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  • Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret. -- Benjamin Disraeli
  • Manhood coerced into sensitivity is no manhood at all. -- Camille Paglia
  • You seek the heights of manhood when you seek the depths of God. -- Edwin Louis Cole
  • The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Manhood is taking care of your family and being able to bless other people. Not yourself - but whether you can bless other people. -- Magic Johnson
  • 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
  • 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. -- Ambrose Bierce
  • Unlike femininity, relaxed masculinity is at bottom empty, a limp nullity. While the female body is full of internal potentiality, the male is internally barren. Manhood at the most basic level can be validated and expressed only in action. -- George Gilder
  • Manhood is patience. Mastery is nine time patience -- Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Manhood and sagacity ripen of themselves; it suffices not to repress or distort them. -- George Santayana
  • My Heart May Change Over Time (Boyhood->Manhood->Old) But The Love It Carries, Will Remain The Same. -- Muhammad Imran Hasan
  • Is not birth, beauty, good shape, discourse, Manhood, learning, gentleness, virtue, youth, liberality, and such like, the spice and salt that season a man -- William Shakespeare
  • Masculinity is risky and elusive. It is achieved by a revolt from woman, and it is confirmed only by other men. Manhood coerced into sensitivity is no manhood at all. -- Camille Paglia
  • Do what thy manhood bids thee do. -- Richard Francis Burton
  • There are alternate definitions of manhood in the West. -- Frank Dobson
  • Peace hath higher tests of manhood, than battle ever knew. -- John Greenleaf Whittier
  • Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • The curse of covetousness is that it destroys manhood by substituting money for character. -- Lucy Larcom
  • I'm not really a relationship expert but... I'm an expert on manhood and what men think. -- Steve Harvey
  • Poverty sits by the cradle of all our great men and rocks all of them to manhood. -- Heinrich Heine
  • There is peace more destructive of the manhood of living man than war is destructive of his material body. -- Douglas William Jerrold
  • All of us who are worth anything, spend our manhood in unlearning the follies, or expiating the mistakes of our youth. -- Percy Bysshe Shelley
  • I've discovered new parts of my manhood, places I couldn't get to without loving someone else unconditionally and putting others before myself. -- Derek Fisher
  • This is the test of your manhood: How much is there left in you after you have lost everything outside of yourself? -- Orison Swett Marden
  • 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
  • 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. -- Muhammad Ali Jinnah
  • 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
  • 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. -- Frank Crane
  • Manliness means perfect manhood, as womanliness implies perfect womanhood. Manliness is the character of a man as he ought to be, as he was meant to be. -- James Freeman Clarke
  • 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. -- Mike Tyson
  • No man has ever risen to the stature of spiritual manhood until he has found that it is finer to serve somebody else than it is to serve himself. -- Woodrow Wilson
  • And gentlemen in England now-a-bed Shall think themselves accurs'd they were not here, And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks That fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day. -- William Shakespeare
  • Adversity toughens manhood, and the characteristic of the good or the great man is not that he has been exempt from the evils of life, but that he has surmounted them. -- Patrick Henry
  • Who-only let him be a man and intent upon honor-is not eager for the honorable ordeal and prompt to assume perilous duties? To what energetic man is not idleness a punishment? -- Seneca the Younger
  • 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. -- Andrew Cohen
  • Malcolm X and Elijah Muhammad's message made a whole lot of people feel whole again, human being again. Some of them came out and found a new meaning to their manhood and their womanhood. -- John Henrik Clarke
  • Father had notions about manhood suffrage, public schools, the education and the elevation of the masses, and the gradual emancipation of the slaves, that did not suit the uncompromising views of people in places like Richmond. -- John Sergeant Wise
  • Ron Swanson is more than the MVP of the 'Parks and Recreation' squad, more than just the funniest character on TV - he's the perfect depiction of aggrieved American manhood at the twilight of the empire. -- Rob Sheffield
