Manhood Quotes

A real man will never let his fear of death overpower his honor, his sense of duty to his country, and his innate manhood.

Masculinity is risky and elusive. It is achieved by a revolt from woman, and it is confirmed only by other men. Manhood coerced into sensitivity is no manhood at all.

When I fight someone, I want to break his will. I want to take his manhood. I want to rip out his heart and show it to him.

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

A man is at his youngest when he thinks he is a man, not yet realizing that his actions must show it.

The curse of covetousness is that it destroys manhood by substituting money for character.

This is the first great problem of modern democracy...how to get a fair living by reasonable hours of work leaving enough leisure for both childhood and manhood.

Genius is the power of carrying the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood.

The church is the gathering of God's children, where they can be helped and fed like babies and then guided by her motherly care, grow up to manhood in maturity of faith.

Never seen my friends do more push-ups, trying to challenge Cruises' manhood. It was like, I can be strong, too!

Initiative is the essence of manhood. Noting comes to the man who is passive, except failure.

Is not birth, beauty, good shape, discourse, Manhood, learning, gentleness, virtue, youth, liberality, and such like, the spice and salt that season a man

Then hush thee, my darling, take rest while you may, For strife comes with manhood, and waking with day.

Principles must conquer in the long run, for that is the manhood of man.

How can I develop myself into the grandest possible manhood?

Men are recognizing that they have been forced to conform to a very narrow and rather two-dimensional picture of maleness and manhood that they have never had the freedom to question.

Love makes its record in deeper colors as we grow out of childhood into manhood; as the Emperors signed their names in green ink when under age, but when of age, in purple.

Manhood is melted into courtesies, valor into compliment, and men are only turned into tongue, and trim ones, too.

Just as the child is father to the man, so the impressions of one's youth remain the most vivid in manhood.

All daring and courage, all iron endurance of misfortune-make for a finer, nobler type of manhood.

Not having a father helping you grow into manhood and teaching you those things about how to be a man hurts. It hurt my brothers because their fathers weren't involved in their lives.

I’m not really a relationship expert but ... I’m an expert on manhood and what men think.

Little redcape," he snarled, "when next you bare steel on Shagga son of Dolf, I will chop off your manhood and roast it in the fire." "What, no goats?" Tyrion said, taking a bite of his cheese.

Humor, a good sense of it, is to Americans what manhood is to Spaniards and we will go to great lengths to prove it.

The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.

[the difference between the old and the new education being] in a word, the old was a kind of propagation-men transmitting manhood to men; the new is merely propaganda.

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

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

In the modern technoindustrial culture, it is possible to proceed from infancy into senility without ever knowing manhood.

He understood well enough how a man with a choice between pride and responsibility will almost always choose pride--if responsibility robs him of his manhood.

Men, you'll never be a good groom to your wife unless you're first a good bride to Jesus.

For man to be worthy of any rank, he must strive first to be a man.

Youth longs and manhood strives, but age remembers.

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.

To be deeply committed to negotiations, to be opposed to a particular war or military action, is not only considered unpatriotic, it also casts serious doubt on one's manhood.

If men must die, why not in honorable pursuit of knowledge? Far be it that our ideas of manhood should be dwarfed to the size of a golden dollar.

Shagga son of Dolf likes this not. Shagga will go with the boyman, and if the boyman lies, Shagga will chop off his manhood-" "-and feed it to the goats, yes," Tyrion said wearily.

We seem but to linger in manhood to tell the dreams of our childhood, and they vanish out of memory ere we learn the language.

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

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 of transference from a happy home to a school.

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

Ill seemes (sayd he) if he so valiant be, That he should be so sterne to stranger wight; For seldom yet did living creature see That courtesie and manhood ever disagree.

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 the moment when he crosses the line into manhood.

Death is a stage in human progress, to be passed as we would pass from childhood to youth, or from youth to manhood, and with the same consciousness of an everlasting nature.

Something greater than wealth, grander even than fame — that manhood, character, stand for success, and that nothing else really does.

The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.

Between childhood, boyhood, adolescence & manhood (maturity) there should be sharp lines drawn w/ Tests , deaths, feats, rites stories, songs, & judgements.

All our pursuits, from childhood to manhood, are only trifles of different sorts and sizes, proportioned to our years and views.

He who cares only for himself in youth will be a very niggard in manhood, and a wretched miser in old age.

Spend time with your kids and have your own ideas about what they need. It won't take away your manhood; it will give it to you.