- Never
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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
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have made as much out of myself as could be made of the stuff, and no man should require more.
- Confidence
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think 'tradition' is in the past - and how can someone really 'fear' a color? A man may prefer navy to turquoise, but a self assured man could wear any color and he knows that. It's a distinction of confidence.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man.
- Plants
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- Nov 07, 2020
What I did not yet know so intensely was the hatred of the white American for the black, a hatred so deep that I wonder if every white man in this country, when he plants a tree, doesn't see Negroes hanging from its branches.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness.
- Cannot
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are no elements so diverse that they cannot be joined in the heart of a man.
- Forget
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- Nov 07, 2020
A man has only one way of being immortal on earth: he has to forget he is a mortal.
- Grown Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
When a grown man reaches forty, we change him for an old one. He has completely disappeared. There's only the most superficial resemblance between the two of them. Nothing is handed on from one to the other.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every man thinks god is on his side.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation.
- Fruit
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- Nov 07, 2020