Manhood Quotes - Page 13

• Love makes its record in deeper colors as we grow out of childhood into manhood.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Life, Color, Childhood

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1873). “Prose Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow”, p.454

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• Great suffering brings with it the power of great endurance. When sorrow is deepest all the forces of patience and courage are banded together to do their duty. So while we are cowards before petty troubles, great sorrows make us brave by rousing our truer manhood.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Encouragement, Brave, Suffering

  Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, Rabindranath Tagore (1968). “Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi, Nehru, Tagore: Being a Treasury of Over Ten Thousand Invaluable and Inspiring Thoughts, Views, and Obervations on about Eight Hundred Subjects of Popular Interest, Collected from the Speeches and Writings of These Three Great Leaders of Modern India”

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• Cover them over with beautiful flowers, Deck them with garlands, those brothers of ours, Lying so silent by night and by day Sleeping the years of their manhood away. Give them the meed they have won in the past; Give them the honors their future forcast; Give them the chaplets they won in the strife; Give them the laurels they lost with their life.

  Will Carleton

  Beautiful, Uplifting, Memorial Day

  Will Carleton (1875). “Farm Legends”, p.87, Belford Bros.

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• 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.

  Camille Paglia

  Men, Sensitivity, Masculinity

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays”, p.82, Vintage

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• Manhood and sagacity ripen of themselves; it suffices not to repress or distort them.

  George Santayana

  Character, Personality, Sagacity

  George Santayana (2015). “Character and Opinion in the United States”, p.28, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• When a teacher of the future comes to point out to the youth of America how the highest rewards of intellect and devotion can be gained, he may say to them, not by subtlety and intrigue; not by wire pulling and demagoguery; not by the arts of popularity; not by skill and shiftiness in following expediency; but by being firm in devotion to the principles of manhood and the application of morals and the courage of righteousness in the public life of our country; by being a man without guile and without fear, without selfishness, and with devotion to duty, devotion to his country.

  Elihu Root

  Country, Teacher, Courage

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• 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.

  Louis C. K.

  Dad, Kids, Ideas

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• Poor human nature, what horrible crimes have been committed in thy name! All wars are wars among thieves who are too cowardly to fight and who therefore induce the young manhood of the whole world to do the fighting for them.

  Emma Goldman

  Peace, War, Fighting

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• I'm glad I didn't have to fight in any war.
  I'm glad I didn't have to pick up a gun.
  I'm glad I didn't get killed or kill somebody.
  I hope my kids enjoy the same lack of manhood.

  Tom Hanks

  Military, War, Kids

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• A lot of people assume that New Castrati meant "gay." No, that's why I came up with the term "New Castrati." It has nothing to do with sexual orientation. It has to do with lack of manhood. It has to do with men with no "circular orbs," however you wish to visualize it.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Gay, Men, People

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• I am a member of this body. Therefore, sir, I shall neither fawn nor cringe before any party, nor stoop to beg . . . I am here to demand my rights, and to hurl thunderbolts at the men who would dare to cross the threshold of my manhood.

  Henry McNeal Turner

  Party, Men, Rights

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• Let us have an education, that shall practically develop our thinking faculties and manhood; and then, and only then, shall we be able to vie with our oppressors, go where we may . . .

  Martin Delany

  Thinking, May, Able

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• A mother's job... is very much to hold back the coming of manhood.

  Michael Gurian

  Mother, Jobs

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• I won't do anything for money. I won't compromise my manhood.

  Ice Cube

  Compromise

  "Ice Cube Says Hollywood Isn't Cool Enough, Adds: "I'm Ready to Run a Studio"". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 25, 2016.

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• The government will ... go on in the highly democratic method of conscripting American manhood for European slaughter.

  Emma Goldman

  Government, Goes On, Method

  Emma Goldman “Mother Earth, a Monthly Magazine Devoted to the Social Science and Literature”

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• If you are black, the only roads into the mainland of American life are through subservience, cowardice, and loss of manhood. These are the white man's roads.

  Amiri Baraka

  Loss, Men, White Man

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• We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be done.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Wisdom, Courage, Work

  Theodore Roosevelt (1901). “The Works of Theodore Roosevelt: The strenuous life”

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• I felt like lying down by the side of the trail and remembering it all. The woods do that to you, they always look familiar, long lost, like the face of a long-dead relative, like an old dream, like a piece of forgotten song drifting across the water, most of all like golden eternities of past childhood or past manhood and all the living and the dying and the heartbreak that went on a million years ago and the clouds as they pass overhead seem to testify (by their own lonesome familiarity) to this feeling.

  Jack Kerouac

  Dream, Wisdom, Song

  Jack Kerouac (2007). “Road Novels 1957-1960”

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• The lover of nature is he whose inward and outward senses are still truly adjusted to each other; who has retained the spirit of infancy even into the era of manhood. His intercourse with heaven and earth, becomes part of his daily food. In the presence of nature, a wild delight runs through the man, in spite of real sorrows.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Running, Real, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Ernest Spiller, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Joseph Slater, Jean Ferguson Carr (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature, addresses, and lectures”, p.9, Harvard University Press

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• The Lord created you and me for the purpose of becoming Gods like Himself; when we have been proved in our present capacity, and been faithful with all things He puts into our possession. We are created, we are born for the express purpose of growing up from the low estate of manhood, to become Gods like unto our Father in heaven. That is the truth about it, just as it is. The Lord has organized mankind for the express purpose of increasing in that intelligence and truth, which is with God, until he is capable of creating worlds on worlds, and becoming Gods, even the sons of God

  Brigham Young

  Growing Up, Father, Son

  Brigham Young (1992). “The Essential Brigham Young”

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• My most fervent prayer is to be a President who can make it possible for every boy in this land to grow to manhood by loving his country--instead of dying for it.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Country, Prayer, Boys

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1965). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1963-1964”, p.417, Best Books on

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• What is now happening to the people of the East as of the West is like what happens to every individual when he passes from childhood to adolescence and from youth to manhood. He loses what had hitherto guided his life and lives without direction, not having found a new standard suitable to his age, and so he invents all sorts of occupations, cares, distractions, and stupefactions to divert his attention from the misery and senselessness of his life. Such a condition may last a long time.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Long, People, Childhood

  graf Leo Tolstoy (1989). “I Cannot be Silent: Writings on Politics, Art and Religion by Leo Tolstoy”

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• Some people act as if it were demeaning to their manhood to wish to be well-read but you can no more be a healthy person mentally without reading substantial books than you can be a vigorous person physically without eating solid food. Books should be chosen, not for their freedom from evil, but for their possession of good. Dr. Johnson said: "Whilst you stand deliberating which book your son shall read first, another boy has read both."

  Earl Nightingale

  Reading, Book, Son

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• We live in a society where manhood is all about conquering and violence. And what we don't realize is that ultimately that kind of manhood ultimately kills you.

  Kevin Powell

  Violence, Kind, Realizing

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• Perverted pride is a great misfortune in men; but pride in its original function, for which God created it, is indispensable to a proper manhood.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Pride, Men, Function

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

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