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What is outside yourself does not convey much worth; Clothes do not make the man, the saddle not the horse. — Angelus Silesius

What is it about power, that it has to be higher up than everyone else? Can a man not be powerful on the ground floor? — Joe Abercrombie

A man must be forced to choose. It is only when you are forced to choose that you know what is important to you. — Chaim Potok

When a man feels throbbing within him the power to do what he undertakes as well as it can possibly be done, this is happiness, this is success. — Orison Swett Marden

it's about doing what you can, whenever you can, to stand up for what you believe. You fight and you never, ever give up. That's what makes a man. — Craig Schaefer

Length of years is no proper test of length of life. A man's life is to be measured by what he does in it and what he feels in it. — Samuel Smiles

If man understood that "what I create has nothing to do with what anybody else is creating" then he wouldn't be so afraid of what others are doing. — Esther Hicks

Man cannot do without beauty, and this is what our era pretends to want to disregard. — Albert Camus

What is birth to a man if it shall be a stain to his dead ancestors to have left such an offspring? — Philip Sidney

What one man can think, another man can do. — Jules Verne

What a vile and abject thing is man if he do not raise himself above humanity. — Seneca The Younger

One of the marks of an educated man today is to know what not to read
what not to see or what not to listen to. — Ezra Taft Benson

That profound firmness which enabler a man to regard difficulties but as evils to be surmounted, no matter what shape they may assume. — Charles Caleb Colton

The uniform tenor of a man's life furnishes better evidence of what he has said or done on any particular occasion than the word of any enemy. — Thomas Jefferson

What a pretty thing man is when he goes in his doublet and hose and leaves off his wit! — William Shakespeare

What is essential in the life of a man of my kind is what he thinks and how he thinks, and not what he does or suffers. — Albert Einstein

I don't think any man writing can worry about what the act of writing costs him, even though at times he is very aware of it. — Robert Creeley

We are a society that values a man for what he does in the world, a woman for how she looks. — Lillian B. Rubin

A man who knows what it is to have humility is a vain man. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

What is the real breath of a man - the breathing out or the breathing in? — Margaret Atwood

A man is a hypocrite only when he affects to take a delight in what he does not feel, not because he takes a perverse delight in opposite things. — William Hazlitt

What is a man anyhow? what am I? what are you? — Walt Whitman

What will a man gain by winning the whole world, at the cost of his true self? — Jesus

Nothing is truer in a sense than a funeral oration: It tells precisely what the dead man should have been. — Louis Gustave Vapereau

The paparazzi do what they do, man. They have a job, too. — Tracy Morgan

A man speaks of what he knows, a woman of what pleases her: the one requires knowledge, the other taste. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The enemy of a love is never outside, it's not a man or a woman, it's what we lack in ourselves. — Anais Nin

The mark of an honest man ... is that he means what he says and knows what he means. — Ayn Rand

I understand what my gift is, which is making people laugh, hopefully. It's more on that level. I don't need to be a leading man, I'm fine with that. — Chris Kattan

Manhood is defined and decided by the ability to nurture and to protect, by the capability to provide and to sustain. — C. JoyBell C.

The true meaning of a term is to be found by observing what a man does with it, not by what he says about it. — Percy Williams Bridgman

I don't want any man I can run over. What I love about a man in control is it allows them to be the kings that I always expect them to be. — Angie Stone

If man has learned to see and know what really is, he will act in accordance with truth, Epistemology is in itself ethics, and ethics is epistemology. — Herbert Marcuse

a man's power is not only what he knows it to be, but also what others think it to be. — Sue Harrison

My expectations of what I wanted in a man I learned from a dog: loyalty and kindness. — Alice Hoffman

No sane man can be happy, for to him life is real, and he sees what a fearful thing it is. — Mark Twain

To be feared of a thing and yet to do it, is what makes the prettiest kind of a man. — Robert Louis Stevenson

There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him. — Robert A. Heinlein

You wonder what it must be like to be a man, to be so confident that the final say is yours. — Taylor Jenkins Reid

