Manliness Quotes

“[Y]ou are not ashamed of your sin [in committing adultery] because so many men commit it. Man's wickedness is now such that men are more ashamed of chastity than of lechery. Murderers, thieves, perjurers, false witnesses, plunderers and fraudsters are detested and hated by people generally, but whoever will sleep with his servant girl in brazen lechery is liked and admired for it, and people make light of the damage to his soul. And if any man has the nerve to say that he is chaste and faithful to his wife and this gets known, he is ashamed to mix with other men, whose behaviour is not like his, for they will mock him and despise him and say he's not a real man; for man's wickedness is now of such proportions that no one is considered a man unless he is overcome by lechery, while one who overcomes lechery and stays chaste is considered unmanly.”
― Augustine of Hippo, Sermons 1-19 (Vol. III/1)

“Wise men are not pacifists; they are merely less likely to jump up and retaliate against their antagonizers. They know that needless antagonizers are virtually already insecure enough.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

“Look at all the things that can go wrong for men. There’s the nothing-happening-at-all problem, the too-much-happening-too-soon problem, the dismal-droop-after-a-promising-beginning problem; there’s the size-doesn’t-matter-except-in-my-case problem, the failing-to-deliver-the-goods problem…and what do women have to worry about? A handful of cellulite? Join the club. A spot of I-wonder-how-I-rank? Ditto.”
― Nick Hornby, High Fidelity

“The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom.”
― Plato

“I liked that young man, did not you? There was something particularly pleasing about his manners, which I thought very easy and frank. He has an air of honest manliness, too, which, in these days of fribbles and counter-coxcombs, I own I find refreshing!”
― Georgette Heyer, Bath Tangle

“In heaven's name be a man, sir! Your pitiful whining sickens me!”
― Alan Moore, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Vol. 1

“These were the things that built the world. Not to know or care about them was a betrayal of fundamental principles, a betrayal of gender, of species. What could be more useless than a man who couldn't fix a dripping faucet—fundamentally useless, dead to history, to the messages in his genes? I wasn't sure I disagreed.”
― Don DeLillo, White Noise

“We fight it down, and we live it down, or we bear it bravely well,
But the best men die of a broken heart for the things they cannot tell.”
― Henry Lawson, When I Was King and Other Verses

“The lesson taught at this point by human experience is simply this, that the man who will get up will be helped up; and the man who will not get up will be allowed to stay down. This rule may appear somewhat harsh, but in its general application and operation it is wise, just and beneficent. I know of no other rule which can be substituted for it without bringing social chaos. Personal independence is a virtue and it is the soul out of which comes the sturdiest manhood. But there can be no independence without a large share of self-dependence, and this virtue cannot be bestowed. It must be developed from within.”
― Frederick Douglass, Self-Made Men

“Do not submit yourselves to men who have not yet learned the importance of self-mastery or control. Submission is a gift. You are to be treasured. Do not give him the reward of such sensuous beauty before he has given you the devotion, attention, and affection properly due you. Value yourselves.”
― Sai Marie Johnson

“Any man's measure is determined by what he will do when he is faced with his own deep need. Not how high he may reach but how low he may kneel.”
― J. Otis Yoder, When You Pray

“But I will show him what a man can do
and what a man endures.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

“Manhood Diaries (The Sonnet)

Onun için cennet ol, cehennem değil.
Vicdanlı bir adam ol, hayvan değil.
Sé una bendición para ella, no una maldición.
Onun yaralarına ilacı ol, tuz değil.

Be her paradise, not prison.
Be her man, not master.
Be a miracle to her maladies.
Be her crown, not custard.

There is no alpha male and beta male,
There is only man and baboon.
Decency defines a man's character,
Not the virility of his heirloom.

Partner on the streets,
Slave between the sheets,
That's what a real man is.
Undaunted in danger,
Uncompromising in calamity,
That's what a real human is.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavictor: Kanima Akiyor Kainat

“Integrity and manliness."

what Marcus Aurelius learned from his father and what I learned from my father.

"Anger cannot be dishonest."

- Marcus Aurelius

My father Dr Rabindra Nath Das would get angry at his patients when they came to him for treatment.

