Quotes and Sayings About Men
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A man is about as happy as he makes up his mind to be.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
I believe that every individual is naturally entitled to do as he pleases with himself and the fruits of his labor, so far as it in no way interferes with any other men's rights.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
You can tell the greatness of a man by what makes him angry
-- Abraham Lincoln -
Persuasion, kind, unassuming persuasion, should be adopted to influence the conduct of men. The opposite course would be a reversal of human nature, which is God's decree and can never be reversed.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
It is the man who does not want to express an opinion whose opinion I want.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
I do not think I could myself, be brought to support a man for office, whom I knew to be an open enemy of, and scoffer at, religion. Leaving the higher matter of eternal consequences, between him and his Maker, I still do not think any man has the right thus to insult the feelings, and injure the morals, of the community in which he may live.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
And then, the negro being doomed, and damned, and forgotten, to everlasting bondage, is the white man quite certain that the tyrant demon will not turn upon him too?
-- Abraham Lincoln -
One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.
-- Abraham Maslow -
The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.
-- Abraham Maslow -
What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualizat ion.
-- Abraham Maslow -
A stupid man behaves stupidly, not because he wants to, or tries to, or is motivated to, but simply because he is what he is.
-- Abraham Maslow -
The best product should be bought, the best man should be rewarded more. Interfering factors which befuddle this triumph of virtue, justice, truth, and efficiency, etc., should be kept to an absolute minimum or should approach zero as a limit.
-- Abraham Maslow -
I have discovered the missing link between the anthropoid apes and civilized men. It's us!
-- Abraham Maslow -
Man has his future within him, dynamically alive at this present moment.
-- Abraham Maslow -
A man could spend the rest of his life trying to remember what he shouldn't have said.
-- Abraham Polonsky -
I think America is really in denial about the degree to which residents, particularly foreign medical graduates, man the county hospitals of this country, and but for their services, I'm not sure how exactly we could manage.
-- Abraham Verghese -
When a man is a mystery to himself you can hardly call him mysterious.
-- Abraham Verghese -
What did it say when a man had fewer clothes than books?
-- Abraham Verghese -
A rich man's faults are covered with money, but a surgeon's faults are covered with earth.
-- Abraham Verghese -
Cursed is the man who dies, but the evil done by him survives.
-- Abu Bakr -
A Man who is Shy and Modest, is An Amazing Character, but a Women who is Shy and Modest is Beyond Amazing.
-- Abu Bakr -
It is bad for a young man to sin; but it is worse for an old man to sin.
-- Abu Bakr -
O man you are busy working for the world, and the world is busy trying to turn you out.
-- Abu Bakr -
Pride in the case of a rich man is bad, but pride in the case of a poor man is worse.
-- Abu Bakr -
Be just: the unjust never prosper. Be valiant: die rather than yield. Be merciful: slay neither old men, children, nor women. Destroy neither fruit trees, grain, nor cattle. Keep your word, even to your enemies.
-- Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi -
Many women I know think the ideal of happiness is to be in love with a great man, or to be the wife of a great public success; to share his triumph! They forget you share the man as well!
-- Ada Leverson -
an optimist is the man who looks after your eyes, and the pessimist the person who looks after your feet.
-- Ada Leverson
