Man Quotes

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Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world. — Thomas Carlyle
No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men. — Thomas Carlyle
For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad. — Thomas Carlyle
No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence. — Thomas Carlyle
Man is a tool-using animal. Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all. — Thomas Carlyle
No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad. — Thomas Carlyle
The man of life upright has a guiltless heart, free from all dishonest deeds or thought of vanity. — Thomas Carlyle
Oh, give us the man who sings at his work. — Thomas Carlyle
If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk about it; for the more men talk,… — Thomas Carlyle
Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die. — Thomas Carlyle
No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men. — Thomas Carlyle
Isolation is the sum total of wretchedness to a man. — Thomas Carlyle
Man is, properly speaking, based upon hope, he has no other possession but hope; this world of his is emphatically the place of hope. — Thomas Carlyle
Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance - the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it;… — Thomas Carlyle
Man's unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning he cannot… — Thomas Carlyle
To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a… — Thomas Carlyle
Thought once awakened does not again slumber; unfolds itself into a System of Thought; grows, in man after man, generation after generation, - till its… — Thomas Carlyle
Indifference may not wreck a man's life at any one turn, but it will destroy him with a kind of dry-rot in the long run. — Bliss Carman
Integration is a man's ability to want to move in there by himself. If someone wants to live in a white neighborhood and he is… — Stokely Carmichael
Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never eat at a place called Mom's. Never sleep with a woman whose troubles are worse than… — Nelson Algren
The hard necessity of bringing the judge on the bench down into the dock has been the peculiar responsibility of the writer in all ages… — Nelson Algren
No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it. — Andrew Carnegie
The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly… — Andrew Carnegie
Concentrate your energies, your thoughts and your capital. The wise man puts all his eggs in one basket and watches the basket. — Andrew Carnegie
The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell. — Andrew Carnegie

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