Quotes about Masculinity
A man needs a much bigger orbit than a woman. He needs a mission, a life purpose, and he needs to know his name. Only then is he fit for a woman, for only then does he have something to invite her into.
— John Eldredge
Males and females are unique and different, because their brains are different. There's not a limitation on girls. My grandmother was very strong, and so was my mother. She also knew what it meant to be a woman and wife and was very successful at it.
— James Dobson
he held it one of the prettiest attitudes of the feminine mind to adore a man's pre-eminence without too precise a knowledge of what it consisted in.
— George Eliot
The essence of masculinity is taking responsibility for yourself, then a wife, then children. These are the kinds of things the Bible says qualify a man to be a church leader.[198] Guys who don't do this act irresponsibly, take rather than give, and dump their responsibilities on others by virtue of their childish ways. This is why Jeremiah wrote, "It is good for a man to bear the yoke while he is young."[199] Men are like trucks: they drive straighter when carrying a load.
— Mark Driscoll
Whatever their age, most men have never received true fathering.
— John Eldredge
our sons must become men — such men as we hope our daughters, born and unborn, will be pleased to live among. Our sons will not grow into women. Their way is more difficult than that of our daughters, for they must move away from us, without us. Hopefully ours have what they have learned from us, and a howness to forge into their own image.
— Audre Lorde
How sad now never to see men holding hands, while everywhere one looks they are holding guns.
— Alice Walker
It must be most dangerous then to be a man. It is indeed, madame, and but few survive it.
— Ernest Hemingway
Without a positive male role model in your life it is extremely difficult to become a man who benefits his family and benefits society.
— Donald Miller
Give me a man, for his sons make courageous soldiers while pretty boys can only decorate the dance.
— Euripides
Their point of resemblance to each other & their difference from so many American women, lay in the fact that they were all happy to exist in a man's world- they preserved their individuality through men & not by opposition to them.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
Often a man can play the helpless child in front of a woman, but he can almost never bring it off when he feels most like a helpless child.
— F Scott Fitzgerald