216 Quotes About Manhood

Manhood is patience. Mastery is nine times patience.

Suddenly, it seemed to me an eternity since I had last seen Mam, and I cried."What is wrong with the boy?" the monk asked."It is his first day out," Dad fumbled. "Cheer up," the monk said to me. "You are becoming a man.""I am hungry," I told him."That is one way of becoming a man," he concluded.

I had to decide between being a man who is not entirely a man, and being a dead man. I chose the former.

I have been lying to myself thinking that I know a man when I see one. And all those giant men who taught me what it is to be a man are also liars. Either that or you are a liar. You be the judge.There was silence.'And just for the record, I won't leave my home in the care of a man who is not a man.

You cannot measure a man by his riches but by the quality of the woman holding his hand.

No one owes you anything. If we live our lives expecting people to hand us anything, we’ll not only alienate all of our friends, but we’ll create a situation where our value is puffed up and manufactured, and not based on our actual value. When something goes wrong, when crisis comes, we are left feeling bankrupt.

I know that women want to be treated equally - and they should be treated equally - but the truth is - no man should ever strike a woman unless he needs to protect his life or the life of another - and even then - fleeing the situation is a better option whenever possible. If you find yourself at a place where you are so angry that you want to strike a woman - then you need to get some help.

If life is a battlefield, many of us would be rejected as 4F, given a card, and sent home. What can we do to be ready for the battle of manhood? What can we do to reset ourselves, and get our lives healthy enough to thrive?

In our culture today – there is a rampant “victim mentality” – and while we don’t want to take away the legitimate issues that a real victim of a crime or abuse faces – we think somehow people have used their status as victim as a cop out, or invented reasons to identify as a victim.