- Business
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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.
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- Distinctive
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- Nov 07, 2020
Finds progress, man's distinctive mark alone, Not God's, and not the beast's; God is, they are, Man partly is, and wholly hopes to be.
- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020
Why comes temptation but for man to meet And master and make crouch beneath his foot, And so be pedestaled in triumph?
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is nothing in the whole frame of man which seems to me so unaccountable as that thing called conscience.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every man hath a good and a bad angel attending on him in particular all his life long.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
Anybody who believes that the way to a man's heart is through his stomach flunked geography.
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
A promising young man should go into politics so that he can go on promising for the rest of his life.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
The man who can smile when things go wrong has thought of someone else he can blame it on.
- Think
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was thinking of resigning since I did not want to be perceived as a man who did the president's bidding to save my job. I have had some time to think about it since. I think I did the right thing.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
Those who made and endorsed our Constitution knew man's nature, and it is to their ideas, rather than to the temptations of utopia, that we must ask that our judges adhere.
- Mystery
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- Nov 07, 2020