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.
It is not the greatness of a man's means that makes him independent, so much as the smallness of his wants.
From a very early age I had imbibed the opinion that it was every man's duty to do all that lay in his power to leave his country as good as he had found it.
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To live well, to enjoy all things that make life pleasant, is the right of every man who constantly uses his strength judiciously and lawfully.
Reasoning at every step he treads, Man yet mistakes his way, Whilst meaner things, whom instinct leads, Are rarely known to stray.
O, popular applause! what heart of man is proof against thy sweet, seducing charms?
The earth was made so various, that the mind Of desultory man, studious of change, And pleased with novelty, might be indulged.
Why should we honour those that die upon the field of battle? A man may show as reckless a courage in entering into the abyss of himself.
Think where man's glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.
An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick, unless soul clap its hands and sing, and louder sing for every tatter in its mortal dress.
I have believed the best of every man. And find that to believe is enough to make a bad man show him at his best, or even a good man swings his lantern higher.
Nor dread nor hope attend a dying animal; a man awaits his end dreading and hoping all.
Now we have reason to be grateful once again that Al Gore is not the man in the White House, and never will be.
The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of common man.
