Top 1200 Better Man Quotes & Sayings - Page 14

This New Age is marking the dawn of a new world-thought. That new thought is a new cosmic concept of the value of man to man. The whole world is discovering that all mankind is one and that the unity of man is real – not just an abstract idea. Mankind is beginning to discover that the hurt of any man hurts every man, and, conversely, the uplift of any man uplifts every man

No time is better spent than that spent in the service of your fellow man.

When a man sought knowledge, it would not be long before it could be seen in his humbleness, his sight, upon his tongue and his hands, in his prayer, in his speech and in his disinterest (zuhd) in worldly allurements. And a man would acquire a portion of knowledge and put it into practice, and it would be better for him than the world and all it contains - if he owned it he would give it in exchange for the hereafter.

The world would be better off if people tried to become better. And people would become better if they stopped trying to become better off. For when everybody tries to become better off, nobody is better off. But when everybody tries to become better, everybody is better off.

The Working Man's Creed: "A short day is better than a short dollar" .

One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unreachable stars; and the world will be better for this.

It is better for a city to be governed by a good man than by good laws.

The only way to get better is to wrestle better people and work with better guys; that's the only way to get better in our business.

It's almost as if we have two lobes in our brain. There's the consumer and investor mode, and we're doing better and better at that lobe. But at the producer and seller mode, we have to work harder and harder. And the better we do as consumers and investors - the easier it is for us to choose something better, to exit every commercial relationship - the harder we have to work as sellers and producers. One follows from the other.

The Honorable Elijah Muhammad says that the black man in America, for the past 400 years, has been like a boy in the white man's house, begging the white man for a job, for food, clothing and shelter. And then after the white man provides him with all of these things, he turns around and get - has the nerve to get angry at the white man when the white man tries to control his life.

This is how a man looks when he's deciding that the risk of death is better than the risk of change.

I sort of feel sorry for the next man who gets me. I may just kill him with passion. He'd better be strong and have a good heart!

It is far better for a man to go wrong in freedom than to go right in chains.

I do not assume that woman is better than man. I do assume that she has a different way of looking at things.

When an old man and a young man work together, it can make an ugly sight or a pretty one, depending on who's in charge. If the young man's in charge or won't let the old man take over, the young man's brute strength becomes destructive and inefficient, and the old man's intelligence, out of frustration, grows cruel and inefficient. Sometimes the old man forgets that he is old and tries to compete with the young man's strength, and then it's a sad sight. Or the young man forgets that he is young and argues with the old man about how to do the work, and that's a sad sight, too.

It is better that a guilty man should not be brought to trial than that he should be acquitted.

Obviously, a man's judgement cannot be better than the information on which he has based it. Give him the truth and he may still go wrong when he has the chance to be right, but give him no news or present him only with distorted and incomplete data, with ignorant, sloppy or biased reporting, with propaganda and deliberate falsehoods, and you destroy his whole reasoning processes, and make him something less than a man.

Ever since I was a kid I just thought that women had the better outfits, women had the better hair, women got to wear makeup. I just got jealous of what women got to do onstage. You dress up a man and ultimately it's just a different variation on the same kind of suit. There's a whole wide world of what women wear onstage.

If you say I'm great, thank you very much. But I know what I am. I could be better, man, you know?

A damnably readable, streamlined, yet deeply researched work. Skipping the ancestors and aftermath of conventional biography, Max gives us the man, his work, and his times-the niceties of which (so complicated, so exquisitely intertwined) Max articulates with, well, Wallace-like lucidity and wit. Above all this is the story of a touching young man who insisted on being something better than simply the smartest person in the room.

Perhaps the better word is emotional yes, I am an emotional man.

Who rises from prayer a better man, his prayer is answered.

It serves no purpose to man if there is no room for repentance, and he who is tormented can never grow better...let this punishment be severe, let it be bitter, nay let it be lasting, but let it at length have an end.

Once you see the impact that you have on people, either at a meet and greet or after a show, you think, 'Oh man, they need to feel better today.'

The Conservative Party mustn't sound like the old man on the park bench who says things were better in 1985, or 1955, or 1855.

Medical marijuana users are now lobbying for the right to carry firearms. Because no one is a better shot than a stoned old man with glaucoma.

It is better to write of laughter than of tears, for laughter is the property of man.

I'm just growing. Growing in faith and trying to better myself as a Christian and as a man.

One can begin so many things with a new person! - even begin to be a better man.

On this battlefield man has no better weapon than his intelligence, no other force but his heart.

God made man, and then said I can do better than that and made woman.

...maybe it was better to break a man's leg than to break his heart.

A man who can do everything fully consciously becomes a luminous phenomenon. He is all light, and his whole life is full of fragrance and flowers. The mechanical man lives in dark holes, dirty holes. He does not know the world of light; he is like a blind man. The man of watchfulness is really the man who has eyes.

A man who fights you as he does is no better than an opportunist and no worse than a thug.

Man, I wish I was a better pickup guy. I've always been the guy in a relationship.

It is better to listen to a crow that lives in trees than to a learned man who lives only in ideas.

I think dancing is a man's game and if he does it well he does it better than a woman.

Get on with your life and learn to become a better man and that's the way I live my life.

The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.

For, as I suppose, no man in this world hath lived better than I have done, to achieve that I have done.

Southern man better keep your head, don't forget what your good book says.

Whatever the white man has done, we have done, and often better.

Can you be a nicer gentleman, or a better man for your sport or your kids than Joe Paterno?

There is no man that lives who does not need to be drilled, disciplined, and developed into something higher and nobler and better than he is by nature. Life is one prolonged birth.

The next time that boy pursues you, he better do it like a dying man looking for water in a desert. When it's the right guy, you'll know, because he'll cherish you.

No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.[to feel unhappy you need the time to consider how your lot could be better]

My family is my biggest inspiration. My son, my husband, and my family inspire me to be better, do better, and live better.

The most powerful drive in the ascent of man is his pleasure in his own skill. He loves to do what he does well and, having done it well, he loves to do it better. You see it in his science. You see it in the magnificence with which he carves and builds, the loving care, the gaiety, the effrontery. The monuments are supposed to commemorate kings and religions, heroes, dogmas, but in the end the man they commemorate is the builder.

A short life is better for mankind, for a long life would deprive man of his optimism.

I'm not perfect, I'm a flawed man, but I'm willing to try to get better, I'm willing to listen.

If a man can... make a better mousetrap, the world will make a beaten path to his door.

I am a man who likes to play consistently; I always play better when I'm on a run of games.

Perhaps the better word is emotional yes, I am an emotional man

Better make a weak man your enemy than your friend.

The Lord judgeth not as man judgeth; better to be cast out of the church than to deny Christ.

A man should be resigned to knowing himself a little better each day if he hasn't got the guts to put an end to his sniveling once and for all.

If you think back , the Academy was doing a better job. Think about how many more African Americans were nominated.We need to get better at this. We used to be better at it.

Listen, I'm out of this system, man, I'm out... I'm doing better than ever. I couldn't be more happy.

The night that I fought Bigfoot, he was the better man. He beat me that night. No excuses.

Many a thief is a better man than many a clergyman, and miles nearer to the gate of the kingdom.