Best Manhood Sayings
302 Manhood quotes by 227 unique authors
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History is strewn with the wrecks of nations which have gained a little progressiveness at the cost of a great deal of hard manliness, and…
— Walter Bagehot
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The man who is deserving the name is the one whose thoughts and exertions are for others rather than for himself.
— Walter Scott
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To be a man requires that you accept everything life has to give you, beginning with your name.
— Burl Ives
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I learned that he that will be a hero will barely be a man; that he that will be nothing but a doer of his…
— George MacDonald
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The American ideal of sexuality appears to be rooted in the American ideal of masculinity. This idea has created cowboys and Indians, good guys and…
— James A. Baldwin
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No man has ever risen to the stature of spiritual manhood until he has found that it is finer to serve somebody else than it…
— Woodrow Wilson
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When the child has reached manhood he is thoroughly saturated with the belief that he is chosen by the Lord himself to defend his country…
— Emma Goldman
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There's neither honesty, manhood, nor good fellowship in thee.
— William Shakespeare
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It is wonderful. It truly is. It is the only thing that is real! It's you against me, it's challenging another guy's manhood. With gloves.…
— Sugar Ray Leonard
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We have castrated society through fear and intimidation. Its manhood exists only in combination with a feminine outward appearance. Being so neutered, the populace has…
— Harold Wallace Rosenthal
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Superheroes are mostly aimed at young teen-age males concerned with their manhood. The medium will have to address itself more to content. . . .…
— Will Eisner
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Some day we hope to liberate every man on earth from the tendency as old as human history to identify our strength and manhood with…
— William J. Clinton
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Good men sometimes make mistakes. A man of integrity will honestly face and correct his mistakes, and that is an example we can respect. Sometimes…
— D. Todd Christofferson
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Rumors went round that I might be gay. In some ways, I was happy w/ this. Larry Rivers proved to me that a gay man…
— Pete Townshend
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In the modern technoindustrial culture, it is possible to proceed from infancy into senility without ever knowing manhood.
— Edward Abbey
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There is a time in the life of every boy when he for the first time takes the backward view of life. Perhaps that is…
— Sherwood Anderson
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In the Native American tradition... a man, if he's a mature adult, nurtures life. He does rituals that will help things grow, he helps raise…
— Paula Gunn Allen
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I do not think that any sorrow of youth or manhood equalled in intensity or duration the black and hopeless misery which followed the wrench…
— Henry George
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People in Nevada know me from the street to the ring to the Senate chambers. I've never had to prove my manhood to anyone.
— Harry Reid
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A people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood.
— Edmund Burke
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Many people correctly make the point that our only hope is to turn to God. For example, Charles Lindbergh, who said that in his young…
— Marion G. Romney
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Relieved of moral pretense and stripped of folk costumes, the raw masculinity that all men know in their gut has to do with being good…
— Jack Donovan
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Civilization comes at a cost of manliness. It comes at a cost of wildness, of risk, of strife. It comes at a cost of strength,…
— Jack Donovan
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Strength, Courage, Mastery, and Honor are the alpha virtues of men all over the world. They are the fundamental virtues of men because without them,…
— Jack Donovan
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When men evaluate each other as men, they still look for the same virtues that they'd need to keep the perimeter. Men respond to and…
— Jack Donovan
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