Manliness Quotes
40 quotes by 37 authors
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First find the man in yourself if you will inspire manliness in others.
— Amos Bronson Alcott
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I am convinced that the truest act of courage, the strongest act of manliness, is to sacrifice ourselves for others in a totally nonviolent struggle…
— Cesar Chavez
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In all the silent manliness of grief.
— Oliver Goldsmith
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When we are really honest with ourselves we must admit that our lives are all that really belong to us, so it is how we…
— Cesar Chavez
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We Greeks are lovers of the beautiful, yet simple in our tastes, and we cultivate the mind without loss of manliness.
— Thucydides
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If you're a man, you don't have to worry about your manliness.
— David Gest
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Do not fall prey to the false belief that mastery and domination are synonymous with manliness.
— Kent Nerburn
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Private and public life are subject to the same rules-truth and manliness are two qualities that will carry you through this world much better than…
— Robert E. Lee
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Manliness means perfect manhood, as womanliness implies perfect womanhood. Manliness is the character of a man as he ought to be, as he was meant…
— James Freeman Clarke
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Here is the manliness of manhood, that a man has a good reason for what he does, and has a will in doing it.
— Alexander MacLaren
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Isao had never felt that he might want to be a woman. He had never wished for anything else but to be a man, live…
— Yukio Mishima
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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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There is need for a crusade of manliness and purity to counteract and nullify the savage work of those who think man is a beast.…
— Josemaria Escriva
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Because it is in the nature of things that they become extreme, we have passed down from manliness to cruelty. If I had been told…
— Quentin Crisp
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My ideal of manliness is to be incapable of doing anything
— Robert Pattinson
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And what shall he suffer who slays him who of all men, as they say, is his own best friend? I mean the suicide, who…
— Plato
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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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We are in the process of making the English language gender-neutral, and manliness, the quality of one gender, or rather, of one sex, seems to…
— Harvey Mansfield
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The world cries for men who are strong--strong in conviction, strong to lead, to stand, to suffer. I pray that you will be that kind…
— Elisabeth Elliot
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Strength and manliness are virtue; weakness and cowardice are sin.
— Swami Vivekananda
Who Wrote These Manliness Quotes
37 authors contributed a total of 40 Manliness Quotes, led by these top contributors: