- 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
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
The life of an uneducated man is as useless as the tail of a dog which neither covers its rear end, nor protects it from the bites of insects.
- Fly
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is poison in the fang of the serpent, in the mouth of the fly and in the sting of a scorpion; but the wicked man is saturated with it.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
A man is born alone and dies alone; and he experiences the good and bad consequences of his karma alone; and he goes alone to hell or the Supreme abode.
- Effort
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- Nov 07, 2020
The one excellent thing that can be learned from a lion is that whatever a man intends doing should be done by him with a whole-hearted and strenuous effort.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel like, at a certain point in life, I'd like to be the type of man that gets married and has more serious relationships.
- Knowledge
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think, as a black man, I have a responsibility to have knowledge and have an opinion.
- Nov 07, 2020
Every entrepreneur, whether man or woman, should start with a robust business structure.
- Grow
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- Nov 07, 2020
An entrepreneur, whether man or woman, has to be willing to take help, whether financial or technical, to grow his or her business.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
No man ever freely surrendered a portion of his own liberty for the sake of the public good; such a chimera appears only in fiction. If it were possible, we would each prefer that the pacts binding others did not bind us; every man sees himself as the centre of all the world's affairs.
- Feelings
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- Nov 07, 2020
Men's most superficial feelings lead them to prefer cruel laws. Nevertheless, when they are subjected to them themselves, it is in each man's interest that they be moderate, because the fear of being injured is greater than the desire to injure.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
No man can be judged a criminal until he is found guilty; nor can society take from him the public protection until it has been proved that he has violated the conditions on which it was granted. What right, then, but that of power, can authorize the punishment of a citizen so long as there remains any doubt of his guilt?
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
The ignorant man always adores what he cannot understand.
- Boy
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- Nov 07, 2020
A man is never completely alone in this world. At the worst, he has the company of a boy, a youth, and by and by a grown man - the one he used to be.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have to give all praise to the Man above, because I never gave up on Him, and He never gave up on me.
- Desert
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- Nov 07, 2020