Top 100 Quotes About To Be A Man
#1. I felt the weight of my father's failures and the absence of my mother and I wondered who would teach me, or if a guy could learn on his own, what it means to be a man.
Lori Lansens
#2. It is fatal for anyone who writes to think of their sex. It is fatal to be a man or a woman pure and simple.
Virginia Woolf
#3. If it's all about desire, why do you not desire to be a man?
Cynthia Hand
#4. Both of us on the cusp of adulthood, and this is how my brother and I understood what it meant to be a woman: working, dour, full of worry. What it meant to be a man: resentful, angry, wanting life to be everything but what it was.
Jesmyn Ward
#5. No one can afford not to be a man. No position can compensate for coming face to face with a robot when you are alone.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#6. I am a woman pretending to be a man, pretending to be this ship's first officer, pretending to be a pirate, pretending to be innocent of murder ... I begin to lose track of all the roles I am playing.
Mercedes Lackey
#7. It is absolutely impossible at the same time to be a man of understanding and not to be ashamed to gratify the body.
Clement Of Alexandria
#8. It set him free," said Lee. "It gave him the right to be a man, separate from every other man."
"That's lonely."
"All great and precious things are lonely."
"What is the word again?"
"Timshel - thou mayest.
John Steinbeck
#9. America - where we hate our
fathers, love our mothers, and
everyone is hung up on trying
to be a man
Phil Volatile
#10. The Magic in this garden has made me stand up and know I am going to live to be a man.
Frances Hodgson Burnett
#12. Wear what you want to wear. Do what you want to do. Be who you are. Pick out your own clothes. Be a man. And if that's too much to ask, as it almost always is for me, think of someone you consider to be a man and pretend to be like him. I pretend to be like my dad.
Lyle Lovett
#13. If you bleed Black Label and you're going to be a man, you gotta get up there and do what you gotta do every day, relentless and as tired as you can be.
Zakk Wylde
#14. The way to be a man if you're a little boy is to be willing to throw your weight around.
Patricia Ireland
#15. This room is a testimony that there are men who want to be a man for God and a man of God.
Mike Huckabee
#16. A boy has two jobs. One is just being a boy. The other is growing up to be a man.
Herbert Hoover
#17. It's more important that you grow up to be a man," he said, "than to be a genius.
Mario Puzo
#19. I suppose they're confident. I think younger guys love the idea of a divorced woman who's going to teach them how to be a man.
Jerry Hall
#20. But isn't it likely that everyone in this world ... has killed someone or other on their way to the top? ... All I wanted was a chance to be a man
and for that, one murder is enough.
Aravind Adiga
#21. To be a man is, precisely, to be responsible. It is to feel shame at the sight of what seems to be unmerited misery. It is to take pride in a victory won by one's comrades. It is to feel, when setting one's stone, that one is contributing to the building of the world.
Antoine De Saint-Exupery
#22. Strange to be a man and never grow big with child. To feel a part of you opening, and a part of you leaving, and howling as if it were not a part of you.
Vikram Seth
#23. He is a man, who is to be a man, the fruit is always present in the seed.
Tertullian
#24. I have decided to make a personal message to David Haye. I want him to fight me, to be a man. I wish there will be enough excitement, pressure and courage for David Haye to fight me.
Wladimir Klitschko
#25. Being a man is bullshit; maybe trying to be a man had been the problem all along. At a certain point you just have to trust someone. Even if it's only yourself.
Bennett Madison
#26. Washington replied, "I always knew Colonel Hamilton to be a man of superior talents, but never supposed that he had any knowledge of finance." "He knows everything, sir," Morris replied. "To a mind like his nothing comes amiss.
Ron Chernow
#27. I don't want to be a man," said Jace. "I want to be an angst-ridden teenager who can't confront his own inner demons and takes it out verbally on other people instead."
"Well," said Luke, "you're doing a fantastic job.
Cassandra Clare
#28. I guess in my own life I don't really think much about manliness too much. I feel like a lot of men that I know don't sit around thinking, "How am I supposed to be a man?" I don't think that I have to prove anything.
Daniel Alarcon
#29. 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 Capra
#30. The law does not require a man to cease to be a man, and act without regard to consequences, when he becomes a juror.
Lysander Spooner
#31. You don't have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being.
