Top 64 What A Man Can Be He Must Be Quotes
#1. What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualization.
Abraham Maslow
#2. A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What a man can be, he must be
Abraham H. Maslow
#3. Oh my God! Why did I leave India? I fell in love with a white man. That's what it was. It was the most boring, predictable reason in the world. I met him in India, we fell in love, and we got married. And then, we got divorced. Sorry about that.
Deepa Mehta
#4. I love the camera; there's something very special and sensual about it, and I have a tendency to call it a he, like it was a man. But, unlike a man, a camera is accepting of everything I do.
Lena Olin
#5. As a newspaper man, Doremus remembered that the only reporters who misrepresented and concealed facts more unscrupulously than the Capitalists were the Communists.
Sinclair Lewis
#6. Avoid the base hypocrisy of condemning in one man what you pass over in silence when committed by another.
Theodore Roosevelt
#7. Of course she teased the girls, but it was not the same as having a grown man to work on - she had often felt like pinching Bob for being so stolid. July was no better - in fact, he and Bob were cut from the same mold, a strong but unimaginative mold.
Larry McMurtry
#8. For God, who is in heaven, is in man. Where else can heaven be, if not in man? As we need it, it must be within us. Therefore it knows our prayer even before we have uttered it, for it is closer to our hearts than to our words.
- Opus paramirum, I:ix
Paracelsus
#9. No man can die unless Jesus opens the mystic door of death.
J.C. Ryle
#10. Throughout the centuries, man has considered himself beautiful. I rather suppose that man only believes in his own beauty out of pride; that he is not really beautiful and he suspects this himself; for why does he look on the face of his fellow-man with such scorn?
Comte De Lautreamont
#11. What the superior man seeks is in himself; what the small man seeks is in others.
Confucius
#12. To say it was a dark and stormy night would be a gross understatement. It was colder than witch's kiss, wetter than a spring swamp, and blacker than a tax collector's heart. A sane man would have been curled up in front of a fire with a cup of mulled wine and a good boo-, ah, a willing wench.
Hilari Bell
#13. Each man was born to his degree, and a happy man was one who did not question his place in life.
Alison Weir
#14. Oh definitely. It'll be in a hot tub, with my entire head squeezed into a jet. The photos are going to be hilarious. Man, I really hope the internet sticks around so people can reference this article in my obituaries and see that what sounds like a joke was actually amazingly prescient.
Jason Sudeikis
#17. A man may well be condemned, not for doing something, but for doing nothing.
William Barclay
#19. How others perceive us is entirely up to us. A man is what he makes of himself. He can be treated with respect and goodwill, or he can be crushed underfoot like a worm. If you want to be successful in the world of trade and commerce, then you must look successful.
Petra Durst-Benning
#20. Steel can be tempered and hardened, and so can men. In this world of struggle, which was not designed for softies, a man must be harder than what hits him. Yes, he must be diamond-hard. Then he'll not be "fed up" with his little personal troubles.
Herbert Newton Casson
#21. I am fifty years old and I have never known what it is to love. I can write those words, know them to be true, but feel only the regret that a tone-deaf man must feel because he can't appreicate music, a regret less keen because it is for something never known, not for something lost.
P.D. James
#22. No man can be a politician, except he be first a historian or a traveller; for except he can see what must be, or what may be, he is no politician.
James Harrington
#23. What was the first thing a man must do before he can be a man? He must be born. He must leave the womb; and once left, it could not be re-entered.
Isaac Asimov
#24. But to be liked, you must never disagree. And if you never disagree, it's like only breathing in and never breathing outl A man can suffocate on courtesy. What if God wanted to be liked instead of loved? What if the almighty delayed every decision until He was sure it would please the majority?
J. Lawrence
#25. A man can make what he wants of himself if he truly believes that he must be ready for hard work and many heartbreaks.
Thurgood Marshall
#26. There ought to be an artistic depot where the artist need only hand in his artwork in order to receive what he asks for. As things are, one must be half a business man, and how can one understand - good heavens! - that's what I really call troublesome.
Ludwig Van Beethoven
#27. Of course, some might argue that one can never know what's in the heart of a woman - For they are strange and mysterious creatures,and a man must be a mind reader if he ever wishes to make them happy.
Richelle Mead
#28. The principle can be established that for a man who does not cheat what he believes to be true must determine his actions.
Albert Camus
#29. A man can break God's laws and be forgiven. That's what they teach us. But when he breaks Nature's laws, there's no forgiveness - and there's no escape. Sooner or later he pays the penalty, or his children pay it - or his children's children. It doesn't matter much. It must be paid.
Martha Ostenso
#30. How many years must a man do nothing, before he can at all know what is to be done and how to do it!
