Top 77 Be A Man Quotes

I think that feminists have definitely underestimated the role that women have had historically. I think I would be insecure if I were to be a man; there’s so much pressure on you.

The way to be a man if you’re a little boy is to be willing to throw your weight around.

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

People are so used to men playing these amazing roles that they sometimes can’t even see that there is no reason it has to be a man other than it was written that way – this is true for diversity in general.

One of the things I’ve been interested in my whole career is exploring masculinity and what it means to be a man. The sensitivity of a man, but also the violence and power that goes along with it.

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

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

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

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

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

The point of feminism is you shouldn’t have to be a man to be treated with equal respect.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

Everyone thinks of God as a man – you can’t help it – Santa Claus was a man, therefore God has to be a man.

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 wouldn’t be the person I am today without Roddy White. He’s helped teach me how to be a man.

A captain of the Navy ought to be a man of strong and well connected sense, with a tolerable good education, a gentleman, as well as a seaman both in theory and practice.

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.

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

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

I’d rather be a kid and play with paper planes, than be a man and play with a woman’s heart.

It’s upsetting to be a man in our society.

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.

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

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.

If you can keep your wits about you while all others are losing theirs, and blaming you. The world will be yours and everything in it, what’s more, you’ll be a man, my son.

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

My mom and dad taught me a lot. They kept me out of trouble and told me to go a better route. They taught me how to be a man, basically.

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.

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.

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.

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

Quite often my narrator or protagonist may be a man, but I’m not sure he’s the more interesting character, or if the more complex character isn’t the woman.

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

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.

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.

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

Wear what you want to wear. Do what you want to do. Be who you are. Pick out your own clothes. Be a man. And if that’s too much to ask, as it almost always is for me, think of someone you consider to be a man and pretend to be like him. I pretend to be like my dad.

When I was born, there was a very isolated idea of what it meant to be a man or a woman, and you belonged to one gender or the other.

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

The crazy thing is a lot of people – a lot of men, if I’m just speaking for myself – don’t really start thinking about the effect of hyper-masculinity and false definitions of what it means to be a man until you get married or until you have kids. Because then, all of sudden, you have something to protect.

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

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.

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!

I like being able to be a man.

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.

Connecting with my daughter is the most important thing in my life – the priority. I want to be a man who shows up for her. I want to have such a big influence on her, so that she knows she can call me about anything, which she does.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Jonathan Hill is an old friend of mine; I have worked with him for many years and know him to be a man of outstanding ability who has never sought a public profile.

A woman can’t teach a man how to be a man. But she can teach you how to nurture, how to care, how to love, and how to give.

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.

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.