Manhood Quotes

Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best; it removes all that is base. All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is the essence of manhood.
George S. Patton

Men, Best, Fear

The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Great, Men, After

In the meanest are all the materials of manhood, only they are not rightly disposed.
Henry David Thoreau

Meanest, Disposed, Materials

When I fight someone, I want to break his will. I want to take his manhood. I want to rip out his heart and show it to him.
Mike Tyson

Heart, Fight, Someone

Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.
Benjamin Disraeli

Age, Struggle, Regret

Childhood: the period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth - two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age.
Ambrose Bierce

Life, Age, Human

Responsibility is the thing people dread most of all. Yet it is the one thing in the world that develops us, gives us manhood or womanhood fiber.
Frank Crane

Dread, Womanhood, Develops

You seek the heights of manhood when you seek the depths of God.
Edwin Louis Cole

God, Seek, Heights

All of us who are worth anything, spend our manhood in unlearning the follies, or expiating the mistakes of our youth.
Percy Bysshe Shelley

Mistakes, Youth, Worth

You have to stand guard over the development and maintenance of Islamic democracy, Islamic social justice and the equality of manhood in your own native soil.
Muhammad Ali Jinnah

Equality, Justice, Democracy

Manhood coerced into sensitivity is no manhood at all.
Camille Paglia

Peace hath higher tests of manhood, than battle ever knew.
John Greenleaf Whittier

Peace, Battle, Knew

Another way of judging the value of a prophet's religious experience, therefore, would be to examine the type of manhood that he has created, and the cultural world that has sprung out of the spirit of his message.
Muhammad Iqbal

Experience, Another, Judging

I've discovered new parts of my manhood, places I couldn't get to without loving someone else unconditionally and putting others before myself.
Derek Fisher

Someone, Before, Others

All our pursuits, from childhood to manhood, are only trifles of different sorts and sizes, proportioned to our years and views.
Samuel Richardson

Different, Childhood, Views

Only when manhood is dead - and it will perish when ravaged femininity no longer sustains it - only then will we know what it is to be free.
Andrea Dworkin

Free, Dead, Longer

I'm not really a relationship expert but ...I'm an expert on manhood and what men think.
Steve Harvey

Blood is a cleansing and sanctifying thing, and the nation that regards it as the final horror has lost its manhood... there are many things more horrible than bloodshed, and slavery is one of them!
Padraic Pearse

Lost, Nation, Blood

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

Peace, God, Heart

It is very sad for a man to make himself servant to a single thing; his manhood all taken out of him by the hydraulic pressure of excessive business.
Theodore Parker

Business, Sad, Single

We have not sought this conflict; we have sought too long to avoid it; our forbearance has been construed into weakness, our magnanimity into fear, until the vindication of our manhood, as well as the defence of our rights, is required at our hands.
Robert Toombs

Fear, Long, Until

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

Peace, War, Living

Ron Swanson is more than the MVP of the 'Parks and Recreation' squad, more than just the funniest character on TV - he's the perfect depiction of aggrieved American manhood at the twilight of the empire.
Rob Sheffield

Character, Perfect, American

I'm not a relationship expert. I'm an expert on manhood.
Steve Harvey

The more consistent a father can be or a mentor can be in the person's life and teach them principles of real solid manhood, character, integrity and leadership, the more consistent you can be in the person's life and teach them those things at a younger age, and then the better off they'll be.
Allan Houston

Life, Leadership, Age

The men whose manhood you have broken will loathe you, and will always be brooding and scheming to strike a fresh blow.
James Larkin

Men, Broken, Fresh

More fundamentally, it is a dream that does not die with the onset of manhood: the dream is to play endlessly, past the time when you are called home for dinner, past the time of doing chores, past the time when your body betrays you past time itself.
John Thorn

Time, Home, Past

Few men can be said to have inimitable excellencies: let us watch them in their progress from infancy to manhood, and we shall soon be convinced that what they attained was the necessary consequence of the line they pursued, and the means they used.
Adam Clarke

Men, Said, Used

Just as the child is father to the man, so the impressions of one's youth remain the most vivid in manhood.
Gustav Stresemann

Father, Child, Youth

Men are recognizing that they have been forced to conform to a very narrow and rather two-dimensional picture of maleness and manhood that they have never had the freedom to question.
Andrew Cohen

Men, Freedom, Rather

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