- Desire
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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
- Others
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every man is to be considered in two capacities, the private and public; as designed to pursue his own interest, and likewise to contribute to the good of others.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
Man may act according to that principle or inclination which for the present happens to be strongest, and yet act in a way disproportionate to, and violate his real proper nature.
- Happiness
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- Nov 07, 2020
The sum of the whole is plainly this: The nature of man considered in his single capacity, and with respect only to the present world, is adapted and leads him to attain the greatest happiness he can for himself in the present world.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
This was the man, this Balaam, I say, was the man, who desired to die the death of the righteous, and that his last end might be like his; and this was the state of his mind when he pronounced these words.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love - and to put its trust in life.
- Integrity
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can't, in sound morals, condemn a man for taking care of his own integrity. It is his clear duty.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
For all that has been said of the love that certain natures (on shore) have professed for it, for all the celebrations it has been the object of in prose and song, the sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.
- Personality
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- Nov 07, 2020
An artist is a man of action, whether he creates a personality, invents an expedient, or finds the issue of a complicated situation.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
They talk of a man betraying his country, his friends, his sweetheart. There must be a moral bond first. All a man can betray is his conscience.
- Teacher
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- Nov 07, 2020
To a teacher of languages there comes a time when the world is but a place of many words and man appears a mere talking animal not much more wonderful than a parrot.
- Reality
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't like work... but I like what is in work - the chance to find yourself. Your own reality - for yourself, not for others - which no other man can ever know.
- Passion
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- Nov 07, 2020
As in political so in literary action a man wins friends for himself mostly by the passion of his prejudices and the consistent narrowness of his outlook.
- Heap
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- Nov 07, 2020
This magnificent butterfly finds a little heap of dirt and sits still on it; but man will never on his heap of mud keep still.
- Farther
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- Nov 07, 2020