Manhood Quotes - Page 11

• He who cares only for himself in youth will be a very niggard in manhood, and a wretched miser in old age.

  Josiah Johnson Hawes

  Age, Who Cares, Youth

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• Don't sit around playing Mr. Tough Guy. Don't say 'It's going to go away'... It's just important - just go get checked out. It's not like you're going to lose your manhood.

  Peter Criss

  Cancer, Guy, Important

  "Original KISS drummer celebrates surviving breast cancer". Interview with Madison Park, edition.cnn.com. October 15, 2009.

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• Stand true to your calling to be a man. Real women will always be relieved and grateful when men are willing to be men

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Real, Grateful, Men

  Elisabeth Elliot (2007). “The Mark of a Man: Following Christ's Example of Masculinity”, p.81, Revell

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• I learned that he that will be a hero will barely be a man; that he that will be nothing but a doer of his work is sure of his manhood.

  George MacDonald

  Hero, Men, Doers

  George MacDonald (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of George MacDonald (Illustrated)”, p.161, Delphi Classics

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• The American ideal of sexuality appears to be rooted in the American ideal of masculinity. This idea has created cowboys and Indians, good guys and bad guys, punks and studs, tough guys and softies, butch and faggot, black and white. It is an ideal so paralytically infantile that it is virtually forbidden - as an unpatriotic act - that the American boy evolve into the complexity of manhood

  James A. Baldwin

  Black And White, Boys, Cowboy

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• What happened to cause the jail fight? (Maggie) They thought it would be fun to knock around the ‘kid’ and show off their manhood. I thought it would be fun to knock a couple of them unconscious. (Wren)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Couple, Fun, Kids

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• We never know how much one loves till we know how much he is willing to endure and suffer for us; and it is the suffering element that measures love. The characters that are great must, of necessity, be characters that shall be willing, patient and strong to endure for others. To hold our nature in the willing service of another is the divine idea of manhood, of the human character.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Christian, Strong, Character

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• I believe American manhood is too valuable to be sacrificed on foreign soil for foreign issues and causes.

  J. Reuben Clark

  Believe, Issues, Soil

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• The mass of people who are Bible-taught never get free from the erroneous impressions stamped on their minds in their infancy, so that their manhood or womanhood can have no intellectual fulfillment, and millions of them only attain mentally to a sort of second childhood

  Gerald Massey

  Bible, People, Childhood

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• Men and boys, we show our manhood through the way we treat our women. Our wives, our sisters, our mothers.

  Desmond Tutu

  Mother, Boys, Men

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• 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.

  William Allen White

  Heart, Men, Names

  William Allen White (1937). “Forty Years on Main Street”

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• You go into Afghanistan, you got guys who slap women around for five years because they didn't wear a veil. You know, guys like that ain't got no manhood left anyway. So it's a hell of a lot of fun to shoot them. Actually, it’s a lot of fun to fight. You know, it’s a hell of a hoot. It’s fun to shoot some people. I’ll be right up front with you — I like brawling.

  James Mattis

  Fun, Military, Marine

  "Everything You Need to Know About Gen. James Mattis" by Luis Martinez, abcnews.go.com. December 1, 2016.

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• When you awaken, your manhood will be taken.

  Big Pun

  Taken, Hip Hop

  Song: The Dream Shatterer, Album: Endangered Species, 2001

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• We shall have our manhood. We shall have it or the earth will be leveled by our attempts to gain it.

  Eldridge Cleaver

  Earth, Gains

  ELDRIDGE CLEAVER (1968). “SOUL ON ICE”

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• There's neither honesty, manhood, nor good fellowship in thee.

  William Shakespeare

  Honesty, Fellowship, Thee

  William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.363

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• In the modern technoindustrial culture, it is possible to proceed from infancy into senility without ever knowing manhood.

  Edward Abbey

  Knowing, Culture, Modern

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.25, RosettaBooks

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• Good men sometimes make mistakes. A man of integrity will honestly face and correct his mistakes, and that is an example we can respect. Sometimes men try but fail. Not all worthy objectives are realized despite one’s honest and best efforts. True manhood is not always measured by the fruits of one’s labors but by the labors themselves–by one’s striving.

  D. Todd Christofferson

  Mistake, Integrity, Men

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• I want to play a real man in all my films, and I define manhood simply:
  men should be tough, fair, and courageous, never petty,
  never looking for a fight, but never backing down from one either.

  John Wayne

  Real, Fighting, Men

  John Wayne, Carol Lea Mueller (2007). “The Quotable John Wayne: The Grit and Wisdom of an American Icon”, p.53, Taylor Trade Publications

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• Superheroes are mostly aimed at young teen-age males concerned with their manhood. The medium will have to address itself more to content. . . . I see 22 year olds draw massive Schwarzenegger types, outfitted with metal studs, pressing a mostly naked woman to their breastplates. And I think Poor girl, thats got to be cold.

  Will Eisner

  Girl, Thinking, Years

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• When the child has reached manhood he is thoroughly saturated with the belief that he is chosen by the Lord himself to defend his country against the attack or invasion of any foreigner. It is for that purpose that we are clamoring for a greater army and navy, more battleships and ammunition.

  Emma Goldman

  Country, Children, Army

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism: Top Crime Collections”, p.72, 谷月社

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• What a child does not know and does not want to know of race and colour and class, he learns soon enough as he grows to see each man flipped inexorably into some predestined groove like a penny or a sovereign in a banker's rack. Kibii, the Nandi boy, was my good friend. Arab Ruta (the same boy grown to manhood), wo sits before me, is my good friend, but the handclasp will be shorter, the smile will not be so eager on his lips, and though the path is for a while the same, he will walk behind me now, when once, in the simplicity of our nonage, we walked together.

  Beryl Markham

  Children, Good Friend, Boys

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• Enjoy the blessing of strength while you have it and do not bewail it when it is gone, unless, forsooth, you believe that youth must lament the loss of infancy, or early manhood the passing of youth. Life's race-course is fixed; Nature has only a single path and that path is run but once, and to each stage of existence has been allotted its own appropriate quality; so that the weakness of childhood, the impetuosity of youth, the seriousness of middle life, the maturity of old age.. each bears some of Nature's fruit, which must be garnered in its own season.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Strength, Running, Business

  Marcus Tullius Cicero, Clinton Walker Keyes (1992). “Cicero in Twenty-eight Volumes: Cato Maior de Senectute. Laelius de Amicitia. De Divinatione”

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• To seek the perfection of the warrior's spirit is the only task worthy of our temporariness, our manhood.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Spiritual, Warrior, Perfection

  Carlos Castaneda (2009). “The Wheel Of Time: The Shamans Of Mexico Their Thoughts About Life De”, p.95, Simon and Schuster

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• And now, Though haply mellow'd by correcting time, I thank thee, Heaven! that the bereaving world Hath not diminish'd the subliming hopes Of youth, in manhood's more imposing cares.

  Robert Montgomery

  Heaven, Age, World

  Robert Montgomery (1829). “A universal prayer ; Death ; A vision of heaven ; and A vision of hell”, p.88

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• Don't let anybody take your manhood.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

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