Manhood is the defeat of childhood narcissism.
~ David Gilmore
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Quotes
A long long time ago I began collecting inspirational quotes and aphorisms which became my collection of quotes.
One step closer
KEEP GOING.
~ unknown
Today you are a step closer than you were yesterday.
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Stoop to help
No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.
~ Abraham Lincoln
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Feelings AND actions
Positive thoughts are not enough.
~ unknown
There have to be positive feelings and positive actions.
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Be one
Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one.
~ Marcus Aurelius
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Strength
Strength doesn’t come from what you can do.
~ Rikki Rogers
It comes from overcoming the things you once thought you couldn’t.
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Responsible
To be a man is, precisely, to be responsible.
~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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Enthusiasm
Become the most positive and enthusiastic person you know.
~ unknown
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Habitual acts
The strength of a man’s virtue should not be measured by his special exertions but by his habitual acts.
~ Blaise Pascal
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Negative versus positive
A negative mind will never give you a positive life.
~ unknown
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Have a code
A man’s got to have a code, a creed to live by, no matter his job.
~ John Wayne
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Dedicated
“Obsessed” is a word the lazy use to describe the dedicated.
~ unknown
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Tendency to destroy masculinity
Because there is very little honor left in American life, there is a certain built-in tendency to destroy masculinity in American men.
~ Norman Mailer
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Dog’s life
When taking a dog for a drive, there is no way for the dog to comprehend that you have control of the vehicle. There is no way he can realize that you turning the wheel or pushing a pedal makes the car move. He must think that both of you walk out to this adventure box, you have your seat, he has his, and you wisk off to a mystery location – sometimes parks, sometimes the vet; You just roll the dice and go on adventures together.
~ unknown
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Most enviable of all titles
I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.
~ George Washington
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The mind could make you dance
Now if you are going to win any battle you have to do one thing. You have to make the mind run the body. Never let the body tell the mind what to do. The body will always give up. It is always tired morning, noon, and night. But the body is never tired if the mind is not tired. When you were younger the mind could make you dance all night, and the body was never tired… You’ve always got to make the mind take over and keep going.
~ George S. Patton, Jr.
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Nobody can give you freedom
Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you’re a man, you take it.
~ Malcolm X
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The power to destroy
For each person there is a sentence – a series of words – which has the power to destroy them.
~ Philip K. Dick
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Virtuous. Wise. Bold.
The way of a superior man is three-fold: Virtuous, he is free from anxieties; Wise, he is free from perplexities; Bold, he is free from fear.
~ Confucius
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Insist upon it
People universally tend to think that happiness is a stroke of luck, something that will maybe descend upon you like fine weather if you are fortunate enough. But that’s not how happiness works. Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, and sometimes even travel around the world looking for it.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
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