Manhood Quotes

I grew to manhood in the Ohio State Penitentiary.

— Chester Himes

How can I develop myself into the grandest possible manhood?

— Orison Swett Marden

Peace hath higher tests of manhood, than battle ever knew.

— John Greenleaf Whittier

Wishing you a very warm welcome to the manhood!

— Anonymous

If we do not redefine manhood, war is inevitable.

— Paul Fussell

Battle... brings out all that is best.

— George S. Patton

You can't measure manhood with a tape line around his biceps.

— Billy Sunday

When you awaken, your manhood will be taken.

— Big Pun

Here is the manliness of manhood, that a man has a good reason for what he does, and has a will in…

— Alexander MacLaren

When I fight someone, I want to break his will. I want to take his manhood. I want to rip out his…

— Mike Tyson

It is not often that idealism of student days finds adequate opportunity for expression in the later life of manhood.

— C. V. Raman

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

— Nicolas Chamfort

“Masculinity must prove itself, and do so before an audience.”

— Harvey Mansfield

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

Years ago, manhood was an opportunity for achievement, and now it is a problem to be overcome.

— Garrison Keillor

Only when manhood is dead - and it will perish when ravaged femininity no longer sustains it - only then will we…

— Andrea Dworkin

And what's a life? - a weary pilgrimage, Whose glory in one day doth fill the stage With childhood, manhood, and decrepit…

— Francis Quarles

For people to judge a man's worth and his very manhood according to the way he feels about sport, and not to…

— Robin Green

“In youth I played and learned...in manhood I worked for family and others...with age I sought understanding and beauty. When death comes,…

— Michael Gray Calvert

That is why your sacrifice was all the more difficult. You chose to be a hero not through enchantment but through your…

— Lloyd Alexander

“The heart of Christ is not only the heart of a man but has in it also the tenderness and gentleness of…

— A.B. Simpson

[the difference between the old and the new education being] in a word, the old was a kind of propagation-men transmitting manhood…

— Anonymous

Response is what we have trained ourselves to be; it is a reflection of our manhood, character, ideals. We cannot always control…

— Wilferd Peterson

“A man is created for challenges. He is equipped to overcome, to run the gauntlet, to stand finn as a ti,ell-anchored corner…

— Rick Johnson

Those who have lost an infant are never, as it were, without an infant child. Their other children grow up to manhood…

— Leigh Hunt

I saw the man my friendwants pardoned, Thomas Flinton. He is a bright, good-looking fellow… Of his innocence all are confident. The…

— Rutherford B. Hayes

Common experience shows how much rarer is moral courage than physical bravery. A thousand men will march to the mouth of the…

— Clarence Darrow

Good men sometimes make mistakes. A man of integrity will honestly face and correct his mistakes, and that is an example we…

— D. Todd Christofferson

Truth should be the first lesson of the child and the last aspiration of manhood; for it has been well said that…

— John Greenleaf Whittier

The lover of nature is he whose inward and outward senses are still truly adjusted to each other; who has retained the…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

When someone tells a man to be a man, they mean that there is a way to be a man. A man…

— Jack Donovan

“If you are never frightened, sir, you would never find out what you was made of and what you was capable of…

— Mary Balogh

“Oh, grassy glades! oh ever vernal endless landscapes in the soul; in ye,—though long parched by the dead drought of the earthly…

— Herman Melville

“He had suddenly the clearest understanding he had ever had of the way his father had gone so wrong. A man's strength…

— Laura Florand

“In my career and life I have watched many men fail. They didn’t fail because they weren’t passionate. They didn’t fail because…

— Darrin Patrick

“One of the great differences between childhood and manhood is that we come to like our work more than our play. It…

— William Edward Hartpole Lecky

Enjoy the blessing of strength while you have it and do not bewail it when it is gone, unless, forsooth, you believe…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“[Y]ou are not ashamed of your sin [in committing adultery] because so many men commit it. Man's wickedness is now such that…

— Augustine of Hippo

“There is no steady unretracing progress in this life; we do not advance through fixed gradations, and at the last one pause:--…

— Herman Melville