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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.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Failure
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- Nov 07, 2020
A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.
- Failure
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- Nov 07, 2020
A man can get discouraged many times but he is not a failure until he begins to blame somebody else and stops trying.
- Congenial
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- Nov 07, 2020
Blessed is the man who has some congenial work, some occupation in which he can put his heart, and which affords a complete outlet to all the forces there are in him.
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The spirit of man can endure only so much and when it is broken only a miracle can mend it.
- Good Thing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Travel and society polish one, but a rolling stone gathers no moss, and a little moss is a good thing on a man.
- Feelings
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- Nov 07, 2020
When Darwin published his conclusion that man was descended from an apelike ancestor who was again descended from a still lower type, most people were shocked by the thought; it was intensely repugnant to their feelings.
- He
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Man has climbed up from some lower animal form, but he has, as it were, pulled the ladder up after him.
- Endowed
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Birds and animals probably think without knowing that they think; that is, they have not self-consciousness. Only man seems to be endowed with this faculty; he alone develops disinterested intelligence, intelligence that is not primarily concerned with his own safety and well-being but that looks abroad upon things.
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fear, love, and hunger were the agents that developed the wits of the lower animals, as they were, of course, the prime factors in developing the intelligence of man.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am sure I was an evolutionist in the abstract, or by the quality and complexion of my mind, before I read Darwin, but to become an evolutionist in the concrete, and accept the doctrine of the animal origin of man, has not for me been an easy matter.
- Name
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- Nov 07, 2020
The two great agents of the physical world have become subject to the will of man and have been made subservient to his wants and enjoyments; I allude to steam and electricity, under whatever name the latter may be called.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would rather be an independent senator, governed by my own views, going for the good of the country, uncontrolled by any thing which mortal man can bring to bear upon me, than to be president of the United States, put there as presidents of the United States have been for many years past.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am a planter - a cotton planter. I am a Southern man and a slaveholder - a kind and a merciful one, I trust - and none the worse for being a slaveholder.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is a remarkable fact in the political history of man that there is scarcely an instance of a free constitutional government which has been the work exclusively of foresight and wisdom. They have all been the result of a fortunate combination of circumstances.
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- Nov 07, 2020