- 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.
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- Beauty
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is as necessary for man to live in beauty rather than ugliness as it is necessary for him to have food for an aching belly or rest for a weary body.
- Positive
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- Nov 07, 2020
The science of psychology has been far more successful on the negative than on the positive side... It has revealed to us much about man's shortcomings, his illnesses, his sins, but little about his potentialities, his virtues, his achievable aspirations, or his psychological health.
- King
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- Nov 07, 2020
One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I learned a great many years ago that in a fight between husband and wife, a third party should never get between the woman's skillet and the man's ax-helve.
- Think
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you think you can slander a woman into loving you, or a man into voting for you, try it till you are satisfied.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
When the white man governs himself, that is self-government; but when he governs himself and also governs another man, that is more than self-government - that is despotism.
- Hurt
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- Nov 07, 2020
If a man had more than one life, I think a little hanging would not hurt this one; but after he is once dead, we cannot bring him back, no matter how sorry we may be; so the boy shall be pardoned.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
Repeal the Missouri Compromise - repeal all compromises - repeal the Declaration of Independence - repeal all past history, you still cannot repeal human nature. It will be the abundance of man's heart that slavery extension is wrong; and out of the abundance of his heart, his mouth will continue to speak.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
I hold that while man exists, it is his duty to improve not only his own condition, but to assist in ameliorating mankind.
- Brood
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- Nov 07, 2020
There may sometimes be ungenerous attempts to keep a young man down; and they will succeed, too, if he allows his mind to be diverted from its true channel to brood over the attempted injury.
- Fire
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am like a man so busy in letting rooms in one end of his house, that he can't stop to put out the fire that is burning the other.
- Diligence
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- Nov 07, 2020
The leading rule for the lawyer, as for the man of every calling, is diligence.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020