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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
- Men
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If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk about it; for the more men talk, the more likely they are to do nothing else.
- History
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No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
- Giving
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No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.
- Us
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Oh, give us the man who sings at his work.
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None know how often the hand of God is seen in a wilderness but them that rove it for a man's life.
- Confronting
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Justice is a certain rectitude of mind whereby a man does what he ought to do in the circumstances confronting him.
- Know
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Three things are necessary for the salvation of man: to know what he ought to believe; to know what he ought to desire; and to know what he ought to do.
- Free
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A man has free choice to the extent that he is rational.
- Happiness
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Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will.
- Live
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Man cannot live without joy; therefore when he is deprived of true spiritual joys it is necessary that he become addicted to carnal pleasures.
- Others
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Man should not consider his material possession his own, but as common to all, so as to share them without hesitation when others are in need.
- Prayer
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It is clear that he does not pray, who, far from uplifting himself to God, requires that God shall lower Himself to him, and who resorts to prayer not to stir the man in us to will what God wills, but only to persuade God to will what the man in us wills.
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- Nov 07, 2020