Manhood Quotes

Youth is a blunder, manhood is a struggle and old age a regret. (Benjamin Disraeli)
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. View quote
Mike Tyson
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. View quote
George S. Patton
A people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood. View quote
Edmund Burke
Mama and Daddy King represent the best in manhood and womanhood, the best in a marriage, the kind of people we are trying to become. View quote
Coretta Scott King
The Roman state stands by ancient customs, and its manhood. View quote
Ennius
And what's a life? A weary pilgrimage, Whose glory in one day doth fill the stage With childhood, manhood, and decrepit age. View quote
Francis Quarles
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. View quote
Theodore Parker
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. View quote
Andrew Cohen
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. View quote
Robert Toombs
Do what thy manhood bids thee do, from none but self expect applause; He noblest lives and noblest dies who makes and keeps his self-made laws. (Richard Francis Burton)
We shall have our manhood. We shall have it or the earth will be leveled by our attempts to gain it. View quote
Eldridge Cleaver
Turn thy thoughts now to the consideration of thy life, thy life as a child, as a youth, thy manhood, thy old age, for in these also every change was a death. Is this anything to fear? View quote
Marcus Aurelius
Travel is a caprice in childhood, a passion in youth, a necessity in manhood, and an elegy in old age. View quote
José Rizal
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. View quote
Cicero
You have to stand guard over the development and maintenance of democracy, social justice and the equality of manhood in your own native soil. View quote
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
The oppressed find in the oppressors their model of 'manhood. View quote
Paulo Freire
I judged the Poles by their enemies. And I found it was an almost unfailing- truth that their enemies were the enemies of magna- nimity and manhood. If a man loved slavery, if he loved usury, if he loved terrorism and all the trampled mire of materialistic politics, I have always found that he added to these affections the passion of a hatred of Poland. She could be judged in the light of that hatred; and the judgment has proved to be right. View quote
G. K. Chesterton
If there was to be equal manhood suffrage the whites would be swamped all over South Africa by the blacks and the whole position for which whites have striven for 200 years or more would be given up. View quote
Jan Smuts
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. View quote
James Mattis
In the lexicon of youth which fate reserves for a bright manhood, there is no such word as fail. (Edward Bulwer-Lytton)
He had that spooky bass voice meant to announce that he had entered the kingdom of manhood, but Rosalie knew that he was still outside the gates. View quote
John Cheever
I have always disliked being a man. The whole idea of manhood in America is pitiful, in my opinion. This version of masculinity is a little like having to wear an ill-fitting coat for one's entire life (by contrast, I imagine femininity to be an oppressive sense of nakedness). View quote
Paul Theroux
When grown-up persons indulge in practical jokes, the fact gauges them. They have lived narrow, obscure, and ignorant lives, and at full manhood they still retain and cherish a job lot of left-over standards and ideals that would have been discarded with their boyhood if they had then moved out into the world and a broader life. View quote
Mark Twain
Man seeks, in his manhood, not orders, not laws and peremptory dogmas, but counsel from one who is earnest in goodness and faithful in friendship, making man free. View quote
Dietrich Bonhoeffer