- People
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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
- Great Talent
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- Nov 07, 2020
A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
To be perfectly just is an attribute of the divine nature; to be so to the utmost of our abilities, is the glory of man.
- Eminent
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution.
- Stupid
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- Nov 07, 2020
A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.
- Humanity
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- Nov 07, 2020
Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another.
- Duty
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- Nov 07, 2020
Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts; in a uniform manner.
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020
To a man of pleasure every moment appears to be lost, which partakes not of the vivacity of amusement.
- Greatest Blessing
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- Nov 07, 2020
A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.
- Others
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- Nov 07, 2020
That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel?
- Others
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have somewhere met with the epitaph on a charitable man which has pleased me very much. I cannot recollect the words, but here is the sense of it: 'What I spent I lost; what I possessed is left to others; what I gave away remains with me.'
- Fool
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- Nov 07, 2020
Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.
- Debarred
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- Nov 07, 2020
An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own dear person.
- Heaven
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- Nov 07, 2020
Is there not some chosen curse, some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven, red with uncommon wrath, to blast the man who owes his greatness to his country's ruin!
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you are apostles at all, you are apostles, not of men, nor by man. Your sufficiency is of God.
- Law
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is no law that says a man who earned a hundred million dollars in his first half-dozen years on the job has to be a decent human being, but Mike Eisner is that and more.
- Every
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- Nov 07, 2020