Man Quotes
44718 Man quotes by 11542 unique authors
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It is a good rule never to look into the face of a man in the morning till you have looked into the face of…
— Charles Spurgeon
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Oh, without prayer what are the church's agencies, but the stretching out of a dead man's arm, or the lifting up of the lid of…
— Charles Spurgeon
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Prayer and praise are the oars by which a man may row his boat into the deep waters of the knowledge of Christ.
— Charles Spurgeon
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Every great man is unique.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.
— Horace Mann
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When fortune has been abolished, when every profession is open to everyone, an ambitious man may think it is easy to launch himself on a…
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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No man has a natural right to commit aggression on the equal rights of another; and this is all from which the laws ought to…
— Thomas Jefferson
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My faith in the proposition that each man should do precisely as he pleases with all which is exclusively his own lies at the foundation…
— Abraham Lincoln
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The standard of living of the common man is higher in those countries which have the greatest number of wealthy entrepreneurs.
— Ludwig von Mises
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Each government accuses the other of perfidy, intrigue and ambition, as a means of heating the imagination of their respective nations, and incensing them to…
— Thomas Paine
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It is for the good of nations, and not for the emolument or aggrandizement of particular individuals, that government ought to be established, and that…
— Thomas Paine
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In any given society the authority of man over man runs in inverse proportion to the intellectual development of that society.
— Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
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Creation comes before distribution - or there will be nothing to distribute. The need of the creator comes before the need of any possible beneficiary.…
— Ayn Rand
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The government was set to protect man from criminals, and the Constitution was written to protect man from the government.
— Ayn Rand
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Taxes are paid in the sweat of every man who labors. If those taxes are excessive, they are reflected in idle factories, in tax-sold farms,…
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Vices are simply the errors which a man makes in his search after his own happiness. Unlike crimes, they imply no malice toward others, and…
— Lysander Spooner
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Civil liberty is the status of the man who is guaranteed by law and civil institutions the exclusive employment of all his own powers for…
— William Graham Sumner
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God warms his hands at man's heart when he prays.
— John Masefield
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Prayer is not getting man's will done in heaven, but getting God's will done on earth. It is not overcoming God's reluctance but laying hold…
— Richard Chenevix Trench
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Pray as if everything depended on God, and work as if everything depended upon man.
— Francis Spellman
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I have seen many men work without praying, though I have never seen any good come out of it; but I have never seen a…
— Hudson Taylor
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Prayer is the rope that pulls God and man together. But, it doesn't pull God down to us: It pulls us up to Him.
— Billy Graham
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Prayer covers the whole of man's life. There is no thought, feeling, yearning, or desire, however low, trifling, or vulgar we may deem it, which…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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His nature is such that our often coming does not tire him. The whole burden of the whole life of every man may be rolled…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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It is only when the whole heart is gripped with the passion of prayer that the life-giving fire descends, for none but the earnest man…
— Edward McKendree Bounds
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