I was once ask if a big business man ever reached his objective. I replied that if a man ever reached his objective he was not a big business man.
Wale means to arrive home. So the crown has arrived home. Akin is warrior or brave man. Nuoye is a brave man of chieftaincy and Agbaje means wealth and prosperity.
A man is a man in every part of the world. It has nothing to do with race. It has to do with the culture and education that each man has received since he was a child, in his home. It has to do with how he was raised.
We distinguish the excellent man from the common man by saying that the former is the one who makes great demands on himself, and the latter who makes no demands on himself.
No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
There have been in this century only one great man and one great thing: Napoleon and liberty. For want of the great man, let us have the great thing.
Every great man, every successful man, no matter what the field of endeavor, has known the magic that lies in these words: every adversity has the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit.
You don't think it was because a white man wrote it, a black man wrote it, a green man wrote it. What - doesn't make a difference! Doesn't make a difference. I think he did a good job.
I would prefer as friend a good man ignorant than one more clever who is evil too.
You may depend upon it that he is a good man whose intimate friends are all good, and whose enemies are decidedly bad.
John Danforth, I thought, was a great senator and did a great job with the United Nations. I think he's a good man.
Like you do about Nelson Mandela, you can't help feeling the guy's a good man.
The real democratic American idea is, not that every man shall be on a level with every other man, but that every man shall have liberty to be what God made him, without hindrance.
I'm not a leading man; I don't think I've got the face of a leading man, and I don't think, ever in my life, someone will cast me in the role of a leading man.
Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.
When a good man is hurt, all who would be called good must suffer with him.
He died not for men, but for each man. If each man had been the only man made, He would have done no less.
The man of wisdom is never of two minds; the man of benevolence never worries; the man of courage is never afraid.
A smart man only believes half of what he hears, a wise man knows which half.
A friend often says I'm an old man in a young man's husk. I like that. I am old-fashioned in some ways.
Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that supplants us all in the long run.
