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.
A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes anothers.
I have made as much out of myself as could be made of the stuff, and no man should require more.
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I think 'tradition' is in the past - and how can someone really 'fear' a color? A man may prefer navy to turquoise, but a self assured man could wear any color and he knows that. It's a distinction of...
Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man.
What I did not yet know so intensely was the hatred of the white American for the black, a hatred so deep that I wonder if every white man in this country, when he plants a tree, doesn't see Negroes...
The main object of a revolution is the liberation of man... not the interpretation and application of some transcendental ideology.
A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness.
There are no elements so diverse that they cannot be joined in the heart of a man.
A man has only one way of being immortal on earth: he has to forget he is a mortal.
When a grown man reaches forty, we change him for an old one. He has completely disappeared. There's only the most superficial resemblance between the two of them. Nothing is handed on from one to the other.
Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation.
Art is a fruit that grows in man, like a fruit on a plant, or a child in its mother's womb.
Man seeks to escape himself in myth, and does so by any means at his disposal. Drugs, alcohol, or lies. Unable to withdraw into himself, he disguises himself. Lies and inaccuracy give him a few moments of comfort.
