Manhood Quotes · Page 6

I believe American manhood is too valuable to be sacrificed on foreign soil for foreign issues and causes.

— J. Reuben Clark

Though we best know and cannot deny our imperfections, it is not for us to lose our self-reliance and true manhood.

— Nicolas Chamfort

There is peace more destructive of the manhood of living man than war is destructive of his material body.

— Douglas William Jerrold

By religion I mean perfected manhood,--the quickening of the soul by the influence of the Divine Spirit.

— Henry Ward Beecher

“Is that how you get propositioned at the court? 'Mylady, would you be so kind as to allow me to put my…

— Erica Dakin

Personally, I hold that a man, who deliberately and intelligently takes a pledge and then breaks it, forfeits his manhood.

— Mahatma Gandhi

We shall have our manhood. We shall have it or the earth will be leveled by our attempts to gain it.

— Eldridge Cleaver

When the soul wants to depend upon nothing, not even upon life, that is the height of philosophy, the height of manhood.

— Swami Vivekananda

I do not think that any sorrow of youth or manhood equalled in intensity or duration the black and hopeless misery which…

— Henry George

Private and public life are subject to the same rules-truth and manliness are two qualities that will carry you through this world…

— Robert E. Lee

I never saw war, so that is still my vision of manhood: Unitas standing courageously in the pocket, his left arm flung…

— Frank Deford

Don't sit around playing Mr. Tough Guy. Don't say 'It's going to go away.' It's just important, just go get checked out.…

— Peter Criss

Turn thy thoughts now to the consideration of thy life, thy life as a child, as a youth, thy manhood, thy old…

— Marcus Aurelius

Women are safer in perilous situations and emergencies than men, and might be still more so if they trusted themselves more confidingly…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“The call to manhood is not last week, or next year, but now. And we answer the call not once upon a…

— Jonathan Parnell

As a child that is born into the world requires nourishment, so also the Christ that is born within is a babe…

— Max Heindel

Teach them the quiet words of kindness, to live beyond themselves. Urge them toward excellence, drive them toward gentleness, pull them deep…

— Pat Conroy

“We are, in large part, a culture that expects its boys to initiate themselves into manhood. But holistic or even minimal initiation…

— Michael Gurian

All it takes for a contagious manly culture to form is for one genuine man to live out genuine manhood. It creates…

— Stephen Mansfield

The more consistent a father can be or a mentor can be in the person's life and teach them principles of real…

— Allan Houston

The trouble is that nonviolence is so often defined as refusal to fight, and that is the American definition of cowardice. In…

— Jesse Jackson

He had thrown himself away, he had lost interest in everything, and life, falling in with his feelings, had demanded nothing of…

— Hermann Hesse

Men we shall have only as we make manhood the object of the work of the schools - intelligence, broad sympathy, knowledge…

— W. E. B. Du Bois

October's bellowing anger breakes and cleavesThe bronzed battalions of the stricken woodIn whose lament I hear a voice that grievesFor battle's fruitless…

— Siegfried Sassoon

“These are the voices which we hear in solitude, but they grow faint and inaudible as we enter into the world. Society…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

For those [observations] that I made in Leipzig in my youth and up to my 21st year, I usually call childish and…

— Tycho Brahe

Our reverence for the nobility of manhood will not be lessened by the knowledge that man is in substance and in structure,…

— Thomas Huxley

The man who is deserving the name is the one whose thoughts and exertions are for others rather than for himself.

— Walter Scott

“May your balls rot like fruit in the sun, and your manhood wither at the root!”

— Elizabeth Vaughan

In the meanest are all the materials of manhood, only they are not rightly disposed.

— Henry David Thoreau

I love taking the ball from other people. It's like taking their manhood.

— Josh Howard

To be a man requires that you accept everything life has to give you, beginning with your name.

— Burl Ives

No, no. I draw the line there. Anything that's going to show an outline of my manhood is not on.

— Mike Colter

This is the test of your manhood: How much is there left in you after you have lost everything outside of yourself?

— Orison Swett Marden

The Bible stands alone in human literature in its elevated conception of manhood, in character and conduct.

— Henry Ward Beecher

A man should be able to hear, and to bear, the worst that could be said of him.

— Saul Bellow

“A man who rightly governs self, may also govern family without the crippling cowardice, crutch of control.”

— T.F. Hodge

To seek the perfection of the warrior's spirit is the only task worthy of our temporariness, our manhood.

— Carlos Castaneda

“You become a man not when you reach a certain age, but when you reach a certain state of mind.”

— Habeeb Akande

In the lexicon of youth which fate reserves for a bright manhood, there is no such word as fail.

— Anonymous