Oct. 24, 2024, 3:45 p.m.
In the pursuit of understanding the complexities of manhood, inspiration often plays a pivotal role. Whether you are seeking motivation, wisdom, or simply a fresh perspective, quotes about men's strength, resilience, and compassion can offer profound insight. Delve into this curated collection of inspirational quotes that capture the essence of what it means to be a man. Each quote serves as a reminder of the virtues men hold dear and the experiences that shape their journeys. As you explore these words of wisdom, allow them to inspire reflection, encourage growth, and ignite the inner drive to be your best self.
1. “A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty.” - Rudyard Kipling
2. “A woman knows very well that, though a wit sends her his poems, praises her judgment, solicits her criticism, and drinks her tea, this by no means signifies that he respects her opinions, admires her understanding, or will refuse, though the rapier is denied him, to run through the body with his pen.” - Virginia Woolf
3. “In politics, If you want anything said, ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman.” - Margaret Thatcher
4. “Boys are beyond the range of anybody's sure understanding, at least when they are between the ages of 18 months and 90 years.” - James Thurber
5. “he knows that it's impossible to tell a wolffrom a man ifhe keeps his chin upand his teeth clean.” - Toby Barlow
6. “I can still count on one hand the number of men I`ve slept with.” - Mariah Carey
7. “You are mistaken, Mr. Darcy, if you suppose that the mode of your declaration affected me in any other way, than as it spared the concern which I might have felt in refusing you, had you behaved in a more gentlemanlike manner." (Elizabeth Bennett)” - Jane Austen
8. “Men didn't respect beauty...they used it.” - Nora Roberts
9. “Men, I thought, were more trouble than they were worth. Really, one should stick to books where one sees the hero coming a mile off.” - Eva Rice
10. “I saw my reflection in their eyes, but not the men themselves, not clearly. This preserved the idea that all intelligent and even vaguely attractive men were essentially good. Delusion detest focus and romance provides the veil.” - Suzanne Finnamore
11. “The best thing about being 40 is that you can appreciate 25-year-old men more.” - Colleen McCullough
12. “And I can't die easy thinking maybe the menfolks white or black is making a spit cup out of you. Have some sympathy for me. Put me down easy, Janie, I'm a cracked plate.” - Zora Neale Hurston
13. “He had carefully avoided her out of the natural cowardice that characterizes the stronger sex.” - Gustave Flaubert
14. “You know well I couldn't bear to live with a low common man after you two; and it's wicked and cruel of you to insult me by pretending I could.” - George Bernard Shaw
15. “He was a handsome man, not in the way of mercurial Cesare or the false angel, Morozzi, but with a calm steadiness that sat well upon him and shown in everything he did. The creations he drew from fire and air were possessed of great delicacy, but I was coming to realize that the man himself was as an oak, unshakable in the greatest storm.” - Sara Poole
16. “Whoever won the wars in heavens, He is The God of men today.” - Toba Beta [Betelgeuse Incident]
17. “I do forget sometimes how much it means for certain men—for certain people—to be able to provide their loved ones with material comforts and protection at all times. I forget how dangerously reduced some men can feel when that basic ability has been stripped from them. I forget how much that matters to men, what it represents.” - Elizabeth Gilbert
18. “Sometimes, somehow...I feel that ocean contains tears of mother earth,that mourns over terrible great sin done by men.” - Toba Beta
19. “It is not titles that honour men, but men that honour titles.” - Niccolo Machiavelli
20. “Proper handling of a horse like this is no simple matter. He was trained to race, from birth. Not only to race, but to be the best. Once a champion, he was spoiled with attention and permissive handling. Add to that, he's an ungelded male, with a strong natural mating drive. It all adds up to a horse with a mile-wide streak of arrogance, bloody bored out of his mind. Without proper exercise and opportunities to mate, all that aggressive energy festers. He becomes moody, intractable, withdrawn, destructive."Ashworth raised an eyebrow at Bellamy. "Is it just me, or is this conversation becoming uncomfortably personal?"Spencer fumed. "I'm not referring to myself, you ass.” - Tessa Dare
21. “My heart is set, as firmly as ever heart of man was set on woman. I have no thought, no view, no hope, in life beyond her; and if you oppose me in this great stake, you take my peace and happiness in your hands, and cast them to the wind.” - Charles Dickens
22. “I gave myself to you sooner than I ever did to any man, I swear to you; and do you know why? Because when you saw me spitting blood you took my hand; because you wept; because you are the only human being who has ever pitied me. I am going to say a mad thing to you: I once had a little dog who looked at me with a sad look when I coughed; that is the only creature I ever loved. When he died I cried more than when my mother died. It is true that for twelve years of her life she used to beat me. Well, I loved you all at once, as much as my dog. If men knew what they can have for a tear, they would be better loved and we should be less ruinous to them.” - Alexandre Dumas-fils
23. “Although I'm sure there are plenty of tall, gorgeous, life-of-the-party guys who are also true to their wives, I happen to believe that a disproportionate number of them are cheaters.” - Emily Giffin
24. “Menfolks listens to somebody because of what he says. Women don't. They don't care what he said. They listens because of what he is.” - William Faulkner
25. “Men are very sensitive, Mma Makutsi. You would not always think it to look at them, but they are. They do not like you to point out that they are wrong, even when they are. That is the way things are, Mma--it just is.” - Alexander McCall Smith
26. “When they [breasts] are huge, you become very self-conscious...I've learned something though, through my years of pondering and pontificating, and that is: men love them, and I love that.” - Drew Barrymore
27. “For he did not, he would have said, care for women; he never felt at home or at ease with them; and that monstrous creature beginning to be talked about, the New Woman of the nineties, filled him with horror. He was a quiet, conventional person, and the world, viewed from the haven of Brookfield, seemed to him full of distasteful innovations; there was a fellow named Bernard Shaw who had the strangest and most reprehensible opinions; there was Ibsen, too, with his disturbing plays; and there was this new craze for bicycles which was being taken up by women equally with men. Chips did not hold with all this modern newness and freedom. He had a vague notion, if he ever formulated it, that nice women were weak, timid, and delicate, and that nice men treated them with a polite but rather distant chivalry.” - James Hilton
28. “After all, a woman who doesn't love cats is never going to be make a man happy.” - Orhan Pamuk
29. “You’re a guy. It’s typical for your sex to want to conquer every eligible girl you see.” - Kristin R. Campbell
30. “Even great men bow before the Sun; it melts hubris into humility.” - Dejan Stojanovic
31. “First, they set the hook with mind-bending kinky shit. Then a year later you're living in a Talking Heads song, dressed like Teddy Ruxpin, living with a strange woman in a big house full of frilly throw pillows, experiencing the frequency of sex that can only be charted by Halley's Comet. and you're wondering: How did I get here?” - Tim Dorsey
32. “There is always hope for man or dog in life if only they be cute” - Chris Pariseau
33. “I make love with a focus and intensity that most people reserve for sleep.” - Dark Jar Tin Zoo
34. “Scopul existenței fiecărui individ este plăcerea și cine o contestă ori e ipocrit, ori imbecil.” - Rodica Ojog - Brasoveanu
35. “Ryder Delaney was the one imperfection in my life.He was the bad boy,black sheep,the one your mother always warned you about.He had only one hard-and-fast rule-Don't Fall In Love” - Paige Weaver
36. “Men were notorious for their acts of disloyalty.” - Margaret Way