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.
I feel grateful because I have a lot of love in my life. I found the person I'm sharing my life with. I have a good man.
Michael Jackson is the greatest musical influence on me. He's my man. Musically, he is the one artist I want to be like.
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There is a biological power that is intrinsic to the woman, to the female condition. Because you are able to give life. You are the reproducer of the species. Men feel very weak in front of a woman because a...
It had never crossed my mind that a man could think he had the right to stop me from being who I was.
How can you dare teach a man to read until you've taught him everything else first?
Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.
For me, being a public persona, I was always wondering, 'Was a man dating me for who I was? Was there an agenda? Did he want to be seen with me? Am I arm candy?'
I need a man that's comfortable in his skin and not threatened by a woman with a big personality.
Frankly, I get sick of being considered a 'young woman filmmaker' rather than an individual artist, as a man would be.
People focus on the darker female characters in my books, but for every one of those, I can also show you an equally screwed up man that no one ever comments about, or a nicer woman that no one comments...
There's nothing that can drive me from zero to crazy faster than a man who comes up to me and says, 'You know, I don't normally read books by women, but I really liked 'Gone Girl.''
I think it's a very female trait to want to please men and to want to be considered the Cool Girl. And if you take that to the farthest reach, where you're actually selling yourself out and degrading yourself by...
There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.
No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.
The word 'good' has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.
If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.
A businessman is the only man who is forever apologizing for his occupation.
The life and liberty and property and happiness of the common man throughout the world are at the absolute mercy of a few persons whom he has never seen, involved in complicated quarrels that he has never heard of.
Be careful in dealing with a man who cares nothing for comfort or promotion, but is simply determined to do what he believes to be right. He is a dangerous uncomfortable enemy, because his body, which you can always conquer,...
