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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
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
The chief lesson I have learned in a long life is that the only way you can make a man trustworthy is to trust him; and the surest way to make him untrustworthy is to distrust him.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The President so far has struck me as a man who is trying hard to keep his balance. He certainly has been very receptive to all my efforts in these directions.
- Intimacy
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- Nov 07, 2020
My bravery however was the effect of assurance for could I have believed the current report, I should have fled as fast as any man, no man can possibly have a greater reluctance to an intimacy with Sir William Howe than my Self.
- Horse
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Giraffe took the horse's head and led him along on the most level parts of the road towards the railway station, and two or three chaps went along to help get the sick man into the train.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
See it all. See it fairly. Be truthful, be sensible and be careful with language. When nothing depends on man, everything depends on him.
- Poverty
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- Nov 07, 2020
A rich man cannot enjoy a sound mind nor a sound body without exercise and abstinence; and yet these are truly the worst ingredients of poverty.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.
- Caring
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- Nov 07, 2020
To become Christ-like is the only thing in the whole world worth caring for, the thing before which every ambition of man is folly and all lower achievement vain.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Unless a man undertakes more than he possibly can do, he will never do all he can do.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
No man is fit to be a Senator... unless he is willing to surrender his political life for great principle.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
A rich man without charity is a rogue; and perhaps it would be no difficult matter to prove that he is also a fool.
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- Nov 07, 2020
When widows exclaim loudly against second marriages, I would always lay a wager than the man, If not the wedding day, is absolutely fixed on.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020