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.
Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.
If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk about it; for the more men talk, the more likely they are to do nothing else.
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No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.
A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.
Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance - the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it; better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen.
None know how often the hand of God is seen in a wilderness but them that rove it for a man's life.
Justice is a certain rectitude of mind whereby a man does what he ought to do in the circumstances confronting him.
Three things are necessary for the salvation of man: to know what he ought to believe; to know what he ought to desire; and to know what he ought to do.
Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will.
Man cannot live without joy; therefore when he is deprived of true spiritual joys it is necessary that he become addicted to carnal pleasures.
Man should not consider his material possession his own, but as common to all, so as to share them without hesitation when others are in need.
It is clear that he does not pray, who, far from uplifting himself to God, requires that God shall lower Himself to him, and who resorts to prayer not to stir the man in us to will what God wills,...
The difference between one man and another is not mere ability it is energy.
And how can man die better than facing fearful odds, for the ashes of his fathers, and the temples of his Gods?
The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.
