The Art of Being a Gentleman | Motivational Podcasts

The Art of Being a Gentleman | Motivational Podcasts

Author: The Living Hour December 2, 2025 Duration: 18:41

Listen to episode 1074 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Art of Being a Gentleman. Edited and adapted from “On the Threshold” by Theodore Thornton Munger.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Every man should desire above all else to be regarded as a gentleman. There once was a time when the greatest offense you could levy on man was to call him not a gentleman. But today we struggle to even understand what the term gentleman means. So today we will search it with definitions. The word gentleman undoubtedly comes from the Latin gens, meaning tribe or family — hence all the one-sided and incomplete notions that a gentleman is a man of family. 

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