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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
- Alive
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- Nov 07, 2020
White male privilege remains alive in America, but the phrase would seem odd, if not infuriating, to a sixty-year-old man working as a Walmart greeter in southern Ohio.
- Kitchen
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- Nov 07, 2020
After college, I spent a decade working the kinds of jobs that I write about - bartender, shoe salesman, kitchen man - while voraciously reading novels.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Of course it's not enough to be a good man to be an effective ruler and it never has been.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are high spots in all of our lives and most of them have come about through encouragement from someone else. I don't care how great, how famous or successful a man or woman may be, each hungers for applause.
- Others
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is no such thing as a 'self-made' man. We are made up of thousands of others.
- Comparatively
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- Nov 07, 2020
Character is greater than talent, genius, fame, money, friends - there is nothing to compare with it. A man may have all these and yet remain comparatively useless - be unhappy - and die a bankrupt in soul.
- Mistakes
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- Nov 07, 2020
No one ever gets too big to make mistakes. The secret is that the big man is greater than his mistakes, because he rises right out of them and passes beyond them.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's marvelous the change that comes about when a man gets together all his forces and centers them upon the doing of one thing at a time.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is a great thing to have a big brain, a fertile imagination, grand ideals, but the man with these, bereft of a good backbone, is sure to serve no useful end.
- Ashamed
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- Nov 07, 2020
No man should advocate a course in private that he's ashamed to admit in public.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020