- Happiness
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- 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
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Johnny Cash was a good man. He tried to live up to his faith. It was just difficult.
- Deserve
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's the playoffs, man. If you don't get excited about the playoffs, you don't even deserve to be playing basketball.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every vision is a joke until the first man accomplishes it; once realized, it becomes commonplace.
- Hardest
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- Nov 07, 2020
The hardest struggle of all is to be something different from what the average man is.
- Gay
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a gay man living in the epicenter of 20th-century America's worst health epidemic.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
If a man would follow, today, the teachings of the Old Testament, he would be a criminal. If he would follow strictly the teachings of the New, he would be insane.
- Others
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every man is dishonest who lives upon the labor of others, no matter if he occupies a throne.
- Nov 07, 2020
The true civilization is where every man gives to every other every right that he claims for himself.
- Blind
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- Nov 07, 2020
The superior man is the providence of the inferior. He is eyes for the blind, strength for the weak, and a shield for the defenseless. He stands erect by bending above the fallen. He rises by lifting others.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
Voltaire lighted a torch and gave to others the sacred flame. The light still shines and will as long as man loves liberty and seeks for truth.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
I concluded that all religions had the same foundation - a belief in the supernatural - a power above nature that man could influence by worship - by sacrifice and prayer.
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are so many societies, so many churches, so many -isms, that it is almost impossible for an independent man to succeed in a political career.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
It has been said that a man of genius should select his ancestors with great care - and yet there does not seem to be as much in heredity as most people think. The children of the great are often small.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nothing has been left undone by the enemies of freedom. Every art and artifice, every cruelty and outrage has been practiced and perpetrated to destroy the rights of man. In this great struggle, every crime has been rewarded and every virtue has been punished.
- Ideas
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- Nov 07, 2020
I simply claim that what ideas I have, I have a right to express; and that any man who denies that right to me is an intellectual thief and robber.
- Property
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- Nov 07, 2020