- Fortify
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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
- Noble
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is a true man's part not to err, but it is also noble of a man to perceive his error.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
If any man has left us for fear of Nero, I shall not account him a coward; but I shall hail as a philosopher any man who has been superior to this fear, and I shall teach him all I know.
- Beast
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- Nov 07, 2020
In my travels, which have been wider than ever man yet accomplished, I have seen many, many wild beasts of Arabia and India; but this beast, that is commonly called a Tyrant, I know not how many heads it has, nor if it be crooked of claw, and armed with horrible fangs.
- Democracy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Just as an individual of pre-eminent worth transforms democracy into a monarchy of the best man, even so the rule of one man, if in all things it has an eye to the common welfare, is democracy.
- Democracy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Never may a man prone to believe scandal be a despot or a popular leader! Under his guidance, democracy itself will be despotism.
- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think I was a miracle man. Neither were Lou Holtz or Frank Leahy. We all found ways to win.
- Coffee
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- Nov 07, 2020
The big part of coffee production in many rural areas is in the hands of women. It's women who work in the fields. They harvest the coffee. They wash the coffee. They take the coffee to the market. But when the coffee gets to the market, it's the man who cashes in the money for the crop.
- Coffee
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- Nov 07, 2020
My first car was a Holden Commodore station wagon. I can't remember much more about it than that - it was coffee colored, and I think it was four cylinders, so it was really quite weak, but very safe for a young man to be driving.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I meet someone from the army background, there is an instant connection. We live in the best five-star hotels of the world, but outside my home I will be equally comfortable in any army cantonment or army guest house. Telling my friends that my father was in the army was like telling them that he is the second-richest man in the world.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
A female newcomer and a male newcomer will get paid different amounts of money. You're a newcomer, nobody knows who you are, man or woman doesn't matter. But you're going to get paid different money.
- Perfect
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- Nov 07, 2020
When it comes to guys, my dad is the measure of the perfect man. And that's a pretty tough standard to match up to.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
A man is free to go up as high as he can reach up to; but I, with all my style and pep, can't get a man my equal because a girl is always judged by her mother.
- Peace
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- Nov 07, 2020
Conflicts are multiplying - people are suffering. But we don't give up, because we know every man, woman, and child deserves a life of peace.
- Relationship
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- Nov 07, 2020