Malcolm X
#32. How hard it is to become a man again when one has ceased to be a man. -The Lost Steps
Alejo Carpentier
#33. I was raised by all women. I had no men in my life; it was my mom, my sister, and my grandmother. I've never identified as a man. I've always either felt like a boy or something else. I feel really uncomfortable thinking that, technically, I'm supposed to be a man, because I don't feel like one.
Zachary Cole Smith
#34. If I had my life to live over, I would want to be a man.
Little Richard
#35. I think a man needs to be a man. To hold a woman the way she wants to be held. Just do whatever your woman wants, and you'll be fine.
Jason Momoa
#36. To be a man, watched by women. It must be entirely strange. To have them watching him all the time. To have them wondering, What's he going to do next?
Margaret Atwood
#37. As the mother of a son, I do not accept that alienation from me is necessary for his discovery of himself. As a woman, I will not cooperate in demeaning womanly things so that he can be proud to be a man. I like to think the women in my son's future are counting on me.
Letty Cottin Pogrebin
#38. A boy gets to be a man when a man is needed. Remember this thing. I have known boys forty years old because there was no need for a man:
John Steinbeck
#39. I'm saying that the depth of exploration of the male psyche and the female psyche is uneven. I see further, deeper renderings of what it means to be a man.
Vera Farmiga
#40. Fear, tenderness - these emotions were so despised that they could be admitted into consciousness only at the cost of redefining what it meant to be a man.
Pat Barker
#41. Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
Oscar Wilde
#42. That man will never be a perfect gentleman who lives only with gentlemen. To be a man of the world we must view that world in every grade and in every perspective.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
#43. To be a man's own fool is bad enough, but the vain man is everybody's.
William Penn
#44. If he could only prevent himself growing up! He did not want to be a man.
Thomas Hardy
#45. What could be more hapless than a man controlled by his own creations? It is surely easier for a man to cease to be a man by worshiping man-made gods than for idols to become divine by being adored.
Augustine Of Hippo
#46. He who runs to the doctor, vaidya, or hakim for every little ailment, and swallows all kinds of vegetable and mineral drugs, not only curtails his life, but by becoming the slave of his body instead of remaining its master, loses self-control, and ceases to be a man.
Mahatma Gandhi
#47. Tell us what it is to be a woman so that we may know what it is to be a man. What moves at the margin. What it is to have no home in this place. To be set adrift from the one you knew. What it is to live at the edge of towns that cannot bear your company.
Toni Morrison
#48. I started drinking Scotch just to be a man.
Adam Brody
#49. If a man is to be a man, a free spirit unto himself, he must arm himself not only with weapons but with ideals and concepts he is willing to die for.
William Powell
#50. Forget anything after, the 1986 Turbo cars really were rockets, and to handle them I really think you had to be a man
Gerhard Berger
#51. If a minister wants to be a man among men he need only to stop creating devotion to abstract ideals which every one accepts in theory and denies in practice, and to agonize about their validity and practicability in the social issues which he and others face in our present civilization.
Reinhold Niebuhr
#52. Was this kid ever going to be a man?
C.D. Reiss
#53. [Ronald] Reagan seems to be a man of some basic convictions and on the other hand willing to let others do the ground homework, the detailed work.
Helmut Schmidt
#54. I think that many people are ashamed when they feel afraid. There's this thing in our society that you're not allowed to feel scared. You have to be a man and put on a brave face, but we all have fears.
Eli Roth
#55. For the right woman, we all strive to be a man worth his salt.
Kristy McCaffrey
#56. I want to marry her, when I grow up to be a man.
Tamora Pierce
#57. Knowing Master Huckaback to be a man of his word, as well as one who would have others so, I was careful to be in good time the next morning ...
R.D. Blackmore
#58. I remember seeing the first Astaire-Rogers musical on television, and I couldn't believe how beautiful it was. It dawned on me that you don't have to wear a cowboy hat to be a man.
Edward Herrmann
#59. To be a man is to bring together that which you should be and that which you are. Deception is darkness.
Brent Weeks
#60. Jesus, as the one perfect person who fully embodied what it meant to be human and is the new Adam, is the definition of what it means to be a man. Everything else is false.
Nate Pyle
#61. The essential intention is the real sin. A man who cannot choose ceases to be a man.
Anthony Burgess
#62. I try to be a man of mystery. I try to keep the various projects I'm up to as close to the vest as possible until it's time to reveal them.
Alex Hirsch
#63. Poverty demoralizes. A man in debt is so far a slave; and Wall-street thinks it easy for a millionaire to be a man of his word, aman of honor, but, that, in failing circumstances, no man can be relied on to keep his integrity.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#64. To be a man you've gotta beat the man.
