97+ Best Real Man Quotes: Exclusive Selection

Inspirational real man quotes will challenge the way you think, change the way you live and transform your whole life.

Famous Real Man Quotes

Treat her like you’re still trying to win her, and that’s how you’ll never lose her. A real man will remind his woman daily to why she fell in love with him. – Kiki Strack

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

Only a real man is able to stick to just one woman and treat her special, always. – Terry Mark

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

A real man don’t call the plumbers. If he gonna call himself a man, he needs to know how to fix it, on the spot – Phil Robertson

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

Real men wear floral when trespassing – Holly Jackson

A real man can use power, rather than let power use him. – Moffat Machingura

No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child. – Unknown

A man who brags about satisfying 30 women is immature. A real man is one who can satisfy the same woman for 30 years. – Tony Evans

A good boyfriend loves his girl with all heart. He isn’t afraid to point to his girl in front of his friends and say: That’s my baby. – Anonymous

A real man is capable of controlling himself before he controls his children. – Dorian Paskowitz

A real man can’t stand seeing his woman hurt. He’s careful with his decisions and actions, so he never has to be responsible for her pain. – Anonymous

The country is dying cause of an lack of men, not a lack of programms. – Corneliu Zelea Codreanu

Real men don’t buy girls-they protect them. We’re recruiting real men who have the courage to stand up against this issue. – Demi Moore

Manhood is defined and decided by the ability to nurture and to protect, by the capability to provide and to sustain. – JoyBell C.

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

Men get to be a mixture of the charming mannerisms of the women they have known. – F. Scott Fitzgerald

The first step to be a good man is this: You must deeply feel the burden of the stones some else [is] carrying. – Mehmet Murat ildan

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

A good boyfriend can’t fix all of your problems, but he can promise you that you won’t have to face them alone. – Anonymous

The character of a true men is found out by his amusements. – Joshua Reynolds

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

A good man will want you to shine. He wants you to be your amazing self. A good man loves to show off his happy, intelligent, amazing, powerful woman. – Anastasia Netri

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

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. – President John F. Kennedy

A real man ain’t a coward, he stands by what he says, admits his faults, and corrects his mistakes. – Kiki Strack

One can know a man from his laugh, and if you like a man’s laugh before you know anything of him, you may confidently say that he is a good man. – Fyodor Dostoevsky

A real man only lies to his woman when he’s surprising her. – Mitch Cuento

Real men stay faithful. They don’t have time to look for another woman because they’re too busy looking for new ways to love their own. – Anonymous

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

A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means. – Sallust

A real man follows the three P’s: pray, provide, and protect. – Mario Tomasello

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

Real men are sadly lacking in this world, for when they are put to the test they prove worthless. – Franz Liszt

A real man never stops trying to show a girl how much he cares, even if he already has her. – Mitch Cuento

A gentleman will open doors, pull out chairs, and carry things. Not because she’s helpless or unable, but because he wants to show her that she is valuable and worthy of respect. – Charles J. Orlando

Men don’t want anything they get too easy. But on the other hand, men lose interest quickly. – Tennessee Williams

The real power of a man is in the size of the smile of the woman sitting next to him. – Anonymous

“ – The mark of a great man is one who knows when to set aside the important things in order to accomplish the vital ones. – Brandon Sanderson

The real power of a man is in the size of the smile of the woman sitting next to him. – Anonymous

A real man Provides, Protects, and always keeps a Promise. – Jivaro Brawley

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

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

Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing. – Oliver Wendell Holmes

Real men invest in long term love, not short term lust. – Kaliana Dietrich

A man must at times be hard as nails: willing to face up to the truth about himself…But he must also be tender. No weapon will breach the armor of a woman’s resentment like tenderness. – Elisabeth Elliot

It takes a real man to see the difference between a diamond and a rhinestone. Can’t be mad when someone else takes the diamond, that you treated like a rhinestone. – Surgeo Bell

Real men stay faithful. They don’t have time to look for another woman, because they’re too busy looking for new ways to love their own. – Anurag Prakash Ray

There is one rule, above all others, for being a man. Whatever comes, face it on your feet. – Robert Jordan

