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.
There is always a period when a man with a beard shaves it off. This period does not last. He returns headlong to his beard.
Even the best intentioned of great men need a few scoundrels around them; there are some things you cannot ask an honest man to do.
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Man has but three events in his life: to be born, to live, and to die. He is not conscious of his birth, he suffers at his death and he forgets to live.
There is no road too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste; there are no honors too distant to the man who prepares himself for them with patience.
A slave has but one master; an ambitious man has as many masters as there are people who may be useful in bettering his position.
No man is so perfect, so necessary to his friends, as to give them no cause to miss him less.
The slave has but one master, the ambitious man has as many as there are persons whose aid may contribute to the advancement of his fortunes.
A vain man finds it wise to speak good or ill of himself; a modest man does not talk of himself.
Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.
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Honestly, there always has to be a jar of Marmite in the cupboard. And a bag of Fruit Gums. That's living with a British man for me.
I used to walk around saying that I'm just another black man without a college degree.
I met Kanye. I'm starstruck, man, but I stayed away from that guy. I didn't want him to go on a rant, go off on me. He did it at his wedding.
My mom always tells me, 'You need to take a week for yourself and just chill,' but I don't, man. If you want to be successful, I don't think you should take a day off.
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