Quotes about Man
Live the principles and the values. Almost nobody in America is living them. Learn the truth. Live the life of our founders. Be a decent, righteous, forthright honest man or woman.
— Glenn Beck
Let every man make known what kind of government would command his respect, and that will be one step toward obtaining it.
— Henry David Thoreau
The life of man is made up of action and endurance; the life is fruitful in the ratio in which it is laid out in noble action or in patient perseverance.
— Henry Parry Liddon
No cradle for an emperor's child was ever prepared with so much magnificence as this world has been made for man. But it is only his cradle.
— Henry Ward Beecher
A man is a great bundle of tools. He is born into this life without the knowledge of how to use them. Education is the process of learning their use.
— Henry Ward Beecher
A man should fear when he only enjoys what good he does publicly. Is it not the publicity rather than the charity he loves? Is it not vanity, rather than benevolence, that gives such charities?
— Henry Ward Beecher
When a man has no longer any conception of excellence above his own, his voyage is done, he is dead,--dead in trespasses and sin of blear-eyed vanity.
— Henry Ward Beecher
John Wesley quaintly observed that the road to heaven is a narrow path, not intended for wheels, and that to ride in a coach here and to go to heaven hereafter, was a happiness too much for man.
— Henry Ward Beecher
It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance, and that in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things.
— Theodore Roosevelt
training in the writing of good English is indispensable to any learned man who expects to make his learning count for what it ought to count in the effect on his fellow men.
— Theodore Roosevelt
Man is closer to God according to his existence in grace than he is according to his existence in nature.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
Reason in man is rather like God in the world.
— St. Thomas Aquinas