Top 88 Be A Man Quotes

The man who would forge to the front in this competitive age must be a man of prompt and determined decision.

It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple: one must be a woman manly, or a man womanly.

It is fitting that a liar should be a man of good memory.

When everyone decides that they have to be a certain way, that there’s one way to be a man and one way to be a woman, that’s when we go down the wrong path.

Just leaving the brotherhood I have made at Georgia, the staff and all my coaches. They’ve prepared me for the real world. I’m really going to miss that. But I feel like they’ve prepared me for the real world, to be a man.

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.

If I was going to be a little boy about it, I’d go into hiding for one or two years. But if I was going to be a man about it, it’d be 20 or 30 years.

I think it’s about as likely Jane Austen was gay as that she was found out to be a man.

When the mood takes me, I like to be a man of action. I like to windsurf and ski, and most of all I love to ride horses. The wilder and faster the better!

My old man tried to force on me a notion of what it was to be a ‘man.’ And it destroyed my dad.

Bro, how are you going to tap on the neck, on the choke? Go to sleep, man. Be a man.

What we’re doing is we’re chipping away at what it is to be a woman and to be feminine. And what it is to be a man and be masculine. We’re chipping away at that. I wish we could go back to ‘Mad Men’ days. I love those days. Men were men. And I love them.

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.

I think if I could be a man in any time period, I would be a pirate. You know, go climbing in the rigging, sword fighting. I’d like to do that.

I want to be a man who serves my family, a man who increases justice in my community. I want to be all of those things, and yet it is just below the surface that I want to strangle somebody when they cut in front of me on the freeway.

Anything can happen in life, but you have to be a man and sometimes say certain things.

I was never a weapons person, you’re a coward if you have to walk with a weapon, be a man and fight.

Now, being a girl, I was ashamed of my body and my lack of strength. So I tried to be a man. I shot, rode, jumped, and took part in all the fights of the boys.

Women have been given these bodies to produce children, and the spirit and tenderness to take care of people around us. It’s fine to be an outspoken and working woman. I don’t want to be a man.

Not having a father is big. You need guidance. I know, personally, when my father died, I needed guidance; I needed somebody to show me how to be a man, how to grow up, basically how to do the right thing.

I’d love to be a man for a day, just to see what it’s like.

I would like to get married, but it must be a man who is part of my work, or me part of his.

Why do you have to break up with her? Be a man. Just stop calling.

To do all that one is able to do, is to be a man; to do all that one would like to do, is to be a god.

I believe that Sean Quinn wouldn’t be a man at all if he let someone steal his family’s assets.

I don’t understand why James Bond has to be a man all the time. When Pierce Brosnan retires, why not one of us?

Wipe the tears away, stand up, be a man, run your business, find a way.

Listen folks, if you want your son to grow up to be a man, don’t have him run around on a field kicking a ball; get him wrestling.

Even in ‘Victor/Victoria,’ there was talk about what it means to be a woman, what it means to be a man. You didn’t get that in the old days, in ‘Charley’s Aunt’ or ‘Some Like It Hot.’

I didn’t want to be a man of words but of action.

I was 18, at art school, and saw this cute boy playing banjo. I was obsessed. I taught myself how to play. I listened to a lot of country and just messed around. The second song I wrote on the banjo was ‘Good to Be a Man.’ That what’s got me signed.

If I stay in here until I am 100 years olds, I will still be a man.

The fact that there has to be a man behind my success when I genuinely have worked so hard is frustrating.

If you’re unhappy with your circumstances, then change them. Don’t blame the government or your boss or the guy down the street who’s better looking than you (exceptions include Hugh Jackman and George Clooney). Just take some Pepto-Bismol and be a man (or woman, for all of you bullish feminists).

I like being able to be a man.

The circus allows one to be logical and unreal at the same time. In the circus, all is possible: there can be a man with two heads or a character with a green face.

To be a man is, precisely, to be responsible.

My philosophy is if you’re a man at night, you gotta be a man in the morning.

You’ve got to give your past attention, but you’ve got to forgive yourself, acknowledge what you did wrong, and be a man, taking responsibility. You can’t not fly anymore because of the things you’ve been through. You’ve got to believe in a brighter future, that better version of yourself.

I can’t be a man. But I can embrace the head of a man, the intelligence of a man, the spirit of a man.

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.

I had a column for the ‘Seattle Weekly’ for five years, and there was one column that was called ‘How To Be A Man,’ and it was kind of tongue in cheek; it was really tongue in cheek. And I got a book deal from that column.

Every actor starts out saying, ‘I can play anything in the world: I’m only 25, but I can be a man 70 years old. I’ll put on a gray wig and do it.’ But nobody hires you for that. You have to play yourself on the screen.

I would rather be beaten, and be a man, than to be elected and be a little puppy dog.

The law does not require a man to cease to be a man, and act without regard to consequences, when he becomes a juror.

The early influences, in many ways, were in Baltimore. I was passing open windows where there might be a radio playing something funky. In the summertime, sometimes there’d be a man sitting on a step, playing an acoustic guitar, playing some kind of folk blues. The seed had been planted.

