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 does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them.
Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it.
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If I want to be a leading man in a film, box office numbers count because producers have invested money. I see no wrong in that process.
I was raised in a spirit of the importance of service to your fellow man. My mom is a senator back home in South Africa. My father is a very caring and generous individual.
When you're a large black man in Hollywood, the obvious stereotype is one of force and menace.
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.
This man, although he appeared so humble and embarrassed in his air and manners, and passed so unheeded, had inspired me with such a feeling of horror by the unearthly paleness of his countenance, from which I could not avert...
My first care the following morning was, to devise some means of discovering the man in the grey cloak.
My stats speak for themselves; I've got a good touch for a big man, I know I can find the back of the net.
As a big man you may struggle to get much height when jumping for a ball - but by training with your defender team-mates you can develop a technique for making strong challenges in the air, making defenders uncomfortable and...
My old boss Aidy Boothroyd is a great man and I've got no malice or anything toward him.
A decent man who doesn't consider himself a bigot can indeed be trained to behave like a bigot if he welcomes feedback exclusively from those who consider bigotry no big deal or, indeed, an attribute to be admired.
To play the leading man in a 'Three Stooges' movie, you've got to think funny. Thank God I think funny.
I am a simple man, though my wife says I am complicated. I'll trust her on that one.
When man lives under government, he is fallen, his worth is gone, and his nature tarnished.
It was the full conviction of this, and of what could be done, if every man were placed in the office for which he was fitted by nature and a proper education, which first suggested to me the plan of...
