Top 100 Made Man Quotes
#1. I've always loved Houdini, not just because of what he did, but also because of what he stood for. He was a self-made man in a time when the idea of celebrity was still new, and he used his celebrity for good.
Michael Redhill
#2. I don't believe in the myth of the "self made man". Nobody gets through alone.
Dan Mangan
#3. Gerald Boyd was a classic specimen of the self-made man. Born poor, he worked and studied his way up out of poverty under the guidance of his widowed grandmother.
Russell Baker
#4. Error has made man so deep, sensitive, and inventive that he has put forth such blossoms as religions and arts. Pure knowledge could not have been capable of it.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#5. Old Castro remembered bits of hideous legend that paled the speculations of theosophists and made man and the world seem recent and transient indeed.
H.P. Lovecraft
#6. God made man because he loves to hear stories, Alessandro said. That's a good story, huh?
Tom Spanbauer
#7. My father started with nothing and is a self-made man. No matter what I do with my life, I can never match his accomplishments.
Tamara Ecclestone
#8. Soon we will have made man into god. Red into Gold. Even your wife would not recognize you." That is all I've ever feared.
Pierce Brown
#9. The self-made man is often proud of a poor job.
Ethel Mumford
#10. I was an older brother. So I had to do a lot of things first. My father was a self-made man, and he would beat me senseless. But he was a Scotsman, and stubborn. I'm his son, and I'm stubborn, too. I go on being stubborn.
Harry Hay
#11. God never made man that he may consider another man as untouchable.
Mahatma Gandhi
#12. They say God made man, but Sam Colt made them equal.
Charles Martin
#13. When god made man, she was only joking.
Unknown
#14. If God suffers in the flesh when He is made man, should we not rejoice when we suffer, for we have God to share our sufferings? This shared suffering confers the kingdom on us. For he spoke truly who said, 'If we suffer with Him, then we shall also be glorified with Him' (Rom. 8:17).
Maximus The Confessor
#15. We have the kind of self-made-man myth, which says that super-successful people did it themselves.
Malcolm Gladwell
#16. ... he is a self-made man who has come to worship his creator.
Ross Benson
#17. When God at first made man, Having a glass of blessings standing by, 'Let us,'said he,'pour on him all we can: Let the world's riches, which disperse' d lie, Contract into a span'.
George Herbert
#18. God made man mortal and to console this transitory creature He gave him an immortal toy called Art!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#19. All right, Herr Stern, if God made man in His image, which race is most like him? Is a Pole more like him than a Czech?
Thomas Keneally
#20. Definitely that kind of owner, he thought. Self-made man proud of his handiwork. Confuses bluffness and honesty with merely being rude. I wouldn't mind betting a dollar that he thinks he can tell a man's character by testing the firmness of his handshake and looking deeply into his eyes.
Terry Pratchett
#21. The age of the self-made man was also the age of the broken man... This 'American sense' looked upon failure as a 'moral sieve' that trapped the loafer and passed the true man through. Such ideologies fixed blame squarely on individual faults, not extenuating circumstances.
Scott A. Sandage
#22. The self-made man that some people believe is a myth? It could be, because you do it on the backs of other people.
Oscar Isaac
#23. God made man in his own image, and man returned the favour.
Frank Wedekind
#24. A self-made man? Yes, and one who worships his creator.
William Cowper
#25. God made bees, and bees made honey, God made man, and man made money, Pride made the devil, and the devil made sin; So God made a cole-pit to put the devil in.
William Cowper
#26. God made man merely to hear some praise of what he'd done on those Five Days.
Christopher Morley
#27. A self made man is a rarity and hated by the parasites that floated to fame thought their parents, relatives and contacts.
Al Goldstein
#28. Anyone who does not love Him Who made man has not learned to love man aright.
Augustine Of Hippo
#29. As the saying goes: God made man and woman; Colonel Colt made them equal.
Ann Coulter
#31. The true Christian can nurture a trustful optimism, because he is certain of not walking alone. In sending us Jesus, the eternal Son made man, God has drawn near to each of us. In Christ he has become our travelling companion.
Pope John Paul II
#32. After God created the world, He made man and woman. Then, to keep the whole thing from collapsing, He invented humor.
Bill Kelly
#35. God made man, but man made the society we live in.
Janice Cantore
#36. When God made Man he made no mistakes, He knew man would make those for himself".
~ R. Alan Woods [2012]
R. Alan Woods
#37. God has made man a cosmopolite. He created seas for ships to glide on, the wind to push them, and the stars to guide them even in darkest night.
Jose Rizal
#38. A creature so beautiful that God would have preferred her to the Virgin and have chosen her for his mother and have wished to be born of her if she had been in existence when he was made man!
