- Neighbor
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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
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
A man who gives his children habits of industry provides for them better than by giving them fortune.
- Far
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- Nov 07, 2020
The happiest lot for a man, as far as birth is concerned, is that it should be such as to give him but little occasion to think much about it.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
That man never grows old who keeps a child in his heart.
- Anger
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- Nov 07, 2020
When anger rushes unrestrained to action, like a hot steed, it stumbles on its way. The man of thought strikes deepest and strikes safely.
- Funny
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- Nov 07, 2020
My persona has always been what a man was never supposed to be. Outrageous, gregarious, crazy, silly, funny.
- Blind
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would say that we are living in an age that is increasingly spiritually blind and morally deaf. The man who does not shout is not going to be heard.
- Progress
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every step in the progress of this study has tended to obliterate the technical barriers by which logicians have sought to separate the inquiries relating to the several parts of man's nature.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
The powers, aspirations, and mission of man are such as to raise the study of his origin and nature, inevitably and by the very necessity of the case, from the mere physiological to the psychological stage of scientific operations.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Scientific views end in awe and mystery, lost at the edge in uncertainty, but they appear to be so deep and so impressive that the theory that it is all arranged as a stage for God to watch man's struggle for good and evil seems inadequate.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is in the admission of ignorance and the admission of uncertainty that there is a hope for the continuous motion of human beings in some direction that doesn't get confined, permanently blocked, as it has so many times before in various periods in the history of man.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020