Top 100 A Man Must Quotes
#1. A man must have a battle to fight, a great mission to his life that involves and yet transcends even home and family,
John Eldredge
#2. But down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid.
Raymond Chandler
#3. A man must be a Salomon before his magical ring will work
Idries Shah
#4. Spite of all modesty, a man must own a pleasure in the hearing of his praise.
George Farquhar
#6. A man must study general conditions, to seize them so as to be able to anticipate probabilities.
Jesse Lauriston Livermore
#7. A man must seek his happiness and inward peace from objects which cannot be taken away from him.
Wilhelm Von Humboldt
#8. Don't take it away! It's only a fancy, but a man must love something ...
Louisa May Alcott
#9. He [Brian Fraser] told me that a man must be responsible for any see he sows, for it's his duty to take care of a woman and protect her. And if I wasna prepared to do that, then I'd no right to burden a woman with the consequences of my own actions.
Diana Gabaldon
#10. Having acknowledged that a man must master his circumstances or otherwise be mastered by them, the
Amor Towles
#11. A woman is more than a powerful feeling or unforgettable taste, and a man should not try to eat from every dish. A good woman is a jewel from Allah for which a man must pay a heavy price. Be very careful.
Sister Souljah
#12. There are things a man must not do even to save a nation.
Murray Kempton
#13. You are the work of God, and His work is wholly lovable and wholly loving. This is how a man must think of himself in his heart, because this is what he is.
Foundation For Inner Peace
#14. A man must be sacrificed now and again to provide for the next generation of men.
Amy Lowell
#15. A man must be prepared not only to be a martyr, but to be a fool. It is absurd to say that a man is ready to toil and die for his convictions if he is not even ready to wear a wreathe around his head for them.
G.K. Chesterton
#16. In order to know what he is, a man must first know what the sum of this mysterious humanity is, a humanity made up of people who, like himself, do not understand what they are.
Leo Tolstoy
#17. It is the first rule in oratory that a man must appear such as he would persuade others to be: and that can be accomplished only by the force of his life.
Jonathan Swift
#18. The world is a thing that a man must learn to despise, and even to neglect, before he can learn to reverence it, and work in it and for it.
Thomas Carlyle
#19. It has been said that absolute power corrupts absolutely, but many it not be truer to say that to be absolutely powerful a man must first corrupt himself?
Terence Rattigan
#20. A man must sometimes be forced to make choices, for it is only by his choices that we know what a man truly is.
Chaim Potok
#21. That deed is not well done of which a man must repent, and the reward of which he receives crying and with a tearful face.
Max Muller
#22. A man must be obedient to the promptings of his innermost heart.
Robertson Davies
#23. The root of sanctity is sanity. A man must be healthy before he can be holy. We bathe first, and then perfume.
Sophie Swetchine
#24. Those people who are always improving never become great. Greatness is an eminence, the ascent to which is steep and lofty, and which a man must seize on at once by natural boldness and vigor, and not by patient, wary steps.
William Hazlitt
#25. To be something, to be himself, and always at one with himself, a man must act as he speaks, must know what course he ought to take, and must follow that course with vigour and persistence.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#27. An infant, in his first sleepiness, must let go of the world; a man must learn to die. What comes between are the grains of sand. Ambition. Loss. Envy. Desire. Hatred. Love. Tenderness. Joy. Shame. Loneliness. Ecstasy. Ache. Surrender.
Ethan Canin
#28. A man must be willing to die for justice. Death is an inescapable reality and men die daily, but good deeds live forever.
Jesse Jackson
#29. A man must claim responsibility for his own temptation, and not pin it on the woman who arouses him. It's a gown, Sir Mark. Not even one of my more daring ones.
Courtney Milan
#30. It is harder to avoid censure than to gain applause; for this may be done by one great or wise action in an age. But to escape censure a man must pass his whole life without saying or doing one ill or foolish thing
David Hume
#31. A woman simply is, but a man must become. Masculinity is risky and elusive. It is achieved by a revolt from woman, and it is confirmed only by other men.
Camille Paglia
#32. A man must thank his defects, and stand in some terror of his talents.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#33. A man must always study, but he must not always go to school: what a contemptible thing is an old abecedarian!
Michel De Montaigne
#34. A man must abide somewhere, a physical roof over his head is not enough; his mind needs its bearings, its points of reference, vertically as well as horizontally. Do we not speak of edifying readings?
