Top 1200 Being A Man Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

The highest point at which human life and art meet is in the ordinary. To look down on the ordinary is to despise what you can't have. Show me a man who fears being ordinary, and I'll show you a man who is not yet a man.

There are three marks of a superior man: being virtuous, he is free from anxiety; being wise, he is free from perplexity; being brave, he is free from fear.

When man learns to respect even the smallest being of creation...nobody has to teach him to love his fellow man. Compassion for animals is intimately connected with goodness of character, and it may be confidently asserted that he who is cruel to animals cannot be a good man.

Man is not the lord of beings. Man is the shepherd of Being.

Jesus was a human being, bound by history and the natural world; an extraordinary man, to be sure, but still a man.

Ain't no man can avoid being born average, but there ain't no man got to be common.

There's a lot of black men running around with crazy trauma scars, and they should be going to therapy. They should be sitting down and talking to people. But they can't. If you've got the armor of being a man, and the armor of being a black man, that hyper-masculine thing can make those scars deeper.

I have no objection to a man being a man, however masculine that may be.

I loved being a man-woman. It's much more interesting than being one or the other.

The mirror sees the man as beautiful, the mirror loves the man; another mirror sees the man as frightful and hates him; and it is always the same being who produces the impressions.

Coition is a slight attack of apoplexy. For man gushes forth from man, and is separated by being torn apart with a kind of blow.

It's wrong to flog a man. It's against his being a man.

Every Christian man has a choice between being humble and being humbled.

Man will always remain an unsuccessful creature till he stops being a mortal being!

Being a blockhead is sometimes the best security against being cheated by a man of wit.

If you're a young man, and you're being coached by someone like Guy Lewis, you're going to become a better man.

Though a man cannot abstain from being weak, he may from being vicious.

Woman takes her being from man, man takes his well being from woman.

No man is invincible, and therefore no man can fully understand that which would make him invincible. Even with complete and thorough study there is always the possibility of being defeated and although one may be expert in a particular form, mastery is something a man never stops seeking to attain.

We've got to get back to being the America we once were. The entrepreneurial spirit. The accountability. When a man was a man.

And why are you so firmly, so triumphantly, convinced that only the normal and the positive--in other words, only what is conducive to welfare--is for the advantage of man? Is not reason in error as regards advantage? Does not man, perhaps, love something besides well-being? Perhaps he is just as fond of suffering? Perhaps suffering is just as great a benefit to him as well-being? Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering, and that is a fact.

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.

God created man in his own image. And man, being a gentleman, returned the favor.

Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.

The fatal errors of life are not due to man's being unreasonable: an unreasonable moment may be one's finest moment. They are due to man's being logical.

Despite being such a brilliant director, Hansal Mehta is a simple and down to earth man. He is very sorted and driven by passion. So that's a rare combination - being a good craftsman and a good human being.

Being called gay is worse than transgender. I remember when I started fighting way back in 1999 for hijas' rights, and I said the state doesn't have the right to use my gender to club me into "gay." If I say I am not a man then who are you to question it? Being called gay or a man really upsets me.

Man is the being who, from cradle to grave has to abide by either his man-made laws or heavenly law.

I was a theater man, so I was never in the situation of being a handsome Hollywood leading man, and then having to age.

I have the greatest aversion to being a candidate on a ticket with a man whose record as an upright public man is to be in question--to be defended from the beginning to the end.

A man for whom accident discovers sense, is not a rational being. A man only is so who understands, who distinguishes, who tests it.

Jesus Christ was willing to admit every good man to the family of God. It is not the man who believes a certain something, but the man who does the will of the Father in heaven, who is right. On this basis-being right and doing right-the whole world can unite.

No man can ever end with being superior who will not begin with being inferior.

A man is in the right in being a man; it is the woman who is in the wrong.

Vaclav Havel was the most amazing man in terms of being the combination of somebody with massive moral authority, great courage for having espoused the concepts of democracy, freedom throughout a very difficult communist period, a very modest man, and somebody with a fabulous sense of humor and the idea of being able to see the absurd in situations.

Man is, at one and the same time, a solitary being and a social being.

The profound meaning of music's essential aim... is to produce a communion, a union of man with his fellow man with the Supreme Being

It was when I came back from Leeds that things started to change. I went from being a kid to having to man up and going into a man's game.

The world is forever babbling of originality; but there never yet was an original man, in the sense intended by the world; the first man himself--who according to the Rabbins was also the first author--not being an original; the only original author being God.

The man who commands efficiently must have obeyed others in the past, and the man who obeys dutifully is worthy of someday being a commander.

Animals do not betray; they do not exploit; they do not oppress; they do not enslave; they do not sin. They have their being, and their being is honest, and who can say this of man?

Nature is simply the environment on earth in which man finds himself, and to treat it as a separate being in the image of man is sheer nonsense.

Acting is just being a man. Being human. Not forcing it.

A reasonable being should ask himself why - if chemicals can enter into plants, and plants be taken up into animals, and animals be taken into man - why man himself, who is the peak of visible creation, should be denied the privilege of being assimilated into a higher power? The rose has no right to say that there is no life above it and neither has man, who has a vast capacity and unconquerable yearning for eternal life and truth and love.

I've certainly never liked the idea of being put in a box. I loved being part of shows like 'American Idiot' and 'In the Heights,' and I take pride in being able to sing different styles, not just 'Old Man River.'

Michelangelo worked from within. He described not the excitements of touching or seeing a man but the excitement of being Man.

Being a creation of Man, art re-creates Man.

Being an ugly woman is like being a man. You're gonna have to work. Yep.

Man is a substantial emigrant on a pilgrimage of being, and it is accordingly meaningless to set limits to what he is capable of being.

Man's sin is in his failure to live what he is. Being the master of the earth, man forgets that he is the servant of God.

We act and walk and speak and talk in ways that consolidate an impression of being a man or being a woman.

One thing that prevents a man from being a good father is he hasn't completed being a boy.

The background reveals the true being and state of being of the man or thing. If I do not possess the background, I make the man transparent, the thing transparent.

Man is a being of a mixed nature; and, as there is no integrity without its flaws, so is there no man so knavish but that in some things he may be trusted.

Whether it's being a leading man, making TV shows, being with my family, I've learned a lot.

I spent years thinking I had to make a choice between being true to myself and being with a man and not having a family, and trying to live something of a lie and being with a woman and having children.

A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age; he dies of being a man.

Why lower oneself to taking pride from being American or British, when you can boast of being man!

We need to ditch the idea that there is any value in the strong and silent man being in any way attractive. Being silent isn't being strong, it's being a victim.

...man is an analogist, and studies relations in all objects. He is placed in the center of beings, and a ray of relation passes from every other being to him. And neither can man be understood without these objects, nor these objects without man.