Man Quotes

We would all like to vote for the best man but he is never a candidate.

~ Kin Hubbard

Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty it is its own reward. Everything else is in God's hands.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

I consider my ability to arouse enthusiasm among men the greatest asset I possess. The way to develop the best that is in a man is by appreciation and encouragement.

~ Charles M. Schwab

The man who has done his best has done everything.

~ Charles M. Schwab

No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.

~ Abraham Lincoln

A father is a man who expects his son to be as good a man as he meant to be.

~ Frank A. Clark

The battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man.

~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent.

~ Abraham Lincoln

I think a gentleman is someone who holds the comfort of other people above their own. The instinct to do that is inside every good man, I believe. The rules about opening doors and buying dinner and all of that other 'gentleman' stuff is a chess game, especially these days.

~ Anna Kendrick

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.

~ Chanakya

We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.

~ William James

Nobody, man or woman, has ever wrecked a good marriage.

~ Jimmy Dean

A man always has two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real reason.

~ J. P. Morgan

Life moves so fast. You gotta document the good times, man.

~ Big Boi

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.

~ Vince Lombardi

A good mustache makes a man for many reasons.

~ John Oates

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.

~ Samuel Johnson

Every good act is charity. A man's true wealth hereafter is the good that he does in this world to his fellows.

~ Molière

In order to be rated as good as a good man in the field of her earnings, she must show herself better than he. She must be more steady, or more trustworthy, or more skilled, or more cheap in order to have the same chance of employment.

~ Florence Kelley

The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.

~ William James

The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: 'If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?' But... the good Samaritan reversed the question: 'If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?'

~ Martin Luther King

In the past the man has been first in the future the system must be first... The first object of any good system must be that of developing first class men.

~ Frederick W. Taylor

A good farmer is nothing more nor less than a handy man with a sense of humus.

~ E. B. White

To be doing good deeds is man's most glorious task.

~ Sophocles

No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.

~ Hunter S. Thompson

A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.

~ Franklin D. Roosevelt

A man is as good as he has to be, and a woman as bad as she dares.

~ Elbert Hubbard

A man who is good enough to shed his blood for the country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards.

~ Theodore Roosevelt

No man or woman can be strong, gentle, pure, and good, without the world being better for it and without someone being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness.

~ Phillips Brooks

A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.

~ Charles Evans Hughes

A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice.

~ E. W. Howe

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.

~ Ronald Reagan

Depend upon yourself. Make your judgement trustworthy by trusting it. You can develop good judgement as you do the muscles of your body - by judicious, daily exercise. To be known as a man of sound judgement will be much in your favor.

~ Grantland Rice

On a good day I think I'm handsome, on an average day I'm average. I'm a man's man so I don't necessarily know how cute we're supposed to be.

~ Ceelo Green

As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task.

~ Diogenes

A man who was completely innocent, offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others, including his enemies, and became the ransom of the world. It was a perfect act.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

The word 'good' has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.

~ Gilbert K. Chesterton

A man is called selfish not for pursuing his own good, but for neglecting his neighbor's.

~ Richard Whately

Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.

~ François De La Rochefoucauld

No man deserves to be praised for his goodness, who has it not in his power to be wicked. Goodness without that power is generally nothing more than sloth, or an impotence of will.

~ François De La Rochefoucauld