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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
- Great Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds.
- Information
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.
- Embodies
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- Nov 07, 2020
A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful.
- Knowledge
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- Nov 07, 2020
The more extensive a man's knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Man is made to adore and to obey: but if you will not command him, if you give him nothing to worship, he will fashion his own divinities, and find a chieftain in his own passions.
- He Or She
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every man and woman is born into the world to do something unique and something distinctive and if he or she does not do it, it will never be done.
- Law
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- Nov 07, 2020
If a man carries his horse out of a slave State into a free one, be does not lose his property interest in him; but if he carries his slave into a free State, the law makes him free.
- Mistake
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- Nov 07, 2020