Victor Hugo
#39. A self-made man is one who believes in luck and sends his son to Oxford.
Christina Stead
#41. There's no such thing as a self-made man. I've had much help and have found that if you are willing to work, many people are willing to help you.
B.C. Forbes
#42. Yes, we worship the idea of the "self-made man" - otherwise we'd go on strike against Bill Gates having all that money! We worship that idea.
James Hillman
#43. It was the greatest honor God did to man that he made man in the image of God; but it is the greatest dishonor man has done to God that he has made God in the image of man.
Matthew Henry
#44. Grammar, n. A system of pitfalls thoughtfully prepared for the feet of the self-made man, along the path by which he advances to distinction.
Ambrose Bierce
#45. There is no such thing in the world as a "self-made man" or a "self-made woman". We've received so much from so many for so long that we can't even keep count. But, simply because we can't keep count, doesn't mean we discount.
Sharad Vivek Sagar
#46. There is an old joke that went around- it goes, in the beginning God made man in His own image, and since the fall, man has been seeking to return the compliment.
Alistair Begg
#47. The first crime was mine: I committed it when I made man mortal. Once I had done that, what was left for you, poor human murderers, to do? To kill your victims? But they already had the seed of death in them; all you could do was to hasten its fruition by a year or two.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#48. God, in pity, made man beautiful and alluring, after his own image; but my form is a filthy type of yours, more horrid even from the very resemblance. Satan had his companions, fellow devils, to admire and encourage him, but I am solitary and abhorred.
Mary Shelley
#49. The only-begotten Son of God, wanting to make us sharers in His divinity, assumed our nature, so that He, made man, might make men gods.
Thomas Aquinas
#50. It is better to be a self-made man,
filled up according to God's original pattern,
than to be half a man, made after some other man's pattern.
J.G. Holland
#51. God made skin pigment and skin pigment made man mad
Thabiso Monkoe
#52. He only is a well-made man who has a good determination. And the end of culture is not to destroy this, God forbid! but to train away all impediment and mixture and leave nothing but pure power.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#53. It's often said that God made man in His own image, it's also true that man makes God in his own image.
R.K. Narayan
#54. God made everything else but man "after its kind"' - that is, according to the purpose and destiny he envisaged for it. But he made man in His own image. Man is patterned on God! He was made to represent God - in created, human form.
Sinclair B. Ferguson
#55. As Bonaparte would sigh centuries later, it takes very few defeats to unmake a self-made man.
Derek Leebaert
#56. Money has never made man happy,nor will it,there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.
Benjamin Franklin
#58. The dog has made man their God, if the dog was an atheist, it would be perfect.
Paul Valery
#59. According to Biblical history and all of the history of the world, the blues was built in man from the beginning. The first thing that came out of man is the blues because, according to the Scriptures, when God made man, man was lonesome and blue.
Willie Dixon
#60. Presumably, technology has made man increasingly independent of his environment. But, in fact, technology has merely substituted nonrenewable resources for renewables, which is more an increase than a decrease in dependence.
Herman E. Daly
#61. Law never made man a whit more just; and by means of their respect for it, even the well disposed are daily made agents of injustice.
Henry David Thoreau
#62. Is there anyone more insufferable than a self-made man?" I heard Dr. Kimbrough ask. I
Robert Lee Hamady
#63. In Naples, Fla., I met a self-made man, a multimillionaire, whose round penthouse apartment is home to Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Claude Monet, Henry Moore, and Mickey Mantle. He had purchased the most coveted items auctioned by the Mantle family at Madison Square Garden in December 2003.
Jane Leavy
#64. The myth of the self-made man, has to be profoundly hypocritical: it is the self-serving demonstration that a lie is the truth
Che Guevara
#65. There is no such thing as a 'self-made' man. We are made up of thousands of others.
George Matthew Adams
#66. Moses said to the LORD, "Oh, my Lord, I am not eloquent, either in the past or since you have spoken to your servant, but o I am slow of speech and of tongue." 11Then the LORD said to him, "Who has made man's mouth? Who makes him mute, or deaf, or seeing, or blind? Is it not I, the LORD?
Anonymous
#67. He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody.
Joseph Heller
#68. There's no one more obnoxious and self-righteous than the self-made man. And no one more admirable.
Joe R. Lansdale
#70. The reason God made man before woman was that he didn't want any suggestions.
Sam Levenson
#71. When you're a self-made man, you start very early in life. In my case it was at 9 years old when I started bringing income into the family. You get a drive that's a little different, maybe a little stronger, than somebody who inherited.
Kirk Kerkorian
#72. We live in a world shaped by the ambiguous legacy of the Enlightenment ... [it] enlarged the scope of human freedom, prepared our minds for the scientific method, made man the measure of all things, and placed individual consent front and center on the political stage.
