He Man Quotes - Page 36

• The man who will get up will be helped up; and the man who will not get up will be allowed to stay down.

  Frederick Douglass

  Men, Get Up, Self Made

  Frederick Douglass (2013). “Great Speeches by Frederick Douglass”, p.134, Courier Corporation

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• There will be life after Mandela. On my last day I want to know that those who remain behind will say: 'The man who lies here has done his duty for his country and his people.'

  Nelson Mandela

  Country, Lying, Men

  "Nelson Mandela quotes: 'Real leaders must be ready to sacrifice all for the freedom of their people'", www.theguardian.com. December 6, 2013.

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• Nobody likes the man who brings bad news.

  Sophocles

  Men, News, Likes

  Antigone l. 277. Sophocles's words are the earliest version that has been traced for the modern saying "Don't shoot the messenger."

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• Show me the man who keeps his house in hand, He's fit for public authority.

  Sophocles

  Men, Hands, House

  Sophocles (2013). “Sophocles: The Theban Plays”, p.252, Routledge

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• Hashish will be, indeed, for the impressions and familiar thoughts of the man, a mirror which magnifies, yet no more than a mirror.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Men, Mirrors, Cannabis

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• It is only from the belief of the goodness and wisdom of a supreme being, that our calamities can be borne in the manner which becomes a man.

  Henry Mackenzie

  Men, Belief, Goodness

  Henry Mackenzie (1815). “The Works of Henry Mackenzie, Esq. ...: The man of feeling, and miscellaneous pieces.-v.II. The man of the world.-v.III. Julia de Roubigné”, p.192

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• Sonny Liston is nothing. The man can't talk. The man can't fight. The man needs talking lessons. The man needs boxing lessons. And since he's gonna fight me, he needs falling lessons.

  Muhammad Ali

  Fall, Fighting, Men

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• I want to make a toast to all at this press event who agree with Thomas Jefferson, who said that our liberty depends on the freedom of the press. So I want to lift a glass to those who defend that freedom. Our finest, the men and women in uniform who defend that freedom, our Constitution, and our exceptional way of life in America.

  Sarah Palin

  Men, America, Glasses

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• Our destiny and ultimate fate depend upon our daily decisions. . . .Tomorrow's joy or tomorrow's despair has its roots in decisions we make today. . . . Those who stand at the threshold of life always waiting for the right time to change are like the man who stands at the bank of a river waiting for the water to pass so he can cross on dry land.

  Joseph B. Wirthlin

  Fate, Destiny, Men

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• God's image is the married couple, a man and women, together. Not just the man. Not just the woman. No, both of them. That's God's image.

  Pope Francis

  Couple, Men, Together

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• Beware of the man whose God is in the skies.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Wise, Men, Sky

  Man and Superman (1903) "Maxims for Revolutionists: Religion"

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• Love makes you want to be a better man. But maybe love, real love, also gives you permission to just be the man you are.

  Gillian Flynn

  Real, Men, Giving

  Gillian Flynn (2014). “The Complete Gillian Flynn: Gone Girl, Dark Places, Sharp Objects”, p.168, Broadway Books

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• The end is what you want, the means is how you get it. Whenever we think about social change, the question of means and ends arises. The man of action views the issue of means and ends in pragmatic and strategic terms. He has no other problem; he thinks only of his actual resources and the possibilities of various choices of action. He asks of ends only whether they are achievable and worth the cost; of means, only whether they will work. ... The real arena is corrupt and bloody.

  Saul Alinsky

  Real, Mean, Men

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• In the past the man has been first; in the future the system must be first.

  Frederick Winslow Taylor

  Past, Men, Firsts

  Frederick Winslow Taylor (2016). “The Principles of Scientific Management”, p.6, Cosimo Classics

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• The man who is ... physically able to handle pig-iron and is sufficiently ... stupid to choose this for his occupation is rarely able to comprehend the science of handling pig-iron

  Frederick Winslow Taylor

  Stupid, Men, Pigs

  Frederick Winslow Taylor (2004). “Scientific Management”, Routledge

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  The day will come when the man at the telephone will be able to see the distant person to whom he is speaking.

  Alexander Graham Bell

  Men, Able, Telephones

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• The disappearance of the heroic ideal is always accompanied by the growth of commercialism. There is a cause-and-effect relationship here, for the man of commerce is by the nature of things a relativist; his mind is constantly on the fluctuating values of the marketplace, and there is no surer way to fail than to dogmatize and moralize about things.

  Richard M. Weaver

  Men, Growth, Mind

  "Ideas Have Consequences". Book by Richard Weaver, p. 32, 1948.

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• We must depend upon the Boy Scout Movement to produce the MEN of the future.

  Daniel Carter Beard

  Men, Boys, Eagle Scout

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• Let me be known as just the man that told you something you already knew.

  Woody Guthrie

  Men, Let Me, Known

  Woody Guthrie (1975). “Woody Sez”

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• One of the men attached to the prison was the occasion of great amusement on the part of the prisoners, as well as the spectators, by taking a large lump of ice to show these strangers from the tropics

  Lewis Tappan

  Men, Ice, Prison

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• The great man is the man who does a thing for the first time.

  Alexander Smith

  Men, Doe, Firsts

  "Dreamthorp".

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• There will be no redemption because the men who run this place do not want redemption. They want to be as near to hell as they can.

  Colson Whitehead

  Running, Men, Redemption

  Colson Whitehead (2012). “The Intuitionist: A Novel”, p.240, Anchor

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• The church today is riddled with fad doctrines and new sounds that distract from the clear message of the Great commission in the New Testament. Any message that attracts you which does not bring glory to Christ is the message of a seducing spirit and the man giving it is in deception.

  John Hagee

  Men, Church Today, Giving

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• Submit to Islam and be safe. Or agree to the payment of the Jizya (tax), and you and your people will be under our protection, else you will have only yourself to blame for the consequences, for I bring the men who desire death as ardently as you desire life.

  Khalid ibn al-Walid

  Men, People, Islam

  Khalid ibn al-Walid's letter to the Persian monarch Emperor Yazdegerd III, as quoted in John Clark Ridpath "History of the World, Volume IV (Book XII: The Mohammedan Ascendency, p. 463), 1910.

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• And young women, please understand that if you dress immodestly, you are magnifying this problem by becoming pornography to some of the men who see you.

  Dallin H. Oaks

  Men, Dresses, Becoming

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