Be A Man Quotes - Page 11

• Let men say we be men of good government, being governed, as the sea is, by our noble and chaste mistress the moon, under whose countenance we steal.

  William Shakespeare

  Moon, Men, Sea

  William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.362

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• To live in a fully predictable world is not to be a man.

  C. S. Lewis

  Men, World, Predictable

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.172, Simon and Schuster

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• To be a man, a boy must see a man

  J. R. Moehringer

  Boys, Men

  J. R. Moehringer (2005). “The Tender Bar: A Memoir”

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• I'm very proud of being a woman, and as a woman, I don't even like the word feminism because when I hear that word, I associate it with women trying to pretend to be men, and I'm not interested in trying to pretend to be a man. I don't want to embrace manhood, I want to embrace my womanhood.

  Evangeline Lilly

  Men, Feminism, Trying

  "Evangeline Lilly Is ‘Not Interested In Trying To Pretend To Be A Man’". Interview with Leigh Blickley, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 9, 2014.

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• Sixty-five percent of Americans don't have the conversation with their children. So you're sending off boys and girls off to college, off to high school, off to wherever they go, and nobody's had the conversation about how to conduct themselves. About a man telling his son how to be a man. How to respect a woman. How do you respect yourself?

  Mariska Hargitay

  Girl, Children, School

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• The ideal doctor would be a man endowed with profound knowledge of life and of the soul, intuitively divining any suffering or disorder of whatever kind, and restoring peace by his mere presence.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Health, Men, Medical Knowledge

  Journal Intime 22 August (1873)

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• Knowing Master Huckaback to be a man of his word, as well as one who would have others so, I was careful to be in good time the next morning . . .

  R.D. Blackmore

  Morning, Men, Law

  M. J. Porteus, R.D. Blackmore (2014). “Lorna Doone: The Wild and Wanton Edition”, p.23, Crimson Romance

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• Am I supposed to be a man? Am I supposed to say, 'It's okay, I don't mind, I don't mind'? Well, I mind! I mind big time! And you know what the worst part is? I never learned to read!

  Wayne Campbell

  Men, Mind, Bigs

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• O Friends, be men, and let your hearts be strong And let no warrior in the heat of fight, Do what may bring him shame in others' eyes

  Homer

  Sports, Strong, Heart

  Homer (1901). “The Iliad of Homer”, p.160

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• The three most destructive words that every man receives when he's a boy is when he's told to 'be a man'.

  Joe Ehrmann

  Boys, Men, Three

  "Redefining fatherhood: What it means to 'be a man' today" by Joy Jernigan, www.today.com. June 10, 2014.

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• A boy gets to be a man when a man is needed. Remember this thing. I have known boys forty years old because there was no need for a man.

  John Steinbeck

  Boys, Men, Years

  John Steinbeck (1995). “The Long Valley”, p.51, Penguin

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• The basic problem is that our civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.

  Andre Malraux

  Men, Civilization, Machines

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• I would remind my countrymen, that they are to be men first, and Americans only at a late and convenient hour. No matter how valuable law may be to protect your property, even to keep soul and body together, if it do not keep you and humanity together.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Responsibility, Men, Soul And Body

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.1151, Delphi Classics

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• I think that many people are ashamed when they feel afraid. There's this thing in our society that you're not allowed to feel scared. You have to be a man and put on a brave face, but we all have fears.

  Eli Roth

  Men, Thinking, Brave Face

  "Eli Roth Exclusive Interview THE LAST EXORCISM; Plus Updates on FUNHOUSE 3D, MAN WITH THE IRON FIST, ENDANGERED SPECIES, More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 25, 2010.

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• I may be a man, but I fight like a girl.

  Andy Cohen

  Girl, Fighting, Men

  “Top Moments: American Horror Story's Big Shocker and Late Night Responds to Sandy” by Joyce Eng and Kate Stanhope, www.tvguide.com. November 1, 2012.

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• Let me burn out for God. After all,
  whatever God may appoint, prayer
  is the great thing. Oh, that I might
  be a man of prayer!

  Henry Martyn

  Prayer, Men, May

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• I have decided to make a personal message to David Haye. I want him to fight me, to be a man. I wish there will be enough excitement, pressure and courage for David Haye to fight me.

  Wladimir Klitschko

  Fighting, Men, Wish

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• A leader should not be a man who arbitrarily imported his own ideas but the essential focal point for a group of people who trusted one another and worked for a common aim.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Leadership, Men, Ideas

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• To be a man is to feel that one's own stone contributes to building the edifice of the world.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Men, Civilization, World

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• Some day there is going to be a man sitting in my present chair who has not been raised in the military services and who will have little understanding of where slashes in their estimates can be made with little or no damage. If that should happen while we still have the state of tension that now exists in the world, I shudder to think of what could happen in this country

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Country, Military, Men

  Letter to Everett E. ("Swede") Hazlett, as quoted in "Eisenhower the President" (1981) by William Bragg Ewald, Jr., p. 248, August 20, 1956.

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• A boy has two jobs. One is just being a boy. The other is growing up to be a man.

  Herbert Hoover

  Jobs, Children, Growing Up

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• It seems to me that it will be very wearisome to be a man.

  Pierre Loti

  Men, Seems

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• Quite often my narrator or protagonist may be a man, but I'm not sure he's the more interesting character, or if the more complex character isn't the woman.

  Ann Beattie

  Character, Men, Interesting

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• Perhaps the final hour is come I have left no testament Only a pen, for my mother I am no hero in an age without heroes I just want to be a man.

  Bei Dao

  Mother, Hero, Men

  Bei Dao (1983). “Notes from the City of the Sun: Poems”

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• My poems are political in the deeper sense of the word. Political means to live in your time, to be a man of your time.

  Yehuda Amichai

  Mean, Men, Political

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