A Quotes
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“A man is not expected to love his country, lest he make an ass of himself. Yet our country, seen through the mists of smog, is curiously lovable, in somewhat the way an individual who has got himself into an unconscionable scrape seems lovable - or at least deserving of support.”
“A man is not for you when all he knows is to slam your back on the bed and ram into you like a wild fool. The interested ones are the ones so interested that they become very interested in only interesting things about you.”
“A man is not from where he is born, but where he chooses to die.”
“A man is not hurt so much by what happens, as by his opinion of what happens.”
“A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.”
Source: Cosette
“A man is not just his appearance that's a wrong judgment about a person you meet without meeting his inner self but a man is his mind, heart, and soul.”
“A man is not known by what he wears but only when the society undresses him.”
“A man is not learned because he talks much; he who is patient, free from hatred and fear, he is called learned.”
Source: The Dhammapada
“A man is not learned until he can read, write and swim.”
“A man is not little when he finds it difficult to cope with circumstances, but when circumstances overmaster him.”
Source: The Wisdom of Goethe
“A man is not made chivalrous by an extensive education. A college degree and advanced academic achievement are as often impediments to chivalry as they are inducements to it.”
Source: Compleat Gentleman: The Modern Man's Guide to Chivalry
“A man is not measured by how much he can take and stand but by how fast he regains once fallen.”
“A man is not merely a man but a man among men, in a world of men. Being good at being a man has more to do with a man’s ability to succeed with men and within groups of men than it does with a man’s relationship to any woman or any group of women. When someone tells a man to be a man, they are telling him to be more like other men, more like the majority of men, and ideally more like the men who other men hold in high regard.”
“A man is not moral because he is obedient through fear or ignorance. Morality lives in the realm of perceived obligation.”
Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll
“A man is not much if he can't depend on himself, and nothing if others can't depend on him.”
“A man is not necessarily a master because he happened to compose two or three centuries ago. Let us beware of the worship of mere antiquity.”
“A man is not necessarily intelligent because he has plenty of ideas, any more than he is a good general because he has plenty of soldiers.”
“A man is not obliged honestly to answer a question which should not properly be put.”
“A man is not old as long as he is seeking something.”
Source: The substance of man
“A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.”
“A man is not paid for having a head and hands, but for using them.”
“A man is not primarily a witness against something. That is only incidental to the fact that he is a witness for something.”
Source: Witness
“A man is not rightly conditioned until he is a happy, healthy, and prosperous being; and happiness, health, and prosperity are the result of a harmonious adjustment of the inner with the outer of the man with his surroundings.”
Source: The Book of Inspiration: As a Man Thinketh - AUDIO EDITION OF SELF IMPROVEMENT IDEAS & INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES FOR PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT
“A man is not saved against his will, but he is made willing by the operation of the Holy Ghost. A mighty grace which he does not wish to resist enters into the man, disarms him, makes a new creature of him, and he is saved.”
Source: Spurgeon at His Best: Over 2200 Striking Quotations from the World's Most Exhaustive and Widely-read Sermon Series
“A man is not saved because he believes in Christ, he believes in Christ because he is saved.”
Source: The Reformed Doctrine of Predestination [Fifth Edition]
“A man is not something you can hoard to yourself, he can have many wives, but a child can have only one real mother. One”
“A man is not to aim at innocence, any more than he is to aim at hair, but he is to keep it.”
Source: Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks: 1852-1855
“A man is not usually called upon to have an opinion of his own talents at all, since he can very well go on improving them to the best of his ability without deciding on his own precise niche in the temple of Fame... [Man] did not create themselves... their talents were given them, and they might as well be proud of the colour of their hair.”
Source: The Screwtape Letters
“A man is NOT weak if he cries. A man is NOT a punk if he cries. A man is NOT acting like a little b*tch if he cries. He’s a Man! And he’s allowed to have and show his true feelings without feeling less than. Ladies, some of you need to do better. Learn to be compassionate, loving, supportive, and understanding. There’s NOTHING wrong with a man being vulnerable. I encourage you to be his joy, peace, and his safe place. Lift him up and be mindful NOT to tear him down. If you truly care for and love your man, do and say everything with love. Let him know that it’s okay to cry and that he doesn’t have to pretend to be okay when he’s not. Real men DO cry! They experience sadness, disappointments, pain, and many other feelings. A man shouldn’t have to suppress his emotions. That’s pure nonsense! A man that can cry, smile, and let his guards down is a keeper in my book. I couldn’t imagine acting hard all of the time. That’s so unfair! Ladies, strive to be a Queen of substance. PEACE.”
“A man is not wealthy simply by the contents of his pockets alone, but instead by the richness of his heart.”
“A man is not what he is because of the teachers he has had, but because of what he has done”
Source: The Montessori Reader
“A man is not what he possesses but what he does with himself.”
Source: Garden of the Midnights
“A man is nothing but breath and shadow.”
Source: Sophocles: Fragments
“A man is nothing without dreams. A man is called idiot while he dreams. Whatever he does, he'll be judged and thrown away from the circle of clowns. And yet he needs acceptance and security from sick society, which is discriminatory far too often. But a man is blinded by other people opinions. He wants to fly and they say, “You moron, you can't do that, it's forbidden, it's stupid.” And a man gives up on his dreams.”
Source: Train to the Edge of the Moon
“A man is old when he can pass an apple orchard and not remember the stomachache.”
“A man is one whose body has been trained to be the ready servant of his mind; whose passions are trained to be the servants of his will; who enjoys the beautiful, loves truth, hates wrong, loves to do good, and respects others as himself.”
“A man is only as effective as the effect he has on his surroundings,' Gordon was saying. 'And if a man is not effective, if his very being is as insubstantial as thought, then what is this man? Is he a man? Or is he merely the thought of a man?”
Source: The Faceless Ones
“A man is only as faithful as his options.”
“A man is only as free as his love of good things.”
Source: Love What Lasts: How to Save Your Soul from Mediocrity
“A man is only as good as what he loves most, right?”
“A man is only as good as what he loves.”
“A man is only as rich as the number of children he fathers. After all, what else do we leave behind in this world...”
Source: Cutting for Stone
“A man is only as rich as the people around him”
“A man is only as strong as the woman who holds him.”
“A man is only as weak as his doubts weigh him down.”
“A man is only ever himself when he has let go of the follies of being a man, and sobriety is that steel door separating man from his true conception.”
Source: The Light that Binds Us
“A man is only noble when he has pity on all living creatures.”
-Shenita Etwaroo”
“A man is original when he speaks the truth that has always been known to all good men.”
Source: Collected Pruse
“A man is perfectly entitled to laugh at a thing because he happens to find it incomprehensible. What he has no right to do is to laugh at it as incomprehensible, and then criticize it as if he comprehended it.”
“A man is perhaps ungrateful, but often less chargeable with ingratitude than his benefactor is.”