- Medicine
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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
- Fire
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- Nov 07, 2020
A man should live with his superiors as he does with his fire: not too near, lest he burn; nor too far off, lest he freeze.
- Progress
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- Nov 07, 2020
Doubt, the essential preliminary of all improvement and discovery, must accompany the stages of man's onward progress. The faculty of doubting and questioning, without which those of comparison and judgment would be useless, is itself a divine prerogative of the reason.
- Creation
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- Nov 07, 2020
The eyes of the cheerful and of the melancholy man are fixed upon the same creation; but very different are the aspects which it bears to them.
- Another Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
God is the Man, and there's another Man, Stan 'The Man' Musial in St. Louis.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
He means as much as Roberto Clemente does to Latin people. Thank God I had the opportunity to know him. I wish my kids had the opportunity to be around him, because that's how I want my kids to live their lives. I want them to be like Stan Musial. Not the baseball player. The person. That's the respect I have for that man.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth.
- Mysterious
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- Nov 07, 2020
As soon as man does not take his existence for granted, but beholds it as something unfathomably mysterious, thought begins.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men, and when he devotes himself helpfully to all life that is in need of help.
- Each Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
A man can do only what he can do. But if he does that each day he can sleep at night and do it again the next day.
- Lose
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- Nov 07, 2020
If a man loses his reverence for any part of life, he will lose his reverence for all of life.
- Does
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- Nov 07, 2020
A man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020