Character Quote by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The cornerstone on which all things are based is man's concept of himself.

— Neville Goddard

Every man is the creation of himself, the image of his own thinking and believing.

— Claude M. Bristol

“Man was created as a being whose very existence is derived from and dependent upon a Creator whom he must acknowledge as such and…

— Jay E. Adams

A man of humanity is one who, in seeking to establish himself, finds a foothold for others and who, in desiring attaining himself, helps…

— Confucius

Man is always something more than what he knows of himself. He is not what he is simply once and for all, but is…

— Karl Jaspers

“Man is not capable of thought in any high degree, and even the most spiritual and highly cultivated of men habitually sees the world…

— Hermann Hesse

Man is made or unmade by himself. By the right choice he ascends. As a being of power, intelligence, and love, and the lord…

— James Allen

“Man, by means of the imagination, involuntarily contemplates his inner nature; he represents it as out of himself. The nature of man, of the…

— Ludwig Feuerbach

Any individual can be, in time, what he earnestly desires to be, if he but sets his face steadfastly in the direction of that…

— John Herman Randall

It is natural to man to regard himself as the object of the creation, and to think of all things in relation to himself,…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Not only is man what he conceives himself to be, but he is also only what he wills himself to be after this thrust…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition.

— Abraham Lincoln