Top 30 Manly Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Manly Quotes from famous people such as Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, William Wycherley, Jeanne Damas, John Montgomery Ward, David Beckham, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

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Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures.
William Wycherley
I love winter clothes. For me, it is all about choosing great materials and getting the right cut for your body – and then styling it right. For example, I love an oversized manly jacket, but I’ll team it with some girly heels.
Jeanne Damas
Baseball grew rapidly in favor; the field was ripe. America needed a live outdoor sport, and this game exactly suited the national temperament. It required all the manly qualities of activity, endurance, pluck, and skill peculiar to cricket, and was immeasurably superior to that game in exciting features.
John Montgomery Ward
When you get older, you mature, and you start liking flowers. Although I try and keep it manly.
David Beckham
The strong manly ones in life are those who understand the meaning of the word patience.
Tokugawa Ieyasu
Putting prize-fighting altogether aside as one of the unavoidable evils attending on this manly exercise, the inestimable value of boxing as a training, discipline, and development of boys and young men remains.
John Boyle O’Reilly
If I have any sexist feelings they are aimed at men: I hate manly men.
David Bailey
Metrics are not a device for restraining the mad, any more than ‘open form’ or free verse is a prairie where a man can do all kinds of manly things in a state of wholesome unrestrictedness.
James Fenton
Some persons have lived manly or womanly lives, and they lack but one thing – open confession of the Lord Jesus Christ. Some men think that they must come to him in a certain way – that they must be stirred by emotion or something like that.
Billy Sunday
Every manly icon the West has ever admired has embodied the very spirit of American independence.
Steven Crowder
The wussiest thing a guy can do is drive a clean truck. Dents, scratches and mud – that’s manly.
Blake Shelton
Obedience to lawful authority is the foundation of manly character.
Robert E. Lee
I like my men to be manly, as you’ll see from my books.
Louise Mensch
It’s a real bloke thing, not talking to people because it’s not manly to get help.
Jimmy Barnes
I always thought my jaw line was manly. I have this pockmark on my chin from when I was 9. I used to get freaked out about it because people thought it was a pimple. But those are the things I’ve become really comfortable with as I’ve gotten older. My scars.
Rosario Dawson
A lot of the time I hate acting. It has a lot to do with the way I was brought up in a world where showing your emotions is frowned upon. It’s just not manly. I don’t do anything in life because I love doing it. It’s because I want to be good at it.
Matthew Fox
Ever since I was 16, I’ve had this lower register, what I thought was a very manly voice, and I was insecure about that. But once I started acting more, I realized it was an asset, and I didn’t want to force myself to aim for the highest note possible.
Selena Gomez
I am very much a girly girl as well as being this tough, athletic fighter. I grew up a tomboy. I got my first four wheeler when I was eight. I got my first dirt bike shortly after. So, I have a lot of these manly qualities, I guess you would say. But, I also like to go get dressed up every weekend.
Paige VanZant
It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple: one must be a woman manly, or a man womanly.
Virginia Woolf
Sinatra slowly found a way to allow tenderness into the performance while remaining manly. He perfected the role of the Tender Tough Guy and passed it on to several generations of Americans. Before him, that archetype did not exist in American popular culture.
Pete Hamill
It was in ‘Esquire’ in the 1970s that I first learned Nora Ephron’s recipe for borscht – certainly an editorial first for that manly magazine.
Carolyn See
What was moving, I think, was the fact that the statue is a woman and not a heroic, manly figure. So for all her scale and immensity, there’s something soft about the Statue of Liberty, something tender about her.
Derek Walcott
A little less complaint and whining, and a little more dogged work and manly striving, would do us more credit than a thousand civil rights bills.
W. E. B. Du Bois
Somehow, when the authoritarians on the Right search for icons of manly warrior power to venerate, they find only those who like to melodramatically play-act as such, but who ran away when it came time to actually perform.
Glenn Greenwald
I wrote ‘Science For Her!’ because I found normal, manly science textbooks to be too intense for my small size-0 brain, and I found normal science textbooks to have covers too heavy for my dainty size-0/size-2-with-bloat hands.
Megan Amram
My dad is a true man. A man’s man. Every manly thing he does, he does so well.
Bobby Deol
This isn’t a very manly thing to do, not showing up for a fight.
Artem Lobov
Steph’s such a good dad for girls. He’s super attentive, and he’s, like, not too manly to get down on the floor and play with them and have a tea party.
Ayesha Curry
‘The Sun Also Rises’ by Ernest Hemingway is my favorite book. You feel manly reading it.
Elizabeth Olsen