And I get angry when my students make mistakes and don't take exams seriously.”
― Avijeet Das

“I’ve strived to be a lion
all my life
because they tell me boys
are made of fangs and blood
but maybe there is
more to us and we
are wolves with
greater patience for
long hunts at night.”
― Ben Ditmars, Moments at Midnight: A Poetry Collaboration

“And who knows what Romance, what Adventure, what Love, is lurking around the next turn of the road, ready to leap out on us if we’ll only travel that far?” –Inscription in George Sterling’s copy of The Road, March 26, 1914”
― Jack London

“There is no alpha male and beta male,
There is only man and baboon.
Decency defines a man's character,
Not the virility of his heirloom.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavictor: Kanima Akiyor Kainat

“Partner on the streets,
Slave between the sheets,
That's what a real man is.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavictor: Kanima Akiyor Kainat

“...the ritual cycle that makes men from boys is a kind of structural transformation by which children are changed into adults, narcissistic passivity is changed into selfless agency, and the raw protoplasm of nature is changed into finished culture.”
― David D. Gilmore, Manhood in the Making: Cultural Concepts of Masculinity

“Such a simple yet sacred thing to know that you are a man but so profane to doubt it.”
― Michael Kurcina, We Fight Monsters: Wisdom and inspiration that speak to the warrior's soul

“Brutal men clumsy in skill weave a warped pattern of their life and wonder how they become entangled in it.”
― Michael Kurcina, We Fight Monsters: Wisdom and inspiration that speak to the warrior's soul

“Unless a man already has it together, attempting to live more manfully by moving to Hollywood is no different than an elephant going to a graveyard to prevent itself from dying.”
― Michael Kurcina, We Fight Monsters: Wisdom and inspiration that speak to the warrior's soul

“Hugs are okay. Hugs are manly (as long as you thump them on the back).”
― Daniel Thorman, Mayhem at the Mill

“Sometimes when he would tell me those stories his eyes would fill with tears. People used to say he was sentimental, but it was because he cared. He felt everything deeply. People around here used to call a man like him ‘soft.’ ‘Maybe so,’ he used to say, ‘but I’m always hard when I have to be, you know that.’ He was full of little double meanings like that, my husband.”
― Alistair MacLeod, No Great Mischief: Adapted from the Novel by Alistair MacLeod

“But Audrey was helping him realize it wasn't brute strength or his ability to sit a horse or wield a sword that made him a man. Self-sacrifice and courage were what defined the best kind of man.”
― Melanie Dickerson, Castle of Refuge

“Every gentleman is alpha male,
whereas most alpha males are just jerks.
Focus on being gentle, being humble,
instead of obsessing over a prehistoric construct.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Yarasistan: My Wounds, My Crown

“Manliness in much of the Mediterranean world can be called a social "agoraphilia", a love for the sunlit public places, for crowds, for the proscenium of life. Such open contexts are associated not only with exposure and sociability but also with risk and opportunity, with the possibility of the grand exploit and the conspicuous deed.”
― David D. Gilmore, Manhood in the Making: Cultural Concepts of Masculinity

“The ideals of manliness found in these places in the Mediterranean seem to have three moral imperatives: first, impregnating one's wife; second, provisioning dependents; third, protecting the family. These criteria demand assertiveness and resolve. All must be performed relentlessly in the loyal service of the "collective identities" of the self.”
― David D. Gilmore, Manhood in the Making: Cultural Concepts of Masculinity

“...a man is expected to emerge from the shadow of women and children and take an active part in the ritualized dramas of community life.”
― David D. Gilmore, Manhood in the Making: Cultural Concepts of Masculinity

“Aside from this notion of fecundity, there are other aspects that need discussion here. Most striking is a powerful belief that masculinity is an artificially induced status, that it is achievable only through testing and careful instruction. Real men do not simply emerge naturally over time like butterflies from boyish cocoons; they must be assiduously coaxed from their juvenescent shells, shaped and nurtured, counseled and prodded into manhood.”
― David D. Gilmore, Manhood in the Making: Cultural Concepts of Masculinity