Being A Man Quotes

“Nije čovjek ono što misli, već ono što čini.”
― Meša Selimović, Death and the Dervish

“Courage can't exist without action. Anything else is a lion without his roar.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“But what were you supposed to do with that weight? Once it was on you? Just be a man? Just suck it up? Maybe you were. Maybe that was the real test. Maybe that is exactly the thing that made you a man: the ability to function with the worst possible secrets in your brain. Which was why so many grown-up men seemed so ridiculous. They never felt that responsibility. They were untested, unproven; they were boys in grown-up clothes.”
― Blake Nelson, Paranoid Park

“I'm supposed to be a man but I can't help thinking no one ever showed me what that is supposed to look like. Maybe that is why I ride the middle all the time—never offending anyone, never getting a hard time, but never much standing out either.”
― Heather Duffy Stone, This Is What I Want to Tell You

“If you don't make a stand for something you'll never make a stand for nothing..”
― Alcurtis Turner

“The Five Keys
1.Always be involved in her life 2.Respect and honor her mom.
3.Treasure every moment with her.
4.Pray for her every day.
5.Be her hero.”
― Harry H. Harrison Jr., Father to Daughter: Life Lessons on Raising a Girl

“The purpose of being tough is not to attack, but to protect. The purpose of being strong is not to dominate, but to support. The purpose of having power is not to rule, but to serve. What I've learned is that to be a true man is to be the ultimate servant. With any talent or advantage that life has give you, whether by birth or by circumstance, your duty is to use that advantage in the service of others.”
― Terry Crews, Tough: My Journey to True Power

“A man enrich his community. A man teach and display leadership qualities for his children. A man by his presence is safety and security for his Queen. The best the thing a man can do for this world, his children and Queen is be a man.”
― Carlos Wallace

“To the people, Morel was the hero of a cause that had nothing to do with nations and political ideologies, a cause that had nothing to do with Africa and touched what was deepest in them — a secret rancor — a confused dream of being able one day to emerge victorious from the difficulty of being a man. They were staking a claim to respectful and decent treatment.”
― Romain Gary, The Roots of Heaven

“Men don't cry"
But I ask why?
Are we not human beings?
Are we not vulnerable?
Don't we have feelings which get hurt?
Don't we feel shattered in tough times?
Then why the hell this burden of patriarchy on our shoulders?”
― Deeksha Tripathi, Being a Macho Man

“Let every girl and boy decide who they want to be!
Break the cage, let them fly free.”
― Deeksha Tripathi, Being a Macho Man

“The light from behind her father’s eyes resembled not so much the dimness of time but rather a sort of eclipse. It was almost as if he was two men trapped in one body and that the bigger, brighter, star of a man he used to be had become eclipsed by this small, sturdy, rock of a man that sat before me. His every glance seemed to be warning me - shouting at me - that to live the life of a modern man is to live a life eclipsed.”
― Sean Norris, Heaven and Hurricanes

“Anyone hurts my family, I slap them down. A man does for family. That's one of the rules I got from my pa. His rules for being a man.”
― Allan Dare Pearce, Hitler Burns Detroit

“It is everything that makes a man. It is everything that makes this man. And that is who I am alive, and that is who I am dead.”
― Carew Papritz, The Legacy Letters: his Wife, his Children, his Final Gift

“A good man lives for the joy in life and the happiness of being alive, not shackled to the wants of the future or the regrets of the past.”
― Carew Papritz, The Legacy Letters: his Wife, his Children, his Final Gift

“Eight months in the woods have hardened me, or at least firmed up my beliefs that if a man’s going to fend for himself, then he needs to leave his credit card at home.”
― Fennel Hudson, A Waterside Year: Fennel's Journal No. 2

“What is a Man without his heroic deeds?”
― Avijeet Das

“The ability to laugh is what differentiates man from the beasts, but evidently one cannot always get oneself in a laughing mood.”
― Romain Gary

“To proste - myślał Mieczyś Wojnicz, łykając łzy, które mieszały się z krwią zwierzęcia w jego wątłym ciele - być mężczyzną to nauczyć się ignorować to, co sprawia kłopot. Oto cała tajemnica.”
― Olga Tokarczuk, Empuzjon