- Mind
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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
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
If a man is not to take advantage of the opportunities that present themselves to him, what is he to do, or what is he good for?
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't know what a scoundrel is like, but I know what a respectable man is like, and it's enough to make one's flesh creep.
- Discontented
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- Nov 07, 2020
Man is insatiable for power; he is infantile in his desires and, always discontented with what he has, loves only what he has not. People complain of the despotism of princes; they ought to complain of the despotism of man.
- Poor
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the works of man, everything is as poor as its author; vision is confined, means are limited, scope is restricted, movements are labored, and results are humdrum.
- Every Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
Man is so muddled, so dependent on the things immediately before his eyes, that every day even the most submissive believer can be seen to risk the torments of the afterlife for the smallest pleasure.
- Fortress
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is no man who desires as passionately as a Russian. If we could imprison a Russian desire beneath a fortress, that fortress would explode.
- Difficulties
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is one of man's curious idiosyncrasies to create difficulties for the pleasure of resolving them.
- Faith
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- Nov 07, 2020
No man has ceased to believe in God before having decided that he should not exist; no book would produce atheism, and no book can restore faith.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
Man in harmony with his Creator is sublime, and his action is creative; equally, once he separates himself from God and acts alone, he does not cease to be powerful, since this is the privilege of his nature, but his acts are negative and lead only to destruction.
- Evident
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- Nov 07, 2020
Man, in spite of his fatal degradation, bears always the evident marks of his divine origin, in that every universal belief is always more or less true.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do not believe in political movements. I believe in personal movement, that movement of the soul when a man who looks at himself is so ashamed that he tries to make some sort of change - within himself, not on the outside.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
Man is what he reads.
- Cornered
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- Nov 07, 2020