Accord Quote by Wallace D. Wattles

A man should live his life a certain way not because of some divine authority, but because of a personal moral obligation to himself…

— Jodi Picoult

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

Before man can be free, and equal, and truly wise, he must cast aside the chains of habit and superstition; he must strip sensuality…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

It is man's duty to live in conformity with the divine will, and this means, firstly, bringing his life into line with 'nature's laws',…

— Seneca the Younger

Man makes himself, and he only makes himself completely in proportion as he desacrilizes himself and the world. The sacred is the prime obstacle…

— Mircea Eliade

“Man has been placed on that summit where he contains within him the source of self-impulsion toward good and evil in equal measure; the…

— Friedrich Schelling

“Man’s life is a line that nature commands him to describe upon the surface of the earth, without his ever being able to swerve…

— Baron d'Holbach

“For whatever reason God chose to make man as he is— limited and suffering and subject to sorrows and death—He had the honesty and…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

A man of real purpose puts his faith in himself always. Sometimes he refuses even to put his faith in the gods. So from…

— Isoroku Yamamoto

“After attainment of Supreme knowledge a man lives but he does not lead an ordinary man’s life. He lives, he eats, he sleeps and…

— Jibankrishna

“He must, therefore, be the model for everyone. He must be devoted entirely to the example of good living. He must be dead to…

— Pope Gregory I

Cut off from his religious, metaphysical and transcendental roots, man is lost; all his actions become senseless, absurd, useless.

— Eugene Ionesco