Top 100 What A Man Quotes
#1. When you know what a man wants you know who he is, and how to move him.
George R R Martin
#2. Then, yes. It's civilized. What a man eats, he should be willing to kill. It's not absolutely necessary that he do so, but he should at least be willing to face the reality of it. To eat a chicken only if it comes from the market is the height of cowardice and denial. Someone still had to kill it.
Catherine Ryan Hyde
#4. A man's got to do what a man's got to do.
John Wayne
#5. So beautiful of course compared with what a man looks like with his two bags full and his other thing hanging down out of him or sticking up at you like a hatrack no wonder they hide it with a cabbageleaf
James Joyce
#6. A son ain't what a woman say. A son is what a man do.
Toni Morrison
#7. Greatness is not measured by what a man or woman accomplishes, but by the opposition he or she has overcome to reach his goals.
Dorothy Height
#9. Style ... is a peculiar recasting and heightening, under a certain condition of spiritual excitement, of what a man has to say, in such a manner as to add dignity and distinction to it.
Matthew Arnold
#10. one cannot seek for what he knows, and it seems equally impossible for him to seek for what he does not know. For what a man knows he cannot seek, since he knows it; and what he does not know he cannot seek, since he does not even know for what to seek.
Soren Kierkegaard
#11. What a man wishes he generally believes to be true
Demosthenes
#12. A man does what he can; a woman does what a man cannot.
Isabel Allende
#13. There is a time for wondering what a man wants," said Fror, no fear at all in his. "And there is a time for splitting his head. This is that second time.
Joe Abercrombie
#14. Genius is what a man invents when he is looking for a way out.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#15. Ambition is not what a man would do, but what a man does, for ambition without action is fantasy.
Bryant H. McGill
#16. What a man! He certainly seems to have the run of this country. Just shows how one can push a democracy around, what with habeas corpus and human rights and all the rest. Glad we haven't got him on our hands in England.
Ian Fleming
#17. The question, he (Lincoln) said over and over, is not what a man's particular abilities may be, but what his rights are as a human being made in God's image.
Elton Trueblood
#18. What a man is is the basis owhat he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
John Mason Brown
#19. The whole point of my gender transition was to free myself up. If something feels good, I'm not going to stop doing it because it doesn't fit someone else's notion of what a man is. -David Harrison
Carol Queen
#20. God is never impressed with what a man can do. He is more concerned with what a man is.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#21. It is what a man does for strangers that counts more than what he does for his family.
Melina Marchetta
#22. The thing is, it's my own fault. I just can't put up with a person that won't go out of his way for me. And that's what a man is. Somebody that won't go out of his way for you. I bet it says that in the dictionary.
Barbara Kingsolver
#23. What a man knows only through feeling can be explained only through enthusiasm.
Joseph Joubert
#24. What a man thinks in his spirit in the world, that he does after his departure from the world when he becomes a spirit.
Emanuel Swedenborg
#25. 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
#26. She was just released from prison and forgot what a man felt like.
Bella Jeanisse
#27. What a woman most admires in a man is distinction among men. What a man most admires in a woman is devotion to himself.
Ambrose Bierce
#28. We suffocate with uncoordinated facts; our minds are overwhelmed with science breeding and multiplying into specialistic chaos for want of synthetic thought and a unifying philosophy. We are all mere fragments of what a man might be.
Will Durant
#29. I still don't even know if the sheriff will let me see him. And suppose he did; what then? What do I say to him? Do I know what a man is? Do I know how a man is supposed to die? I'm still trying to find out how a man should live. Am I supposed to tell someone how to die who has never lived?
Ernest Gaines
#30. Most people can bear adversity. But if you wish to know what a man really is, give him power.
Robert Green Ingersoll
#32. Show me what a man hates and I'll show you what he is.
Marisha Pessl
#33. What a man does for pay is of little significance. What he is, as a sensitive instrument responsive to the world's beauty, is everything!
H.P. Lovecraft
#34. Why is it that a woman can see from a distance what a man cannot see close?
