Man Quotes
Short lines on character, patience and what it means to be a man.
This is a smaller, general collection of quotes touching on manhood, character and patience. One well-known line uses golf as an example, a test of temperament disguised as a leisure game, to make a wider point about what reveals a man's spirit. For steadier, values-driven lines, see our Good quotes.
Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
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In common with all Protestant or Jewish cultures, America was developed on the idea that your word is your bond. Otherwise, the frontier could never have been opened, 'cause it was lawless. A man's word had to mean something.
What is a sophisticate? He is a man who thinks he can swim better than he can and sometimes he drowns.
The greatest thing a man can do in this world is to make the most possible out of the stuff that has been given him. This is success, and there is no other.
You cannot measure a man by his failures. You must know what use he makes of them. What did they mean to him. What did he get out of them.
The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson.
To many a man, and sometimes to a youth, there comes the opportunity to choose between honorable competence and tainted wealth. The young man who starts out to be poor and honorable, holds in his hand one of the strongest...
No man can be ideally successful until he has found his place. Like a locomotive he is strong on the track, but weak anywhere else.
The man who has no money is poor, but one who has nothing but money is poorer. He only is rich who can enjoy without owning; he is poor who though he has millions is covetous.
Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
The influential man is the successful man, whether he be rich or poor.
Deep within man dwell those slumbering powers; powers that would astonish him, that he never dreamed of possessing; forces that would revolutionize his life if aroused and put into action.
A strong, successful man is not the victim of his environment. He creates favorable conditions. His own inherent force and energy compel things to turn out as he desires.
The size of your accomplishments, the quality of your achievement, will depend very largely on how big a man you see in yourself, what sort of image you get of your possible self, yourself at your best.
The golden rule for every business man is this: 'Put yourself in your customer's place.'
There can be no failure to a man who has not lost his courage, his character, his self respect, or his self-confidence. He is still a King.
Every young man or woman should weigh the matter well before concluding that a college education is out of the question.
