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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
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
Power and position often make a man trifle with the truth.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
Jesus Christ tells us that a man cannot be wrong if he argues towards God from what he finds best in himself.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
Man does find in Nature deliverance from himself, oblivion of his past, with peace and purity!
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
A man never feels more important than when he receives a telegram containing more than ten words.
- Tide
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- Nov 07, 2020
Time and tide wait for no man.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
In a civilized society, all crimes are likely to be sins, but most sins are not and ought not to be treated as crimes. Man's ultimate responsibility is to God alone.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was never a leading man. I've always been in the outer concentric circles in the company, being a character actor, which is a good place to be. It gives you that diversity.
- Good Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
A good man with a good conscience doesn't walk so fast.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
God created man in His own image, says the Bible; philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
If all else fails, the character of a man can be recognized by nothing so surely as by a jest which he takes badly.
- Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe that man is in the last resort so free a being that his right to be what he believes himself to be cannot be contested.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every man has his moral backside which he refrains from showing unless he has to and keeps covered as long as possible with the trousers of decorum.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
That man is the noblest creature may also be inferred from the fact that no other creature has yet contested this claim.
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- Nov 07, 2020