- Me
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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
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think I'm a very religious person. I think I believe in God as much as any man does. I don't only believe in God, I know there's God.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
The sharecropper may lower his eyes, but not because he's less of a man. That's just a condition of society that such things exist.
- Mountains
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- Nov 07, 2020
The man who gives up accomplishes nothing and is only a hindrance. The man who does not give up can move mountains.
- Nov 07, 2020
There was a time when a man was so convinced that the world was round that he was determined to prove it.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't feel the need to defend myself anymore - I am a woman. I feel differently and I think differently than a man. If you're going to bully me or laugh at me because something makes me emotional - you go right ahead because that's what makes me a woman, and I don't want to be anything but that.
- Discriminated
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- Nov 07, 2020
Women's books are kind of discriminated against. If a man writes a book about his family stories, people think of it as literature. If it's a woman, she's 'spilling her guts,' and it's not art.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
The old man, of whom we know how he has become what he is, is more of an individual than the young man; for it is only in the course of an eventful life that men are differentiated into full individuality.
- Born
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- Nov 07, 2020
Man always dies before he is fully born.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality.
- Meaning
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
- Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve.
- Equality
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- Nov 07, 2020