Quotes About Manhood

notice how he will come to manhood with his own particular soul bespeaking itself through the windows which are his eyes, and such lovely eyes surely do prophesy and indicate the loveliest of souls.

I feel it's my responsibility to be able to take care of my family by living off the land. That's the ultimate goal for a man.

The Greeks were the first boxers. Pugilism appears to have been one of the earliest distinctions in play and exercise that appeared between the Hellenes and their Asiatic fathers. The unarmed personal encounter was indicative of a sturdier manhood.

To be deeply committed to negotiations, to be opposed to a particular war or military action, is not only considered unpatriotic, it also casts serious doubt on one's manhood.

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.

they assume that the overly macho demeanor of the Super Thug is a true representation of a real man. The

Por su hombría está obligado a ser sano de cuerpo, prudente, lleno de entereza, honrado, orgulloso de sí mismo, intrépido, digno de sus antepasados y de su historia, paciente en la adversidad, intolerante con la debilidad de carácter, ascético, frugal y valeroso. Debe ser magnánimo y celoso de su honor, porque el hombre sin honor es lo más bajo que hay y se debe temer más al cobarde que al perverso.

As always, the roles one plays become recognizable only with greater maturity. To me, these people seem like children on a playground; I'm amused by their earnestness, and embarassed to remember myself doing those same things. Their activities are appropriate for them, but I couldn't bear to participate now; when I became a man, I put away childish things. I will deal with the world of normal humans only as needed to support myself. —

I think I'm a man about the things I need to be a man about, but I get paid to play, pretty much. I do what I love for a living, and I also get to build BMX bikes in my spare time.

A big part of what I wanted to do with this character was go from when I was a boy and try and develop into a man, really try and play him as a man who is on this search, on a journey of personal, spiritual, political, social discovery.

Guys who feel like it makes you a man to make babies, they're completely misguided. It makes you a man to be a father. And I'm not moralising about marriage or anything. I understand that people split up, and marriages don't work out, and people do the best they can. But if you're going to not be there from the very beginning, then don't do it.

Marriage is to me apostasy, profanation of the sanctuary of my soul, violation of my manhood, sale of my birthright, shameful surrender, ignominious capitulation, acceptance of defeat.

On any given Sunday you're gonna win or you're gonna lose. The point is -- can you win or lose like a man?

What makes you a man is not the ability to make a child, it's the courage to raise one.

Gather the five virtues (Dignity, Confidence, Courage, Compassion, and Faith). Then you are a man.

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.

If you 35, 28, or 30 years old, and you decide you're gonna pick up a rag and start bangin', and you can look yourself in the mirror and you still feel like you're a man? That's cool, do your thing.

I feel like you don't have to go through jail, that's not part of bein' a man.

That toil of growing up; The ignominy of boyhood; the distress Of boyhood changing into man; The unfinished man and his pain.

One of the great tragedies in human life is to be born a male and not be guided toward the value of a man.

I think a man needs to be a man. To hold a woman the way she wants to be held. Just do whatever your woman wants, and you'll be fine.

Adversity toughens manhood, and the characteristic of the good or the great man is not that he has been exempt from the evils of life, but that he has surmounted them.

You're not a man until your father says you're a man.

In the quest to be a man, you start to learn you need your family. If it wasn't for them, I'd be way closer to insanity.