Quotes of Manhood - somelinesforyou

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

- Douglas William Jerrold

“ Unless in one thing or another we are straining toward perfection, we have forfeited our manhood. ”

- Stephen McKenna

“ 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. ”

- Myriam Miedzian

“ This is the test of your manhood: How much is there left in you after you have lost everything outside of yourself? ”

- Orison S. Marden

“ There is something greater than wealth, grander even than fame — manhood, character, stand for success…nothing else really does. ”

- Orison S. Marden

“ Youth is a blunder, manhood is a struggle and old age a regret. ”

- Benjamin Disraeli

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ The man, most man, works best for men: and, if most man indeed, he gets his manhood plainest from his soul. ”

- Elizabeth Barrett Browning

“ The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth. ”

- Benjamin Disraeli

“ We seem but to linger in manhood to tell the dreams of our childhood, and they vanish out of memory ere we learn the language. ”

- Henry David Thoreau

“ Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of a man you are. It shows me what your ideal of manhood is, and what kind of a man you long to be. ”

- Thomas Carlyle

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

- Benjamin Disraeli

“ We love peace, but not peace at any price. There is a peace more destructive of the manhood of living man, than war is destructive to his body. Chains are worse than bayonets. ”

- Douglas William Jerrold

“ 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. ”

- Coretta Scott King

“ One and God make a majority. ”

- Frederick Douglass

“ We are the majority. ”

- Michael Moore

“ As for our majority... one is enough. ”

- Benjamin Disraeli

“ Not enough,... I'm going to need a majority. ”

- Adlai Stevenson

“ For people to judge a man's worth and his very manhood according to the way he feels about sport, and not to recognize it for the piddly, inconsequential goings on that it really is… ”

- Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

“ I'm glad I didn't have to fight in any war. I'm glad I didn't have to pick up a gun. I'm glad I didn't get killed or kill somebody. I hope my kids enjoy the same lack of manhood. ”

- Tom Hanks

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

- Edmund Burke

“ 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

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

- Percy Bysshe Shelley

“ Hardship and opposition are the native soil of manhood and self-reliance. ”

- John Neil

“ He, in his developed manhood, stood, a little sunburnt by the glare of life. ”

- Elizabeth Barrett Browning

“ It comes to pass oft that a terrible oath, with a swaggering accent sharply twanged off, gives manhood more approbation than ever proof itself would have earned him. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ 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

“ Make it a life-rule to give your best to whatever passes through your hands. Stamp it with your manhood. Let superiority be your trademark… ”

- Orison S. Marden

“ Manhood is melted into courtesies, valor into compliment, and men are only turned into tongue, and trim ones, too. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ No man has ever risen to the real stature of spiritual manhood until he has found that it is finer to serve somebody else than it is to serve himself. ”

- Woodrow T. Wilson
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