- 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
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
The press gave me a voice too quickly, and that could have unsettled a man who had every right to feel he should be in control of the thing he had created.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The trouble with our people is as soon as they got out of slavery they didn't want to give the white man nothing else. But the fact is, you got to give em something. Either your money, your land, your woman or your ass.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
A man is a man in every part of the world. It has nothing to do with race. It has to do with the culture and education that each man has received since he was a child, in his home. It has to do with how he was raised.
- Everyone
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is difficult to help a man without hurting his pride. Everyone wants to be a giver and not a receiver.
- Face
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- Nov 07, 2020
To seek trouble - this is not courage, this is madness. Courage is the willingness of man to sensibly face the troubles he cannot avoid.
- Denial
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- Nov 07, 2020
All man's failures are either because of the religious denial of man's biological needs or the materialistic denial of man's spiritual desires.
- Something
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whether man is a product of evolution or is 'created' becomes the question, 'Who is man? Is he part of the world or something different from it?'
- Islam
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are only three integral views of the world: the religious, the materialistic, and the Islamic. They reflect three elemental possibilities (conscience, nature, and man), each of them manifesting itself as Christianity, materialism, and Islam.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have no rational evidence that there exists another world, but we have a clear feeling that man does not exist only to produce and to consume.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
My great-grandfather was a kola nut trader and the richest man in West Africa at the time of his death. My father was a businessman and politician. I was actually raised by my grandfather.
- Poor
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- Nov 07, 2020
If bad and inexperienced politicians control power in Nigeria, my wealth may turn into poverty, and I am not ready to become a poor man.
- Childhood
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- Nov 07, 2020
Let a man turn to his own childhood - no further - if he will renew his sense of remoteness, and of the mystery of change.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is easy to replace man, and it will take no great time, when Nature has lapsed, to replace Nature.
- Colonists
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- Nov 07, 2020
We should have scant notion of the gardens of these New England colonists in the seventeenth century were it not for a cheerful traveller named John Josselyn, a man of everyday tastes and much inquisitiveness, and the pleasing literary style which comes from directness, and an absence of self-consciousness.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
The landlord of colonial days may not have been the greatest man in town, but he was certainly the best-known, often the most popular, and ever the most picturesque and cheerful figure.
- Expenditure
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is plainly evident that, in a country where land was to be had for the asking, fuel for the cutting, corn for the planting and harvesting, and game and fish for the least expenditure of labor, no man would long serve for another, and any system of reliable service indoors or afield must fail.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nothing is so threatening to conventional values as a man who does not want to work or does not want to work at a challenging job, and most people are disturbed if a man in a well- paying job indicates ambivalence or dislike toward it.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020