Man Quotes

A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.

~ Winston Churchill

We live in the time where we have fictitious election results that elects a fictitious president. We live in a time where we have a man sending us to war for fictitious reasons.

~ Michael Moore

War on the other hand is such a terrible thing, that no man, especially a Christian man, has the right to assume the responsibility of starting it.

~ Leo Tolstoy

The great object is that every man be armed.

~ Patrick Henry

War never takes a wicked man by chance, the good man always.

~ Sophocles

It has too often been too easy for rulers and governments to incite man to war.

~ Lester B. Pearson

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

~ Arthur Koestler

I am a Quaker. And as everyone knows, Quakers, for 300 years, have, on conscientious ground, been against participating in war. I was sentenced to three years in federal prison because I could not religiously and conscientiously accept killing my fellow man.

~ Bayard Rustin

Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?

~ Blaise Pascal

War is not the continuation of politics with different means, it is the greatest mass-crime perpetrated on the community of man.

~ Alfred Adler

The creative impulses of man are always at war with the possessive impulses.

~ Van Wyck Brooks

The war was a mirror; it reflected man's every virtue and every vice, and if you looked closely, like an artist at his drawings, it showed up both with unusual clarity.

~ George Grosz

War - the ordinary man's most convenient means of escaping from the ordinary.

~ Philip Caputo

War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.

~ Napoleon Hill

No matter how vast, how total, the failure of man here on earth, the work of man will be resumed elsewhere. War leaders talk of resuming operations on this front and that, but man's front embraces the whole universe.

~ Henry Miller

The argument that someone is a bad man is an inadequate argument for war and certainly an inadequate and unacceptable argument for regime change.

~ John Major

Only the man who disciplines himself strictly can stand for long the terrific pace of modern war.

~ William Lyon Mackenzie King

A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.

~ John Burroughs

But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.

~ Ernest Hemingway

A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.

~ Christopher Morley

Often the difference between a successful man and a failure is not one's better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on his ideas, to take a calculated risk, and to act.

~ Maxwell Maltz

Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

~ Thomas A. Edison

Before success comes in any man's life, he's sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and the most logical thing to do is to quit. That's exactly what the majority of men do.

~ Napoleon Hill

Man is not made for defeat.

~ Ernest Hemingway

There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.

~ William James

A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.

~ Alexandre Dumas

No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

~ William Feather

Why should anybody be interested in some old man who was a failure?

~ Ernest Hemingway

Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

~ Thomas A. Edison

The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he is one of God's children, but that as soon as he succeeds he is taken over by the Devil.

~ H. L. Mencken

The woman is a gentle, loving bond who encourages, consoles, builds, reconciles, and makes all things new and vibrant. The woman is strength in time of suffering, courageous in failure, intuitive in time of danger. A woman is ingenuous when all fails, resourceful in times of want, and a true helpmate for man.

~ Mother Angelica

I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.

~ George Eliot

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.

~ Abraham Maslow

The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.

~ B. C. Forbes

No man ever achieved worth-while success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure.

~ Napoleon Hill

A man can get discouraged many times but he is not a failure until he begins to blame somebody else and stops trying.

~ John Burroughs

A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.

~ Elbert Hubbard

George W. Bush is history's president, a man for whom the long-term success or failure of democracy in Iraq will determine his place in history.

~ Andrew Breitbart

Bare hands grip success better than kid gloves. Be thorough in all things, no matter how small or distasteful! The man who counts his hours and kicks about his salary is a self-elected failure.

~ Charles M. Schwab

We need to teach the highly educated man that it is not a disgrace to fail and that he must analyze every failure to find its cause. He must learn how to fail intelligently, for failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.

~ Charles Kettering