- Heart
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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
- Liberty
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- Nov 07, 2020
It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy to deprive a man of his natural liberty upon the supposition he may abuse it.
- Enough
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- Nov 07, 2020
I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.
- Effectual
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can only say that there is not a man living who wishes more sincerely than I do, to see a plan adopted for the abolition of it - but there is only one proper and effectual mode by which it can be accomplished, and that is by Legislative authority: and this, as far as my suffrage will go, shall never be wanting.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Years ago I went into my laboratory and said, 'Dear Mr. Creator, please tell me what the universe was made for?' The Great Creator answered, 'You want to know too much for that little mind of yours. Ask for something more your size, little man.'
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Human need is really a great spiritual vacuum which God seeks to fill... With one hand in the hand of a fellow man in need and the other in the hand of Christ, He could get across the vacuum.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
No man wants to feel that he's there because of his woman's biological clock or because he's filling a job opening for husband or significant other.
- Half
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- Nov 07, 2020
To preach more than half an hour, a man should be an angel himself or have angels for hearers.
- Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
For it pleased God, after he had made all things by the word of his power, to create man after his own image.
- Glory
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- Nov 07, 2020
Thus was the King and the Lord of glory judged by man's judgment, when manifest in flesh: far be it from any of his ministers to expect better treatment.
- Loyalty
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- Nov 07, 2020
A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle and patriotism is loyalty to that principle.
- Harmony
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- Nov 07, 2020
When steam first began to pump and wheels go round at so many revolutions per minute, what are called business habits were intended to make the life of man run in harmony with the steam engine, and his movement rival the train in punctuality.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nothing exasperates the spirit in man more than power which seems unconquerable and which makes impotent all protest.
- Intelligence
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- Nov 07, 2020