Man Quotes

All I demand for the black man is, that the white people shall take their heels off his neck, and let him have a chance to rise by his own efforts.

~ William Wells Brown

Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life.

~ Robert Louis Stevenson

Does not the gratitude of the dog put to shame any man who is ungrateful to his benefactors?

~ Saint Basil

It is another's fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.

~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Those who give themselves to prayer should in a special manner have always a devotion to St. Joseph; for I know not how any man can think of the Queen of the angels, during the time that she suffered so much with the Infant Jesus, without giving thanks to St. Joseph for the services he rendered them then.

~ Saint Teresa Of Avila

A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.

~ Henry Ward Beecher

'In A World...' changed my life a thousand per cent. I feel thankful that something I believed in so much - I love dialect, so I dedicated five years of my life to making a film about it - yielded such rewards. It led to 'Man Up,' as well as 'No Escape,' which comes out later this year... two movies where I am the female lead.

~ Lake Bell

I'm really thankful to God, man. Like now, I'm really making a real comeback with my group. With or without a record, with or without a movie. And behind all the negative press behind this movie.

~ Ike Turner

It's a struggle for every young Black man. You know how it is, only God can judge us.

~ Tupac Shakur

Non-violence requires a double faith, faith in God and also faith in man.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.

~ C. S. Lewis

Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man.

~ Fyodor Dostoevsky

We Marines believe that God gave America the greatest gift He could bestow to man while he lived on this earth -freedom. We also believe He gave us another gift nearly as precious - our soldiers, sailors, airmen, Coast Guardsmen, and Marines - to safeguard that gift and guarantee no force on this earth can ever steal it away.

~ John F. Kelly

No man is excluded from calling upon God, the gate of salvation is set open unto all men: neither is there any other thing which keepeth us back from entering in, save only our own unbelief.

~ John Calvin

God works wonders now and then; Behold a lawyer, an honest man.

~ Benjamin Franklin

Kill a man, and you are an assassin. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill everyone, and you are a god.

~ Beilby Porteus

I think that the greatest gift God ever gave man is not the gift of sight but the gift of vision. Sight is a function of the eyes, but vision is a function of the heart.

~ Myles Munroe

Man gives you the award but God gives you the reward.

~ Denzel Washington

Good man! Genuine gentleman! God bless George Thompson, the great-hearted friend of my race.

~ Sojourner Truth

Me don't dip on nobody's side. Me don't dip on the black man's side, not the white man's side. Me dip on God's side, the one who create me and cause me to come from black and white.

~ Bob Marley

Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality.

~ Abraham Lincoln

I was not popular in school, and I was definitely not a ladies' man. And I had a very painful adolescence, because it was all very strange to me. It wasn't like I got beat up, but the humiliation and isolation, and the existential 'God, I exist, and nobody cares' of being a teenager were extremely pronounced for me.

~ Joss Whedon

Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.

~ Jesus Christ

Is man one of God's blunders? Or is God one of man's blunders?

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Do not worship me, I am not God. I'm only a man. I worship Jesus Christ.

~ Haile Selassie

I used to read five psalms every day - that teaches me how to get along with God. Then I read a chapter of Proverbs every day and that teaches me how to get along with my fellow man.

~ Billy Graham

Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.

~ Gilbert K. Chesterton

The Communist vision is the vision of man without God.

~ Whittaker Chambers

God lends a helping hand to the man who tries hard.

~ Aeschylus

I don't stand for the black man's side, I don' t stand for the white man's side. I stand for God's side.

~ Bob Marley

God who is eternally complete, who directs the stars, who is the master of fates, who elevates man from his lowliness to Himself, who speaks from the cosmos to every single human soul, is the most brilliant manifestation of the goal of perfection.

~ Alfred Adler

The man who sows wrong thoughts and deeds and prays that God will bless him is in the position of a farmer who, having sown tares, asks God to bring forth for him a harvest of wheat.

~ James Allen

I am at peace with God. My conflict is with Man.

~ Charlie Chaplin

I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.

~ Thomas Jefferson

There's too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will.

~ Agatha Christie

No man ever did, nor ever shall, truly go forth to convert the nations, nor to prophesy in the present state of witnesses against Antichrist, but by the gracious inspiration and instigation of the Holy Spirit of God.

~ Roger Williams

To do all that one is able to do, is to be a man; to do all that one would like to do, is to be a god.

~ Napoléon Bonaparte

No enactment of man can be considered law unless it conforms to the law of God.

~ William Blackstone

Man is important in one sense only. He was made in the image of God: That is his importance. He is not important for his body, ego, or personality. His constant affirmation of ego-consciousness is the source of all his problems.

~ Paramahansa Yogananda

God made man to go by motives, and he will not go without them, any more than a boat without steam or a balloon without gas.

~ Henry Ward Beecher