Quotes About Manhood

It takes nine tailors to make a man.

You gotta be a man to play baseball for a living, but you gotta have a lot of little boy in you, too.

A man must defend his home, his wife, his children, and his martini.

The boxing game has been good, so we need to give back. We have to teach young men how to be men.

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

If you're losing, just be a man; be a man and lose as a man.

Live as a man. Die as a man. Become a man.

There is a difference between being a good man and being good at being a man.

Men may make laws to hinder and fetter the ballot, but men cannot make laws that will bind or retard the growth of manhood.

No true manhood can be trained by a merely intellectual process. You cannot train men by the intellect alone; you must train them by the heart.

You cannot be a true man until you learn to obey.

I dare do all that may become a man; Who dares do more, is none

I grew up in Beaufort, South Carolina, in a six-room farmhouse with a couple of leaning posts to keep it from fallin'. I came up in a time when men were men.

How will I be remembered by my children? This is the true measure of a man.

You are not only a man, you are a superior man: a man who does his best to live as love in the world and in his intimacy, a man whose heart remains open and whose truth remains strong.

He tapped one of the ivory spikes between his legs and said, 'There be as good a way to lose your manhood as ever I've seen'.

We have nothing. We solace ourselves with the great men of our tribe, the Gandhi and the Nehru, and we castrate ourselves. 'Here, take my manhood and invest it for me. Take my manhood and be a greater man yourself, for my sake!

What war has always been is a puberty ceremony. It's a very rough one, but you went away a boy and came back a man, maybe with an eye missing or whatever but godammit you were a man and people had to call you a man thereafter.

Yeah I'm done. Chase frigging Reese." Slade shook his head. Mustang laughed again. Nothing like some good old-fashion jealousy to make a man see clearly. "Yeah, I know. The kid's got balls. I'll give him that. I guess we better show her what real men can do for her, huh?" "Oh yeah." Slade let out a snort. "'You get a buckle for that you know.' Yeah. I bet he made sure she knew that.

Luis comes along and decides that his definition of a man is someone who is not afraid to be kind. That takes courage.

Here the world is full of all these men trying to model what it means to be a man, but they don't truly know. They think it means be tough, feel nothing, betray nothing. And then Luis comes along and decides that his definition of a man is someone who is not afraid to be kind. That takes courage.

Don Corleone Do you spend time with your family Good. Because a man that doesn't spend time with his family can never be a real man.

Masculinity grows not out of conquering the woman, but only out of conquering the man—and not another man, as in war, but oneself.

He is a better man than you are. […] His 'human fictions,' as you choose to call them, make for nobility and manhood. You have no fictions, no dreams, no ideals. You are a pauper.