- Important
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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
- Knowledge
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- Nov 07, 2020
The most valuable wealth of a man is his knowledge, which cannot be destroyed; all other riches that he has gained are not considered to be wealth at all.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
The quantity of a man's wealth will not last long if his generous nature is not balanced with the size of his property.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
Purity and simplicity are the two wings with which man soars above the earth and all temporary nature.
- Proposes
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- Nov 07, 2020
Man proposes, but God disposes.
- Himself
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- Nov 07, 2020
A man is hindered and distracted in proportion as he draws outward things to himself.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
- Death
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- Nov 07, 2020
There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever.
- Place
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nearly every man who develops an idea works it up to the point where it looks impossible, and then he gets discouraged. That's not the place to become discouraged.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother was 18 when I was born. She split with my father when I was 6, and married another man when I was about 7. My mother was about 25, my stepfather was about 26, I'm six or seven, I was looking at them and I knew they were just too young.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
As far as hypnosis is concerned, I had a very serious problem when I was in my twenties. I encountered a man who later became the president of the American Society of Medical Hypnosis. He couldn't hypnotize me.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020