Masculinity Quotes

Masculinity, often associated with physical prowess and stoicism, transcends mere stereotypes. These quotes delve into the multifaceted nature of manhood, emphasizing character, empathy, and resilience.

These quotes also challenge rigid norms, celebrating vulnerability, kindness, and emotional intelligence. In a world where strength is redefined, these words inspire men to embrace authenticity and uplift others.

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1. Masculinity is not something given to you, but something you gain. And you gain it by winning small battles with honor. (Norman Mailer)
2. Genius is the power of carrying the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood. (Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
3. Why should men be constrained by antiquated stereotypes of masculinity? What does it even mean to ‘be a real man’ anymore? Shouldn’t we all be celebrating a wide range of definitions of manhood? (Andy Dunn)
4. There is one rule, above all others, for being a man. Whatever comes, face it on your feet. (Robert Jordan)
5. A transvestite spends her entire life trying to look feminine as possible, and I have clearly spent mine celebrating my masculinity. (Vin Diesel)
6. It never troubles the wolf how many the sheep may be. (Virgil)
7. Well, the tranny of masculinity and the tyranny of patriarchy, I think, have been much more deadly to men than it has to women. It hasn’t killed our hearts. It’s killed men’s hearts. It’s silenced them; it’s cut them off. (Eve Ensler)
8. We’ll never solve the feminization of power until we solve the masculinity of wealth. (Gloria Steinem)
9. Masculinity should never be about exclusion or intolerance nor displays of unyielding strength. (Jonathan  Capehart)
10. There’s a great sense of achievement, testosterone, fun, being able to live out your masculinity when you play an action role or an action adventure, or a real tough guy role. (Gerard Butler)
11. I have no memory of feeling strong and rugged at any point. I’ve been considering masculinity my whole life. (Josh O’Connor)
12. I think the truth about male friendship is often left out of the media, and it’s that it has a million different shades because masculinity has a million different forms. (Cole Sprouse)
13. I celebrate masculinity when I’m onstage. (Bryan Callen)
14. I’m not that powerful to take out the masculinity of a beard. (Conchita Wurst)
15. 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)
16. You seek the heights of manhood when you seek the depths of God. (Edwin Louis Cole)
17. Keep your eyes on the stars and your feet on the ground. (Theodore Roosevelt)
18. Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you’re a man, you take it. (Malcolm X)
19. A man may conquer a million men in battle but one who conquers himself is, indeed, the greatest of conquerors. (Buddha)
20. Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervour. (Benjamin Disraeli)
21. Opposition is what we want and must have, to be good for anything. Hardship is the native soil of manhood and self-reliance. (John Neal)
22. No true manhood can be trained by a merely intellectual process. You cannot train men by the intellect alone; you must train them by the heart. (Joseph Parker)
23. The heart of man is very much like the sea; it has its storms, it has its tides, and in its depths, it has its pearls too. (Vincent Van Gogh)
24. If unwilling to rise in the morning, say to thyself, ‘I awake to do the work of a man. (Marcus Aurelius)
25. Man is nothing else, but what he makes of himself. (Jean Paul Sartre)
26. I want you to consider this distinction as you go forward in life. Being male is not enough; being a man is a right to be earned and an honor to be cherished. I cannot tell you how to earn that right or deserve that honor. . . but I can tell you that the formation of your manhood must be a conscious act governed by the highest vision of the man you want to be. (Kent Nerburn)
27. 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)
28. Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value (Albert Einstein)
29. A man is one whose body has been trained to be the ready servant of his mind; whose passions are trained to be the servants of his will; who enjoys the beautiful, loves truth, hates wrong, loves to do good, and respects others as himself. (John Ruskin)
30. Duty is the essence of manhood. (General George Patton)
31. It was men who stopped slavery. It was men who ran up the stairs in the Twin Towers to rescue people. It was men who gave up their seats on the lifeboats of the Titanic. Men are made to take risks and live passionately on behalf of others. (John Eldredge)
32. Manhood is the defeat of childhood narcissism. (David Gilmore)
33. A real man loves his wife and places his family as the most important thing in life. Nothing has brought me more peace and content in life than simply being a good husband and father. (Frank Abagnale)
34. No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child. (Abraham Lincoln)
35. Boys who spent their weekends making banana nut muffins did not, as a rule, excel in the art of hand-to-hand combat. (David Sedaris)
36. Man is so made that when anything fires up his soul, impossibilities vanish. (Jean de la Fontaine)
37. 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)
38. I had a romance novel inside me, but I paid three sailors to beat it out of me with steel pipes. (Patton Oswalt)
39. I’m secure enough in my masculinity to accept that. (Jordan Kyle)
40. A man’s got to have a code, a creed to live by, no matter his job. (John Wayne)
41. No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself. (Seneca)
42. The measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. (Martin Luther King Jr.)
43. A man does what he must—in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures—and that is the basis of all human morality.” (Winston Churchill)
44. 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)
45. The true test of a man is not in the power to break, but in the power to endure (Frederick Douglass)
46. A man’s true worth is not measured by the money he has, the car he drives, or the house he lives in, but by the depth of his character. (John F. Kennedy)
47. Courage is not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear. (Nelson Mandela)
48. We live in a feminist and effeminate culture. Because of this, at best, as a people we are uneasy with masculinity, and with increasing regularity, whenever it manages to appear somehow, we call for someone to do something about it.” -(Douglas Wilson)
49. 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)
50. Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one (Marcus Aurelius)

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