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.
The first and most important thing a man should keep away from is not doing harm of any kind knowingly to anyone, at any time.
The most valuable wealth of a man is his knowledge, which cannot be destroyed; all other riches that he has gained are not considered to be wealth at all.
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The quantity of a man's wealth will not last long if his generous nature is not balanced with the size of his property.
Purity and simplicity are the two wings with which man soars above the earth and all temporary nature.
Occasions do not make a man either strong or weak but they show what he is.
A man is hindered and distracted in proportion as he draws outward things to himself.
Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death,...
Nearly every man who develops an idea works it up to the point where it looks impossible, and then he gets discouraged. That's not the place to become discouraged.
My mother was 18 when I was born. She split with my father when I was 6, and married another man when I was about 7. My mother was about 25, my stepfather was about 26, I'm six or seven,...
As far as hypnosis is concerned, I had a very serious problem when I was in my twenties. I encountered a man who later became the president of the American Society of Medical Hypnosis. He couldn't hypnotize me.
His passion has aroused the best and the beast in man. And the beast waited for him in the kitchen.
Any man who does not have his inner world to translate is not an artist.
The man of petty ambition if invited to dinner will be eager to be set next his host.
