30+ Best Single Man Quotes: Exclusive Selection

Profoundly inspirational single man quotes will challenge the way you think, and make your life worth living.

Famous Single Man Quotes

A single man is minority, a leader is the majority. – Amit Kalantri

Being single is not always a curse. Sometimes it is a blessing because you don’t have to worry about being disappointed. – unknown

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. – Jane Austen

Sometimes you have to stand alone to prove to others and yourself that you can still stand – unknown

Such a lot is won when even a single man gets to his feet and says No – Bertolt Brecht

Thus the skilful general conducts his army just as though he were leading a single man, willy-nilly, by the hand. – Sun Tzu

The normal is what you find but rarely. The normal is an ideal. It is a picture that one fabricates of the average characteristics of men, and to find them all in a single man is hardly to be expected. – W. Somerset Maugham

A single man has not nearly the value he would have in a state of union. He is an incomplete animal. He resembles the odd half of a pair of scissors. – Benjamin Franklin

The fate of a single man can be rich with significance, that of a few hundred less so, but the history of thousands and millions of men does not mean anything at all, in any adequate sense of the word. – Stanislaw Lem

A single man of one, only pebbles can be moved, but many men together, stands no mountain that can’t move. – Robert M. Hensel

If a single man demanded as much as a man with a wife and four children, then that would be a violation of the concept of economic equality. – Mahatma Gandhi

I believe that as long as a single man may try, any unjustifiable barrier against his efforts is a barrier against mankind. – Robert Kennedy

A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral. – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

The high courage of a single man is an army all by itself! – Mehmet Murat ildan

If the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

No single man can be taken as a model for a perfect figure, for no man lives on earth who is endowed with the whole of beauty. – Albrecht Durer

There is no book so poor that it would not be a prodigy if wholly made by a single man. – Samuel Johnson

If a wise man behaves prudently, how can he be overcome by his enemies? Even a single man, by right action, can overcome a host of foes. – Sakya Pandita

The genius of any single man can no more equal learning, than a private purse hold way with the exchequer. – Francis Bacon

Not a single man on earth knows from his own experience the how and where of his birth, only from tradition, which is often very uncertain. – E. T. A. Hoffmann

A man is never more his single separate self than when he sets out on a journey. – John Dos Passos

Being single is getting over the illusion that there is somebody out there to complete you and taking charge of your own life. – Omkar Phatakc

No single man makes history. History cannot be seen just as one cannot see grass growing. – Boris Pasternak

There exists in nature a force which is immeasurably more powerful than steam, and by means of which a single man, who knows how to adapt and direct it, might upset and alter the face of the world. – Eliphas Levi

A bachelor’s life is no life for a single man. – Samuel Goldwyn

The notion of the single man began in the 1950’s. The idea of the bachelor as a separate life was new and obscure. – Hugh Hefner

Single men in barricks don’t grow into plaster saints. – Rudyard Kipling

There is nothing more deceptive, more grandeur, than the delusion of a single man – Craig Stone

I am an unmarried man, as opposed to a single man. A bachelor, according to the dictionary, is a man who has never been married. An unmarried man is not married at the moment. Many of these terms have fallen into disuse. – Raymond Burr

A married man is just a single man who couldn’t say no. – Coling Tegerdine