73+ Best Being A Man Quotes: Exclusive Selection

We must engage men to embrace their maleness and masculinity as their full authentic truth. Inspirational being a man quotes will get you through anything when the going gets tough and help you succeed in every aspect of life.

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Famous Being A Man Quotes

We do not admire the man of timid peace. We admire the man who embodies victorious effort; the man who never wrongs his neighbor, who is prompt to help a friend, but who has those virile qualities necessary to win in the stern strife of actual life.  Theodore Roosevelt

A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age; he dies of being a man. Miguel de Unamuno

This part of being a man, changing the way we parent, happens only when we want it to. It changes because we are determined for it to change, and the motive for changing often comes out of wanting to be the kind of parent we didn’t have.  Augustus Y. Napier

Part of being a man is learning to take responsibility for your successes and for your failures. You can’t go blaming others or being jealous. Seeing somebody else’s success as your failure is a cancerous way to live. Kevin Bacon

A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age; he dies of being a man. Miguel de Unamuno

In the end, my story, in Iraq and afterward, is about more than just killing people or even fighting for my country. It’s about being a man. And it’s about love as well as hate. Chris Kyle

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. John Kennedy

People ask for this life, but they don’t really understand what comes with it. People just see the outside and that looks good  big houses, cars, girls, but you never see how the person is feeling deep down inside. Me personally, being a man, I’m going to feel better displaying all of this and pouring my heart out on each record. Bow Wow

Part of being a man is learning to take responsibility for your successes and for your failures. You can’t blame others for being jealous. Seeing somebody else’s success as your failure is a cancerous way to live. Kevin Bacon

You have to be a man before you can be a gentleman. John Wayne

In the end, my story, in Iraq and afterward, is about more than just killing people or even fighting for my country. It’s about being a man. And it’s about love as well as hate. Chris Kyle

Acting is just being a man. Being human. Not forcing it. Peter O’Toole

Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.  Theodore Roosevelt

The ideal man doesn’t smoke, doesn’t drink, doesn’t do drugs, doesn’t swear, doesn’t get angry, doesn’t exist.

To have done no man a wrong to walk and live, unseduced, within arm’s length of what is not your own, with nothing between your desire and its gratification but the invisible law of rectitude this is to be a man. Horace Mann

For a long time, I felt instinctively irritated, sometimes repelled  by scientific friends’ automatic use of the word ‘mechanism’ for automatic bodily processes. A machine was man made; it was not a sentient being; a man was not a machine. A. S. Byatt

You have to be a man before you can be a gentleman. John Wayne

You act at being a man, and before you know it, you are one. Richard Madden

Acting is just being a man. Being human. Not forcing it. Peter O’Toole

I love watching Marty Scorsese’s films, but they always make me feel terrible about being a man. Martin Donovan

Because there is very little honor left in American life, there is a certain built in tendency to destroy masculinity in American men. Norman Mailer

There have been many changes in gender roles over the past 30 or more years. As a result, the idea of being a real man has changed but one thing is for sure  there are some traits that define masculinity that most men and women would still agree upon

A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do. Bob Dylan

The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection. Thomas Paine

The ideal man doesn’t smoke, doesn’t drink, doesn’t do drugs, doesn’t swear, doesn’t get angry, doesn’t exist

I live, like every real man, in my work. Max Frisch

For a long time, I felt instinctively irritated  sometimes repelled  by scientific friends’ automatic use of the word ‘mechanism’ for automatic bodily processes. A machine was man made; it was not a sentient being; a man was not a machine. A. S. Byatt

A real man won’t date the most beautiful girl in the world  he’ll date the girl that makes his world beautiful.

Being a good actor isn’t easy. Being a man is even harder. I want to be both before I’m done. James Dean

Let men see, let them know, a real man, who lives as he was meant to live. Marcus Aurelius

You act at being a man, and before you know it, you are one. Richard Madden

The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself. Henry Ward Beecher

It takes a real man to make a true confession a Chocolate Soldier will excuse or cloak his sin. Charles Studd

Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is. Albert Camus

You can’t relate to a superhero, to a superman, but you can identify with a real man who in times of crisis draws forth some extraordinary quality from within himself and triumphs but only after a struggle. Timothy Dalton

I love watching Martin Scorsese’s films, but they always make me feel terrible about being a man. Martin Donovan

I’m sick of very white teeth and lots of gymnasium practice. I’m bored, you know, send in the next one. I wanted a real man that I could believe was my brother, my father, you know, my next door neighbor  a real person. Tim Roth

There have been many changes in gender roles over the past 30 or more years. As a result, the idea of being a real man has changed but one thing is for sure there are some traits that define masculinity that most men and women would still agree upon.

I know that I am a singer and an actor, yet in order to give the public the impression that I am neither one nor the other, but the real man conceived by the author, I have to feel and to think as the man the author had in mind.  Enrico Caruso

A real man is hard to find but that can change with a couple of small adjustments. Let these real man quotes be the guide to becoming a stronger, better person.

The stronger a man is, the more gentle he can afford to be. Elbert Hubbard

The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection. Thomas Paine

Men are like steel. When they lose their temper, they lose their worth. Chuck Norris

In every real man, a child is hidden that wants to play. Friedrich Nietzsche

Being a male is a matter of birth. Being a man is a matter of choice. Edwin Louis Cole

I live, like every real man, in my work. Max Frisch

Manhood is the defeat of childhood narcissism. David Gilmore

You spend time with your family? Good. Because a man who doesn’t spend time with his family can never be a real man. Don Vito Corleone, The Godfather

Strength, Courage, Mastery, and Honor are the alpha virtues of men all over the world. Jack Donovan

Being a good husband is like being a good stand up comic: you need ten years before you can even call yourself a beginner. Jerry Seinfeld

A man’s got to have a code, a creed to live by, no matter his job. John Wayne

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

Men and women have strengths that complement each other. Edwin Louis Cole

If you want to be a real human being  a real woman, a real man  you cannot tolerate things which put you to indignation, to outrage. You must stand up. I always say to people, ‘Look around; look at what makes you unhappy, what makes you furious, and then engage yourself in some action. Stephane Hessel

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

A real man won’t date the most beautiful girl in the world  he’ll date the girl that makes his world beautiful

Stand true to your calling to be a man. Real women will always be relieved and grateful when men are willing to be men. Elisabeth Elliot

It’s a real man who can go out with a woman who’s taller than he is. That’s an alpha male right there.  Miranda Hart

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

You can’t be a real man if you don’t look out for your kids. They need you. Bill O’Reilly

Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor. Benjamin Disraeli

Let men see, let them know, a real man, who lives as he was meant to live. Marcus Aurelius

Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one. Marcus Aurelius

The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself. Henry Ward Beecher

No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child. Abraham Lincoln

It takes a real man to make a true confession: a Chocolate Soldier will excuse or cloak his sin. Charles Studd

First find the man in yourself if you will inspire manliness in others Thomas Alcott said

Remember those black and white films with Frank Sinatra? Those guys looked like men and they were only 27! Listen to Otis Redding singing ‘Try A Little Tenderness’. That was a man who understood what a man has to know in the world. Show me a real man now! Where are they? Chrissie Hynde

Duty is the essence of manhood. General George Patton

I don’t think a man has to go around shouting and play acting to prove he is something. And a real man doesn’t go around putting other guys down, trampling their feelings in the dirt, making out they’re nothing. Joe Frazier

Genius is the power of carrying the feelings of manhood into the powers of manhood. Samuel Taylor Coleridge