Ric Flair
#65. I am the poet of the woman the same as the man, And I say it is as great to be a woman as to be a man, And I say there is nothing greater than the mother of a man.
Walt Whitman
#66. It seems to me that it will be very wearisome to be a man.
Pierre Loti
#68. I have always deeply desired to be an honest man who said it when I struggled, stumbled and worried. I longed to be a man with real friends - friends who knew me at my worst and loved me.
Matt Chandler
#69. All my friends were girls. Then my mom's strident feminism for years where men were thought of as the enemy, I just didn't know what the right way to be a man was.
Michael Ian Black
#70. And me I'm in the bathroom crying out my eyelids because it's hard to be a man when you're scared, just like a little kid.
Conor Oberst
#72. They were upon their great theme: "When I get to be a man!" Being human, though boys, they considered their present estate too commonplace to be dwelt upon. So, when the old men gather, they say: "When I was a boy!" It really is the land of nowadays that we never discover.
Booth Tarkington
#73. To think the way you do," he said smiling, "you have to be a man who lives either on a tremendous despair, or on a tremendous hope.
Albert Camus
#75. I had always thought myself to be a man of moderate passions indistinguishable in that respect from most Englishmen born to our logical and mannered times.
K.W. Jeter
#76. I think that feminists have definitely underestimated the role that women have had historically. I think I would be insecure if I were to be a man; there's so much pressure on you.
Vivienne Westwood
#77. To think the way you do, you have to be a man who lives either on a tremendous despair, or on a tremendous hope.
On both perhaps.
Albert Camus
#78. If only my genitals didn't float
When I relaxed in the bath
And we both looked down and we both agreed
It's stupid to be a man
Leonard Cohen
#79. I have always wanted to be a man, if only for the reason that I would like to have gauged the value of my intellect.
Margot Asquith
#80. It was a difficult time to be Irish, a difficult time to be twenty-one years of age and a difficult time to be a man who was attracted to other men. To be all three simultaneously required a level of subterfuge and guile that felt contrary to my nature.
John Boyne
#82. I wonder do the gods know what it feels like to be a man.
C.S. Lewis
#83. If you're a man at night, you've got to be a man in the morning.
Ryan Lochte
#84. My dad's mission for me has always been to be a man they would write about, somebody that can be respected in the world.
Kenna
#85. As the Greeks saw it, to be a man was to be defined by your ability to exert power in a world articulated through transcendent forces ultimately beyond human control. The apparent futility of this perspective was outweighed by the nobility that came with the struggle.
Thomas Van Nortwick
#86. We make her paint her face and dance
If she won't be a slave, we say that she don't love us
If she's real, we say she's trying to be a man
While putting her down we pretend that she is above us
John Lennon
#88. It tires me to talk to rich men. You expect a man of millions, the head of a great industry, to be a man worthhearing; but as a rule they don't know anything outside their own business.
Theodore Roosevelt
#89. Hamlet: the agony of the bookworm forced to be a man of action.
Marty Rubin
#90. To live in a fully predictable world is not to be a man.
C.S. Lewis
#91. I never wanted to be a man. I feel sorry for them.
Glenn Close
#92. I write what I like to write. Those who like to listen to it, listen to it. And the ones who don't, watch football and drink beer, jog, go to discos and so forth. I never claimed to be a man for all seasons.
Frank Zappa
#93. He recognized the difference in her touch.
Looking down into her green eyes, he said, "I need to keep working."
"No, Claire, I need to keep working to be a man you are proud to be married to.
Aleatha Romig
#94. I've had to be a man since I was 12 or 13. I had a job. And I was playing the piano for people twice my age. Handling responsibility is what makes a man a man.
Jamie Foxx
#96. I don't think anyone can teach you how to be a man but a woman. You only learn by learning what they need.
Ryan Gosling
#97. Either you can lie down or you can stand up and say, 'I'm going to be a man about it, go out and deal with the pain and help my team win.'
Bob Sanders
#98. Try not to be a man of success, but a man of value." - Albert Einstein
Kate Larkinson
#99. Not only is it harder to be a man, it is also harder to become one.
Arianna Huffington
#100. We have so many young men, especially, who are growing up without their dads. We have to fill that void. We have to do a better job helping young people see what it means to be a man, what it means to be a woman. And then, somehow, we have to put that family structure back together.
Tony Dungy
