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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
- Nov 07, 2020
All that a man achieves and all that he fails to achieve is the direct result of his own thoughts.
- Him
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- Nov 07, 2020
Circumstances do not determine a man, they reveal him.
- Baby
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a youngish man entering fatherhood when we wrote 'Woods,' a patchwork of classic fairy tales with an original tale sewn in. I had dedicated my libretto to my baby daughter.
- His
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- Nov 07, 2020
Man must be associated with his fellows.
- Intelligence
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- Nov 07, 2020
A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father was a restaurant man, laundry man in his lifetime. And I've often wondered how and why did I become an actor? Where did I get the so-called talent to express myself? And I look back, and I see that my mother was very animated. I can remember that she used to, what she called 'bei zhu.'
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
As long as I have the talent and there's a demand for the old Chinese man - whether he's a philosopher, or a master, or an old-time restaurant owner, or a villain, or a so-called good guy - I will always be working.
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
No man can be a politician, except he be first a historian or a traveller; for except he can see what must be, or what may be, he is no politician.
- Passion
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- Nov 07, 2020
Vice: Whatever was passion in the contemplation of man, being brought forth by his will into action.
- Earth
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- Nov 07, 2020
A whole army, though they can neither write nor read, are not afraid of a platform, which they know is but earth or stone; nor of a cannon, which, without a hand to give fire to it, is but cold iron; therefore a whole army is afraid of one man.
- Clever
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- Nov 07, 2020
Obama spoke so slowly because he, a clever and cultured man, had constantly to be on his guard against sounding it.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love writing about my job because I loved it, and it was a particularly interesting one when I was a young man. It was like holidays with pay to me.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
By religion, then, I understand a propitiation or conciliation of powers superior to man which are believed to direct and control the course of nature and of human life.
- Say
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- Nov 07, 2020