A real man only lies to his woman when he’s surprising her. – Anonymous

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

The mark of a great man is one who knows when to set aside the important things in order to accomplish the vital ones. – Brandon Sanderson

A real man doesn’t have time to cheat because that man is too busy providing all of which a good woman deserves. – Ritu Ghatourey

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

A real man never stops trying to show a girl how much she means to him, even after he’s got her. – Anonymous

Boys will break your heart. Real men will pick up the pieces. – Drake

One can know a man from his laugh, and if you like a man’s laugh before you know anything of him, you may confidently say that he is a good man. – Fyodor Dostoevsky

A man’s ledger does not tell what he is, or what he is worth. Count what is in man, not what is on him, if you would know what he is worth, whether rich or poor. – Henry Ward Beecher

The value of a man should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive. – Albert Einstein

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

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

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

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

Real men don’t need a woman covering for him because a real man is a woman’s covering! – Sanjo Jendayi

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

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 F. Kennedy

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 real man has no tougher judge than himself. – James Grippando

A real man chooses to honor, love, respect, adore and be faithful to one woman!!! – Ritu Ghatourey

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

To be a real man is to be unattached – not from responsibility or justice – but from those dependencies that inhibit responsibility and justice. – Tarek Saab

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

His dad had told him many times that the definition of a real man is one who cries without shame, reads poetry with his heart, feels opera in his soul, and does what’s necessary to defend a woman. – Delia Owens

A wise man, recognizing that the world is but an illusion, does not act as if it is real, so he escapes the suffering. – Buddha

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

To have done no man a wrongto walk and live, unseduced, within arms length of what is not your own, with nothing between your desire and its gratification but the invisible law of rectitudethis is to be a man. – Horace Mann

Man’s real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so. – Edgar Allan Poe

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

We will always have Reeses and Heseltines, and they will always seem big and brave to growing boys. They swagger and make loud noises in their own little circle, but they are only the coyotes that yap around the heels of the herd.” ‘Remember this, Shell, the coyotes aren’t going anywhere, but the herd is, and so are the men who drive the herd. – Louis L’Amour, Tucker

Real men don’t dance to other people’s tune, instead, they play for others to dance. – Michael Bassey Johnson

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

A good man will want you to shine. He wants you to be your amazing self. A good man loves to show off his happy, intelligent, amazing, powerful woman. – Anastasia Netri

A real man is one who remembers the lady’s birthday, but never knows how old she is. A man who never remembers her birthday, but knows exactly how old she is, – is her husband. – Faina Ranevskaya

Only a man who is uncertain and insecure about himself will make you feel unworthy or that you don’t deserve to be fought for. A real man will always stay by your side, support you, encourage you to do better, and listen to you with every cell of his body. A real man will always remind you that you are more than enough;
As if you were the one and the only thing he has ever prayed for… – Samiha Totanji

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

Men are foolish to expect us to revere them, when, in the end, they amount to almost nothing. – Anne Desclos

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

Then a begging brother in a tattered brown robe said a blessing on his sword, and a maid kissed his cheek. ‘They are for me,’ “Why?” He asked Pate. “What am I to them?” “A knight who remembered his vows,” the smith said.”
– George R.R. Martin

Manhood is defined and decided by the ability to nurture and to protect, by the capability to provide and to sustain. – C. JoyBell C

A real man loves and respects his wife and is not only a good father but a man that his kids want to call ‘Daddy.’ – Frank Abagnale

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 strong man doesn’t have to be dominant toward a woman. He doesn’t match his strength against a woman weak with love for him. He matches it against the world. – Marilyn Monroe

Yet I had no desire to touch her; I had no desire to be anywhere near her. I wasn’t aroused by her nakedness. Her seductive ways—her sugar-coated words—left me cold. – Hani Selim

I knew the men were probably terrible people who whistled at pretty girls, treated their wives like servants, and voted for Nixon every chance they got, but as far as I was concerned, they beat the hell out of a Volvo-load of liberals for hard work and good times. – James Crumley

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

He understood well enough how a man with a choice between pride and responsibility will almost always choose pride–if responsibility robs him of his manhood. – Stephen King