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.
When a torrent sweeps a man against a boulder, you must expect him to scream, and you need not be surprised if the scream is sometimes a theory.
In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.
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Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life.
It is not likely that posterity will fall in love with us, but not impossible that it may respect or sympathize; so a man would rather leave behind him the portrait of his spirit than a portrait of his face.
Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child; it is there that he changes the atmosphere and tenor of his life.
A liberal education... frees a man from the prison-house of his class, race, time, place, background, family and even his nation.
No sane man can afford to dispense with debilitating pleasures; no ascetic can be considered reliably sane.
I never thought of my father when I was growing up. Truly. He was a strong, silent man who worked hard to support his family.
You know, I don't mind dying. The thing that pisses me off is that I won't get to be an old man. I was looking forward to that.
The American Army has supplied, assigned a very capable man to me, to help me, bring me to military justice. I don't think I need no civilians. All I want to do is clear myself with the American Army.
A man will treat a woman almost exactly the way he treats his own interior feminine. In fact, he hasn't the ability to see a woman, objectively speaking, until he has made some kind of peace with his interior woman.
Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of...
If any man claims the Negro should be content... let him say he would willingly change the color of his skin and go to live in the Negro section of a large city. Then and only then has he a...
Let us dedicate ourselves to what the Greeks wrote so many years ago: to tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world.
If you can ask a young man to give his life for his country, you can lead people.
I am, in fact, a medical doctor; I am a world expert in mechanical heart technology; and I am an athletically fit man who takes care of his own health through diet and exercise, including frequent five mile runs.
The fact that what we believe about marriage - that it should be between a man and a woman - and that we're pro-life, somehow that becomes radical? Why is that? It's because our culture has changed. But the truth...
I agree with 81 percent of the people of Alabama who believe that marriage is between one man and one woman.
Each must in virtue strive for to excel; That man lives twice that lives the first life well.
