50 Quotes For The Modern Man to Live By

inspiring sunriseSometimes, you need to slow down, take some time, and start again. Taking a step back and reading what is needed, a word, phrase, or scripture, will be enough to help you get back on track. Thinking differently is okay, and that can sometimes be all that is needed.

Here are some of the most important, relevant, and famous quotes you should have on hand to review when you don’t know where to go, what decision to make, or recharge your batteries. Inspiration, fashion, literature, money, love, etc. On all the different topics you will be able to get knowledge. Shall we start?

  1. “Wealth does not consist in having great possessions, but in having few needs” – Epictetus
  2. “He is not poor who has less, but he who desires more” – Seneca
  3. “I would like to live like a poor man with a lot of money” – Pablo Picasso
  4. “Too many people spend money they haven’t earned to buy things they don’t want to impress people they don’t like” – Will Rogers
  5. “Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be great” – Charles de Gaulle
  6. “Happiness does not lie in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort” – Franklin D. RooseveltReaching for the stars
  7. “The true man smiles in the face of problems, gathers strength from difficulties, and grows by reflection” – Thomas Paine
  8. “If money is your hope of independence, you will never have it. The only real security a man can have in this world is a store of knowledge, experience and ability.” – Henry Ford
  9. “Almost all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power” – Abraham Lincoln
  10. “For every minute I turn, there is in me the consciousness that I am increasing the wealth of the nation” – Mohandas Gandhi
  11. “In every true man there is a hidden child who wants to play” – Friedrich Nietzsche
  12. “Money is like manure. You have to spread it or it smells” – J. Paul Getty
  13. “Never spend your money before you earn it” – Thomas Jefferson
  14. “Earn with your mind, not your time” – Naval Ravikant
  15. “Anyone can make history; but only a great man can write it” – Oscar Wilde
  16. “It’s not about how much money you make, it’s about how much money you have left, how hard it works for you and for how many generations it will stay with you.” – Robert Kiyosaki
  17. “A man who dares to waste an hour of his time has not discovered the value of life.” – Charles Darwin
  18. ” Money is only a tool. It will get you where you want to go, but it will not replace you as a driver” – Ayn Rand
  19. “It is good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it is good, too, to check once in a while and make sure that you haven’t lost the things that money can’t buy” – George Lorimer
  20. “A wise person should have money in his head, but not in his heart” – Jonathan Swiftbeautiful landscape
  21. “A foolish man thinks he is wise, but a wise man thinks he is a fool.” – William Shakespeare
  22. “Know thyself and then dress accordingly.” – Epictetus
  23. “When I was young I thought money was the most important thing in life, now that I am older I know what it is.” – Oscar Wilde
  24. “The greatest disappointment a man suffers is from his own opinion.” – Leonardo da Vinci
  25. “Money often costs too much” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
  26. “Fashions pass, style is eternal” – Yves Saint Laurent
  27. “A man of character may be defeated, but never destroyed” – Ernest Hemingway
  28. “Politeness is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage” – Theodore Roosevelt
  29. “You don’t find a style. A particular style finds you” – Keith Richards
  30. “Don’t try to become a man of success, but a man of courage” – Albert Einstein
  31. “I never wanted to be fashionable. Because if you are fashionable, eventually you will be out of fashion.” – Ralph Lauren
  32. “A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others have thrown at him” – David Brinkley
  33. “If you speak to a man in a language he understands, he goes to his head. If you speak to him in his language, it goes to his heart.” – Nelson Mandela
  34. “Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication” – Leonardo da Vinci
  35. “The well-dressed man is the one whose clothes you never notice” – William Somerset Maugham
  36. “The man who reads nothing is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers” – Thomas Jefferson
  37. “A fad is nothing but an induced epidemic” – George Bernard Shaw
  38. “If people turn in the street to look at you, you are not well dressed. You are either too formal, too tight or too fashionable” – Beau Brummel
  39. “Fashion is what you adopt when you don’t know who you are” – Quentin Crisp
  40. “Fashion is not necessarily about labels. It’s not about brands. It’s about something else that comes from you” – Ralph Lauren
  41. “Don’t be trend-conscious, don’t let fashion control you. You decide who you are, what you are; what you want to express with the way you dress and the way you live” – Gianni Versace
  42. “A man’s true character comes out when he is drunk” – Charlie ChaplinLighthouse on ocean
  43. “Style is primarily a matter of instinct” – Bill Blass
  44. “The difference between style and fashion is quality” – Giorgio Armani
  45. “Man does not live by bread alone. From time to time, he also needs a drink” – Woody Allen
  46. “One pretends to do something or copies someone or some master, until he can do it with confidence and ease and so make it his own style.” – Cary Grant
  47. “I can go around the world with only three outfits: a blue blazer and gray flannel pants, a gray flannel suit and a black tie” – Pierre Cardin.
  48. “To be noticed without striving to be noticed, this is what elegance is about.” – Luciano Barbera
  49. “Even on the most solemn occasions I went without socks, and hid that lack of civilization with high boots” – Albert Einstein
  50. “Dressing well is a form of good manners” – Tom Ford