Man Quotes

I have decided to make a personal message to David Haye. I want him to fight me, to be a man. I wish there will be enough excitement, pressure and courage for David Haye to fight me.

~ Wladimir Klitschko

There's only one thing worse than a man who doesn't have strong likes and dislikes, and that's a man who has strong likes and dislikes without the courage to voice them.

~ Tony Randall

Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes.

~ Jim Carrey

A man's worth is no greater than his ambitions.

~ Marcus Aurelius

A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.

~ Benjamin Disraeli

The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.

~ Theodore Roosevelt

To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness.

~ Edgar Allan Poe

Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.

~ Mark Twain

A man is great by deeds, not by birth.

~ Chanakya

A great man is one who leaves others at a loss after he is gone.

~ Paul Valéry

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

~ John Ruskin

Male and female represent the two sides of the great radical dualism. But in fact they are perpetually passing into one another. Fluid hardens to solid, solid rushes to fluid. There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman.

~ Margaret Fuller

Great ambition, the desire of real superiority, of leading and directing, seems to be altogether peculiar to man, and speech is the great instrument of ambition.

~ Adam Smith

Laws control the lesser man... Right conduct controls the greater one.

~ Mark Twain

Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the headless monster, a great, brutish idiot that goes where prodded.

~ Charlie Chaplin

What is man without the beasts? For if all the beast were gone, man would die of a great loneliness of the spirit.

~ Chief Seattle

The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.

~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca

No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause.

~ Theodore Roosevelt

The first test of a truly great man is his humility. By humility I don't mean doubt of his powers or hesitation in speaking his opinion, but merely an understanding of the relationship of what he can say and what he can do.

~ John Ruskin

A great man is a torch in the darkness, a beacon in superstition's night, an inspiration and a prophecy.

~ Robert Green Ingersoll

The Jews don't like Farrakhan, so they call me Hitler. Well, that's a good name. Hitler was a very great man.

~ Louis Farrakhan

Man is alone everywhere. But the solitude of the Mexican, under the great stone night of the high plateau that is still inhabited by insatiable gods, is very different from that of the North American, who wanders in an abstract world of machines, fellow citizens and moral precepts.

~ Octavio Paz

He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.

~ Herman Melville

Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.

~ Benjamin Franklin

The healthy man does not torture others - generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.

~ Carl Jung

Man does not live by soap alone; and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of it or, better still, feel a healthy indifference to it.

~ Gilbert K. Chesterton

A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his own thought to derive benefit from his illnesses.

~ Hippocrates

It contributes greatly towards a man's moral and intellectual health, to be brought into habits of companionship with individuals unlike himself, who care little for his pursuits, and whose sphere and abilities he must go out of himself to appreciate.

~ Nathaniel Hawthorne

The only principles of public conduct that are worthy of a gentleman or a man are to sacrifice estate, ease, health, and applause, and even life, to the sacred calls of his country.

~ James Otis

The true index of a man's character is the health of his wife.

~ Cyril Connolly

Man becomes weak or ill by accident as a consequence of the lack of resources. Even the most severally ill patients must be treated with the aim of restoring their health.

~ Michael Servetus

Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not.

~ George Bernard Shaw

As a single-payer advocate, I believe that at the end of the day, if a state goes forward and passed an effective single-payer program, it will demonstrate that you can provide quality health care to every man, woman and child in a more cost-effective way.

~ Bernie Sanders

Let me be a free man - free to travel, free to stop, free to work.

~ Chief Joseph

It doesn't matter if you're a man or a woman - stay alert and focused on your surroundings. Travel with friends. Know where you are at all times, and never let your guard down.

~ Kimberly Guilfoyle

What should I have known or written had I been a quiet, mercantile politician or a lord in waiting? A man must travel, and turmoil, or there is no existence.

~ Lord Byron

I collect travel alarm clocks. I was in a flea market in France once, in 1994, and I opened up this beautiful Jaeger-LeCoultre folding eight-day winding clock folded into a beautiful case, and I went, 'Wow, man.' And I've been collecting travel alarm clocks since 1994.

~ Alec Baldwin

Through machinery, man can exert tremendous powers almost as fantastic as if he were the hero of a fairy tale. Through machinery, man can travel with an ever increasing velocity; he can fly through the air and go beneath the surface of the ocean.

~ Maria Montessori

It is not fit that every man should travel; it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.

~ William Hazlitt