Thomas Hardy
#35. Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.
Aldous Huxley
#36. And yet what a man is speaks louder than what he does.
Ed Hindson
#37. No matter what a man's past may have been, his future is spotless.
John R. Rice
#38. You can't rightly estimate what a man will do when he's in drink.
Agatha Christie
#39. I am not interested in what a man can't do. I want to know what he CAN do.
Walt Disney
#40. There is no happiness higher than what a man obtains by this attitude of non-offensiveness, to all creation.
Swami Vivekananda
#41. What a man wants with religion in these breadless times, surpasses my comprehension.
Mark Twain
#43. You realize we are two smart women who are not acting very smart right now,' she said.
'Huh?'
'We know better than to try to figure out what a man is up to. This'll get worked out when it's suppose to.
Alice Clayton
#44. To have infinite oceanic horizons! This is what a man needs to reach the unreachable.
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#45. We're going to kill them, aren't we?" William Ann asked.
"Yes."
"How much are they worth?"
"Sometimes, child, it's not about what a man is worth.
Brandon Sanderson
#46. The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what a man or woman is able to do that counts.
Virgil
#47. Always making sure I'm clean. And that's truly what it's about. I think it's a lot of misconceptions about what a man is, what a thug is, and all that kind of stuff.
Ginuwine
#48. Nothing discloses real character like the use of power. It is easy for the weak to be gentle. Most people can bear adversity. But if you wish to know what a man really is, give him power. This is the supreme test.
Robert G. Ingersoll
#49. You can't tell what a man is like or what he is thinking when you are looking at him. You must get around behind him and see what he has been looking at.
Will Rogers
#50. 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
#51. Between what a man calls me and what he simply calls mine the line is difficult to draw. We feel and act about certain things that are ours very much as we feel and act about ourselves.
William James
#52. My greatest hero is Nelson Mandela. What a man. Incarcerated for 25 years, he was released in 1990 and he hasn't reoffended. I think he's going straight, which shows you prison does work.
Ricky Gervais
#53. The character of covetousness, is what a man generally acquires more through some niggardliness or ill grace in little and inconsiderable things, than in expenses of any consequence.
Alexander Pope
#54. A woman is perturbed by what a man forgets
a man by what a woman remembers.
Arch Ward
#55. It isn't what a man's got in the bank, but what he's got in his head, that makes him a great merchant.
George Horace Lorimer
#56. If you wanted to know what a man was thinking, check the view from his favorite spot.
Robert Ferrigno
#57. You look peaceful," he tells her. "Maybe that's what a man feels when he stands before a firing squad. There is nothing one can do to delay the inevitable, and so it's best just to stand tall." Morton
Jennie Fields
#58. Success is to be measured not by wealth, power, or fame, but by the ratio between what a man is and what he might be.
H.G.Wells
#59. Neither limits nor adversity are what ruin men. Under pressure, they handle themselves pretty well. It's the lack of limits they can't handle. That's when they run amok. So, if you really want to see what a man is made of let him think he can get away with something.
Bill Bonner
#60. never let what a man has in material things intimidate him into thinking that man is more of a man than he is.
JaQuavis Coleman
#61. A man of character can have what a man of intellect can imagine.
Raheel Farooq
#62. Here is a piece of advice. Never pay attention to what a man says when he comes. Anything might be blurted out at that moment, and it rarely means anything.
Claire Kent
#63. What a man pays for bread and butter is worth its market value, and no more. What he pays for love's sake is gold indeed, which has a lure for angels' eyes, and rings well upon God's touchstone.
James Russell Lowell
#64. Most of what a man is has been written by the time his beard starts to prickle. A babe is made of maybes. There are few crimes worse than the ending of something before its time.
Mark Lawrence
#65. What a man sees in the human race is merely himself in the deep and honest privacy of his own heart. Byron despised the race because he despised himself. I feel as Byron did, and for the same reason.
