Top 419 Manhood Quotes & Sayings

Trouble teaches men how much there is in manhood.

The oppressed find in the oppressors their model of 'manhood.'

Initiative is at the heart of manhood

The Roman state stands by ancient customs, and its manhood.

If we do not redefine manhood, war is inevitable.

Manhood coerced into sensitivity is no manhood at all.

How can I develop myself into the grandest possible manhood?

Duty is the essence of manhood.

A people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood.

States, like men, have their growth, their manhood, their decrepitude, their decay.

Youth longs and manhood strives, but age remembers.

I'm growing into my manhood body.

I have confidence in my manhood to be able to cry at a movie or at a wedding, too.

War paralyzes your courage and deadens the spirit of true manhood.

Courage without discipline is nearer beastliness than manhood.

I won't do anything for money. I won't compromise my manhood.

The curse of covetousness is that it destroys manhood by substituting money for character.

Principles must conquer in the long run, for that is the manhood of man.

Initiative is the essence of manhood. Noting comes to the man who is passive, except failure.

Ungratefulness is the very poison of manhood.

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

By religion I mean perfected manhood,--the quickening of the soul by the influence of the Divine Spirit.

Human life, from the cradle to the grave, is a school. At every period of his existence man wants a teacher. His pilgrimage upon earth is but a term of childhood, in which he is to be educated for the manhood of a brighter world. As the child must be educated for manhood upon earth, so the man must be educated upon earth, for heaven; and finally that where the foundation is not laid in time, the superstructure can not rise for eternity.

God tested Abraham. Temptation is not meant to make us fail; it is meant to confront us with a situation out of which we emerge stronger than we were. Temptation is not the penalty of manhood; it is the glory of manhood.

There is a great deal more correctness of thought respecting manhood in bodily things than in moral things. For men's ideas of manhood shape themselves as the tower and spire of cathedrals do, that stand broad at the bottom, but grow tapering as they rise, and end, far up, in the finest lines, and in an evanishing point. Where they touch the ground they are most, and where they reach to the heaven they are least.

We live in a society where manhood is all about conquering and violence. And what we don't realize is that ultimately that kind of manhood ultimately kills you.

If we don't own our manhood someone else will.

The childhood of today is the manhood of tomorrow

There are alternate definitions of manhood in the West.

The Swedish language combines the strong manhood of the German with the delicate beauty of the Italian.

You cannot barter manhood for peace.

A happy childhood is the pledge of a ripe manhood.

Genius is the power of carrying the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood.

I grew to manhood in the Ohio State Penitentiary.

The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.

Years ago, manhood was an opportunity for achievement, and now it is a problem to be overcome.

There is something in sickness that breaks down the pride of manhood.

You can't measure manhood with a tape line around the biceps.

Childhood may do without a grand purpose, but manhood cannot.

Perugia is my true fatherland because there I grew to manhood.

Is not education the art of drawing out full manhood of the children under training?

In the lexicon of youth which fate reserves for a bright manhood, there is no such word as fail.

Here is the manliness of manhood, that a man has a good reason for what he does, and has a will in doing it.

give the man of color an equal opportunity with the white, from the cradle to manhood, and from manhood to the grave, and you would discover the dignified statesman, the man of science, and the philosopher.

In times past there were rituals of passage that conducted a boy into manhood, where other men passed along the wisdom and responsibilities that needed to be shared. But today we have no rituals. We are not conducted into manhood; we simply find ourselves there.

The whole gun debate needs to be infused with a discussion about manhood. It's frustrating to hear debates about gun rights vs. gun control, and yet very few people say what's hidden in plain sight: It's really a contest of meanings about manhood.

A man's car is like an extension of their ego and their manhood.

No, no. I draw the line there. Anything that's going to show an outline of my manhood is not on.

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

To have no loyalty is to have no dignity, and in the end, no manhood.

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

Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members.

I was never in an awkward position where I had to curb my manhood.

When you awaken, your manhood will be taken.

Manhood and sagacity ripen of themselves; it suffices not to repress or distort them.

Masculinity is risky and elusive. It is achieved by a revolt from woman, and it is confirmed only by other men. Manhood coerced into sensitivity is no manhood at all.

Do what thy manhood bids thee do.

A mother's job... is very much to hold back the coming of manhood.

Don't let anybody take your manhood.

My dad set a clear model for me for what manhood was all about.