Quotes About Manhood

I will be a man among men; and no longer a dreamer among shadows.

A boy gets to be a man when a man is needed. Remember this thing. I have known boys forty years old because there was no need for a man.

I think for most guys, when we grow up we're trying to establish what being a man means to us and so I think it's pretty helpful and beneficial when there's a role model in the house.

For all of higher civilization's recorded history, becoming a man was defined overwhelmingly as taking responsibility for a family.

The man, most man, works best for men: and, if most man indeed, he gets his manhood plainest from his soul.

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.

The poet, as a rule, is a half-man - a sissy, not a real person, and he is in no shape to lead real men in matters of blood, or courage.

Don't become me. Don't let her down like I did. You only deserve what you make yourself worthy of. Do what I couldn't. Be a man.

I like being able to be a man.

All the strands of my life came together and I really became a man when I moved to Chicago.

I wanted to play in the NBA, I wanted to play sports, I wanted to do all this. And I have. I think I am becoming a man.

And me I'm in the bathroom crying out my eyelids because it's hard to be a man when you're scared, just like a little kid.

There's something within contemporary culture which is far more faux masculine than it was when men were really men.

As I've gotten older I look like a man, finally.

The war had made a man of him! It had coarsened him and hardened him. There was no other way to look at it. It had made him reach a point at which he would no longer stand unbearable things.

I'm at a point in my life where I have three kids. I'm a father, and you start to take stock and measure yourself as a man and see where there's room for growth.

The world is full of guys. Be a man. Don't be a guy

I thank God for making me a man.

I'm very uncomfortable about the way I look but confident as a man.

Well, we are men. Let's start acting like it.

Men, in whatever anxiety they may be, if they are men, sometimes indulge in relaxation.

I'd love to be a dad. I hope I'd be great at it. That's every man's fear, yet his most important job.

Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.

Wounds are an essential part of life, and until you are wounded in some way, you cannot become a man.