Stephen McNeilly
#35. Surely a man must be in a parlours state to excite pity, extremely weak to inspire sympathy, or very evil-looking to make a soul tremble in a den like this, where pain must hold its tongue, poverty remain cheerful, and despair retain its self respect.
Honore De Balzac
#36. Self-reliance is the key to a vigorous life. A man must look inward to find his own answers.
Robin Williams
#37. There is nothing new to gain. On the other hand a man must lose his ignorance. That is all.
Ramana Maharshi
#38. A man must learn to understand the motives of human beings, their illusions, and their sufferings.
Albert Einstein
#39. Today, when everything is intellectual competition, a man must be capable of sitting in his chair at a desk for forty-eight hours straight just as a general had to sit for two days in his saddle on horseback.
Honore De Balzac
#40. It is the penalty of fame that a man must ever keep rising. "Get a reputation, and then go to bed," is the absurdest of all maxims. "Keep up a reputation or go to bed, "would be nearer the truth.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin
#41. Because a man must choose. Therein lieth his strength: the power of his decisions.
Paulo Coelho
#42. A man must not stop listening any more than praying when he rises from his knees. No one questions the need of times of formal address to God, but few admit in any practical way the need of quiet waiting upon God, gazing into His face, feeling for His hand, listening for His voice.
Charles Brent
#43. A man must first despise himself, and then others will despise him.
Mencius
#45. There are some occasions when a man must tell half his secret, in order to conceal the rest.
Lord Chesterfield
#46. A man must be able to affirm, I know for certain, that what I teach is the only Word of the high Majesty of God in heaven, his final conclusion and everlasting, unchangeable truth, and whatsoever concurs and agrees not with this doctrine, is altogether false, and spun by the devil.
Martin Luther
#47. A man must always take advantage of opportunities to piss and sleep. I've done the one, now it's time to do the other.
Hunter Shea
#48. In almost all other professions a man must be able to observe carefully and report accurately what he has seen. Those qualifications are unnecessary for journalists, however, since their job is to write sensational stories that sell newspapers.
Robert Anton Wilson
#49. To find his own salvation, a man must first find the fool locked inside himself and set it free.
Leonore Fleischer
#50. Of course, some might argue that one can never know what's in the heart of a woman - For they are strange and mysterious creatures,and a man must be a mind reader if he ever wishes to make them happy.
Richelle Mead
#51. Freedom or prison
what's the difference? A man must develop unwavering will power subject only to his reason.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
#52. The masculine grows by challenge, but the feminine grows by praise. A man must be unabashed and expressed in his appreciation for his woman. Praise her freely.
David Deida
#53. What a man must do is realize that his continued belief in the inferiority of women is going to produce a type of karma that is going to hold him back, and already has.
Frederick Lenz
#54. A man must have grown old and lived long in order to see how short life is.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#55. To be always ready a man must be able to cut a knot, for everything cannot be untied.
Henri Frederic Amiel
#56. In politics, reality and appearance are of equal importance. You cannot attend to one and neglect the other. A man must determine both what he is, and what others believe him to be.
Steven Saylor
#57. A man must feel he runs things, but as long as you control yourself, you control him.
Jacqueline Susann
#58. To be able to think freely, a man must be certain that no consequence will follow whatever he writes.
Ernest Renan
#59. A man must not be without shame, for the shame of being without shame is shamelessness indeed.
Mencius
#62. One does not, I think, kill oneself without a definite desire to do so. It is hardly ever an act to which a man must key himself up; it is a temptation which he must struggle against.
Geoffrey Household
#63. In the choice of a horse and a wife a man must please himself ignoring the opinion and advice of friends.
George Whyte-Melville
#64. To be truly happy - a man must have sources of gladness which are not dependent on anything in this world. - J. C. Ryle
Randy Alcorn
#65. In order to understand the interrelation of truth and falsehood in life, a man must understand falsehood in himself, the constant incessant lies he tells himself.
G.I. Gurdjieff
#66. To be able to write a play a man must be sensitive, imaginative, naive, gullible, passionate; he must be something of an imbecile, something of a poet, something of a liar, something of a damn fool.
Robert E. Sherwood
#67. To write tragedy, a man must feel tragedy. To feel tragedy, a man must be aware of the world in which he lives. Not only with his mind, but with his blood and sinews.
Bertrand Russell
#68. A man must have his dreams - memory dreams of the past and eager dreams of the future. I never want to stop reaching for new goals.
