Manhood Quotes

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.

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

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

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

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

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!

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

Manhood coerced into sensitivity is no manhood at all.

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

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

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.

And all this effort, all this loss of comradeship, all this prostitution of idealism and manhood, to assist the capitalists of this country to defeat the proletariat!

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.

To be deeply committed to negotiations, to be opposed to a particular war or military action, is not only considered unpatriotic, it also casts serious doubt on one's manhood.

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.

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.

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.

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

People in Nevada know me from the street to the ring to the Senate chambers. I've never had to prove my manhood to anyone.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

My responsibility is always and everywhere the same: to see in my brother more even than the personality and manhood that are his. My task is always and everywhere the same: to see Christ himself.

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.

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.