- 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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- Nov 07, 2020
What nobler employment, or more valuable to the state, than that of the man who instructs the rising generation?
- Trust
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- Nov 07, 2020
So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability.
- Fire
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- Nov 07, 2020
As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes and threats of heaven and sea, himself standing unmoved.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
Don't forget to celebrate. When I was first coming up, everything was so serious - we were always rushing to get to the next thing - that we didn't take the time to say, 'Man, look what we did just now.'
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
- Estimates
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- Nov 07, 2020
A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020