Man Quotes

Nothing so conclusively proves a man's ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself.

~ Thomas J. Watson

In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.

~ William Wordsworth

When steam first began to pump and wheels go round at so many revolutions per minute, what are called business habits were intended to make the life of man run in harmony with the steam engine, and his movement rival the train in punctuality.

~ George William Russell

If you like a person you say 'let's go into business together.' Man is a social animal after all, but such partnerships are fraught with danger.

~ Brian Tracy

The successful man is the one who finds out what is the matter with his business before his competitors do.

~ Roy L. Smith

If I was in a situation where it wasn't working and I had a choice with another man, I'm gonna assess it like a business deal: who is the better person for me?

~ Patti Stanger

If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.

~ Abraham Lincoln

If a man's character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business.

~ Alexander Pope

Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.

~ Henry Ward Beecher

If the head man in a company is not working 12 hours a day, doing things, taking risks, but also standing with his people in the trenches at the most difficult of times, then the company loses something.

~ Rupert Murdoch

White shall not neutralize the black, nor good compensate bad in man, absolve him so: life's business being just the terrible choice.

~ Robert Browning

Definition of a Statistician: A man who believes figures don't lie, but admits than under analysis some of them won't stand up either.

~ Evan Esar

This business switching styles can't be done honestly by one man. As soon as he can play his instrument well, he can express himself, and all his life he has only one self.

~ Jimmy Rushing

It is not the crook in modern business that we fear, but the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.

~ Owen D. Young

Think where man's glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.

~ William Butler Yeats

Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.

~ Viktor E. Frankl

The greatest discovery of my generation is that man can alter his life simply by altering his attitude of mind.

~ James Truslow Adams

My grandfather was a man, when he talked about freedom, his attitude was really interesting. His view was that you had obligations or you had responsibilities, and when you fulfilled those obligations or responsibilities, that then gave you the liberty to do other things.

~ Clarence Thomas

I see myself as no color. I can play the role of a man. I can paint my face white if I want to and play the role of white. I can play a green, I can be a purple. I think I have that kind of frame and that kind of attitude where I can play an animal.

~ Grace Jones

How do you nurture a positive attitude when all the statistics say you're a dead man? You go to work.

~ Patrick Swayze

There is a brief moment when all there is in a man's mind and soul and spirit is reflected through his eyes, his hands, his attitude. This is the moment to record.

~ Yousuf Karsh

And I tell you, having girls has made me a much better man. I have friends who are fathers, but they only have boys, and they have the same attitude toward women they always had, you know? And I don't play that... My girls, you mess with them? I will bury you underground.

~ Mark Wahlberg

Man, me and Biggie were the biggest artists in New York. When he passed, I was so messed up. My attitude was messed up about him dying. There was an East-West thing back then, and I was in war mode.

~ Nas

Fame can be just so annoying because people are so critical of you. You can't just say, 'hi'. You say hi and people whisper' man did you see the way she said hi? What an attitude.

~ Juliette Lewis

The attitude of independence toward a constructed language which all national speakers must adopt is really a great advantage, because it tends to make man see himself as the master of language instead of its obedient servant.

~ Edward Sapir

A man can be 43, and people will say, 'Oh, he's a cool bachelor, and he just hasn't settled down,' but with a woman, it's, 'Oh, she must have really wanted to get married, but she didn't.' I honestly think that attitude is a little bit sexist.

~ Heather Graham

In just the same way the thousands of successive positions of a runner are contracted into one sole symbolic attitude, which our eye perceives, which art reproduces, and which becomes for everyone the image of a man who runs.

~ Henri Bergson

Gemmell's name guarantees a satisfying story and a thumping good read. I recommend all his heroic creations - 'Druss the axeman,' 'the Jerusalem man,' among others - but my favourite has to be 'Waylander': Clint Eastwood with a crossbow and the same 'Make my day, punk' attitude.

~ Neal Asher

We didn't ever want 'Tarzan' to feel like he was just a man. We didn't want him to stand up straight or wave good-bye. We wanted to make sure he always had that piece of gorilla in him, that he always had an animal attitude about him.

~ Kevin Lima

Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.

~ Robert Kennedy

I am not the same man I was 35 years ago. And I hope that five years and ten years from now, I'll be a better man, a more mature man, a wiser man, a more humble man and a more spirited man to serve the good of my people and the good of humanity.

~ Louis Farrakhan

The ninety and nine are with dreams, content but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true.

~ Edgar Allan Poe

Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man.

~ Pliny The Elder

The sea, the great unifier, is man's only hope. Now, as never before, the old phrase has a literal meaning: we are all in the same boat.

~ Jacques-Yves Cousteau

When a man becomes a Christian, he becomes industrious, trustworthy and prosperous. Now, if that man, when he gets all he can and saves all he can, does not give all he can, I have more hope for Judas Iscariot than for that man!

~ John Wesley

That's all a man can hope for during his lifetime - to set an example - and when he is dead, to be an inspiration for history.

~ William Mckinley

Looks are temporary and don't mirror what's inside. And usually, a great looking man is so vain. Maybe most good-looking women are too. I hope I'm not!

~ Dorothy Stratten

I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.

~ George Washington

I'm a very contented, peaceful man. I made mistakes, yes, but I accepted them, and, I hope, graciously.

~ Don Ameche

The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned; it enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself and not to abandon it to his enemy.

~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer