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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
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
A man is as old as his arteries.
- Give
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- Nov 07, 2020
Among the remedies which it has pleased Almighty God to give to man to relieve his sufferings, none is so universal and so efficacious as opium.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
We may ascertain the worth of the human race, since for its sake God's Only-begotten Son became man, and thereby ennobled the nature that he took upon him.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
No man made great by death offers more hope to lowly pride than does Abraham Lincoln; for while living he was himself so simple as often to be dubbed a fool.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
I hope with all my heart and soul that every young man who receives the priesthood will honor that priesthood and be true to the trust which is conveyed when it is conferred. May each of us who holds the priesthood of God know what he believes.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
No man is happy but by comparison.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every man loves what he is good at.
- Determination
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was a big deal to leave home and my culture and my language. But I believed that in America, I could truly reap what I sowed and that the measure of a man was his ability and determination to succeed. This was the land of boundless opportunity.
- Lonely
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is a very lonely life that a man leads, who becomes aware of truths before their times.
- Plan
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- Nov 07, 2020
And, if we have any evidence that the wisdom which formed the plan is in the man, we have the very same evidence, that the power which executed it is in him also.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Clocks will go as they are set, but man, irregular man, is never constant, never certain.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato - the best part under ground.
- Headlong
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- Nov 07, 2020
China's headlong rush to industrialize was pursued with the most Marxist of prejudices - bending nature to man's will. That's a desperately hard trick to pull off when one fifth of humanity, having previously subsisted on 7 percent of the world's freshwater supply, decides that it wants to instantaneously increase its caloric intake.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
If America is addicted to foreign money and foreign oil, then China is addicted to foreign supplies of just about every commodity known to man - save highly polluting coal.
- Equality
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- Nov 07, 2020