- Knowledge
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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
- Mask
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- Nov 07, 2020
In South Africa, we've been watching these movies all our lives - 'Batman,' 'Superman,' 'Captain America' - and every time the mask comes off it's a white man.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I first encountered Shakespeare as a boy, I read every word this man has written. To me, he is like an African storyteller.
- Pictures
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- Nov 07, 2020
Shakespeare's words paint pictures in glorious colour in my language. They were written by a man whose use of words fits exactly into Xhosa.
- Loss
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- Nov 07, 2020
The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, as sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shirt.
- Marriage
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a deep-seated belief that marriage is between a man and a woman exclusively.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
Is God a man with two arms and legs like me? Does He have eyes, a head? Does He have bowels? Well I do, and that makes me more wonderful than He is!
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Because I never thought the Lord would treat me any different from any other honest man or that I had an official position that compelled the Lord to help me in any other way than He would help any other man.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
The role we can play every day, if we try, is to take the whole experience of every day and shape it to involve American man. It is our job to interest him in his community and to give his ideas the excitement they should have.
- Reading
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- Nov 07, 2020
In order to have a charismatic leader, you have to have a charismatic program. Because if you have a charismatic program, then if you can read you can lead. When the leader gets killed while you're reading from page 13 of your charismatic program, you can bury the man with honors, then continue the plan by reading from page 14. Let's keep on.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
Higher education must lead the march back to the fundamentals of human relationships, to the old discovery that is ever new, that man does not live by bread alone.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
To offer a man unsolicited advice is to presume that he doesn't know what to do or that he can't do it on his own.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
Generally speaking, when a woman offers unsolicited advice or tries to help a man, she has no idea of how critical and unloving he may sound to him.
- Faith
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- Nov 07, 2020
When faith is lost, when honor dies, the man is dead.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020