  • I think that even though my father wasn't there, in his death and in his memory, he has been a mentor to me in my manhood because my mom couldn't teach me how to be a man. -- Francis Capra
  • 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. -- Muhammad Iqbal
  • Private and public life are subject to the same rules-truth and manliness are two qualities that will carry you through this world much better than policy or tact of expediency or other words that were devised to conceal a deviation from a straight line. -- Robert E. Lee
  • It takes more courage to reveal insecurities than to hide them, more strength to relate to people then to dominate them, more 'manhood' to abide by thought-out principles rather than blind reflex. Toughness is in the soul and spirit, not in muscles and an immature mind. -- Alex Karras
  • We do not admire the man of timid peace. We admire the man who embodies victorious effort; the man who never wrongs his neighbor, who is prompt to help a friend, but who has those virile qualities necessary to win in the stern strife of actual life. -- Theodore Roosevelt
  • 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. -- George S. Patton
  • Civilization comes at a cost of manliness. It comes at a cost of wildness, of risk, of strife. It comes at a cost of strength, of courage, of mastery. It comes at a cost of honor. Increased civilization exacts a toll of virility, forcing manliness into further redoubts of vicariousness and abstraction. -- Jack Donovan
  • 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. -- Allan Houston
  • I'm very proud of being a woman, and as a woman, I don't even like the word 'feminism' because when I hear that word, I associate it with women trying to pretend to be men, and I'm not interested in trying to pretend to be a man. I don't want to embrace manhood; I want to embrace my womanhood. -- Evangeline Lilly
  • One thing about being a stand-up is it's a one-man show. You gotta do everything. You're the producer, writer, director, and the actor. You just gotta be out there and perform and give your all. It's such an honest form of art that it just taught me so much, and it kind of prepared me for manhood at an early age. -- Nick Cannon
  • You cannot barter manhood for peace. -- Robert E. Lee
  • Don't let anybody take your manhood. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Duty is the essence of manhood. -- George S. Patton
  • Initiative is at the heart of manhood -- Dennis Rainey
  • Ungratefulness is the very poison of manhood. -- Philip Sidney
  • Youth longs and manhood strives, but age remembers. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes
  • When you awaken, your manhood will be taken. -- Big Pun
  • Courage without discipline is nearer beastliness than manhood. -- Philip Sidney
  • The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth -- Benjamin Disraeli
  • His manhood sways briefly, then comes to a standstill. -- Carla H. Krueger
  • If we do not redefine manhood, war is inevitable. -- Paul Fussell
  • The childhood of today is the manhood of tomorrow -- William Wordsworth
  • The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth. -- Benjamin Disraeli
  • Trouble teaches men how much there is in manhood. -- Henry Ward Beecher
  • I grew to manhood in the Ohio State Penitentiary. -- Chester Himes
  • If we don't own our manhood someone else will. -- Johnny Hunt
  • Poverty, the mother of manhood. Also, the mother of prostitution. -- Lucan
  • Childhood may do without a grand purpose, but manhood cannot. -- J. G. Holland
  • The Roman state stands by ancient customs, and its manhood. -- Quintus Ennius
  • I'm not a relationship expert. I'm an expert on manhood. -- Steve Harvey
  • How can I develop myself into the grandest possible manhood? -- Orison Swett Marden
  • A happy childhood is the pledge of a ripe manhood. -- Amos Bronson Alcott
  • You can't measure manhood with a tape line around his biceps. -- Billy Sunday
  • I won't do anything for money. I won't compromise my manhood. -- Ice Cube
  • Perugia is my true fatherland because there I grew to manhood. -- Pietro Aretino
  • The oppressed find in the oppressors their model of 'manhood.' -- Paulo Freire
  • War paralyzes your courage and deadens the spirit of true manhood. -- Alexander Berkman
  • There is something in sickness that breaks down the pride of manhood. -- Charles Dickens
  • States, like men, have their growth, their manhood, their decrepitude, their decay. -- Walter Savage Landor
  • I love taking the ball from other people. It's like taking their manhood. -- Josh Howard
  • Nothing can lift the heart of man like manhood in a fellow man. -- Herman Melville
  • A mother's job... is very much to hold back the coming of manhood. -- Michael Gurian
  • I was never in an awkward position where I had to curb my manhood. -- Beanie Sigel
