Manliness Quotes

• First find the man in yourself if you will inspire manliness in others.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Inspiration, Men, Discovery

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1877). “Table-talk”

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• Manliness consists not in bluff, bravado or loneliness. It consists in daring to do the right thing and facing consequences whether it is in matters social, political or other. It consists in deeds not words.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Spiritual, Loneliness, Character

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• Strength and manliness are virtue; weakness and cowardice are sin.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Coward, Weakness, Sin

  Swami Vivekananda “My Idea of Education”, Advaita Ashrama (A publication branch of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math)

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• If you're a man, you don't have to worry about your manliness.

  David Gest

  Men, Worry, Masculinity

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• Here is the manliness of manhood, that a man has a good reason for what he does, and has a will in doing it.

  Alexander MacLaren

  Men, Doe, Reason

  Alexander Maclaren (1871). “Sermons Preached in Manchester: First series”, p.296

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• I'll be the judge of my own manliness.

  Dennis Rodman

  Basketball, Judging, Masculinity

  "Dennis Rodman Wears Drag For Legends Of Basketball Tour". www.huffingtonpost.com. March 31, 2014.

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• If unwilling to rise in the morning, say to thyself, 'I awake to do the work of a man.'

  Marcus Aurelius

  Morning, Men, Awake

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• Do not fall prey to the false belief that mastery and domination are synonymous with manliness.

  Kent Nerburn

  Fall, Mastery, Belief

  Kent Nerburn (2014). “Letters to My Son: A Father's Wisdom on Manhood, Life, and Love”, p.37, New World Library

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• The world cries for men who are strong--strong in conviction, strong to lead, to stand, to suffer. I pray that you will be that kind of man--glad that God made you a man, glad to shoulder the burden of manliness in a time when to do so will often bring contempt.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Strong, Men, Suffering

  Elisabeth Elliot (2007). “The Mark of a Man: Following Christ's Example of Masculinity”, p.15, Revell

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• A woman simply is, but a man must become.

  Camille Paglia

  Men, Masculinity, Elusive

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

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• In all the silent manliness of grief.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Grief, Silence, Silent

  'The Deserted Village' (1770) l. 384

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• All true manliness grows around a core of divineness.

  Charles Henry Parkhurst

  True Man, Grows, Core

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• In proportion as man gets back the spirit of manliness, which is self-sacrifice, affection, loyalty loan idea beyond himself, a God above himself, so far will he rise above circumstances, and wield them at his will.

  Charles Kingsley

  Loyalty, Sacrifice, Men

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writer" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 405, 1895.

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• History is strewn with the wrecks of nations which have gained a little progressiveness at the cost of a great deal of hard manliness, and have thus prepared themselves for destruction as soon as the movements of the world have a chance for it.

  Walter Bagehot

  Men, Wrecks, Littles

  Walter Bagehot (1873). “Physics and Politics: Or, Thoughts on the Application of the Principles of "natural Selection" and "inheritance" to Political Society”, p.61

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• All men are timid on entering any fight. Whether it is the first or the last fight, all of us are timid. Cowards are those who let their timidity get the better of their manhood.

  George S. Patton

  Military, Fighting, Men

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• I think it's fascinating that I receive attention for what people perceive to be a level of manliness or machismo, when amongst my family of farmers and paramedics and regular Americans, I'm kind of the sissy in my family.

  Nick Offerman

  Thinking, People, Attention

  "Nick Offerman on Parks And Recreation and his comically oversized penis". Interview with Sean O'Neal, www.avclub.com. July 18, 2012.

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• The Older I grow, the more everything seems to me to lie in manliness. This is my new gospel

  Swami Vivekananda

  Lying, Grows, Seems

  Swami Vivekananda (2016). “My Life and Mission”, p.20, Advaita Ashrama (A publication branch of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math)

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• We Greeks are lovers of the beautiful, yet simple in our tastes, and we cultivate the mind without loss of manliness.

  Thucydides

  Beautiful, Loss, Simple

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• When someone tells a man to be a man, they mean that there is a way to be a man. A man is not just a thing to be-it is also a way to be, a path to follow and a way to walk. Some try to make manhood mean everything. Others believe that it means nothing at all. Being good at being a man can't mean everything, and it has always meant something.

  Jack Donovan

  Believe, Mean, Men

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• Christ's whole life on earth was the assertion and example of true manliness — the setting forth in living act and word what man is meant to be, and how he should carry himself in this world of God — one long campaign in which the temptation stands out as the first great battle and victory.

  Thomas Hughes

  Men, Long, Temptation

  Thomas Hughes (2017). “True Manliness”, p.29, Litres

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• Civilization comes at a cost of manliness. It comes at a cost of wildness, of risk, of strife. It comes at a cost of strength, of courage, of mastery. It comes at a cost of honor. Increased civilization exacts a toll of virility, forcing manliness into further redoubts of vicariousness and abstraction.

  Jack Donovan

  Men, Civilization, Risk

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• There is need for a crusade of manliness and purity to counteract and nullify the savage work of those who think man is a beast. And that crusade is your work.

  Josemaria Escriva

  Faith, Inspiration, Thinking

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• If Manliness had a soundtrack, the score would be metal.

  Maddox

  Would Be, Score, Soundtracks

  "The Alphabet Of Manliness". Book by Maddox, September 1, 2009.

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• For most Northerners, Texas is the home of real men. The cowboys, the rednecks, the outspoken self-made right-wing millionaires strike us as either the best or worst examples of American manliness.... The ideal is not an illusion nor is it contemptible, no matter what damage it may have done. Many people who scorn it in conversation want to submit to it in bed. Those who believe machismo reeks of violence alone choose to forget it once stood for honor as well.

  Edmund White

  Real, Believe, Home

  1980 States of Desire: Travels in Gay America, ch.5.

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• When women's sexuality is imagined to be passive or "dirty," it also means that men's sexuality is automatically positioned as aggressive and right-no matter what form it takes. And when one of the conditions of masculinity, a concept that is already so fragile in men's minds, is that men dissociate from women and prove their manliness through aggression, we're encouraging a culture of violence and sexuality that's detrimental to both men and women.

  Jessica Valenti

  Dirty, Mean, Men

  Jessica Valenti (2009). “The Purity Myth: How America's Obsession with Virginity Is Hurting Young Women”, p.172, Seal Press

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