Manhood Quotes

“A man's usefulness depends upon his living up to his ideals insofar as he can.

It is hard to fail but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.

All daring and courage, all iron endurance of misfortune make for a finer, nobler type of manhood.

Only those are fit to live who do not fear to die and none are fit to die who have shrunk from the joy of life and the duty of life.”
― Theodore Roosevelt

“What the world needs now is liberated men who have the qualities Silverstein cites, men who are 'empathetic and strong, autonomous and connected, responsible to self, to family and friends, to society, and capable of understanding how those responsibilities are, ultimately, inseparable.' Men need feminist thinking. It it the theory that supports their spiritual evolution and their shift away from the patriarchal model. Patriarchy is destroying the well-being of men, taking their lives daily.”
― bell hooks, The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love

“There seems to be a fear that if men are raised to be people of integrity, people who can love, they will be unable to be forceful and act violently if needed.... We see that females that are raised with the traits any person of integrity embodies can act with tenderness, with assertiveness, and with aggression if and when aggression is needed.”
― bell hooks, The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love

“Decisions of character come from understanding that they are accountable to God only, not to family, spouses, religious leaders, corporations, public opinion or your own ego.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“You cannot measure a man by his riches but by the quality of the woman holding his hand.”
― Avra Amar Filion, The Ellison Effect

“Don't tell me I'm "too tall" just because my height happens to threaten your rather fragile sense of masculinity. The fact that men cannot physically look down upon women who are taller than them is the very reason that many men find tall women so intimidating.”
― Miya Yamanouchi, Embrace Your Sexual Self: A Practical Guide for Women

“This fear of maleness that they inspire estranges men from every female in their lives to greater or lesser degrees, and men feel the loss. Ultimately, one of the emotional costs of allegiance to patriarchy is to be seen as unworthy of trust.”
― bell hooks, The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love

“I thought of what my mom had said. "You talk like a man." It was easier to talk like a man than to be one.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

“Guys, you don't have to act "manly" to be considered a man; you are a man, so just be yourself. You don't have to prove your masculinity to anyone.”
― Miya Yamanouchi, Embrace Your Sexual Self: A Practical Guide for Women

“What’s happened? A very remarkable thing, Scarlett. I’ve been thinking. I don’t believe I really thought from the time of the surrender until you went away from here. I was in a state of suspended animation and it was enough that I had something to eat and a bed to lie on. But when you went to Atlanta, shouldering a man’s burden, I saw myself as much less than a man--much less, indeed, than a
woman. Such thoughts aren’t pleasant to live with, and I do not intend to live with them any longer. Other men came out of the war with less than I had, and look at them now.”
― Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind

“Many of those who elected to remain might have escaped. 'Chivalry' is a mild appellation for their conduct. Some of the vaunted knights of old were desperate cowards by comparison. A fight in the open field, or jousting in the tournament, did not call out the manhood in a man as did the waiting till the great ship took the final plunge, in the knowledge that the seas round about were covered with loving and yearning witnesses whose own salvation was not assured.”
― The Sinking of the Titanic and Great Sea Disasters

“Now domestication and sophistication of men by women are the norm and acceptable by society, but they are terrible for manhood.”
― Debasish Mridha M.D.

“I don’t want to be a free nigger; I want to be a free man.”
“Don’t we all. Look. Be what you want--- white or black. Choose. But if you choose black, you got to act black, meaning draw your manhood up—quicklike, and don’t bring me no whiteboy sass.”
Hunter’s Hunter and Godlen Gray”
― Toni Morrison, Jazz

“But Miles had always approached life differently than he, always preferring to blend in with his surroundings rather than to shape them, always preferring to make do. He just didn’t understand that there were some things in life a man simply should not accept.”
― Terry Brooks, Magic Kingdom for Sale/Sold

“He's got all the equipment of manhood save the parts that matter.”
― Benjamin Whitmer, Pike

“I love movies and all, but I could never imagine standing around saying lines and playing make believe all day. It’s too fucking ridiculous. Also, even children and animals can technically be actors. It’s not a job for a man.”
― A.D. Aliwat, Alpha

“Like many liberal men in the age of feminism, he believed women should have equal access to jobs and be given equal pay, but when it came to matters of home and heart he still believed caregiving was the female role. Like many men, he wanted a woman to be 'just like his mama' so that he did not have to do the work of growing up.”
― bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions

“In a world of spiritual eunuchs, it is good to find a man who is more than simply male.”
― Douglas Wilson, Reforming Marriage: Gospel Living for Couples

“And hearing him, Stephen found herself thinking that all men had something simple about them; something that took pleasure in the things that were blameless, that longed, as it were, to contact Nature.”
― Radclyffe Hall

“The shortest road man walks, is sadly the road of gratitude!”
― Avra Amar Filion

“My good friend Danny Abramowicz loves to tell men at men’s conferences: “Men, your kids will always love their mother, but they want to become just like you!” If we are not holy ourselves, then our families will not be holy. It is that simple. God is going to speak to men, women, and children, but He is speaking especially to men to help us be His very image.
You are the sacrament of Fatherhood to your children just like St. Joseph was the sacrament of Fatherhood to Jesus. Just as God used St. Joseph to form Jesus Christ in His humanity, so too does He want to use you to form your children. So I would encourage you before you read any further to stop and ask St. Joseph for his intercession for you so you can grow in holiness.”
― Larry Richards, Be a Man!: Becoming the Man God Created You to Be

“It was a symposium of horror and heroism, the like of which has not been known in the civilized world since man established his dominion over the sea.”
― The Sinking of the Titanic and Great Sea Disasters

“If he had learned anything in manhood, it was that it didn’t matter what other people thought of him—even the ones he respected. In the end, he would patch together a life, with its sorry errors and its triumphs, just as they had.”
― Conn Iggulden, Khan: Empire of Silver

“Mr. Ellison is like a pomegranate: messy, leaves stains, more seeds than meat, but you pick one by one and discover all the little bits were worth it.”
― Avra Amar Filion

“It also strikes me that male-to-male bonding can create a gender role conflict, as it challenges the myth of full independence. Heroism is an exception. In fact, heroism has a long tradition as part of manhood. Bonds formed through natural disaster or war are exceptions to the typical “self-reliance” rules. These are op-portunities for men to experience a type of connection with each other that is ordinarily prohibited by the “rules” of manhood.”
― Mary Crocker Cook, Codependency & Men

“I don't understand the constant need to prove one's manhood, as if it is always on the verge of slipping away. We never need to prove our womanhood.”
― Stacey Lee

“Masculinity must prove itself, and do so before an audience.”
― Harvey Mansfield

“Woman means the bone of a man. In the Ga language “Wo” means bone.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!

“To respect law, a man carries mercy with his endeavours. To respect ethics, he moves on wasteful relationships.”
― Harshit Walia

“It’s a hard man who’s only just, and a sad man who’s only wise.”
― Gregory Benford, Foundation's Fear