  • Principles must conquer in the long run, for that is the manhood of man. -- Swami Vivekananda
  • Christianity is simply the ideal form of manhood represented to us by Jesus Christ. -- Henry Ward Beecher
  • To have no loyalty is to have no dignity, and in the end, no manhood. -- Peter Forsyth
  • It pays to cultivate popularity. It doubles success possibilities, develops manhood, and builds up character. -- Orison Swett Marden
  • Genius is the power of carrying the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
  • Is not education the art of drawing out full manhood of the children under training? -- Mahatma Gandhi
  • In the meanest are all the materials of manhood, only they are not rightly disposed. -- Henry David Thoreau
  • No man ever reaches manhood till a woman's tenderness Is a part of his possession. -- Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke
  • YESTERDAY, n. The infancy of youth, the youth of manhood, the entire past of age. -- Ambrose Bierce
  • Love makes its record in deeper colors as we grow out of childhood into manhood. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  • Since women do most delight in revenge, it may seem but feminine manhood to be vindictive. -- Thomas Browne
  • Initiative is the essence of manhood. Noting comes to the man who is passive, except failure. -- Dennis Rainey
  • To me, the coaching profession is one of the noblest and most far-reaching in building manhood. -- Amos Alonzo Stagg
  • All daring and courage, all iron endurance of misfortune-make for a finer, nobler type of manhood. -- Theodore Roosevelt
  • The government will ... go on in the highly democratic method of conscripting American manhood for European slaughter. -- Emma Goldman
  • The Bible stands alone in human literature in its elevated conception of manhood, in character and conduct. -- Henry Ward Beecher
  • Endurance is the prerogative of woman, enabling the gentlest to suffer what would cause terror to manhood. -- Christoph Martin Wieland
  • The Swedish language combines the strong manhood of the German with the delicate beauty of the Italian. -- Bayard Taylor
  • Many a man has been dined out of his religion, and his politics, and his manhood, almost. -- Henry Ward Beecher
  • The noiseless foot of Tune steals swiftly by And ere we dream of manhood, age is nigh. -- Juvenal
  • Years ago, manhood was an opportunity for achievement, and now it is a problem to be overcome. -- Garrison Keillor
  • Our youth and manhood are due to our country, but our declining years are due to ourselves. -- Pliny the Elder
  • In the modern technoindustrial culture, it is possible to proceed from infancy into senility without ever knowing manhood. -- Edward Abbey
  • ... The glamour Of childish days is upon me, my manhood is cast Down in the flood of remembrance ... -- D. H. Lawrence
  • To seek the perfection of the warrior's spirit is the only task worthy of our temporariness, our manhood. -- Carlos Castaneda
  • I believe American manhood is too valuable to be sacrificed on foreign soil for foreign issues and causes. -- J. Reuben Clark
  • Who enslaves another's manhood with weak human power alone, Lays a heavier yoke of bondage thoughtlessly upon his own. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Then hush thee, my darling, take rest while you may, For strife comes with manhood, and waking with day. -- Walter Scott
  • In the lexicon of youth which fate reserves for a bright manhood, there is no such word as fail. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • God gives manhood but one clew to success,--utter and exact justice; that he guarantees shall be always expediency. -- Wendell Phillips
  • To be brave in misfortune is to be worthy of manhood; to be wise in misfortune is to conquer fate. -- Agnes Repplier
  • There is something greater than wealth, grander even than fame - manhood, character, stand for success... nothing else really does. -- Orison Swett Marden
  • Personally, I hold that a man, who deliberately and intelligently takes a pledge and then breaks it, forfeits his manhood. -- Mahatma Gandhi
  • Never seen my friends do more push-ups, trying to challenge Cruises' manhood. It was like, I can be strong, too! -- Adam Sandler
  • We can keep whatever we like about manhood but adjust the parts of the definition that are keeping men back. -- Hanna Rosin
  • Through sports a coach can offer a boy a secret way to sneak up on the mystery that is manhood. -- Pat Conroy
  • Travel is a caprice in childhood, a passion in youth, a necessity in manhood, and an elegy in old age. -- Jose Rizal
  • Men and boys, we show our manhood through the way we treat our women. Our wives, our sisters, our mothers. -- Desmond Tutu
  • Now domestication and sophistication of men by women are the norm and acceptable by society, but they are terrible for manhood. -- Debasish Mridha
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