Man Quotes

A living man can be enslaved and reduced to the historic condition of an object. But if he dies in refusing to be enslaved, he reaffirms the existence of another kind of human nature which refuses to be classified as an object.

Albert Camus

The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.

Thomas Carlyle

Wherever there is a man who exercises authority, there is a man who resists authority.

Oscar Wilde

Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.

Martin Luther King Jr.

When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her.

Oscar Wilde

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

Samuel Johnson

The man of life upright has a guiltless heart, free from all dishonest deeds or thought of vanity.

Thomas Carlyle

The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.

George Orwell

If a man aspires towards a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from injury to animals.

Leo Tolstoy

The value of a man should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive.

Albert Einstein

Every man is wanted and no man is wanted much.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Great Man... is colder, harder, less hesitating, and without fear of 'opinion'; he lacks the virtues that accompany respect and 'respectability,' and altogether everything that is the 'virtue of the herd.' If he cannot lead, he goes alone... He knows he is incommunicable: he finds it tasteless to be familiar... When not speaking to himself, he wears a mask. There is a solitude within him that is inaccessible to praise or blame.

Friedrich Nietzsche

A truly wise man is always joyful.

Leo Tolstoy

Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.

Henry David Thoreau

To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.

William Shakespeare

One swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.

Aristotle

If the man who turnips cries, Cry not when his father dies, 'Tis a proof that he had rather Have a turnip than his father.

Samuel Johnson

What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult to each other? I cannot be indifferent to the troubles of a man who advised me in my trouble, and attended me in my illness.

George Eliot

It is so much more difficult to live with one's body than with one's soul. One's body is so much more exacting: what it won't have it won't have, and nothing can make bitter into sweet.

D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

It would be mortifying to the feelings of many ladies, could they be made to understand how little the heart of man is affected by what is costly or new in their attire.

Jane Austen