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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
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
This man used to go to school with his dog. Then they were separated. His dog graduated!
- Action
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- Nov 07, 2020
Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
- Attitude
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- Nov 07, 2020
In just the same way the thousands of successive positions of a runner are contracted into one sole symbolic attitude, which our eye perceives, which art reproduces, and which becomes for everyone the image of a man who runs.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
We regard intelligence as man's main characteristic and we know that there is no superiority which intelligence cannot confer on us, no inferiority for which it cannot compensate.
- Intelligence
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- Nov 07, 2020
Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart.
- Nov 07, 2020
It is not what he had, or even what he does which expresses the worth of a man, but what he is.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
The man who can articulate the movements of his inner life need no longer be a victim of himself, but is able slowly and consistently to remove the obstacles that prevent the spirit from entering.
- Others
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- Nov 07, 2020
It isn't tying himself to one woman that a man dreads when he thinks of marrying; it's separating himself from all the others.
- Fool
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- Nov 07, 2020
It takes a woman twenty years to make a man of her son, and another woman twenty minutes to make a fool of him.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
The hardest task in a girl's life is to prove to a man that his intentions are serious.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
A man's heart may have a secret sanctuary where only one woman may enter, but it is full of little anterooms which are seldom vacant.
- Marriage
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- Nov 07, 2020