Man Quotes

My teacher, my great cello teacher Leonard Rose, was such a great cellist, and nurturing man, very patient. But I grew up not only admiring him, but obviously Casals, Rostrotovich, Jacqueline du Pre, and many others, including many of my peers and contemporaries.

~ Yo-Yo Ma

Every man who rises above the common level has received two educations: the first from his teachers; the second, more personal and important, from himself.

~ Edward Gibbon

You know, a lot of those angry sort of Southern man characters that I've been doing are based on different people I might've had as, like, a soccer coach or as a teacher.

~ Danny Mcbride

I see myself as an old man and an unqualified teacher to the nation. I think being a teacher is probably the most important thing you can be in politics.

~ Tony Benn

When I was 16, I played Macbeth at school and my English teacher said, 'I think you may have acting talent. Try to get into the National Youth Theatre of Great Britain and see where you get.' I wouldn't have thought of that at all. I wanted to be a surgeon, but I wasn't a clever man.

~ David Suchet

The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.

~ Thomas Paine

The soul that is within me no man can degrade.

~ Frederick Douglass

No difficulty can discourage, no obstacle dismay, no trouble dishearten the man who has acquired the art of being alive. Difficulties are but dares of fate, obstacles but hurdles to try his skill, troubles but bitter tonics to give him strength; and he rises higher and looms greater after each encounter with adversity.

~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox

We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man's estate, is the gift of education.

~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau

This is the mark of a really admirable man: steadfastness in the face of trouble.

~ Ludwig Van Beethoven

I think the reason why strong women have such a powerful impact is that you've got the strength of a man with the heart and sensitivity of a woman.

~ Emilia Clarke

I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.

~ Anaïs Nin

Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; but if anything is within the powers and province of man, believe that it is within your own compass also.

~ Marcus Aurelius

There is little that can withstand a man who can conquer himself.

~ Louis Xiv

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.

~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer

My relationship with my grandmother has gone from strength to strength. As a shy, younger man it could be harder to talk about weighty matters. It was: 'This is my grandmother who is the Queen, and these are serious historical subjects.'

~ Prince William

The strength of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts.

~ Blaise Pascal

The spirit of man can endure only so much and when it is broken only a miracle can mend it.

~ John Burroughs

Indeed, the existence of class, of social hierarchy, is as old as man himself. It prevails in the jungle where strength determines hierarchy; among men, it has also been savagely the same, whereby rulers vested with power through personal combat, or through lineal heritage as in the case of royalty, ravage their subjects.

~ F. Sionil José

Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength; and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.

~ Henry Ward Beecher

If thou desire the love of God and man, be humble, for the proud heart, as it loves none but itself, is beloved of none but itself. Humility enforces where neither virtue, nor strength, nor reason can prevail.

~ Francis Quarles

The superior man is the providence of the inferior. He is eyes for the blind, strength for the weak, and a shield for the defenseless. He stands erect by bending above the fallen. He rises by lifting others.

~ Robert Green Ingersoll

My faith is an important part of my life and over the years I've learnt that it takes a proud man to say he doesn't need anything. It has been a quiet strength and a backbone through a lot of difficult times.

~ Bear Grylls

Where is the man who has the strength to be true, and to show himself as he is?

~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.

~ Winston Churchill

Now, being a girl, I was ashamed of my body and my lack of strength. So I tried to be a man. I shot, rode, jumped, and took part in all the fights of the boys.

~ Agnes Smedley

Nobody picks on a strong man.

~ Charles Atlas

The relationship to one's fellow man is the relationship of prayer, the relationship to oneself is the relationship of striving; it is from prayer that one draws the strength for one's striving.

~ Franz Kafka

They tell me that it will be hard to find a man strong enough to love my own strength and independence, and not worry about being Mr. Diana Ross, but I disagree. I know absolutely that that man is somewhere out there.

~ Diana Ross

I stay in Jersey - it's home, man. It's home. And I think that's the foundation of the true strength of the communities where we live in America.

~ Joe Piscopo

You ever try to beat your dad up? It just don't happen. He's got that old man strength.

~ Donald Cerrone

Strength of will is the test of a young man's possibilities. Can he will strong enough and hold whatever he undertakes with an iron grip?

~ Orison Swett Marden

Many a man's strength is in opposition, and when he faileth, he grows out of use.

~ Francis Bacon

The spirit of man is more important than mere physical strength, and the spiritual fiber of a nation than its wealth.

~ Dwight D. Eisenhower

And when a woman's will is as strong as the man's who wants to govern her, half her strength must be concealment.

~ George Eliot

Extraordinary circumstances often bring along with them extraordinary strength. No man knows, till the experiment, what he is capable of effecting.

~ William Godwin

Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength.

~ Aldous Huxley

It is labor that keeps the strong man strong. And spiritual labor, toil and burden-bearing, is what will give strength to the church of Christ.

~ Ellen G. White

A man has to have sensibility, wit, mystery, tolerance, and strength... Romance also helps.

~ Carolina Herrera

Not one man in a thousand has the strength of mind or the goodness of heart to be an atheist.

~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge