Quotes about Man
It matters very little whether a man is discontented in the name of pessimism or progress, if his discontent does in fact paralyse his power of appreciating what he has got.
- GK Chesterton
The Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.
- Anonymous
From his cradle to the grave, a man never does a single thing which has any first and foremost object save one-to secure peace of mind, spiritual comfort, for himself.
- Mark Twain
Man's capacity for evil makes democracy necessary and man's capacity for good makes democracy possible.
- Reinhold Niebuhr
To her fair works did Nature link The human soul that through me ran; And much it grieved my heart to think What Man has made of Man.
- William Wordsworth
There have been in this century only one great man and one great thing: Napoleon and liberty. For want of the great man, let us have the great thing.
- Victor Hugo
That is the most common excuse, and the most foolish of all. Love has never prevented a man from following his dreams. If she truly loves you, she will want the best for you.
- Paulo Coelho
History doesn't mean dates and wars and textbooks to me; it means the unconquerable pioneer spirit of man.
- Henry Ford
How she loved a man who would fit his life around the seasoning needs of a fish.
- Susan May Warren
It is the belief of many that every completed thought starts an unending vibration with which the one who releases it will have to contend at a later time; that man, himself, is but the physical reflection of thought that was put into motion by infinite intelligence.
- Napoleon Hill
The test of a man is in his immediate acts, and not in ultra-sentiments; and if those acts are consistently informed with selfishness and bitterness, if those at home hear his steps with dread, and feel a joyful relief on his departure, how empty are his expressions of sympathy for the suffering or down trodden how futile his membership of a philanthropic society.
- Napoleon Hill
The desire for sexual expression is inborn and natural. The desire cannot, and should not be submerged or eliminated. But it should be given an outlet through forms of expression which enrich the body, mind, and spirit of man.
- Napoleon Hill