Man Quotes

In order to the existence of such a ministry in the Church, there is requisite an authority received from God, and consequently power and knowledge imparted from God for the exercise of such ministry; and where a man possesses these, although the bishop has not laid hands upon him according to his traditions, God has Himself appointed him.

~ John Wycliffe

A typical smart phone has more computing power than Apollo 11 when it landed a man on the moon.

~ Nancy Gibbs

The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind - not the fiend or the sadist.

~ Erich Fromm

Any man who has ever tried to use political power for the common good has felt an awful sense of powerlessness.

~ Robert Casey

The man who has sufficient power over himself to wait until his nature has recovered its even balance is the truly wise man, but such beings are seldom met with.

~ Giacomo Casanova

Sooner or later, man has always had to decide whether he worships his own power or the power of God.

~ Arnold J. Toynbee

There is something about inside information which seems to paralyse a man's reasoning powers.

~ Bernard Baruch

There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.

~ Erich Fromm

Why should any man have power over any other man's faith, seeing Christ Himself is the author of it?

~ George Fox

I want the municipality to be a helping hand to the man with a desire of sympathy, to help the fallen when it is not in their power to help themselves.

~ John Burns

The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.

~ Winston Churchill

A man's true state of power and riches is to be in himself.

~ Henry Ward Beecher

Our sense of power is more vivid when we break a man's spirit than when we win his heart.

~ Eric Hoffer

Power and position often make a man trifle with the truth.

~ George A. Smith

Let no man imagine that he has no influence. Whoever he may be, and wherever he may be placed, the man who thinks becomes a light and a power.

~ Henry George

The bad man desires arbitrary power. What moves the evil man is the love of injustice.

~ John Rawls

Let every man and woman count himself immortal. Let him catch the revelation of Jesus in his resurrection. Let him say not merely, 'Christ is risen,' but 'I shall rise.'

~ Phillips Brooks

Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.

~ Dale Carnegie

A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.

~ John Stuart Mill

Man, when I'm riding with the helmet on, I'm invisible. And people just deal with me as the guy on the bike... it gives you a chance to read 'em.

~ Brad Pitt

The goal of Dr. Martin Luther King is to give Negroes a chance to sit in a segregated restaurant beside the same white man who had brutalized them for 400 years.

~ Malcolm X

Here is the root of all romanticism: that man, the individual, is an infinite reservoir of possibilities, and if you can so rearrange society by the destruction of oppressive order, then these possibilities will have a chance, and you will get Progress.

~ T. E. Hulme

The successful man is the one who had the chance and took it.

~ Roger Babson

No man was ever wise by chance.

~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca

A wise man turns chance into good fortune.

~ Thomas Fuller

You can't sit on a lead and run a few plays into the line and just kill the clock. You've got to throw the ball over the damn plate and five the other man his chance. That's why baseball is the greatest game of them all.

~ Earl Weaver

A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.

~ Aldous Huxley

While there is a chance of the world getting through its troubles, I hold that a reasonable man has to behave as though he were sure of it. If at the end your cheerfulness in not justified, at any rate you will have been cheerful.

~ H. G. Wells

No man ever wetted clay and then left it, as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune.

~ Plutarch

Man, if I get a chance to speak on the microphone, I've got to say something somewhere in there. You know, I'm going to laugh and have fun, too, but something has to be said that has some substance, because this is a platform, and the power that we have with words and with this microphone is phenomenal.

~ Common

He is not to pass for a man of reason who stumbles upon reason by chance but he who knows it and can judge it and has a true taste for it.

~ François De La Rochefoucauld

Insurance - an ingenious modern game of chance in which the player is permitted to enjoy the comfortable conviction that he is beating the man who keeps the table.

~ Ambrose Bierce

Man is simply the best chance we know of that matter has had of providing itself with information about itself.

~ Italo Calvino

When a man has no reason to trust himself, he trusts in luck.

~ E. W. Howe

I think luck is the sense to recognize an opportunity and the ability to take advantage of it... The man who can smile at his breaks and grab his chances gets on.

~ Samuel Goldwyn

I come from nothing. When I got a chance to make some money, I was like, 'Man, I'm not ever going back.'

~ Juicy J

In battle, you forgive a man anything except an unwillingness to take risks. Sometimes you have to put it on the line.

~ Tom Clancy

This ultimate fighting stuff is something I don't agree with. Once a man is down, you have to let him have a chance to prove how good he is.

~ Joe Frazier

You can take a chance with any man who pays his bills on time.

~ Terence

The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.

~ B. C. Forbes