Manliness Quotes

40 quotes by 37 authors

First find the man in yourself if you will inspire manliness in others. — Amos Bronson Alcott
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
In all the silent manliness of grief. — Oliver Goldsmith
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
We Greeks are lovers of the beautiful, yet simple in our tastes, and we cultivate the mind without loss of manliness. — Thucydides
If you're a man, you don't have to worry about your manliness. — David Gest
Do not fall prey to the false belief that mastery and domination are synonymous with manliness. — Kent Nerburn
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
My ideal of manliness is to be incapable of doing anything — Robert Pattinson
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
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
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
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
Strength and manliness are virtue; weakness and cowardice are sin. — Swami Vivekananda

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