So this is it what cost me all that time. A man who turned out to be old, a house that turned out to be empty. — Jennifer Egan

Mom, thank you. Mr. Palmer, my father I never had, thank you for teaching me what it is to be a man. — Ray Rice

It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is. — Desiderius Erasmus

To age with dignity and with courage cuts close to what it is to be a man. — Roger Kahn

How many years must a man do nothing, before he can at all know what is to be done and how to do it! — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Out of love, God becomes man. He says: See, here is what it is to be a human being. — Soren Kierkegaard

To make a man a saint, it must indeed be by grace; and whoever doubts this does not know what a saint is, or a man. — Blaise Pascal

I should be content
to look at a mountain
for what it is
and not as a comment on my life. — David Ignatow

You deserve a man who knows what the right thing is, and who does it. I want ... Christ I want to be that for you. — Emma Chase

It is so easy for a woman to become what the man she loves believes her to be — Edith Wharton

What is youth except a man or woman before it is ready or fit to be seen? — Evelyn Waugh

It's a man's business to be what he is, and to be it in style. — Robert A. Heinlein

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

We are drawn to what we lack. No one loves daylight more than a blind man. — Victor Hugo

What art thou Faustus, but a man condemned to die? — Christopher Marlowe

Man makes holy what he believes as he makes beautiful what he loves. — Ernest Renan

When a man's faith is never tried, I don't think he'll ever learn anything. You have to have trial and tribulation, or what are you going to learn? — McCoy Tyner

My papa said son don't let the man getcha and do what he done to me ... — John Fogerty

If a man took a lover it would be accounted commonplace. Why shouldn't you? Your virtue lies in your mind, not in what lies between your legs. — Lauren Willig

In the end what separates a man from a slave? Money? Power? No, a man chooses ... a slave obeys. — Ken Levine

A man ought to do what he thinks is right — John Wayne

Heaven forbids that man should know
What change tomorrow's fate may bring. — Statius

After all, what is man but a hoard of ghosts? Oaks, that were acorns, that were oaks ... — Walter De La Mare

Worry is to human beings ... what a condom is to a man with erectile dysfunction. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

What man has done, man can aspire to do. — Jerry Pournelle

Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends? — Robert Louis Stevenson

What man has more than enough and gives it to the world? Only the man of Tao. — Laozi

The highest happiness of man ... is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Those cunning bastards at Karl Lagerfeld and Christian Dior knew exactly what was required to trap a poor man. She smelled wonderful. — Jo Nesbo

What do you believe reveals more about a man's character, his arrogance or his attempt to disguise it? — Aaron B. Powell

It is what man does not know of God Composes the visible poem of the world. — Richard Eberhart

The cross has two sides to it. One side is what Jesus did for us. He forgave us our sins. The other is the God side. God now lives in man! — John Paul Warren

I have known no man of genius who had not to pay, in some affliction or defect either physical or spiritual, for what the gods had given him. — Max Beerbohm

What is called virtue in the common sense of the word has nothing to do with this or that man's prosperity, or even happiness. — James Anthony Froude

In the view of the wise, Heaven is man and Earth woman: Earth fosters what Heaven lets fall. — Erich Fromm

Risk is the factor of a stratagem measured by what man is powerless to control. — Mike Norton

Slowly and painfully man is learning that he must do unto others what he would have them do to him. — Anthony Eden

All men are what they are by reasons of the laws they keep and the thoughts they think. — Ogwo David Emenike

A man is simple when his chief care is the wish to be what he ought to be, that is honestly and naturally human. — Charles Wagner

What is it about you Keira, that has a man wanting to fuck you senseless into submission one minute and strangle the breath from your body the next? — Stephanie Hudson

Who? Who is but the form following the function of what, and what I am is a man in a mask. — Alan Moore

Never ask a man what he knows, but what he can do. — George Horace Lorimer

How many of us readers say this quote and mean it. "If I knew what I know now life would be different" ... — Robert Reed

What is the destiny of man, but to fill up the measure of his sufferings, and to drink his allotted cup of bitterness? — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

What is the true cost of a man's mistakes? — Jonathan Hickman