- Personal
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- Nov 07, 2020
Men Quotes
Serious duty and dry humor, side by side.
Quotes about "men" here range from serious to sharply funny — one set addresses military service and daily accountability, while another pushes back on the idea that women should shape themselves around what men expect. For related themes, see Great quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Integrity
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- Nov 07, 2020
Men of integrity, by their very existence, rekindle the belief that as a people we can live above the level of moral squalor. We need that belief; a cynical community is a corrupt community.
- Journey
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sincerity is like traveling on a plain, beaten road, which commonly brings a man sooner to his journey's end than by-ways, in which men often lose themselves.
- Eating
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- Nov 07, 2020
If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and for earning money.
- Few Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
But the dream is never forgotten, only put aside and never out of reach: Where once the dream connected boys with the world of men, now it reconnects men with the spirit of boys.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
We know these men are professionals whose services are up for bid and whose bags are packed, and yet we call them our own and take personal, even civic pride in their accomplishments.
- Boldly
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- Nov 07, 2020
Trusting in Christ, we may boldly join in the combat, and enlist ourselves among that disinterested band, who fight not for human ambition, or human praise, but for the honour of our Saviour, and the salvation of men.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
Converse with men makes sharp the glittering wit, but God to man doth speak in solitude.
- Fight
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- Nov 07, 2020
A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.
- Beliefs
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- Nov 07, 2020
What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whatever crushes individuality is despotism, by whatever name it may be called and whether it professes to be enforcing the will of God or the injunctions of men.
- Dictum
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- Nov 07, 2020
The dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of the pleasant falsehoods which men repeat after one another till they pass into commonplaces, but which all experience refutes.
- Fight
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- Nov 07, 2020
The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.
- Earning
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- Nov 07, 2020