more than that, actually.
To find a man’s true character, play golf with him.
The man who loves other countries as much as his own stands on a level with the man who loves other women as much as he loves his own wife.
Man learns through experience, and the spiritual path is full of different kinds of experiences. He will encounter many difficulties and obstacles, and they are the very experiences he needs to encourage and complete the cleansing process.
A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.
Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.
A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.
Man’s capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man’s inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.
Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes life endurable.
When Christ died, He died for you individually just as much as if you’d been the only man in the world.
The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man, but only to have the law of nature for his rule.
When one man, for whatever reason, has the opportunity to lead an extraordinary life, he has no right to keep it to himself.
A young man is a theory, an old man is a fact.
A man growing old becomes a child again.
Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
Man’s main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality.
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
Democracy is worth dying for, because it’s the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man.
A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.
The man who does more than he is paid for will soon be paid for more than he does.
I know in my heart that man is good. That what is right will always eventually triumph. And there’s purpose and worth to each and every life.
You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man’s bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man’s stairs.
A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.
Suicide is man’s way of telling God, ‘You can’t fire me – I quit.’
Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.
Man does not control his own fate. The women in his life do that for him.
A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit.
Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.
Do not underestimate the determination of a quiet man.
Men, in a word, must necessarily be controlled, either by a power within them, or by a power without them; either by the word of God, or by the strong arm of man; either by the Bible, or by the bayonet.
When man decides he can control nature, he’s in deep trouble.
God who is eternally complete, who directs the stars, who is the master of fates, who elevates man from his lowliness to Himself, who speaks from the cosmos to every single human soul, is the most brilliant manifestation of the goal of perfection.
For the wise man looks into space and he knows there is no limited dimensions.
No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.
For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.
I firmly believe that any man’s finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle – victorious.
Man’s enemies are not demons, but human beings like himself.
Man is not what he thinks he is, he is what he hides.
A father figure is setting the blueprint, the model, the standard, the way for you to become a man and take on the world for yourself.
Love without sex is still the most efficient form of hell known to man.
The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.
A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
Faith is a living, daring confidence in God’s grace, so sure and certain that a man could stake his life on it a thousand times.
I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure.
A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.
There comes a point in every man’s life when he has to say: ‘Enough is enough.’
Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.
The power of population is indefinitely greater than the power in the earth to produce subsistence for man.
A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool.
The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.
Temptation is a woman’s weapon and man’s excuse.
The strong man is the one who is able to intercept at will the communication between the senses and the mind.
One’s only rival is one’s own potentialities. One’s only failure is failing to live up to one’s own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.
The air of England has long been too pure for a slave, and every man is free who breathes it.
I’d like to live as a poor man with lots of money.
I’ve been a bad boy trying to be a good man my whole life.
Every man has a wild beast within him.
The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.
When authority is total, so too is the madness of the man who declares it, and the potential for abuse of power.
Man’s greatness lies in his power of thought.
Marriage is the most natural state of man, and… the state in which you will find solid happiness.
A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.
No man is free who is not master of himself.
The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action.
Character, not circumstances, makes the man.
A man’s character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.
Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.
Sting‘s my ideal man, because he’s a real man.
He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.
Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains.
The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell.
One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.
A father is a man who expects his son to be as good a man as he meant to be.
Let men see, let them know, a real man, who lives as he was meant to live.
God made the country, and man made the town.
We all require and want respect, man or woman, black or white. It’s our basic human right.
Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.
Nothing shows a man’s character more than what he laughs at.
There is surely nothing other than the single purpose of the present moment. A man’s whole life is a succession of moment after moment. If one fully understands the present moment, there will be nothing else to do, and nothing else to pursue. Live being true to the single purpose of the moment.
A man’s true character comes out when he’s drunk.
All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his.
The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out… without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.
The man of science has learned to believe in justification, not by faith, but by verification.
What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualization.
Three things are necessary for the salvation of man: to know what he ought to believe; to know what he ought to desire; and to know what he ought to do.
Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.
Every man is a volume if you know how to read him.
Knowledge is the treasure of a wise man.
Beauty is the greatest seducer of man.
In order to be the man, you have to beat the man.
A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.
Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.
Something is better than nothing. Doin’ anything for a man, there’s investments involved, there’s time and production. It’s better to give him ten bucks and get a record out than to never record the cat.
No man knows the value of innocence and integrity but he who has lost them.
If a man is not faithful to his own individuality, he cannot be loyal to anything.
I have a son, who is my heart. A wonderful young man, daring and loving and strong and kind.
Build a man a fire, and he’ll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he’ll be warm for the rest of his life.
If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.
A smart man makes a mistake, learns from it, and never makes that mistake again. But a wise man finds a smart man and learns from him how to avoid the mistake altogether.
No man is above the law and no man is below it: nor do we ask any man’s permission when we ask him to obey it.
The object of the superior man is truth.
You can kill a man, but you can’t kill an idea.
Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices.
There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in.
Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.
Every man gotta right to decide his own destiny.
Every man I knew went to bed with Gilda… and woke up with me.
The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can’t be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.
A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.
Unlike a drop of water which loses its identity when it joins the ocean, man does not lose his being in the society in which he lives. Man’s life is independent. He is born not for the development of the society alone, but for the development of his self.
He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.
A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.
A hero is a man who does what he can.
The fool wonders, the wise man asks.
That best portion of a man’s life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.
I like a man who grins when he fights.
The battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man.
The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.
A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman.
I like a man who looks like a bad boy but knows how to treat a woman like a queen.
It is the characteristic excellence of the strong man that he can bring momentous issues to the fore and make a decision about them. The weak are always forced to decide between alternatives they have not chosen themselves.
A lot of y’all are lonely and y’all lonely because you’re overlooking a good man. Why? Because y’all wanna be with the hardcore thug. The man that is pretending to be everything that he isn’t.
Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather he must recognize that it is he who is asked.
Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.
What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal.
Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Money and corruption are ruining the land, crooked politicians betray the working man, pocketing the profits and treating us like sheep, and we’re tired of hearing promises that we know they’ll never keep.
I say it every day – I’m the luckiest man on earth.
To be the man, you gotta beat the man!
Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
A good man, is a good man, whether in this church, or out of it.
Man is not free unless government is limited.
A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.
Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who’ll get the blame.
I am at peace with God. My conflict is with Man.
Better to trust the man who is frequently in error than the one who is never in doubt.
All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination.
I always turn to the sports pages first, which records people’s accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man’s failures.
A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.
I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.
No man is good enough to govern another man without the other’s consent.
Man is not the lord of beings. Man is the shepherd of Being.
The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled.
In a rich man’s house there is no place to spit but his face.
Not to be cheered by praise, not to be grieved by blame, but to know thoroughly one’s own virtues or powers are the characteristics of an excellent man.
Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold.
Man has two great spiritual needs. One is for forgiveness. The other is for goodness.
A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.
The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.
Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.
By all but the pathologically romantic, it is now recognized that this is not the age of the small man.
The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic.
What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