Maurice Chevalier
#69. "Lord bless you!" said Mr. Omer, resuming his pipe, "a man must take the fat with the lean; that's what he must make up his mind to, in this life. "
Charles Dickens
#70. A man must consent to look to a foolish, innocent, adolescent part of himself for his cure. The inner fool is the only one who can touch his Fisher King wound.
Robert A. Johnson
#71. A man must now swallow more belief than he can digest.
Henry Adams
#72. A man must completely despair of himself in order to become fit to obtain the grace of Christ.
Martin Luther
#73. For it must be noted, that men must either be caressed or else annihilated; they will revenge themselves for small injuries, but cannot do so for great ones; the injury therefore that we do to a man must be such that we need not fear his vengeance.
Niccolo Machiavelli
#74. A man must sometimes laugh at himself or go mad,' said he. 'Few realize it. That is why there are so many madmen in the world.
Rafael Sabatini
#75. In this world goodness is destined to be defeated. But a man must go down fighting. That is the victory. To do anything less is to be less than a man.
Walker Percy
#76. A man must be forced to choose. It is only when you are forced to choose that you know what is important to you.
Chaim Potok
#77. Audacity in wooing is a great virtue, but a man must measure even his virtues.
Anthony Trollope
#78. In my opinion, kissing a lady's hand is a fine tradition. After all, a man must start somewhere.
Lois Greiman
#79. A man must always live by his work, and his wages must at least be sufficient to maintain him. They must even upon most occasions be somewhat more; otherwise it would be impossible for him to bring up a family, and the race of such workmen could not last beyond the first generation.
Adam Smith
#80. To be good is not enough; a man must be good for something
Henry Ford
#81. A man must walk only his own path ... Never another's or his feet will grow tired and sore. And he will feel lost even when he arrives.
Jo Ann Davis
#82. See marriage as a man must, a good, sensible workaday institution; but awfully curbing to one's liberty. Somehow, after you're married forever, life has lost its feeling of adventure. There aren't any romantic possibilities waiting to surprise you around each corner.
Jean Webster
#83. Man alone, it seems, lives all his life in the knowledge of death. And yet there is more to life than merely waiting for death. For life to have meaning, there must be a purpose. A man must pass something on - otherwise he is useless. "For most men that purpose revolves around marriage and children
David Gemmell
#85. If he wants meaning-the meaning of his dreams, his secrets, his life-a man must reinhabit his past, however dark, and live for the future, however uncertain.
Jed Rubenfeld
#86. A man must be excessively stupid, as well as uncharitable, who believes that there is no virtue but on his own side, and that there are not men as honest as himself who may differ from him in political principles.
Joseph Addison
#87. I am wise enough to know that there are some perils from which a man must flee.
Faramir
#88. Nobody, they say, is a hero to his valet. Of course; for a man must be a hero to understand a hero. The valet, I dare say, has great respect for some person of his own stamp.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#89. a man must learn to forgive - to know what is important, that to live without forgiveness was a kind of death with breathing and movement.
Min Jin Lee
#90. How must he prove himself? What was it they wished to know of him? And what did he know of himself here where loneliness was an unavoidable element of life, and a man must rely solely on himself?
Margaret Craven
#91. For sheer sexiness, a man must be beautiful. Funny. yes. Clever, no.
Jilly Cooper
#92. A man must know how to fly in the face of opinion; a woman to submit to it.
Madame De Stael
#93. They are not the best students who are most dependent on books. What can be got out of them is at best only material; a man must build his house for himself.
George MacDonald
#94. A man must not hold himself aloof from the things which his friends and community have at heart if he would be liked.
Mark Twain
#95. A man must have limits and cannot give in to the wild desires to be everything and everyone and everything to everyone.
Saul Bellow
#96. There are two questions a man must ask himself: The first is 'Where am I going?' and the second is 'Who will go with me?'
If you ever get these questions in the wrong order you are in trouble.
Sam Keen
#97. A man must ... not be content to do things well, but must also aim to do them gracefully.
Giovanni Della Casa
#98. I say that a man must be certain of his morality for the simple reason that he has to suffer for it.
G.K. Chesterton
#99. A man must learn from his own mistakes, to be what he wishes to be.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#100. A man must keep a little back shop where he can be himself without reserve. In solitude alone can he know true freedom.
Michel De Montaigne
