Be A Man Quotes - Page 2

• Anyone else feel like that? Like your life's a big act. Like you're trying to be a man when you're just a scared kid, trying to keep under control when you really want to scream, cry, or maybe hit someone. Ever feel like you're breathing underwater and you have to stop because you're gulping in too much fluid.

  Alex Flinn

  Kids, Men, Breathing

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• Men of principle are sure to be bold,
  but those who are bold may not always be men of principle.

  Confucius

  Men, Principles, May

  Confucius “The Analects”, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Modesty teaches us to speak of the ancients with respect, especially when we are not very familiar with their works. Newton, who knew them practically by heart, had the greatest respect for them, and considered them to be men of genius and superior intelligence who had carried their discoveries in every field much further than we today suspect, judging from what remains of their writings. More ancient writings have been lost than have been preserved, and perhaps our new discoveries are of less value than those that we have lost.

  Francis Atterbury

  Writing, Heart, Men

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• I feel like as a linebacker or a D-lineman, any cut, it's a man sport -- be a man, hit me up high, Hit like rams. You don't see a ram going and cutting another ram's legs. They hit head to head, pad to pad.

  Patrick Willis

  Sports, Cutting, Men

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• To be a man is, precisely, to be responsible. It is to feel shame at the sight of what seems to be unmerited misery. It is to take pride in a victory won by one's comrades. It is to feel, when setting one's stone, that one is contributing to the building of the world.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Responsibility, Pride, Men

  "'Terre des Hommes' ('Wind, Sand and Stars')". Book by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, translated by Lewis Galantière. Chapter II: "The Men", 1939.

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• I want to marry her, when I grow up to be a man.

  Tamora Pierce

  Growing Up, Men, Want

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• I am Todd Hewitt, I think to myself with my eyes closed. I am twelve years and twelve months old. I live in Prentisstown on New World. I will be a man in one month’s time exactly.

  Patrick Ness

  Eye, Men, Thinking

  "Becoming a Reflective English Teacher". Book by Andrew Green, 2011.

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• I can only do what's easy. I can only entice and be enticed. I can't, and won't, attempt difficult relations. If I marry it will either be a man who's strong enough to boss me or whom I'm strong enough to boss. So I shan't ever marry, for there aren't such men. And Heaven help any one whom I do marry, for I shall certainly run away from him before you can say 'Jack Robinson.

  E. M. Forster

  Running, Strong, Men

  E. M. Forster (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated)”, p.674, Delphi Classics

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• I consider myself to be a man of principle. But, what man does not? Even the cutthroat, I have noticed, considers his actions "moral" after a fashion. Perhaps another person, reading of my life, would name me a religious tyrant. He could call me arrogant. What is to make that man's opinion any less valid than my own? I guess it all comes down to one fact: In the end, I'm the one with the armies.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Religious, Fashion, Reading

  Brandon Sanderson (2011). “Mistborn Trilogy”, p.27, Macmillan

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• Because he had not done what she, with her heart in her mouth, had hoped he would do, which was to be a man: deny everything, and swear on his life it was not true, and grow indignant at the false accusation, and shout curses at this ill-begotten society that did not hesitate to trample on one's honor, and remain imperturbable even when forced with crushing proofs of his disloyalty.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Crush, Heart, Men

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• I couldn’t miss Percy’s fifteenth birthday,” Poseidon said. “Why, if this were Sparta, Percy would be a man today!” "That’s true,” Paul said. “I used to teach ancient history.” Poseidon’s eyes twinkled. “That’s me. Ancient history.

  Rick Riordan

  Eye, Men, Missing

  "Percy Jackson and the Battle of the Labyrinth". Book by Rick Riordan, books.google.ru. March 5, 2009.

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• Be a man!... What good is religion if it collapses under calamity? Think of what earthquakes and floods, wars and volcanoes, have done before to men! Did you think that God had exempted [us]? He is not an insurance agent.

  H. G. Wells

  War, Men, Thinking

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• The Magic in this garden has made me stand up and know I am going to live to be a man.

  Frances Hodgson Burnett

  Men, Garden, Magic

  Frances Hodgson Burnett (2003). “The Secret Garden: Centennial Edition”, p.143, Penguin

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• Love lost is a special kind of failure, I think. It's a reminder that some consummations, no matter how devoutly wished for, never come; that some apes will never be men, not in all the world's ages.

  Ian Caldwell

  Lost Love, Men, Thinking

  Ian Caldwell, Dustin Thomason (2005). “The rule of four”, Egully.com

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• This it is to be a man of the highest type: to be and not seem; to do and not simply to talk; to have the right ideal, the true motive and patiently to transform conduct in accordance with it.

  Ossian Everett Mills

  Men, Good Man, Patient

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• A woman fit to be a man's wife is too good to be his servant.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Men, Wife, Fit

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• In essence, there is only one thing God asks of us - that we be men and women of prayer, people for whom God is everything and for whom God is enough. That is the root of peace. We have that peace when the gracious God is all we seek. When we start seeking something besides Him, we lose it.

  Brennan Manning

  Prayer, Men, Essence

  Brennan Manning (2008). “The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out”, p.30, Multnomah

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• I began to learn what poverty meant. It was burnt in my heart then that my father had to beg for work and there came the resolve that I would cure that when I got to be a man.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Inspirational, Father, Heart

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• Every man is not so much a workman in the world as he is a suggestion of that he should be. Men walk as prophecies of the next age.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Growth, Age

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.69, Penguin

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• What we want is muscles of iron and nerves of steel. We have wept long enough. No more weeping, but stand on your feet and be men. It is man-making theories that we want. It is man-making education all round that we want.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Motivational, Men, Iron

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1143, Manonmani Publishers

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• We have wept enough. No more weeping, but stand on feet and be men.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Motivational, Men, Feet

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• This room is a testimony that there are men who want to be a man for God and a man of God.

  Mike Huckabee

  Leadership, Christian, Men

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• To age with dignity and with courage cuts close to what it is to be a man.

  Roger Kahn

  Courage, Cutting, Men

  Roger Kahn (2013). “The Boys of Summer”, p.17, Aurum Press Limited

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• Another argument of hope may be drawn from this-that some of the inventions already known are such as before they were discovered it could hardly have entered any man's head to think of; they would have been simply set aside as impossible. For in conjecturing what may be men set before them the example of what has been, and divine of the new with an imagination preoccupied and colored by the old; which way of forming opinions is very fallacious, for streams that are drawn from the springheads of nature do not always run in the old channels.

  Francis Bacon

  Running, Men, Thinking

  Francis Bacon, Rose-Mary Sargent (1999). “Selected Philosophical Works”, p.134, Hackett Publishing

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• Reason, if consulted with, would advise, that their children's time should be spent in acquiring what might be useful to them when they come to be men, rather than to have their heads stuff'd with a deal of trash, a great part whereof they usually never do ('tis certain they never need to) think on again as long as they live: and so much of it as does stick by them they are only the worse for.

  John Locke

  Children, Men, Thinking

  John Locke, George Berkeley (2010). “Locke, Berkely and Hume”, p.84, Cosimo, Inc.

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