I want to play a real man in all my films, and I define manhood simply: men should be tough, fair, and courageous, never petty, never looking for a fight, but never backing down from one either.
- John Wayne"Unfortunately, I never knew my father and when I did, it was very briefly. He was incarcerated for most of my life and he was killed two years ago; he was shot. 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 CapraI`m glad I didn`t have to fight in any war. I`m glad I didn`t have to pick up a gun. I`m glad I didn`t get killed or kill somebody. I hope my kids enjoy the same lack of manhood.
- Tom HanksWhen 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 TysonMama 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 KingMen 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 CohenA certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man; it is what he wants and must have to be good for anything. Hardship and opposition are the native soil of manhood and self-reliance.
- John NealThe men whose manhood you have broken will loathe you, and will always be brooding and scheming to strike a fresh blow.
- James LarkinA few among them - not lost to all sense of manhood - had tried, time and again, to organise their fellows, but failure attended their efforts.
- James LarkinMidshipmen and cadets remain stronger and more aggressive than their male counterparts at civilian schools. They eagerly play sports such as rugby, boxing, karate, lacrosse, and football. They drive fast cars, usually sports cars. They play hard. They drink hard. They are physical, often abusive among each other. They are not trying to prove their manhood: they are celebrating their masculinity. They are competitive, often vulgar, and tough, and every citizen who may someday send a friend or relative into war should rejoice, because combat is competitive, vulgar, and tough, and they will be leading men in combat.
- James WebbOnly when manhood is dead - and it will perish when ravaged femininity no longer sustains it - only then will we know what it is to be free.
- Andrea DworkinFew men can be said to have inimitable excellencies: let us watch them in their progress from infancy to manhood, and we shall soon be convinced that what they attained was the necessary consequence of the line they pursued, and the means they used.
- Ahmad WesleyWe love peace, but not peace at any price. There is a peace more destructive of the manhood of living man, than war is destructive to his body. Chains are worse than bayonets.
- Alastair ClarksonThere is peace more destructive of the manhood of living man than war is destructive of his material body.
- Alastair ClarksonYou seek the heights of manhood when you seek the depths of God.
- Alberto BernalPeace hath higher tests of manhood, than battle ever knew.
- Alison GossMore fundamentally, it is a dream that does not die with the onset of manhood: the dream is to play endlessly, past the time when you are called home for dinner, past the time of doing chores, past the time when your body betrays you past time itself.
- Allan GurganusIf I somehow felt like having a site which strictly validates was an indication of my manhood, maybe I`d do it, but it really means very little to me. We`re mavericks over here, what can we say?
- Amar StoudemireYou 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.
- Ambrosia AndersonWe have not sought this conflict; we have sought too long to avoid it; our forbearance has been construed into weakness, our magnanimity into fear, until the vindication of our manhood, as well as the defence of our rights, is required at our hands.
- Andre BauerWhoever tramples on the plea for justice temperately made in the name of peace only outrages peace and kills something fine in the heart of man which God put there when we got our manhood.
- Andrew MaynardIt has a much faster pace than football or boxing. And it`s something the younger generation has been accustomed to now: instant solutions and continuous action. This also may be a way for men to show their manhood, so to speak (when they gather to watch these events as fans). It`s male bonding and a way to show that one is tough.
- Anissa MadridYou don`t mess with a man`s money; you don`t mess with a man`s woman; you don`t mess with a man`s family or his manhood these were a man`s principles . . .
- Anthony D. RomeroMy ideal of manhood was based on bad examples.
- Arberdella DavisIt takes more courage to reveal insecurities than to hide them, more strength to relate to people than 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 KarrasGod of our fathers, who by land and sea have ever lead us to victory, please continue your inspiring guidance in this the greatest of all conflicts. Strengthen my soul so that the weakening instinct of self-preservation, which besets all of us in battle, shall not blind me to my duty to my own manhood, to the glory of my calling, and to my responsibility to my fellow soldiers. Grant to our armed forces that disciplined valor and mutual confidence which insures success in war. Let me not mourn for the men who have died fighting, but rather let me be glad that such heroes have lived. If it be my lot to die, let me do so with courage and honor in a manner which will bring the greatest harm to the enemy, and please, oh Lord, protect and guide those I shall leave behind. Give us the victory, Lord.
- General George S. PattonBattle 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.
- General George S. PattonIn this day and age, some turn 18 and think they`re a man or a woman and that`s it, but that`s just not true. You have to establish your manhood or your womanhood with actions.
- Orlando McGuire