- 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
- Humble
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sense shines with a double luster when it is set in humility. An able yet humble man is a jewel worth a kingdom.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works.
- Freedom From
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- Nov 07, 2020
If happiness truly consisted in physical ease and freedom from care, then the happiest individual would not be either a man or a woman; it would be, I think, an American cow.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
God speaks to me not through the thunder and the earthquake, nor through the ocean and the stars, but through the Son of Man, and speaks in a language adapted to my imperfect sight and hearing.
- Grow
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- Nov 07, 2020
A young man must let his ideas grow, not be continually rooting them up to see how they are getting on.
- Passion
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- Nov 07, 2020
Terrible and sublime thought, that every moment is supreme for some man and woman, every hour the apotheosis of some passion!
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
That's all a man can hope for during his lifetime - to set an example - and when he is dead, to be an inspiration for history.
- Platform
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am a tariff man, standing on a tariff platform.
- Fly
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- Nov 07, 2020
What can you conceive more silly and extravagant than to suppose a man racking his brains, and studying night and day how to fly?
- Brother
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am accused of using hard language. I admit the charge. I have not been able to find a soft word to describe villainy or to identify the perpetrator of it. The man who makes a chattel of his brother - what is he? The man who keeps back the hire of his laborers by fraud - what is he?
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020