A Quotes
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“A man must earnestly want.”
“A man must either imitate the vicious or hate them.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Michel de Montaigne (Illustrated)
“A man must empower himself, to be of service to himself and his fellow men.”
“A man must endure his pain to find the power beyond is own strength.”
“A man must feel he runs things, but as long as you control yourself, you control him.”
Source: Valley of the Dolls: 50th Anniversary Edition
“A man must fill his life with meaning, meaning is not automatically given to life.”
Source: The Chosen
“A man must find time for himself. Time is what we spend our lives with. If we are not careful we find others spending it for us. . . . It is necessary now and then for a man to go away by himself and experience loneliness; to sit on a rock in the forest and to ask of himself, 'Who am I, and where have I been, and where am I going?' . . . If one is not careful, one allows diversions to take up one's time—the stuff of life.”
“A man must first care for his own household before he can be of use to the state. But no matter how well he cares for his household, he is not a good citizen unless he also takes thought of the state. In the same way, a great nation must think of its own internal affairs; and yet it cannot substantiate its claim to be a great nation unless it also thinks of its position in the world at large.”
“A man must first despise himself, and then others will despise him.”
Source: The Chinese Classics
“A man must first empower himself. To be of service to himself and his fellow men.”
“A man must first govern himself ere he is fit to govern a family; and his family ere he be fit to bear the government of the commonwealth.”
Source: The Works of Sir Walter Ralegh
“A man must first of all understand certain things. He has thousands of false ideas and false conceptions, chiefly about himself, and he must get rid of some of them before beginning to acquire anything new. Otherwise the new will be built on a wrong foundation and the result will be worse than before. To speak the truth is the most difficult thing in the world; one must study a great deal and for a long time in order to speak the truth. The wish alone is not enough. To speak the truth one must know what the truth is and what a lie is, and first of all in oneself. And this nobody wants to know.”
“A man must follow his true nature, although a man I am not. My true being is something rougher, something deep and damp and dark as an unlit root cellar, a hole in the ground, a grave. I am a ferocious killing machine, barely held together by the deceptive skin of civilization which I show the world by day. As the Fiend below takes mad glee from imitating Heaven above, I walk the earth in the guise of a Holy man...by sunlight, anyhow. Ah, but when the moon takes me, the skin tears away--and I am golden and beautiful, my mouth deep with teeth, my throat filled with eerie song. I cry to the night sky in my hunger and my rage as I follow the call of the hunt, first on two legs, then four. My claws are as razors, churning the ground below me...and I strike...”
“A man must go on a quest / to discover the sacred fire / in the sanctuary of his own belly / to ignite the flame in his heart / to fuel the blaze in the hearth / to rekindle his ardor for the earth”
Source: Fire in the belly: on being a man
“A man must have a battle to fight, a great mission to his life that involves and yet transcends even home and family.”
Source: Wild at Heart Revised and Updated: Discovering the Secret of a Man's Soul
“A man must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere.”
“A man must have a good deal of vanity who believes, and a good deal of boldness who affirms, that all the doctrines he holds are true, and all he rejects are false.”
Source: A Benjamin Franklin Reader
“A man must have a good share of wit himself to endure a great share in another.”
Source: Lord Chesterfield's Letters
“A man must have a less than ordinary share of sense that would furnish such plain and common rooms with silver-footed couches and purple coverlets and gold and silver plate.”
Source: Plutarch's Lives: Volume I
“A man must have a stout digestion to feed upon some men's theology; no sap, no sweetness, no life, but all stern accuracy, and fleshless definition. Proclaimed without tenderness, and argued without affection, the gospel from such men rather resembles a missile from a catapult than bread from a Father's hand.”
Source: Feathers for Arrows: Or Illustrations for Preachers and Teachers, from My Note Book
“A man must have courage to be content.”
“A man must have grown old and lived long in order to see how short life is.”
“A man must have his dreams - memory dreams of the past and eager dreams of the future. I never want to stop reaching for new goals.”
“A man must have limits and cannot give in to the wild desires to be everything and everyone and everything to everyone.”
Source: DANGLING MAN
“A man must have something to cling to. Without that he is as a pea vine sprawling in search of a trellis.... I was all asprawl, clinging to Beauty, which is a very restless trellis.”
“A man must have something to grumble about; and if he cant complain that his wife harries him to death with her perversity and ill-humour, he must complain that she wears him out with her kindness and gentleness.”
Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
“A man must have very eminent qualities to hold his own without being polite.”
“A man must have vices, expensive ones if possible. Otherwise when he reaches old age he will have nothing to be redeemed from.”
“A man must honour his Maker as children honours their parents.”
“A man must indeed be a hero to appear such in the eyes of his valet.”
“A man must keep a little back shop where he can be himself without reserve. In solitude alone can he know true freedom.”
“A man must keep his earnestness nimble, to escape ridicule.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)
“A man must know his destiny.”
“A man must know his destiny. if he does not recognize it, then he is lost.”
“A man must know his destiny… if he does not recognize it, then he is lost. By this I mean, once, twice, or at the very most, three times, fate will reach out and tap a man on the shoulder… if he has the imagination, he will turn around and fate will point out to him what fork in the road he should take, if he has the guts, he will take it.”
“A man must know his limitations.”
Source: Legend
“A man must know his master, the Maker.”
“A man must know how to fly in the face of opinion; a woman to submit to it.”
“A man must know when to retreat from a woman, but a wise man knows that sometimes he must stand and face her.”
Source: Lord of Chaos: Book Six of 'The Wheel of Time'
“A man must learn from his own mistakes, to be what he wishes to be.”
“A man must learn to endure patiently what he cannot avoid conveniently.”
“A man must learn to forgive himself.”
“A man must learn to love his children, not because they are his, but because they are children, else his love will be scarcely a better thing at last than the party-spirit of the faithful politician.”
Source: The Complete Works of George MacDonald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Theological Writings & Essays (Illustrated): The Princess and the Goblin, Phantastes, At the Back of the North Wind, Lilith, England’s Antiphon, David Elginbrod, Malcolm, The Light Princess, The Golden Key and many more
“A man must learn to understand the motives of human beings, their illusions, and their sufferings.”
Source: The Ultimate Quotable Einstein
“A man must live for a cause higher than himself, this is the courage of his existence.”
“A man must live in the world and make the best of it, such as it is.”
Source: The Autobiography of Michel de Montaigne: Comprising the Life of the Wisest Man of His Times : His Childhood, Youth, and Prime : His Adventures in Love and Marriage, at Court, and in Office, War, Revolution, and Plague : His Travels at Home and Abroad : His Habits, Tastes, Whims, and Opinions
“A man must live like a great brilliant flame and burn as brightly as he can. In the end he burns out. But this is far better than a mean little flame.”
“A man must live with sin, or he is no man”
Source: Live and Remember
“A man must love a thing very much if he not only practices it without any hope of fame and money, but even... without any hope of doing it well.”
“A man must love a thing very much if he practices it without any hope of fame or money, but even practice it without any hope of doing it well. Such a man must love the toils of the work more than any other man can love the rewards of it.”
Source: Robert Browning