James Q. Wilson
#73. God made man stronger but not necessarily more intelligent. He gave women intuition and femininity. And, used properly, that combination easily jumbles the brain of any man I've ever met.
Farrah Fawcett
#74. Charred, blackened, and cooked, the morsel was brought to the mouth and chewed, contemplated, and swallowed with relish. There was no sauce or seasoning and no consideration for aesthetics or art. Yet the combination of meat and fire yielded something revolutionary. Cooked meat made man happy.
Tony Federico
#75. Do you know what laughter is? I'll tell you. It's God's mistake. When God made man in order to bend him to his wishes he carelessly gave him the gift of laughter.
Elie Wiesel
#76. It is about the greatness of God, not the significance of man. God made man small and the universe big to say something about himself.
John Piper
#77. There is nothing inherently sacred about moral codes. Like the wooden idols of long ago, they are the work of human hands, and what man has made, man can destroy!
Anton Szandor LaVey
#78. Long-term success is never achieved on our own. The phrase 'a self-made man' is a myth all along the way we need support.
Isadore Sharp
#79. God has so made man's heart that nothing can ever fill it but God himself.
Charles Spurgeon
#80. Nah." His arms tightened around her. "I think the Bible got it backwards. I think God made women first. Then he made man, because he thought, 'Someone's gotta see this!
Selena Kitt
#82. Satan's temptation may be summed up as appealing to man in this way: it made man desire to have what God had forbidden, to know what God had not revealed, and to be what God had not intended for him to be
Henry Clarence Thiessen
#83. God made man to go by motives, and he will not go without them, any more than a boat without steam or a balloon without gas.
Henry Ward Beecher
#84. John, the self-made man, self-made in every sense, out of nowhere, penniless, parentless, tie-less ... but I've always thought of him as if he had come into the world like Minerva, the goddess of wisdom, who sprang forth from Jupiter's head, fully grown and fully armed.
Ayn Rand
#85. Who made man the exclusive judge, if woman partake with him the gift of reason?
In this style, argue tyrants of every denomination, from the weak king to the weak father of a family; they are all eager to crush reason; yet always assert that they usurp its throne only to be useful.
Mary Wollstonecraft
#86. Everyone is a self-made man. Only the successful admit it.
Will Rogers
#87. A self-made man - not of woman born but alchemized, through sheer force of will, by the man himself. This is what I want to be. I want to be a self-made woman. I want to conjure myself out of every sparkling, fast moving thing I can see. I want to be the creator of myself. I'm going to begat myself
Caitlin Moran
#88. Make your mark in New York and you are a made man.
Mark Twain
#89. But when He became incarnate, and was made man, He commenced afresh the long line of human beings, and furnished us, in a brief, comprehensive manner, with salvation; so that what we had lost in Adam - namely to be according to the image and likeness of God - that we might recover in Jesus Christ
Michelle A. Gonzalez
#90. Why, God? You made man in your own image. Why then do so many lack good sense? And why is that we are so easily drawn to hate and kill each other? Why, God?
Richard Puz
#91. Harris had the egotistical dogmatism of the self-made man who had painfully educated himself without contact with superior brains.
Beatrice Webb
#92. God has communicated to man, the infinite to the finite. The One who made man capable of language in the first place has communicated to man in language about both spiritual reality and physical reality, about the nature of God and the nature of man.
Francis Schaeffer
#93. Although Christ was God, he took flesh; and having been made man, he remained what he was, God.
Origen
#94. God made man out of nothing, and as long as we are nothing, He can make something out of us.
Martin Luther
#95. I believe that He was made man, joining the human nature with the divine in one person; being conceived by the singular operation of the Holy Ghost, and born of the blessed Virgin Mary, who, as well after as before she brought Him forth, continued a pure and unspotted virgin.
John Wesley
#96. When did it something of shame or ridicule to be a self-made man in America?
Glenn Beck
#97. Catholicism has made man stupid, but it has not degraded him; it has introduced as many good and beautiful things as bad things. The United States have simply degraded humanity. Catholicism has done less harm in two thousand years than the United States in two hundred.
Henry De Montherlant
#98. You can find meanness in the least of creatures, but when God made man the Devil was at his elbow
Cormac McCarthy
#99. Robinson Crusoe, the first capitalist hero, is a self-made man who accepts objective reality and then fashions it to his needs through the work ethic, common sense, resilience, technology, and, if need be, racism and imperialism.
Carlos Fuentes
#100. I repent me of the ignorance wherein I ever said that God made man out of nothing: there is no nothing out of which to make anything; God is all in all, and he made us out of himself.
George MacDonald
