- Behavior
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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
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Man is not imprisoned by habit. Great changes in him can be wrought by crisis - once that crisis can be recognized and understood.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
The tragedy of life is in what dies inside a man while he lives - the death of genuine feeling, the death of inspired response, the awareness that makes it possible to feel the pain or the glory of other men in yourself.
- Fragility
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- Nov 07, 2020
Respect for the fragility and importance of an individual life is still the mark of an educated man.
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can construct the character of a man and his age not only from what he does and says, but from what he fails to say and do.
- Fellow Creatures
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is in us a lyric germ or nucleus which deserves respect; it bids a man to ponder or create; and in this dim corner of himself he can take refuge and find consolations which the society of his fellow creatures does not provide.
- Friends
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many a man who thinks to found a home discovers that he has merely opened a tavern for his friends.
- Considerable
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- Nov 07, 2020
A man can believe a considerable deal of rubbish, and yet go about his daily work in a rational and cheerful manner.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was a young man, my mother said to me, 'You can't be a communist without being a militant atheist.' So I had to be a militant atheist because I wanted to be a communist.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
Jesus is the only way because the Bible says it to be true. Why? Because only He can bridge the gap between God and man; there's no other way.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
All views can't be true because all views are opposite; this is the logical aspect. For example, Islam says we are good in nature; Christianity says we are born in sin. Islam says God is a man; Christianity says He is more than a man, He is God. All truths can't be the same.
- Economic Independence
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- Nov 07, 2020
The morals of yesterday are no more. They are as dead as the day they were lived. Economic independence has put woman on exactly the same footing as man.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
The greatest service we can do the common man is to abolish him and make all men uncommon.
- Painting
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- Nov 07, 2020