Mark Twain
#66. What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate. Self-emancipation
Henry David Thoreau
#68. Value is not intrinsic, it is not in things. It is within us; it is the way in which man reacts to the conditions of his environment. Neither is value in words and doctrines, it is reflected in human conduct. It is not what a man or groups of men say about value that counts, but how they act.
Ludwig Von Mises
#69. I don't care what a man is as long as he treats me right. He can be a gambler, a hustler, someone everybody else thinks is obnoxious, I don't care so long as he's straight with me and our dealings are fair.
Joe Namath
#70. A man's real belief is that which he lives by. What a man believes is the thing he does, not the thing he thinks.
George MacDonald
#71. He wanted pain, I saw that in him, and what a man wants he will often manage to find.
Alice Hoffman
#72. If it weren't for supplies, I'd never go back down to town. But a man has to do what a man has to do. Hard to live like a king without toilet paper.
Astamur
Ilona Andrews
#75. Character is what a man is in the dark
D.L. Moody
#76. What a man sees depends both upon what he looks at and also upon what his previous visual-conceptual experience has taught him to see.
Thomas Kuhn
#77. I need a watchman to tell me this is what a man says but this is what he means, to draw a line down the middle and say here is this justice and there is that justice and make me understand the difference.
Harper Lee
#78. But what a man can do and what a man will do are two different things, he knew.
George R R Martin
#80. It is important what a man still plans at the end. It shows the measure of injustice in his death.
Elias Canetti
#81. Tell me what a man finds sexually attractive and I will tell you his entire philosophy of life. Show me the woman he sleeps with and I will tell you his valuation of himself.
Ayn Rand
#82. A man has to do what a man has to do, right?
Ika Natassa
#83. Even if there is endless documentation, it would be impossible to know what a man thought inside his own mind ... This is where the novelist's creative imagination has to take over.
Irving Stone
#84. That men, in reality, did not have friends in other men. That the fellowship of men, despite its joyous banter, old memories of exaggerated mischief and the altruism of sharing pornography, was actually a farcical fellowship. Because what a man really wanted was to be bigger than his friends.
Manu Joseph
#85. That's what a man wants in a wife, mostly; he wants to make sure one fool tells him he's wise.
George Eliot
#86. Independence is the only gauge of human virtue and value. What a man is and makes of himself; not what he has or hasn't done for others. There is no substitute for personal dignity.
Ayn Rand
#87. What a man does for others, not what they do for him, gives him immortality.
Daniel Webster
#88. Never mind what a man says; watch what he does.
Sherry Thomas
#89. Fight the good fight; and always call to mind that it is not you who are mortal, but this body of ours. For your true being is not discerned by perceiving your physical appearance. But 'what a man's mind is, that is what he is' not that individual human shape that we identify through our senses.
Samuel Pepys
#90. What a man does for himself, dies with him. What a man does for his community lives long after he's gone.
Theodore Roosevelt
#91. Sometimes I think, What a man gonna do with all this media publicity, Photos in newspapers, photography in and among the industry, references and contacts when he cannot help a friend, when he has no family life, and not Even a dog to welcome him after work hours!
Himmilicious
#92. It is not what a man knows, but what he thinks of in time.
Mark Twain
#93. Freedom had a thousand faces. But so did crime. The thought of what a man might do made me dizzy.
Carsten Jensen
#94. A man's memory is bound to be a distortion of his past in accordance with his present interests, and the most faithful autobiography is likely to mirror less what a man was than what he has become.
Fawn M. Brodie
#95. Most women will shrug off what a man would kill you for, and kill you for what a man would shrug off.
Robert Jordan
#96. It's not what a man has but what a man is that's important.
Frank Abagnale
#97. A scientist does not have hope, sir. Hope is what a man has in the absence of answers, and once he does empirical experimentation, he replaces hope with knowledge and disappointment.
Michelle Franklin
#98. He was doing what a man does when left with nothing. He was telling himself his own life story.
Mitch Albom
#100. What a man can't remember doesn't exist for him.
Robert Ludlum
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