A man who suffers before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary.
‐‐ Lucius Annaeus Seneca
A man who trims himself to suit everybody will soon whittle himself away.
‐‐ Charles M. Schwab
A man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts.
‐‐ Harold MacMillan
A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.
‐‐ Muhammad Ali
A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action. You must act as you breathe.
‐‐ Georges Clemenceau
A man who wants time to read and write must let the grass grow long.
‐‐ Sloan Wilson
A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.
‐‐ Max Lucado
A man who was completely innocent, offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others, including his enemies, and became the ransom of the world. It was a perfect act.
‐‐ Mahatma Gandhi
A man who will not lie to a woman has very little consideration for her feelings.
‐‐ Olin Miller
A man who will traduce those who stood with him in battle is not worth much.
‐‐ Howard Fast
A man who works with his hands is a laborer; a man who works with his hands and his brain is a craftsman; but a man who works with his hands and his brain and his heart is an artist.
‐‐ Louis Nizer
A man who would not love his father's grave is worse than a wild animal.
‐‐ Chief Joseph
A man who writes for a living does not have to go anywhere in particular, and he could rarely afford to if he wanted.
‐‐ C. S. Forester
A man whose life has been dishonourable is not entitled to escape disgrace in death.
‐‐ Lucius Accius
A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards; as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push.
‐‐ Ludwig Wittgenstein
A man will do more for his stubbornness than for his religion or his country.
‐‐ E. W. Howe
A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights.
‐‐ Napoleon Bonaparte
A man will give up almost anything except his suffering.
‐‐ John Cleese
A man will go to war, fight and die for his country. But he won't get a bikini wax.
‐‐ Rita Rudner
A man will renounce any pleasures you like but he will not give up his suffering.
‐‐ George Gurdjieff
A man will speedily sit down and sympathize with a friend's griefs, but if he sees him honored and esteemed, he is apt to regard him as a rival and does not so readily rejoice with him. This ought not to be; without effort, we ought to be happy in our brother's happiness.
‐‐ Charles Spurgeon
A man will succeed in anything about which he has real enthusiasm, in which he is genuinely interested, provided that he will take more thought about his job than the men working with him. The fellow who sits still and does what he is told will never be told to do big things.
‐‐ Charles M. Schwab
A man will treat a woman almost exactly the way he treats his own interior feminine. In fact, he hasn't the ability to see a woman, objectively speaking, until he has made some kind of peace with his interior woman.
‐‐ Robert Johnson
A man will turn over half a library to make one book.
‐‐ Samuel Johnson
A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune's inequality exhibits under this sun.
‐‐ Thomas Carlyle
A man with a briefcase can steal millions more than any man with a gun.
‐‐ Don Henley
A man with a mouth like a mastiff, a brow like a mountain, and eyes like burning antracite - that was Dan'l Webster in his prime.
‐‐ Stephen Vincent Benet
A man with a silver spoon may get his share of supporters, but he can never be an inspiration for somebody! Patience and hard work are the key to every man's success.
‐‐ Kailash Kher
A man with a so-called character is often a simple piece of mechanism; he has often only one point of view for the extremely complicated relationships of life.
‐‐ August Strindberg
A man with a soul is not like every other man.
‐‐ Eugene Ionesco
A man with a surplus can control circumstances, but a man without a surplus is controlled by them, and often has no opportunity to exercise judgment.
‐‐ Marshall Field
A man with an invention on which he has spent his life, but has no means to get it developed for the good of humanity - or even patented for himself - must feel the pinch of poverty very acutely.
‐‐ James Payn
A man with convictions finds an answer for everything. Convictions are the best form of protection against the living truth.
‐‐ Max Frisch
A man with God is always in the majority.
‐‐ John Knox
A man with money is no match against a man on a mission.
‐‐ Doyle Brunson
A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.
‐‐ Thomas Carlyle
A man without a vote is man without protection.
‐‐ Lyndon B. Johnson
A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive.
‐‐ Pearl Bailey
A man without decision can never be said to belong to himself.
‐‐ John W. Foster
A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.
‐‐ Albert Camus
A man would always wish to give a woman a better home than the one he takes her from; and he who can do it, where there is no doubt of her regard, must, I think, be the happiest of mortals.
‐‐ Jane Austen
A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault.
‐‐ John Henry Newman
A man would prefer to come home to an unmade bed and a happy woman than to a neatly made bed and an angry woman.
‐‐ Marlene Dietrich
A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
‐‐ Benjamin Franklin
A man writing a letter is a man in the act of thinking, and it was an exercise Reagan obviously enjoyed. After his first meeting with Gorbachev, for example, he sent a 'Dear Murph' letter about it to his old friend George Murphy, a former senator and actor who had once played Reagan's father in a film.
‐‐ Russell Baker
A manager doesn't hear the cheers.
‐‐ Alvin Dark
A manager is a guide. He takes a group of people and says, 'With you I can make us a success; I can show you the way.'
‐‐ Arsene Wenger
A manager is an assistant to his men.
‐‐ Thomas J. Watson
A manager is not a person who can do the work better than his men; he is a person who can get his men to do the work better than he can.
‐‐ Frederick W. Smith
A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge.
‐‐ Peter Drucker