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.
Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave.
A man can only attain knowledge with the help of those who possess it. This must be understood from the very beginning. One must learn from him who knows.
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A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.
Religion is doing; a man does not merely think his religion or feel it, he lives his religion as much as he is able, otherwise it is not religion but fantasy or philosophy.
At last, the newspapers discovered the Bears. I kept writing articles about upcoming games, and by reading the papers, I learned editors like superlatives. I blush when I think how many times I wrote that the next game was going...
Women don't like men who know they're good looking. They'd much prefer a man who doesn't know he's good looking.
When a man fails to see the truth of certain generally accepted views, there is no law compelling him to provoke animosity by announcing his dissent.
No man was ever eloquent by trying to be eloquent, but only by being so.
There is an hour wherein a man might be happy all his life, could he find it.
A man of great memory without learning hath a rock and a spindle and no staff to spin.
When I was a boxer, I wanted to be champion of the world, not the richest man in the world.
Why should any man have power over any other man's faith, seeing Christ Himself is the author of it?
Take care that all your offerings be free, and of your own, that has cost you something; so that ye may not offer of that which is another man's, or that which ye are entrusted withal, and not your own.
I'm an advocate of the great Dr. Johnson, the English man of letters who said that patriotism was the last refuge of the scoundrel.
We say here that if you fall down in the United States, the ambulance man must feel for your wallet before he feels for your pulse.
Most of the dogmatic religions have exhibited a perverse talent for taking the wrong side on the most important concepts in the material universe, from the structure of the solar system to the origin of man.
Man is the result of a purposeless and materialistic process that did not have him in mind. He was not planned.
To build a character like Henry Warnimont required a few weeks and months of work. It turned out he was basically a very kind and generous man, which he covered up with his surface gruffness and surface bluster. And the...
