Manly Quotes

• The sea - this truth must be confessed - has no generosity. No display of manly qualities - courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness - has ever been known to touch its irresponsible consciousness of power.

  Joseph Conrad

  Power, Sea, Generosity

  Joseph Conrad (2016). “The Mirror of the Sea”, p.118, Xist Publishing

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• Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Inspirational, Life, Wisdom

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.2016, Delphi Classics

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• Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervour.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Short Life, Life Is Too Short, Life Is Short

  "Coningsby, or The New Generation". Book by Benjamin Disraeli (Book VII, Chapter 2), 1844.

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• A man should be able to hear, and to bear, the worst that could be said of him.

  Saul Bellow

  Real Men, Able, Bears

  Saul Bellow (2015). “Ravelstein”, p.72, Penguin

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• It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; . . . who at best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Motivational, Courage, Strong

  Address at the Sorbonne, Paris, 23 Apr. 1910. Richard M. Nixon quoted this passage in his address to the nation announcing his decision to resign the presidency, 8 Aug. 1974. See Theodore Roosevelt 1; Theodore Roosevelt 2; Theodore Roosevelt 5

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• Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Future, Heart, Iron Will

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.2016, Delphi Classics

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• Obedience to lawful authority is the foundation of manly character.

  Robert E. Lee

  Wedding, Character, Civil War

  "General Robert E. Lee After Appomattox" by Franklin Lafayette Riley, (p. 18), 1922.

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• A little less complaint and whining, and a little more dogged work and manly striving, would do us more credit than a thousand civil rights bills.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Work, Rights, Credit

  W. E. B. Du Bois (2014). “The Problem of the Color Line at the Turn of the Twentieth Century: The Essential Early Essays”, p.59, Oxford University Press

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• Growing a beard is a habit most natural, Scriptural, manly and beneficial.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Growing, Beard, Habit

  Charles H. Spurgeon (2010). “Lectures to My Students”, p.150, Zondervan

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  If you had not committed great sins, God would not have sent a punishment like me upon you.

  Genghis Khan

  Badass, Bad Ass, Punishment

  "History of the World Conqueror" by 'Ala-ad-Din 'Ata-Malik Juvain, translated by J.A. Boyle, p. 105, 1958.

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• Nature is a vast repository of manly enjoyments.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Nature, Enjoyment

  Henry Ward Beecher (1856). “Lectures to young men: on various important subjects”, p.221

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• Brown is a manly color

  Cassandra Clare

  Color, Brown

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.1372, Simon and Schuster

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• You may abandon your own body but you must preserve your honour.

  Miyamoto Musashi

  Integrity, Bad Ass, Body

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• If a woman possesses manly virtues, she is to be run away from; and if she does not possess them, she runs away herself.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Running, Doe, Virtue

  "Twilight of the Idols and The Antichrist".

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• I suppose it's not a social norm, and not a manly thing to do - to feel, discuss feelings. So that's what I'm giving the finger to. Social norms and stuff...what good are social norms, really? I think all they do is project a limited and harmful image of people. It thus impedes a broader social acceptance of what someone, or a group of people, might actually be like.

  Jess C Scott

  Relationship, Acceptance, Thinking

  Jess C. Scott (2010). “Trouble (poetry, contemporary)”, p.59, jessINK

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• For the man who makes everything that leads to happiness, or near to it, to depend upon himself, and not upon other men, on whose good or evil actions his own doings are compelled to hinge,--such a one, I say, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation; this is the man of manly character and of wisdom.

  Plato

  Character, Men, Evil

  Socrates, Plato, Aristotle (1967). “Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study”

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• Opposition strengthens the manly will.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Opposition

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• Anything that encourages pauperism, anything that relaxes the manly fiber and lowers self-respect, is an unmixed evil.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Self, Evil, Relax

  Theodore Roosevelt (1901). “The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses”

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• Let us not listen to those who think we ought to be angry with our enemies, and who believe this to be great and manly. Nothing is so praiseworthy, nothing so clearly shows a great and noble soul, as clemency and readiness to forgive.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Forgiveness, Believe, Thinking

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• One thing I always loved about hip-hop music was the raw, boom-bap element - it felt powerful and manly.

  Common

  Powerful, Hip Hop, Elements

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures.

  William Wycherley

  Fellowship, Pleasure, Rational

  William Wycherley (1751). “The Country Wife: A Comedy, as it is Acted at the Theatre-Royal. Written by Mr. Wycherley”, p.10

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• 'Tis more noble to forgive, and more manly to despise, than to revenge an Injury.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Revenge, Forgiving, Noble

  Benjamin Franklin (2004). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.211, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• Come, for my part I will have only those glorious, manly pleasures of being very drunk, and very slovenly.

  William Wycherley

  Drunk, Pleasure, Glorious

  1675 The Country Wife, act 1, sc.1.

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• I'm a man. Men cook outside. That outdoor grilling is a manly pursuit has long been beyond question. If this wasn't understood, you'd never get grown men to put on those aprons with pictures of dancing weenies on the front, and messages like 'Come 'n' Get It!

  Bill Geist

  Men, Long, Dancing

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• I was not ladylike, nor was I manly. I was something else altogether. There were so many different ways to be beautiful.

  Michael Cunningham

  Beautiful, Different, Way

  Michael Cunningham (2010). “A Home at the End of the World: A Novel”, p.10, Macmillan

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