Be A Man Quotes - Page 17

• I just... want to be a man who has been to a concert with a girl in a red dress. Just for a few minutes more.

  Jojo Moyes

  Girl, Men, Dresses

  Jojo Moyes (2012). “Me Before You: A Novel”, p.171, Penguin

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• I would rather be the offspring of two apes than be a man and afraid to face the truth.

  Thomas Huxley

  Men, Two, Religion

  "The Harvest of a Quiet Eye, A Selection of Scientific Quotations". Book edited by Alan L. Mackay, 1977.

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• Artists must be men of wit, consciously or unconsciously philosophers; read, study and think a great deal of life.

  Robert Henri

  Art, Men, Thinking

  Robert Henri (2007). “The Art Spirit”, p.178, Basic Books

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• We view ourselves on the eve of battle. We are nerved for the contest, and must conquer or perish. It is vain to look for present aid: none is at hand. We must now act or abandon all hope! Rally to the standard, and be no longer the scoff of mercenary tongues! Be men, be free men, that your children may bless their father's name.

  Sam Houston

  Children, Father, Men

  Sam Houston, Eugene Campbell Barker (1939). “The writings of Sam Houston, 1813-1863”

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• Try first to be a man of value; success will follow.

  Albert Einstein

  Life, Motivational, Men

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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 for justice. To be a man is to suffer for others. God help us to be men!

  Cesar Chavez

  Struggle, Sacrifice, Men

  Cesar Chavez, Richard Jay Jensen, John C. Hammerback (2002). “The Words of César Chávez”, p.167, Texas A&M University Press

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• We aren't engaged in any negative protest and in any negative arguments with anybody. We are saying that we are determined to be men. We are determined to be people. We are saying that we are God's children. And that we don't have to live like we are forced to live.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Determination, Children, Men

  I've Been to the Mountaintop, delivered 3 April 1968, Mason Temple (Church of God in Christ Headquarters), Memphis, Tennessee

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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 use our lives that determines what kind of men we are. It is my deepest belief that only by giving life do we find life, that the truest act courage, the strongest act of manliness is to sacrifice ourselves for others in a totally non-violent struggle for justice. To be a man is to suffer for others, God help us to be men.

  Cesar Chavez

  Struggle, Sacrifice, Men

  Cesar Chavez, Richard Jay Jensen, John C. Hammerback (2002). “The Words of César Chávez”, p.167, Texas A&M University Press

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• If people depend on me to be a man of truth, I have to prove again and again and again and again that I am a man of truth. It cannot be that on Monday I am a man of truth, on Tuesday I speak three-quarters truth, Wednesday I speak half-truth, on Thursday I speak one-quarter truth, on Friday I don't speak at all, and on Saturday I can't even think how to speak the truth.

  Harbhajan Singh Yogi

  Friday, Monday, Communication

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• It is of no consequence of what parents a man is born, as long as he be a man of merit.

  Horace

  Inspirational, Teenager, Men

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• But in practical affairs, particularly in politics, men are needed who combine human experience and interest in human relations with a knowledge of science and technology. Moreover, they must be men of action and not contemplation. I have the impression that no method of education can produce people with all the qualities required. I am haunted by the idea that this break in human civilization, caused by the discovery of the scientific method, may be irreparable.

  Max Born

  Education, Science, Technology

  "My Life & My Views". Book by Max Born, 1968.

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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 in a manly way, die a manly death. To be thus a man was to give constant proof of one's manliness-to be more a man today than yesterday, more a man tomorrow than today. To be a man was to forge ever upward toward the peak of manhood, there to die amid the white snows of that peak.

  Yukio Mishima

  Men, White, Yesterday

  Yukio Mishima (2010). “Runaway Horses”, p.344, Random House

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• To be a man requires that you accept everything life has to give you, beginning with your name.

  Burl Ives

  Men, Names, Giving

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• I learned that he that will be a hero will barely be a man; that he that will be nothing but a doer of his work is sure of his manhood.

  George MacDonald

  Hero, Men, Doers

  George MacDonald (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of George MacDonald (Illustrated)”, p.161, Delphi Classics

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• I will be a man among men; and no longer a dreamer among shadows. Henceforth be mine a life of action and reality! I will work in my own sphere, nor wish it other than it is. This alone is health and happiness.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Reality, Men, Dreamer

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1854). “The Works: Hyperion”, p.225

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• I know Eric Engerbretson to be a man of integrity who is firmly committed to the artful balance of music and ministry.

  Phil Keaggy

  Integrity, Men, Balance

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• I feel like the feminine has been a little undervalued. We all have to get our own jobs and make our own money, but staying at home, nurturing, being the mother, cooking — it's a valuable thing my mom created. And sometimes, you need your knight in shining armor. I'm sorry. You need a man to be a man and a woman to be a woman. That's why relationships work.

  Kirsten Dunst

  Mother, Jobs, Sorry

  "Feminist Dogma Bites Kirsten Dunst" by David Limbaugh, www.newsmax.com. April 18, 2014.

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• I started drinking Scotch just to be a man.

  Adam Brody

  Drinking, Men, Scotch

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• I want to be a man's man - not a kid actor or a glitzy pop star but a no-bullshit leading man.

  Scott Eastwood

  Stars, Kids, Men

  "Scott Eastwood Revealed". Interview with Priya Rao, www.townandcountrymag.com. September 18, 2013.

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• I AM (your true self) is not interested in man’s opinion. All its interest lies in your conviction of yourself. What do you say of the I AM within you? Can you answer and say, “I AM Christ”? Your answer or degree of understanding will determine the place you will occupy in life. Do you say or believe yourself to be a man of a certain family, race, nation, etc.? Do you honestly believe this of yourself? Then life, your true self, will cause these conceptions to appear in your world and you will live with them as though they are real.

  Neville Goddard

  Real, Lying, Believe

  Neville Goddard (2013). “Your Faith is Your Fortune”, p.20, Simon and Schuster

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• I came to realize that we don’t raise boys to be men, we raise them not to be women.

  Don McPherson

  Boys, Men, Realizing

  Interview with Jeff Pearlman, www.jeffpearlman.com. April 21, 2011.

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• There'll be a man on the moon before Gaylord Perry hits a home run.

  Alvin Dark

  Running, Home, Moon

  "Pimping for the designated fan" by Jon Carroll, www.sfgate.com. July 13, 2009.

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• Ardent, intelligent, sweet, sensitive, cultivated, erudite. These are the adjectives of praise in an androgynous world. Those who consider them epithets of shame or folly ought not to be trusted with leadership, for they will be men hot for power and revenge, certain of right and wrong.

  Carolyn Heilbrun

  Leadership, Sweet, Revenge

  Carolyn G. Heilbrun (1974). “Toward a recognition of androgyny”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Everyone in this life is defeated but a man, if he be a man, is not defeated.

  William Carlos Williams

  Men, Life Is, Defeated

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• Being a man is bullshit; maybe trying to be a man had been the problem all along. At a certain point you just have to trust someone. Even if it’s only yourself.

  Bennett Madison

  Men, Bullshit, Trying

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