Quotes About Manhood

The military is sort of the ultimate test of proving that you're a man, and certainly that whole idea was very much uppermost in my mind when I joined the Army.

We can keep whatever we like about manhood but adjust the parts of the definition that are keeping men back.

Walking humbly, you are more of a man than you were when you walked proudly.

A man that is afraid is never a man.

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.

Nothing can lift the heart of man like manhood in a fellow man.

He gets his courage from the can, it makes him feel like a man.

I suppose they're confident. I think younger guys love the idea of a divorced woman who's going to teach them how to be a man.

It can be said of him, when he departed he took a Man's life with him. No sounder piece of British manhood was put together in that eighteenth century of Time.

Poverty, the mother of manhood. Also, the mother of prostitution.

A mother's job... is very much to hold back the coming of manhood.

My mother's a staunch feminist, so I grew up with very strong feminist messages. As a result, I battled her in my teenage years because my image of being a man was a deformed one.

I felt that that experience, because of the responsible nature that I found I acted all during that traumatic time, that I felt that I was a man.

War is to man what motherhood is to a woman. From a philosophical and doctrinal viewpoint, I do not believe in perpetual peace.

Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, which course is patriotic and which isn't. You cannot shirk this and be a man.

There is peace more destructive of the manhood of living man than war is destructive of his material body.

When the soul wants to depend upon nothing, not even upon life, that is the height of philosophy, the height of manhood.

Being a man is the continuing battle for one's life. One loses a bit of manhood with every stale compromise to the authority of any power in which one does not believe.

Whoever tramples on the plea for justice temperately made in the name of peace only outrages peace and kills something fine in the heart of man which God put there when we got our manhood.

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

What! grieve that time has brought so soon The sober age of manhood on! As idly might I weep, at noon, To see the blush of morning gone.

Eddie is a man in all that noun means.

Every man knows that his highest purpose in life cannot be reduced to any particular relationship. If a man prioritizes his relationship over his highest purpose, he weakens himself, disserves the universe, and cheats his woman of an authentic man who can offer his full, undivided presence.

On a good day I think I'm handsome, on an average day I'm average. I'm a man's man so I don't necessarily know how cute we're supposed to be.