Manhood Quotes - Page 3

• As you pass from the tender years of youth into harsh and embittered manhood, make sure you take with you on your journey all the human emotions! Don't leave them on the road, for you will not pick them up afterwards!

  Nikolai Gogol

  Journey, Years, Emotion

  12 Copy quote

• It is a truism that as long as man loves but himself and his art he can never attain to the full measure of manhood or reach the sublimest heights of his art. He must seek to love men as brothers and art, not for the sake of art itself, but art as a means toward bringing all men up to that verdant plateau where their souls may be fed in very rejoicing in all that is true, beautiful, and abiding.

  Percy Jewett Burrell

  Love, Inspirational, Beautiful

  44 Copy quote

• Humor, a good sense of it, is to Americans what manhood is to Spaniards, and we will go to great lengths to prove it. Experiments with laboratory rats have shown that, if one psychologist in the room laughs at something a rat does, all of the other psychologists will laugh equally. Nobody wants to be left holding the joke.

  Garrison Keillor

  Humor, Laughing, Doe

  Garrison Keillor (1990). “We Are Still Married: Stories and Letters”, p.14, Penguin

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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 policy or tact of expediency or other words that were devised to conceal a deviation from a straight line.

  Robert E. Lee

  Men, Two, Quality

  14 Copy quote

• 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 the ability to control the lives, limit the chances, and doom the dreams of women and girls.

  William J. Clinton

  Girl, Dream, Men

  8 Copy quote

• It is very sad for a man to make himself servant to a single thing; his manhood all taken out of him by the hydraulic pressure of excessive business.

  Theodore Parker

  Business, Taken, Men

  Theodore Parker (1865). “Lessons from the World of Matter and the World of Man”, p.85

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

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

  Orison Swett Marden

  Success, Truth, Honesty

  "Exceptional Employee".

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Since women do most delight in revenge, it may seem but feminine manhood to be vindictive.

  Thomas Browne

  Revenge, Delight, May

  Sir Thomas Browne (1835). “Sir Thomas Browne's Works: Repertorium. A letter to a friend. Christian morals. Certain miscellany tracts. Unpublished papers”, p.101

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• And gentlemen in England now-a-bed Shall think themselves accurs'd they were not here, And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks That fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day.

  William Shakespeare

  Military, Army, Thinking

  'Henry V' (1599) act 4, sc. 3, l. 35

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

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

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Materials

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Selected Essays of Henry David Thoreau”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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 to be.

  James Freeman Clarke

  Character, Mean, Men

  12 Copy quote

• It is of dangerous consequence to represent to man how near he is to the level of beasts, without showing him at the same time his greatness. It is likewise dangerous to let him see his greatness without his meanness. It is more dangerous yet to leave him ignorant of either; but very beneficial that he should be made sensible of both.

  Blaise Pascal

  Greatness, Men, Ignorant

  7 Copy quote

• Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members. The virtue in most request is conformity. Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Love, Reality, Self

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Self-Reliance, the Over-Soul, and Other Essays”, p.21, Coyote Canyon Press

  17 Copy quote

  Show source

• Battle... brings out all that is best.

  George S. Patton

  Bad Ass, Indulge In, Competition

  9 Copy quote

• God has not chosen to save us without crosses; as He has not seen fit to create men at once in the full vigor of manhood, but has suffered them to grow up by degrees amid all the perils and weaknesses of youth.

  Francois Fenelon

  Growing Up, Men, Weakness

  Francois Fenelon (2014). “Spiritual Progress”, p.84, Lulu.com

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• Mama and Daddy King represent the best in manhood and womanhood, the best in a marriage, the kind of people we are trying to become.

  Coretta Scott King

  Inspiring, Kings, Parenting

  "The Christian Science Monitor" Newspaper, July 2, 1974.

  26 Copy quote

  Show source

• Who-only let him be a man and intent upon honor-is not eager for the honorable ordeal and prompt to assume perilous duties? To what energetic man is not idleness a punishment?

  Seneca the Younger

  Men, Honor, Assuming

  7 Copy quote

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

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Failure, Fate, Lexicon

  Richelieu act 2, sc. 2 (1839)

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• Childhood: the period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth - two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Life, Children, Two

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.34, University of Georgia Press

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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 at being a man within a small, embattled gang of men struggling to survive.

  Jack Donovan

  Struggle, Men, Costumes

  17 Copy quote

• 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.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Dream, Time, Memories

  1841 Journal entry, 19 Feb.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

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

  Douglas William Jerrold

  Peace, War, Men

  Douglas William Jerrold (1858). “Specimens of Douglas Jerrold's Wit: Together with Selections, Chiefly from His Contributions to Journals : Intended to Illustrate Hs Opinions”, p.176

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• A people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood.

  Edmund Burke

  America, People, Bones

  Edmund Burke, James BURKE (Barrister-at-Law.) (1854). “The Speeches of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke, with Memoir and Historical Introductions. By James Burke”, p.82

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• It is not what he had, or even what he does which expresses the worth of a man, but what he is.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Inspirational, Character, Men

  7 Copy quote

• What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god.

  William Shakespeare

  Beauty, Moving, Angel

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 2, sc. 2, l. [316]

  22 Copy quote

  Show source