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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
- Nov 07, 2020
This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge keeps his wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
Therefore if a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see Fortune; for though she be blind, yet she is not invisible.
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that even though my father wasn't there, in his death and in his memory, he has been a mentor to me in my manhood because my mom couldn't teach me how to be a man.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I'm walking down the riverbank, and a man is drowning, even if I don't know how to swim very well, I feel this urge that the right thing to do is to try to save that person. Evolution would tell me exactly the opposite: preserve your DNA. Who cares about the guy who's drowning?
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most of man's problems upon this planet, in the long history of the race, have been met and solved either partially or as a whole by experiment based on common sense and carried out with courage.
- Curiously
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- Nov 07, 2020
He who lives in the single exercise of his mental faculties, however usefully or curiously directed, is equally an imperfect animal with the man who knows only the exercise of muscles.
- Been
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- Nov 07, 2020
Man has been adjudged a social animal.
- Competition
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- Nov 07, 2020
The existing principle of selfish interest and competition has been carried to its extreme point; and, in its progress, has isolated the heart of man, blunted the edge of his finest sensibilities, and annihilated all his most generous impulses and sympathies.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know no man who feels deeper disgust than I do at the ambition, avarice, and profligacy of the priesthood, as well because every one of these vices is odious in itself, as because each of them separately and all of them together are utterly abhorrent in men making profession of a life dedicated to God.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just knew that God wasn't there. He was a man on a throne in Heaven, so he was easy to forget.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would lie in bed, and I was nine years old, and say to myself: 'I want to be the richest man in the world.' I've come a long way from there.
- Nov 07, 2020