Man Quotes

Men do not shape destiny, Destiny produces the man for the hour.

~ Fidel Castro

My native land is a slave of heathenism, men's god is their belly, and they live only for the present. The richer a man, the holier.

~ St. Jerome

The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.

~ Nathaniel Hawthorne

Many years ago, I concluded that a few hair shirts were part of the mental wardrobe of every man. The president differs from other men in that he has a more extensive wardrobe.

~ Herbert Hoover

What, but the rapacity of the only men who exercised their reason, the priests, secured such vast property to the church, when a man gave his perishable substance to save himself from the dark torments of purgatory.

~ Mary Wollstonecraft

A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says 'I was beaten', he does not say 'My men were beaten.'

~ Antoine De Saint-Exupéry

If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe what they see.

~ Henry David Thoreau

There is always a type of man who says he loves his fellow men, and expects to make a living at it.

~ E. W. Howe

Every man is a volume if you know how to read him.

~ William Ellery Channing

First find the man in yourself if you will inspire manliness in others.

~ Amos Bronson Alcott

When a man is no longer anxious to do better than well, he is done for.

~ Benjamin Haydon

I shall allow no man to belittle my soul by making me hate him.

~ Booker T. Washington

A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.

~ Francis Bacon

One of man's greatest obligations is anger.

~ Nikos Kazantzakis

When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.

~ Louis Nizer

A man that does not know how to be angry does not know how to be good.

~ Henry Ward Beecher

Anger is a killing thing: it kills the man who angers, for each rage leaves him less than he had been before - it takes something from him.

~ Louis L'amour

There was never an angry man that thought his anger unjust.

~ Saint Francis De Sales

Love implies anger. The man who is angered by nothing cares about nothing.

~ Edward Abbey

When you are offended at any man's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.

~ Epictetus

No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.

~ George Jean Nathan

When anger rushes unrestrained to action, like a hot steed, it stumbles on its way. The man of thought strikes deepest and strikes safely.

~ Richard Savage

The dog is often quick to resent a kick, be it from man or beast, but I have never known him to show anger at the door that slammed to and hit him. Probably, if the door held him by his tail or his limb, it would quickly receive the imprint of his teeth.

~ John Burroughs

A lot of these guys come up and say, 'Man, you were my influence, the way you thrashed the drums.' They don't seem to understand I was thrashing in order to hear what I was playing. It was anger, not enjoyment - and painful.

~ Butch Trucks

An angry man is again angry with himself when he returns to reason.

~ Publilius Syrus

A man can submit today in order to resist tomorrow. My submission had been such. And because I had not been free to show my real feeling, to voice my true thoughts, my submission had bred bitterness and anger. And there were nearly ten million others who had submitted with equal anger and bitterness.

~ Peter Abrahams

It's something that black men still go through to this day, which is women clutching their purses, hitting the lock button on store, or just basic attitudes. And even as a U.S. congressman, as a black man, it is very, very frustrating, and you build up an internal anger about it that you can't act on.

~ Cedric Richmond

When a man is wrong and won't admit it, he always gets angry.

~ Thomas Chandler Haliburton

A hungry man is an angry one.

~ Buchi Emecheta

Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.

~ Thomas De Quincey

There is not in nature, a thing that makes man so deformed, so beastly, as doth intemperate anger.

~ Alan Bleasdale

No one ceases to be a man, no one forfeits his rights to civilization merely by being more or less uncultured, and since the Filipino is regarded as a fit citizen when he is asked to pay taxes or shed his blood to defend the fatherland, why must this fitness be denied him when the question arises of granting him some right?

~ José Rizal

If a man achieves victory over this body, who in the world can exercise power over him? He who rules himself rules over the whole world.

~ Vinoba Bhave

It's not like I was trying to be sexy but I had to get fit because I had to be able to do stunts. Also I wanted that, if Bond took his clothes off, he looked like a man who did what he did, which was kill people for a living. I thought the only way to do that was to work out and get fit and buff and get physically into shape.

~ Daniel Craig

Early in my career, I got roles that demanded that I be fit to carry off the angry young man look. Of course, I'm a fitness freak, and that's something I picked up from my dad.

~ Akkineni Nagarjuna

Imagine how many women could excel in science if not for the pernicious myth that science and math are a man's game. Likewise, fitness isn't defined by the Arnold Schwarzeneggers of the world.

~ Kyle Hill

I try and maintain a little bit of fitness, man.

~ Frank Bruno

The only way for a rich man to be healthy is by exercise and abstinence, to live as if he were poor.

~ William Temple

15 minutes a day! Give me just this and I'll prove I can make you a new man.

~ Charles Atlas

The ultimate end of all revolutionary social change is to establish the sanctity of human life, the dignity of man, the right of every human being to liberty and well-being.

~ Emma Goldman