- Difference
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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.
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- Humanity
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The man who is forever disturbed about the condition of humanity either has no problems of his own or has refused to face them.
- Great
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No man is great enough or wise enough for any of us to surrender our destiny to. The only way in which anyone can lead us is to restore to us the belief in our own guidance.
- Guise
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There is nothing strange about fear: no matter in what guise it presents itself it is something with which we are all so familiar that when a man appears who is without it we are at once enslaved by him.
- Beginning
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In the beginning was the Word. Man acts it out. He is the act, not the actor.
- Human
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And what is the potential man, after all? Is he not the sum of all that is human? Divine, in other words?
- Mind
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The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble.
- Defeat
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In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.
- American
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I had intended to have gone into Africa incognito. But the fact that a white man, even an American, was about to enter Africa was soon known all over Zanzibar.
- Life
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It was Jung who first said to explain the symbol as if talking to a man from mars who knew nothing about our life on earth.
- Costing
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I would willingly give fifty thousand crowns to be able to say that I took Paris without costing the life of one single man.
- Pride
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Pride defeats its own end, by bringing the man who seeks esteem and reverence into contempt.
- Nowhere
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A man is nowhere without money.
- Never
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