To be a man is, precisely, to be responsible.
~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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Quotes
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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Ready servant of his mind
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.
~ John Ruskin
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Hit it harder
At the end, when your legs are tired
~ unknown
and your arms are giving out,
GET ANGRY.
Get angry that you are tired.
THEN HIT IT HARDER.
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Two questions
There are two questions a man must ask himself: The first is, “Where am I going?” and the second is, “Who will go with me?” If you ever get these questions in the wrong order you are in trouble.
~ Sam Keen
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What is a man?
What is a man?
~ Paul Anka
What has he got?
If not himself,
then he has naught.
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Victorious effort
We do not admire the man of timid peace. We admire the man who embodies victorious effort; the man who never wrongs his neighbor, who is prompt to help a friend, but who has those virile qualities necessary to win in the stern strife of actual life.
~ Theodore Roosevelt
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No inconvenience whatever
I have perused your piece, and find it to be scurrilous and defamatory. To determine whether I should publish it or not, I went home in the evening, purchased a two penny loaf at the baker’s, and with water from the pump made my supper; I then wrapped myself up in my great coat, and laid down on the floor and slept till morning, when, on another loaf and a mug of water, I made my breakfast. From this regimen I feel no inconvenience whatever. Finding I can live in this manner, I have formed a determination never to prostitute my press to the purposes of corruption, and abuse of this kind, for the sake of gaining a more comfortable subsistence.
~ Benjamin Franklin
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