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.

My stepfather is my mentor. He’s also like a father to me. He taught me how to be a man, how to carry myself and how to handle my business.

Whenever someone says something bad about you, just confront them on it and just be a man and own up to it. If you said something you shouldn t have said, and it’s important to somebody you need to talk to, you need to go talk to them. Be a man. Step up.

I was a boy, so I decided to get married and then I will be a man.

If The Dream is worried about other people’s matches, how can he be a man of his word?

Even if you hurt my feelings and you lie, be a man and admit it. I’d rather someone be honest to me.

Men, it’s okay to be a man!

If you’re going to be a man and get in there and do this sport, you better man up and understand your own mistakes. There’s no way to get around that. There’s absolutely no way.

Helping teach my son right from wrong, what to do and how to be a man, just about life in general, same thing with my daughter, it’s just very important to me.

You can still be a man and have an emotional side.

Losing my dad made me more mature. Being an only child, I didn’t have the right to act childish. I had to step up. I was earning money already in Turkey. I felt like I needed to protect the family and protect my mom and be a man.

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.

I was born on a plantation, and things weren’t so good. We didn’t have any money. I never thought of the word ‘poor’ ’til I got to be a man, but when you live in a house that you can always peek out of and see what kind of day it is, you’re not doing so well. And your rest room is not inside the house.

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.

My grandmother always told me that regardless of what the world gives you, stay humble. Stay strong in your beliefs, and be honest. And when you’re wrong, be a man and say you’re wrong. And be strong when you’re right.

That’s part of what made me interested in theater as a kid. It made it acceptable to be a man for an hour onstage.

Now, I think that I should have known that he was magic all along. I did know it – but I should have guessed that it would be too much to ask to grow old with and see our children grow up together. So now, he is a legend when he would have preferred to be a man.

You get crushes on people. You have to see them every day in that week. They’re a fantastic person, and it could be a man or a woman.

He is a man, who is to be a man, the fruit is always present in the seed.

I always knew I was a man, always felt that I was a man, always wanted to be a man.

If you’re losing, just be a man; be a man and lose as a man.

Coach Boeheim, he’s really not like a lot of coaches. We don’t do shoot-arounds, we don’t have curfews. So I think he teaches you how to be a man and how to be responsible for yourself.

I’ve always wanted to be a man for a day.

Dissent is the native activity of the scientist, and it has got him into a good deal of trouble in the last years. But if that is cut off, what is left will not be a scientist. And I doubt whether it will be a man.

When I would be myself, I was being big-headed. I was being egotistical. I was a megalomaniac, when it really was just having not to be a monkey for a few hours a day. And fulfilling the need to be a man.

People always want to grab the negative, but that’s not my reality. It comes from my dad. He cracks me up the way he always says, ‘Suck it up and be a big girl,’ to my sister, or ‘Suck it up and be a man,’ to us guys. That’s what I’m about.

You can be a man who loves a woman but love someone the way a gay man loves another man or a woman loves a woman.

I must quit marrying men who feel inferior to me. Somewhere there must be a man who could be my husband and not feel inferior.

At United, they teach me about things off the pitch as well, how to deal with stuff with your family and how to be a man. That part is very important, not just the football side but off the pitch as well.

To be a man is to suffer for others. God help us to be men!

I just didn’t know who was going to be my partner. I knew that once I had grown to be a man that I was going to attract the person that I deserved to be with, or deserved to be with me.

Biggest man law – be a man. Simple: be a man, definition of being a man is being a man. And don’t let your woman turn you into a little boy.

I’m a free spirit, so if I am with someone it has to be a man who understands that, and not all men do.

Life kicks you hard but you have to be a man to come back.

She didn’t break his heart, but I feel like a man is supposed to be a man, he ain’t supposed to be all involved in that. That’s why she got sisters and friend for. Just show up with the ring and act right.

The issues that black men face oftentimes are the issues that everyone faces. Do you have the ability to be present? Are you working on yourself? Do you understand what it means to be a man? To be responsible, loving, vulnerable?

When I would be myself, I was being big-headed. I was being egotistical. I was a megalomaniac, when it really was just having not to be a monkey for a few hours a day. And fulfilling the need to be a man.

I had done drama at university, but I never thought I could be a director. There were so few female directors then. I just assumed you had to be a man to be a director. I also assumed you had to be extremely authoritarian and extremely intellectual, none of which I was.

That’s what Watts stand for, it taught me how to survive it taught me how to be a man.

If a Chancellor is trying to push something through, he must be a man of power. And if he’s smart, he knows when the time is ripe. In one case – the euro – I was like a dictator… The euro is a synonym for Europe.

I know Kurt Volker definitely to be a man of integrity.

I think the main thing was me having a daughter. I just knew that I had to be a man, so I grew up real quick. Then I started caring about my music more, and I feel like that was the main change between ‘Killer Instinct’ and ‘TRAPSOUL’. I was just like, ‘I need to take this more serious and watch the things I say’.