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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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- Mistake
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- Nov 07, 2020
Lord, deliver me from the man who never makes a mistake, and also from the man who makes the same mistake twice.
- Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is no more reason to believe that man descended from some inferior animal than there is to believe that a stately mansion has descended from a small cottage.
- Deficient
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- Nov 07, 2020
You should carefully study the Art of Reasoning, as it is what most people are very deficient in, and I know few things more disagreeable than to argue, or even converse with a man who has no idea of inductive and deductive philosophy.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Failure to accord credit to anyone for what he may have done is a great weakness in any man.
- Opportunity
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- Nov 07, 2020
Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not mean his maker, but himself.
- Nature
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Many people believe that they are attracted by God, or by Nature, when they are only repelled by man.
- Value
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The wise man is he who knows the relative value of things.
- Know
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Man, as we know him, is a poor creature; he is halfway between an ape and a god and he is travelling in the right direction.
- Courage
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You cannot build character and courage by taking away a man's initiative and independence.
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The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone.
- Deny
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- Nov 07, 2020
But I deny that the Constitution recognizes property in man.
- Deem
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I deem it established, then, that the Constitution does not recognize property in man, but leaves that question, as between the states, to the law of nature and of nations.
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020