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I'll be the judge of my own manliness. -- Dennis Rodman
If you're a man, you don't have to worry about your manliness. -- David Gest
First find the man in yourself if you will inspire manliness in others. -- Amos Bronson Alcott
Do not fall prey to the false belief that mastery and domination are synonymous with manliness. -- Kent Nerburn
We Greeks are lovers of the beautiful, yet simple in our tastes, and we cultivate the mind without loss of manliness. -- Thucydides
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
I write to try to find out who I am. One of my main themes is manliness. I think I'm trying to figure out what manliness really is. -- Ernest Gaines
Manliness consists not in bluff, bravado or loneliness. It consists in daring to do the right thing and facing consequences whether it is in matters social, political or other. It consists in deeds not words. -- Mahatma Gandhi
I think it's fascinating that I receive attention for what people perceive to be a level of manliness or machismo, when amongst my family of farmers and paramedics and regular Americans, I'm kind of the sissy in my family. -- Nick Offerman
If Manliness had a soundtrack, the score would be metal. -- Maddox
Is poverty of spirit the chief amongst virtues, that Jesus gives it prime place in his teachings? Is it even a virtue at all? Surely not. Manliness of spirit, honesty of spirit, fullness of rightful purpose, these are virtues; poverty of spirit is a crime. -- Charles Bradlaugh
In all the silent manliness of grief. -- Oliver Goldsmith
Strength and manliness are virtue; weakness and cowardice are sin. -- Swami Vivekananda
The Older I grow, the more everything seems to me to lie in manliness. This is my new gospel -- Swami Vivekananda
Some of football's gaudiest displays of manliness are purely aesthetic. It's not what players do, it's how they look doing it. -- J. R. Moehringer
Here is the manliness of manhood, that a man has a good reason for what he does, and has a will in doing it. -- Alexander MacLaren
Humility is the part of wisdom, and is most becoming in men. But let no one discourage self-reliance; it is, of all the rest, the greatest quality of true manliness. -- Lajos Kossuth
That immaculate manliness we feel within ourselves, so far within us, that it remains intact though all the outer character seem gone; bleeds with keenest anguish at the undraped spectacle of a valor-ruined man. -- Herman Melville
In proportion as man gets back the spirit of manliness, which is self-sacrifice, affection, loyalty loan idea beyond himself, a God above himself, so far will he rise above circumstances, and wield them at his will. -- Charles Kingsley
Fixing things around the house was the last bastion of manliness. But now, even that is getting taken away. As women become more economically independent, they are starting to fix things around the house for themselves. -- Hanna Rosin
I am convinced that the truest act of courage, the strongest act of manliness, is to sacrifice ourselves for others in a totally nonviolent struggle for justice. To be a man is to suffer for others. God help us to be men! -- Cesar Chavez
If you think you can temper yourself into manliness by sitting here over your books, it is the very silliest fancy that ever tempted a young man to his ruin. You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one. -- James Anthony Froude
History is strewn with the wrecks of nations which have gained a little progressiveness at the cost of a great deal of hard manliness, and have thus prepared themselves for destruction as soon as the movements of the world have a chance for it. -- Walter Bagehot
I think it's safe to say that 'manliness' was a common theme in my upbringing. It was an assumed status, but - and here's the important bit - it was the Rudyard Kipling kind. The emphasis was on gentlemanly conduct, sportsmanship, fairness and stoicism. -- Ian Watson
The world cries for men who are strong--strong in conviction, strong to lead, to stand, to suffer. I pray that you will be that kind of man--glad that God made you a man, glad to shoulder the burden of manliness in a time when to do so will often bring contempt. -- Elisabeth Elliot
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
That became my aesthetic - a very Chekhovian, American realist aesthetic in the tradition of Raymond Carver, Richard Ford, and Tobias Wolff. The perfectible, realist story that had these somewhat articulate characters, a lot of silence, a lot of obscured suffering, a lot of manliness, a lot of drinking, a lot of divorces. As my writing went on, I shed a lot of those elements. -- Jess Row
The opposite of manliness isn't cowardice; it's technology. -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
All true manliness grows around a core of divineness. -- Charles Henry Parkhurst
My ideal of manliness is to be incapable of doing anything -- Robert Pattinson
Throw away the servility of imitation, and rise to the manliness of originality. -- Charles Haddon Spurgeon
A man.A really manly man with a lot of mannishness in his manliness. -- Robert Thier
Assurance of hope is more than life, it is health, strength, power, vigor, activity, energy, manliness, beauty. -- J. C. Ryle
It is a higher exhibition of Christian manliness to be able to bear trouble than to get rid of it. -- Henry Ward Beecher
There is need for a crusade of manliness and purity to counteract and nullify the savage work of those who think man is a beast. And that crusade is your work. -- Josemaria Escriva

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