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.
White shall not neutralize the black, nor good compensate bad in man, absolve him so: life's business being just the terrible choice.
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Finds progress, man's distinctive mark alone, Not God's, and not the beast's; God is, they are, Man partly is, and wholly hopes to be.
Why comes temptation but for man to meet And master and make crouch beneath his foot, And so be pedestaled in triumph?
There is nothing in the whole frame of man which seems to me so unaccountable as that thing called conscience.
Every man hath a good and a bad angel attending on him in particular all his life long.
Anybody who believes that the way to a man's heart is through his stomach flunked geography.
Until you walk a mile in another man's moccasins you can't imagine the smell.
A promising young man should go into politics so that he can go on promising for the rest of his life.
The man who can smile when things go wrong has thought of someone else he can blame it on.
By the time a man is 35 he knows that the images of the right man, the tough man, the true man which he received in high school do not work in life.
The law is not a 'light' for you or any man to see by; the law is not an instrument of any kind. The law is a causeway upon which so long as he keeps to it a citizen may...
It profits a man nothing to give his soul for the whole world... but for Wales!
I was thinking of resigning since I did not want to be perceived as a man who did the president's bidding to save my job. I have had some time to think about it since. I think I did the...
Those who made and endorsed our Constitution knew man's nature, and it is to their ideas, rather than to the temptations of utopia, that we must ask that our judges adhere.
The gospel comprises indeed, and unfolds, the whole mystery of man's redemption, as far forth as it is necessary to be known for our salvation.
When I was a young man, I was overly sensitive to things, and I found it difficult to eat when I was nervous.
Paul Rudd's a really weird, silly, silly man. He gets on 'Friends,' and he gets to show, like, one tiny little window of how truly berserk he can be.
