“ Unless in one thing or another we are straining toward perfection, we have forfeited our manhood. ”
- Stephen McKenna- Copy
- 549
“ 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- Copy
- 2.4K
“ 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- Copy
- 1.7K
“ There is something greater than wealth, grander even than fame — manhood, character, stand for success…nothing else really does. ”
- Orison S. Marden- Copy
- 3.5K
“ Youth is a blunder, manhood is a struggle and old age a regret. ”
- Benjamin Disraeli- Copy
- 3K
“ The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
- 296
“ The man, most man, works best for men: and, if most man indeed, he gets his manhood plainest from his soul. ”
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning- Copy
- 1.6K
“ The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth. ”
- Benjamin Disraeli- Copy
- 862
“ 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- Copy
- 2.5K
“ 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- Copy
- 941
“ 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- Copy
- 2.5K
“ 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- Copy
- 871
“ 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- Copy
- 3.1K
“ 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- Copy
- 4K
“ A people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood. ”
- Edmund Burke- Copy
- 3.1K
“ 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- Copy
- 2.2K
“ All of us, who are worth anything, spend our manhood in unlearning the follies, or expiating the mistakes of our youth. ”
- Percy Bysshe Shelley- Copy
- 2K
“ Hardship and opposition are the native soil of manhood and self-reliance. ”
- John Neil- Copy
- 2.1K
“ He, in his developed manhood, stood, a little sunburnt by the glare of life. ”
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning- Copy
- 3.3K
“ 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- Copy
- 757
“ 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- Copy
- 3.5K
“ 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- Copy
- 3.5K
“ Manhood is melted into courtesies, valor into compliment, and men are only turned into tongue, and trim ones, too. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
- 2.9K
“ 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- Copy
- 2.8K
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