Top 575 Man Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Man Quotes from famous people such as Lord Byron, Johnny Depp, Marcus Aurelius, Oscar Wilde, Martin Luther King, Jr., and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

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Man’s love is of man’s life a part; it is a woman’s whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.
Lord Byron
I’m an old-fashioned guy… I want to be an old man with a beer belly sitting on a porch, looking at a lake or something.
Johnny Depp
A man’s worth is no greater than his ambitions.
Marcus Aurelius
No man is rich enough to buy back his past.
Oscar Wilde
Whatever your life’s work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
A man’s true character comes out when he’s drunk.
Charlie Chaplin
I am a simple man who comes from a village, and villagers like us speak our mind. Now, in the process, if unknowingly my words came across as disrespectful or insulting, then I am deeply sorry. I don’t want to hurt anyone.
Arijit Singh
Law is made for man and not man for the law. Wherever we can be sure that the most valuable interests of a nation require that we should decide one way, that way we ought to decide.
William Godwin
This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.
Saint Augustine
A great man is always willing to be little.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I’d like to live as a poor man with lots of money.
Pablo Picasso
Every man deserves a castle; doesn’t matter how big your castle is.
Big Narstie
I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.
Thomas Jefferson
My life is the road, man. I need to keep moving.
Matthew McConaughey
The wise man does not lay up his own treasures. The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.
Lao Tzu
I am at peace with God. My conflict is with Man.
Charlie Chaplin
What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Defeat doesn’t finish a man, quit does. A man is not finished when he’s defeated. He’s finished when he quits.
Richard M. Nixon
Potentially, a government is the most dangerous threat to man’s rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims.
Ayn Rand
A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.
Charles Darwin
I am going to stop calling you a white man and I’m going to ask you to stop calling me a black man.
Morgan Freeman
If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.
William Blake
Personality is to a man what perfume is to a flower.
Charles M. Schwab
I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.
Nelson Mandela
A young man is a theory, an old man is a fact.
E. W. Howe
From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus
Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.
Jean-Paul Sartre
Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.
Jesus Christ
My ideal man is faithful, honest, and a gentleman who knows how to treat women.
Irina Shayk
As a man sow, shall he reap. and I know that talk is cheap. But the heat of the battle is as sweet as the victory.
Bob Marley
Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Marcus Aurelius
Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink for fellows whom it

Ale, man, ale’s the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think.
A. E. Housman
Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man.
Henry Adams
Unlike a drop of water which loses its identity when it joins the ocean, man does not lose his being in the society in which he lives. Man’s life is independent. He is born not for the development of the society alone, but for the development of his self.
B. R. Ambedkar
Never give a sword to a man who can’t dance.
Confucius
A man from hell is not afraid of hot ashes.
Dorothy Gilman
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
Samuel Johnson
A man who has made no enemies is probably not a very good man.
Antonin Scalia
Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.
Mark Twain
The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little.
Mark Twain
To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.
Thomas Jefferson
In every man’s heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
Christopher Morley
True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind; the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not; he knoweth all things but his own ignorance.
Akhenaton
The tendency to aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man… it constitutes the powerful obstacle to culture.
Sigmund Freud
If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman.
Margaret Thatcher
Any man or institution that tries to rob me of my dignity will lose.
Nelson Mandela
Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas A. Edison
Every man should pull a boat over a mountain once in his life.
Werner Herzog
To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.
W. E. B. Du Bois
Man’s greatness lies in his power of thought.
Blaise Pascal
Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man’s nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.
Francis Bacon
No man is free who is not master of himself.
Epictetus
The petty man is eager to make boasts, yet desires that others should believe in him. He enthusiastically engages in deception, yet wants others to have affection for him. He conducts himself like an animal, yet wants others to think well of him.
Xun Kuang
Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon, which cuts without wounding and ennobles the man who wields it. It is a sword that heals.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Faith is a living, daring confidence in God’s grace, so sure and certain that a man could stake his life on it a thousand times.
Martin Luther
One man’s transparency is another’s humiliation.
Gerry Adams
The woman who is known only through a man is known wrong.
Henry Adams
A man growing old becomes a child again.
Sophocles
Life moves so fast. You gotta document the good times, man.
Big Boi
Ah, but a man’s reach should exceed his grasp, Or what’s a heaven for?
Robert Browning
It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.
H. L. Mencken
A father is a man who expects his son to be as good a man as he meant to be.
Frank A. Clark
No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistake

No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.
Mary Wollstonecraft
The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.
Arthur Schopenhauer
But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.
Ernest Hemingway
Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized.
Albert Einstein
The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.
Abraham Lincoln
The right man, in the right place, at the right time, can steal millions.
Gregory Nunn
All of the biggest technological inventions created by man – the airplane, the automobile, the computer – says little about his intelligence, but speaks volumes about his laziness.
Mark Kennedy
The real lover is the man who can thrill you just by touching your head or smiling into your eyes – or just by staring into space.
Marilyn Monroe
The strength of a man’s virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts.
Blaise Pascal
Music is God’s gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.
Walter Savage Landor
The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell.
Andrew Carnegie
Man who invented the hamburger was smart; man who invented the cheeseburger was a genius.
Matthew McConaughey
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 thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
Oscar Wilde
A brave man is a man who dares to look the Devil in the face and tell him he is a Devil.
James A. Garfield
The very basic core of a man’s living spirit is his passion for adventure.
Christopher McCandless
The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.
Plato
Man produces evil as a bee produces honey.
William Golding
To be doing good deeds is man’s most glorious task.
Sophocles
Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead.
Lucille Ball
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
Better to trust the man who is frequently in error than the one who is never in doubt.
Eric Sevareid
History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.
George A. Moore
If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
Henry Ford
The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.
Thomas Paine
The superior man is distressed by the limitations of his ability; he is not distressed by the fact that men do not recognize the ability that he has.
Confucius
Inflation is as violent as a mugger, as frightening as an armed robber and as deadly as a hit man.
Ronald Reagan
The fool wonders, the wise man asks.
Benjamin Disraeli
That’s one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.
Neil Armstrong