- Nov 07, 2020
Man Quotes
Short lines on character, patience and what it means to be a man.
This is a smaller, general collection of quotes touching on manhood, character and patience. One well-known line uses golf as an example, a test of temperament disguised as a leisure game, to make a wider point about what reveals a man's spirit. For steadier, values-driven lines, see our Good quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Degeneration
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- Nov 07, 2020
In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is not likely that posterity will fall in love with us, but not impossible that it may respect or sympathize; so a man would rather leave behind him the portrait of his spirit than a portrait of his face.
- Grown Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child; it is there that he changes the atmosphere and tenor of his life.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
A liberal education... frees a man from the prison-house of his class, race, time, place, background, family and even his nation.
- Ascetic
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- Nov 07, 2020
No sane man can afford to dispense with debilitating pleasures; no ascetic can be considered reliably sane.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never thought of my father when I was growing up. Truly. He was a strong, silent man who worked hard to support his family.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
You know, I don't mind dying. The thing that pisses me off is that I won't get to be an old man. I was looking forward to that.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The American Army has supplied, assigned a very capable man to me, to help me, bring me to military justice. I don't think I need no civilians. All I want to do is clear myself with the American Army.
- Exactly The Way
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- Nov 07, 2020
A man will treat a woman almost exactly the way he treats his own interior feminine. In fact, he hasn't the ability to see a woman, objectively speaking, until he has made some kind of peace with his interior woman.
- Energy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.
- Equality
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- Nov 07, 2020
If any man claims the Negro should be content... let him say he would willingly change the color of his skin and go to live in the Negro section of a large city. Then and only then has he a right to such a claim.
- Gentle
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- Nov 07, 2020
Let us dedicate ourselves to what the Greeks wrote so many years ago: to tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you can ask a young man to give his life for his country, you can lead people.
- Frequent
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am, in fact, a medical doctor; I am a world expert in mechanical heart technology; and I am an athletically fit man who takes care of his own health through diet and exercise, including frequent five mile runs.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020