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 think the word for me is survival, not ambition. I'm really a lucky man. I've always accepted whatever I was in, whether it was driving a taxi or entertaining. The jet set might not enjoy what I do, but...
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Machiavelli taught me it was better to be feared than loved. Because if you are loved they sense you might be weak. I am a man of the people and help them but it is important to do so through...
Many people who know me call me 'the hardest working man in the news business' because you're never, ever going to outwork me.
Fate often puts all the material for happiness and prosperity into a man's hands just to see how miserable he can make himself with them.
Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.
By the time a bartender knows what drink a man will have before he orders, there is little else about him worth knowing.
Photography belongs to a fraternity of its own. I was young and enthusiastic and wanted to take good pictures to show the other photographers. That, and the professional pride of convincing an editor that I was the man to go...
When I go on the road now, which is less than before, but still more than I'd like to, I think of myself primarily as a singer. Not a songwriter, not a celebrity, just a man who likes to sing.
I'm a very contented, peaceful man. I made mistakes, yes, but I accepted them, and, I hope, graciously.
I also believe that you are what you have to defend, and if you're a black man that's always going to be the bar against which you are judged, whether you want to align yourself with those themes or not....
Now is a good time, 10 years ago would have been a good time, and 10 years from now it will still be a good time to see a dynamic, entertaining movie that's wall-to-wall Miles Davis where the music will...
At five years old, I became the man of the house. When he left, my dad let me know that. It put a certain drive in me that I can't explain.
My father was this famous heart surgeon, a wonderful man... but there was something about me that drove him crazy.
We have to make a bridge of confidence based on natural and elementary morality which corresponds to the natures of man and which would be respected by all men. I may be naive in this, but I think it is...
