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Quotes About Manhood

I tell people I'm a stand-up comedian two hours a week. The rest of the time, I'm somebody's husband, I'm somebody's father. I'm a man. I take great pride in that.
~ Steve Harvey
Violent revolts are generated by revolting conditions and there is nothing more dangerous than to build a society with a large segment of people who feel they have no stake in it, who feel they have nothing to lose. To the young victim of the slums, this society has so limited the alternatives of his life that the expression of his manhood is reduced to the ability to defend himself physically.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
face the contradiction that looks like u that smells like u that feels like u and push out the violence be unafraid to be a man who confronts men about women be unafraid to be a man who confronts men big mean-ass nasty men be unafraid to be a man who confronts himself. - Asha Bandele, 'In Response to a Brother's Question About What He Should Do When His Best Friend Beats His Woman
~ Asha Bandele
Black feminists speak as women because we are women and do not need others to speak for us. It is for Black men to speak up and tell us why and how their manhood is so threatened that Black women should be the prime targets of their justifiable rage. what correct analysis of this capitalist dragon within which we live can legitimize the rape of Black women by Black men?
~ Audre Lorde
With the conviction came a store of assurance. He felt a quiet manhood, non-assertive but of sturdy and strong blood. He knew that he would no more quail before his guides wherever they should point. He had been to touch the great death, and found that, after all, it was but the great death. He was a man.
~ Stephen Crane
He understood well enough how a man with a choice between pride and responsibility will almost always choose pride--if responsibility robs him of his manhood.
~ Stephen King
Without the Fatherhood of God driving our manhood, we become "mad scientists" as we destructively experiment with those in our charge. But because of Jesus there is hope...Through a relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ, God becomes our Father.
~ Eric Mason
Jesus is the prototype man for men. All of us men are only as manly as it relates to the standard set by Jesus. Romans 8:29 helps us to understand this point: "For those He foreknew He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, so that He would be the firstborn among many brothers." God's design—His divine intent—is for those who are in Jesus to look like Jesus.
~ Eric Mason
This certainly wasn't an isolated incident, but it is indicative of Jesus' ferocious ambition to walk with His Father by trusting in Him to overcome temptation. For Jesus, just as it is for us, prayer and vigorous fighting are the means to overcome temptation. Jesus' manhood in this particular instance is awe inspiring; He fought against the greatest temptation imaginable, in regard to His most challenging responsibility, and yet didn't drop the ball:
~ Eric Mason
It's time for manhood to be restored.
~ Eric Mason
As men, we must not become lethargic in our vigilance against things that would attempt to destroy manhood.
~ Eric Mason
If we think of the fatherhood of God, we get a picture of someone who is strong and loving and who sacrifices himself for those he loves. That's a picture of real fatherhood and real manhood.
~ Eric Metaxas
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.
~ beecher henry ward iv
Christianity is simply the ideal form of manhood represented to us by Jesus Christ.
~ beecher henry ward iv
Truth is the bread of a noble manhood.
~ beecher henry ward ix
Youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle; old age a regret.
~ Benjamin Disraeli
I'm not a relationship expert. I'm an expert on manhood.
~ Steve Harvey
A man is truly a man when he wins the love of a good woman, earns her respect, and keeps her trust. Until you can do that, you're not a man.
~ Gregory David Roberts
Non diventi uomo finché non doni il tuo amore sincero e disinteressato ad un bambino. Ma non sei un vero uomo finché non ricevi in cambio l'amore sincero e disinteressato di un bambino.
~ Gregory David Roberts
Vyras turi susirasti ger? moter?, o kai susiranda - laim?ti jos meil?. Paskui jis turi pelnyti jos pagarb?. Tada puosel?ti pasitik?jim?. O paskui jis turi taip daryti, kol juodu gyvi. Kol abu miršta. Štai kas yra prasm?. Tai svarbiausias dalykas pasaulyje. Štai kas yra vyras, jar. Vyras tampa tikru vyru, kai laimi geros moters meil?, pelno jos pagarb? ir nepraranda jos pasitik?jimo. Kol to nepadarei, nesi vyras.
~ Gregory David Roberts
A man is truly a man when he wins the love of a good woman, earns her respect, and keeps her trust. Until you can do that, you're not a man.
~ Gregory David Roberts
No-one, and nothing, could hurt me. No-one, and nothing, could make me very happy. I was tough, which is probably the saddest thing you can say about a man.
~ Gregory David Roberts
Lin, ?ovek mora da na?e dobru ženu i kad je na?e mora da osvoji njenu ljubav. Onda mora da zaradi njeno poštovanje. Onda mora da ?uva njeno poverenje. I onda mora, ono, da nastavi to da radi dok je živ. DOk oboje ne umru. U tome je cela suština. To je najvažnije na svetu. To je muškarac. Muškarac je stvarno muškarac kad osvoji ljubav dobre žene, zaradi neno poštovanje i zadrži njeno poverenje. Dok to nisi u stanju da uradiš, nisi muškarac.
~ Gregory David Roberts
How do you become an adult in a society that doesn't ask for sacrifice? How do you become a man in a world that doesn't require courage?
~ Sebastian Junger