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“The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.”
Thomas Paine
“A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.”
Ayn Rand
“Most women set out to try to change a man, and when they have changed him they do not like him.”
Marlene Dietrich
“Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast.”
Marlene Dietrich
“Without tenderness, a man is uninteresting.”
Marlene Dietrich
“The average man is more interested in a woman who is interested in him than he is in a woman with beautiful legs.”
Marlene Dietrich
“Being a good actor isn't easy. Being a man is even harder. I want to be both before I'm done.”
James Dean
“Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who'll get the blame.”
Bertrand Russell
“A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.”
Jonathan Swift
“There comes a point in every man's life when he has to say: 'Enough is enough.'”
Lance Armstrong
“It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.”
Marcus Aurelius
“I never expect to see a perfect work from an imperfect man.”
Alexander Hamilton
“A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants.”
Joseph Addison
“Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him.”
James Allen
“A man is great by deeds, not by birth.”
Chanakya
“The happiness of the bee and the dolphin is to exist. For man it is to know that and to wonder at it.”
Jacques Yves Cousteau
“By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich.”
Democritus
“The good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better.”
John Dewey
“Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes.”
Emily Dickinson
“The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.”
Fyodor Dostoevsky
“Adventure is not outside man; it is within.”
George Eliot
“Self-esteem is the greatest sickness known to man or woman because it's conditional.”
Albert Ellis
“A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.”
William Claude Dukenfield
“To measure the man, measure his heart.”
Malcolm Forbes
“Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite.”
John Kenneth Galbraith
“It is not fit that every man should travel; it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.”
William Hazlitt
“I still believe that music is one of the greatest gifts that God gave to man.”
George Michael
“Just because a man lacks the use of his eyes doesn't mean he lacks vision.”
Stevie Wonder
“Alcohol may be man's worst enemy, but the bible says love your enemy.”
Frank Sinatra
“Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is to little.”
Washington Irving