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#31. What can't be helped must be endured, Mat Feltner said. And he was a man who knew.
Wendell Berry
#32. No, Sir, claret is the liquor for boys; port for men: but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy. In the first place brandy will do soonest for a man what drinking can do for him.
James Boswell
#33. What do you think?" he asked Hermione.
"Oh, Harry," she said wearily, "it's a pile of utter rubbish. This can't be what the sign really means. This must just be his weird take on it. What a waste of time."
"I s'pose this is the man who brought us Crumple-Horned Snorkacks," said Ron.
J.K. Rowling
#34. The only greatness for man is immortality.
James Dean
#35. I have known no man of genius who had not to pay, in some affliction or defect either physical or spiritual, for what the gods had given him.
Max Beerbohm
#36. Calculate what man knows and it cannot compare to what he doesn't know. Calculate the time he is alive and it cannot compare to the time before he was born. Yet man takes something so small and tries to exhaust the dimensions of something so large!
Zhuangzi
#37. A drunk man, staggering and mindless, must be led home by his son, so wet is his psyche ... Water brings death to the psyche, as earth brings death to water ... The psyche lusts to be wet.
Heraclitus
#38. But killing a man ought to mean something, even if you have to do it.
Joe R. Lansdale
#39. There is no greater isolation a man may experience than to be lonely in a crowd.
Claire North
#40. Before he can become a wolf, the lycanthrope strips naked. If you spy a naked man among the pines, you must run as if the Devil were after you.
Angela Carter
#41. Life is short and a man should take pride in his work, even if his work makes him feel like a total loser
Tiffanie DeBartolo
#42. Then let no man attempt to number Israel today, but let everyone have a heart of flesh, a heart of tender sympathy, a heart that, like the heart of Christ, reaches out for the salvation of a lost world. [190]
Ellen G. White
#43. For there are two possible reactions to social ostracism - either a man emerges determined to be better, purer, and kindlier or he goes bad, challenges the world and does even worse things. The last is by far the commonest reaction to stigma.
John Steinbeck
#44. [James] Joyce ... an essentially private man who wished his total indifference to public notice to be universally recognized ...
Tom Stoppard
#45. I'll tell you something that's completely true - you can, as a man, obtain everything you want with the truth. If you lie, first of all you've got to be a very good lying actor, which is tres difficile. And it's going to give you poison inside the body.
Jean Reno
#46. How can one not feel enthusiasm for the man who never said anything vague?
Paul Valery
#47. But let a man know that there are things to be known, of which he is ignorant, and it is so much carved out of his domain of universal knowledge.
Horace Mann
#48. And remember it takes great courage and heart for a man who knows no kindness to show it to another. Even the wildest of beasts can be tamed by a patient and gentle hand.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#49. The old man always said we should attend to the things we have some hope of understanding, and eternity isn't one of them. Well, this world isn't one either.
Marilynne Robinson
#50. Subjection of any kind and in any place is beneath the dignity of man ... the highest joy is to fight by the side of those who for any reason of their own making or ours, are unable to develop to full human stature.
Agnes Smedley
#51. The absolute value of love makes life worth while, and so makes Man's strange and difficult situation acceptable. Love cannot save life from death; but it can fulfill life's purpose.
Arnold J. Toynbee
#52. Man is not committed in detail by his biological constitution to any particular variety of behavior.
Ruth Benedict
#53. I mean, George Bush is a man of prayer. He talks to the lord. He tries to get his direction from the lord.
Pat Robertson
#54. There are, then, these three means of effecting persuasion. The man who is to be in command of them must, it is clear, be able (1) to reason logically, (2) to understand human character and goodness in their various forms, and (3) to understand the emotions-that is, to name them and
Aristotle.
#55. The first thing which will be judged among a man's deeds on the Day of Resurrection is the Prayer. If this is in good order then he will succeed and prosper but if it is defective then he will fail and will be a loser.
Muhammad
#56. An ignorant man is insignificant and contemptible; nobody cares for his company, and he can just be said to live, and that is all.
Lord Chesterfield
#58. And it ain't a man, thought Slank.
Dave Barry
#59. Every man should be allowed to love two cities, his own and San Francisco
Gene Fowler
#60. One man's warfare is another man's welfare.
Timothy Pina
#61. A man's greatest joy is crushing his enemies.
Genghis Khan
#62. Already there are too many books in the world. There are more every day. One man cannot hope to read them all.
Hilary Mantel
#63. I'm not holding Hitler up as a role model, the man was a filthy swine, but as I stood in the suspicious glare of my boss I thought, What would Hitler do?
Anonymous
#64. What madness it is for a man to starve himself to enrich his heir, and so turn a friend into an enemy! For his joy at your death will be proportioned to what you leave him.
Seneca The Younger
