The two powers which in my opinion constitute a wise man are those of bearing and forbearing.
Know you not that a good man does nothing for appearance sake, but for the sake of having done right?
In a man-to-man fight, the winner is he who has one more round in his magazine.
I soon found out this much:--terror can be endured so long as a man simply ducks;--but it kills, if a man thinks about it.
A young man is stirred and stimulated by the consciousness of how much depends upon his own exertions: a young girl is oppressed by it.
As much preparation as I had made for the old man Salieri, gestures and so on, the fact is after sitting for hours, your movements are kind of slow.
There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer. For there is no such flatterer as is a man's self.
Silence the angry man with love. Silence the ill-natured man with kindness. Silence the miser with generosity. Silence the liar with truth.
The words I use too often are X-rated, something an old man like me shouldn't be talking about anyway.
No one has a name in 'The Road.' Like Cormac McCarthy's novel from which it's adapted, 'The Road' features characters such as the man, the boy, the wife, the old man and the veteran.
The average man seeks certainty in the eyes of the onlooker and calls that self-confidence. The warrior seeks impeccability in his own eyes and calls that humbleness.
The average man is hooked to his fellow men, while the warrior is hooked only to infinity.
I am a friend of the working man, and I would rather be his friend, than be one.
A man is lucky if he is the first love of a woman. A woman is lucky if she is the last love of a man.
I’ve been working hard to become the kind of man she needs, the kind of man she already believes me to be.
I know I'm just one man trying to do one thing, and the next day is not promised to any man. I'm very humble.
No man would find an abiding strangeness on the Moon unless he were the sort of man who could find it in his own back garden.
Look at the means which a man employs, consider his motives, observe his pleasures. A man simply cannot conceal himself!
To become a man is to carry out your word because you gave your word. And your word is you as a man." - The Legacy Letters, by Carew Papritz
“There is a space between man's [sic] imagination and man's [sic] attainment that may only be traversed by his longing.” ― Khalil Gibran [sick]
It takes a real man to make a true confession - a Chocolate Soldier will excuse or cloak his sin.
