- Longing
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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
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.
- Earth
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
- Majority
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- Nov 07, 2020
One man with courage is a majority.
- Compel
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- Nov 07, 2020
To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.
- Place
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- Nov 07, 2020
No duty the Executive had to perform was so trying as to put the right man in the right place.
- Expenditure
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- Nov 07, 2020
Yes, it is worse than thrown away, because every fair minded man must admit that the expenditure of this sum of money in the county for intoxicating liquor creates lawlessness, makes criminals, wrecks homes and brings trouble to innocent women and children.
- Depending
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- Nov 07, 2020
Then, as the day progresses, depending on how the product is coming in - for instance, the fish man will fax us and say black bass is great - throughout the day, we'll also make judgment calls and adapt to what's available.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher.
- Knowledge
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- Nov 07, 2020
If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?
- Him
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- Nov 07, 2020
The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him.
- Champion
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- Nov 07, 2020
That was the fight. I knew that I had done something that no man had been able to do to a champion.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020