True Man Quotes

• A true man of honor feels humbled himself when he cannot help humbling others.

  Robert E. Lee

  Life And Love, Men, Gentleman

  "Definition of a Gentleman". Memorandum found in Lee's papers after his death. "Lee the American" by Gamaliel Bradford, p. 233, xroads.virginia.edu. 1912.

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• Stand true to your calling to be a man. Real women will always be relieved and grateful when men are willing to be men

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Real, Grateful, Men

  Elisabeth Elliot (2007). “The Mark of a Man: Following Christ's Example of Masculinity”, p.81, Revell

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  The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Philosophy, Women, Humorous

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• You cannot be a true man until you learn to obey.

  Robert E. Lee

  Men, Civil War, Confederate

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• A true man hates no one.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Hate, War, Real Men

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Barbara Eden is the most beautiful girl in the world.

  Larry Hagman

  Beautiful, Girl, Real Men

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Each mind has its own method. A true man never acquires after college rules.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Education, Learning, College

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.419, Library of America

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• Christ's whole life on earth was the assertion and example of true manliness — the setting forth in living act and word what man is meant to be, and how he should carry himself in this world of God — one long campaign in which the temptation stands out as the first great battle and victory.

  Thomas Hughes

  Men, Long, Temptation

  Thomas Hughes (2017). “True Manliness”, p.29, Litres

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• We are living at an important and fruitful moment now, for it is clear to men that the images of adult manhood given by the popular culture are worn out; a man can no longer depend on them. By the time a man is thirty-five he knows that the images of the right man, the tough man, the true man which he received in high school do not work in life.

  Robert Bly

  Life, School, Men

  Robert Bly (2015). “Iron John: A Book about Men”, p.7, Da Capo Press

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• All true manliness grows around a core of divineness.

  Charles Henry Parkhurst

  Grows, Core, Manliness

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• If Jesus Christ is not true God, how could he help us? If he is not true man, how could he help us?

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Jesus, Men, Helping

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Edwin Hanton Robertson (1973). “True patriotism; 1939-45: from the collected works of Dietrich Bonhoeffer”

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• When I hear a man discoursing of virtue, or of any sort of wisdom, who is a true man and worthy of his theme, I am delighted beyond measure: and I compare the man and his words, and note the harmony and correspondence of them. And such an one I deem to be the true musician, having in himself a fairer harmony than that of the lyre.

  Plato

  Men, Musician, Virtue

  Plato (1871). “The Dialogues of Plato”, p.87

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• Whereas, according to the declaration of that true man of the world Talleyrand, the use of language is to conceal the thoughts; this is to declare in the present instance, when I say I am not able to bear much talking, it means really, and without any mistake, or equivocation, or oblique meaning, or implication, or subterfuge, or omission, that I am not able; being at present rather weak in the head, and able to work no more.

  Michael Faraday

  Mistake, Mean, Men

  "Michael Faraday: His Life and Work". Book by Silvanus Phillips Thompson, 1898.

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• Jesus is the true manifestation of God, and He is manifested to be the regenerating power of a divine life.

  Horace Bushnell

  Jesus, Christ, Divine

  Horace Bushnell (1858). “Sermons for the new life”, p.124

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• I'm sure lots of people would love to ridicule me when I say this, but it is true: many people die from cold related deaths every winter, and here are studies that say that climate change in certain areas of the world would help those individuals.

  Dana Perino

  Winter, People, Climate

  Press Briefing, georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov. October 24, 2007.

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• It is a mistake to think of these men as visionary dreamers, playing around at Philadelphia with abstract conceptions of political theory, pulling a whole scheme of government out of the air like a rabbit out of a hat. True, many of them had read and studied enough about the science of politics to put the average statesman of today to shame. But political science was to them an extremely practical topic of discussion, dealing with the extremely practical business of running a government--not, as today, a branch of higher learning reserved for the use of graduate students.

  Fred Rodell

  Running, Mistake, Men

  Fred Rodell (1986). “55 Men, Story of Constitution”, p.22, Stackpole Books

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• Conservatives - they say, 'Oh, Putin is a real leader, he's a true man, he stays firm on his position, he's not like this weak Obama.' And also they are very much wrong. Because Putin is not a strong man; he is actually a man that put himself into a corner, and he's fighting and biting from that corner, being very weak.

  Ilya Ponomarev

  Strong, Real, Fighting

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• The true men of action in our time, those who transform the world, are not the politicians and statesmen, but the scientists

  W. H. Auden

  Men, World, Action

  'The Dyer's Hand' (1963) 'The Poet and the City'

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• don't let anything make you believe that there are not as many decent men in the world as women, and they're just as decent. Life isn't worth living unless you know that - and it's true.

  Dorothy Canfield Fisher

  Believe, Men, World

  Dorothy Canfield Fisher (1915). “The Bent Twig”

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• A true man of piety will consider himself a sinner and, therefore, untouchable.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Men, Untouchables, Untouchability

  Mahatma Gandhi (1962). “All Religions are True”

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• A proper autobiography is a death-bed confession. A true man finds so much work to do that he has no time to contemplate his yesterdays; for to-day and to-morrow are here, with their impatient tasks. The world is so busy, too, that it cannot afford to study any man's unfinished work; for the end may prove it a failure, and the world needs masterpieces.

  Mary Antin

  Men, Unfinished Work, Yesterday

  Mary Antin (2013). “The Promised Land”, p.12, Courier Corporation

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• The true manipulator never has a reputation for manipulating.

  Martin Amis

  Reputation, Manipulator

  Martin Amis (1986). “The moronic inferno: and other visits to America”, Jonathan Cape

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• He is not a true man of science who does not bring some sympathy to his studies, and expect to learn something by behaviour as well as application.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Science, Men, Doe

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.271, Delphi Classics

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• Every true man's apparel fits your thief.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Thieves, Fit

  'Measure for Measure' (1604) act 4, sc. 2, l. [46]

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• Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck, that of the people.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Winning, Men, People

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