Welcome to the Be A Man Quotes page, where we celebrate and explore the essence of masculinity through powerful and thought-provoking quotes. The concept of what it means to be a man has evolved over time, encompassing various qualities, values, and traits that define masculinity. Whether you’re seeking inspiration, motivation, or simply a deeper understanding of what it takes to embrace manhood, you’ll find a diverse collection of quotes that touch upon this topic.
Scroll down to discover a curated selection of quotes that encapsulate the many facets of being a man, from strength and courage to vulnerability and empathy. These quotes can be used for personal reflection, shared with friends and family, or even incorporated into your own creative projects. So, let’s delve into the wisdom and insights shared by individuals from various walks of life, and find inspiration in the words that define what it means to be a man. Copy them, place them on an image, or enhance them with stylish fonts to make them your own.
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. Boris Kodjoe
It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple: one must be a woman manly, or a man womanly. Virginia Woolf
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. Marisa Berenson
If you bleed Black Label and you’re going to be a man, you gotta get up there and do what you gotta do every day, relentless and as tired as you can be. Zakk Wylde
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. Charles Bradley
Anything can happen in life, but you have to be a man and sometimes say certain things. Samuel Eto’o
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. Fernando Botero
I see my husband and the way he is with his daughters, responsive and alive and sensitive in ways my father would have liked to be. My father would have loved to be a man like that, and he surrounded himself with men like that, but he couldn’t be. Lisa Brennan-Jobs
If I’d learned nothing else, it was this: If you want to be a great writer, be a man. If you can’t be a man, write like one. Julianna Baggott
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. Jon Jones
Let me tell you about the nap. It’s absolutely fantastic. When I was a kid, my father was always trying to tell me how to be a man. And he said – I was maybe nine – he said, ‘Philip, whenever you take a nap, take your clothes off and put a blanket over you, and you’re going to sleep better.’ Well, as with everything, he was right. Philip Roth
My father always taught by telling stories about his experiences. His lessons were about morality and art and what insects and birds and human beings had in common. He told me what it meant to be a man and to be a Black man. He taught me about love and responsibility, about beauty, and how to make gumbo. Walter Mosley
It is fitting that a liar should be a man of good memory. Quintilian
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. Melanie Scrofano
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. Javier Bardem
To be a man is, precisely, to be responsible. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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. Jackie Kennedy
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. Stacey Dash
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. Edward Herrmann
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. Eli Roth
You don’t have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being. Malcolm X
Wipe the tears away, stand up, be a man, run your business, find a way. Kevin Plank
You don’t have to act like a biker from hell to be a man. That’s not what being a man is about. It’s about being a responsible human being, with some decent values – and taking care of business. Jani Lane
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. B. B. King
I always knew I was a man, always felt that I was a man, always wanted to be a man. Little Richard
American pop culture is perpetually in adolescent mode. The notions of what it takes to be a man, as depicted in pop culture, are very superficial, one-dimensional, and adolescent. Alex Tizon
I would rather be beaten, and be a man, than to be elected and be a little puppy dog. Davy Crockett
I don’t understand why James Bond has to be a man all the time. When Pierce Brosnan retires, why not one of us? Sarah Michelle Gellar
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. Tony Dungy
I have decided to make a personal message to David Haye. I want him to fight me, to be a man. I wish there will be enough excitement, pressure and courage for David Haye to fight me. Wladimir Klitschko
If I had my life to live over, I would want to be a man. Little Richard
I’m very proud of being a woman, and as a woman, I don’t even like the word ‘feminism’ because when I hear that word, I associate it with women trying to pretend to be men, and I’m not interested in trying to pretend to be a man. I don’t want to embrace manhood; I want to embrace my womanhood. Evangeline Lilly
I consider myself to be a man with my priorities in order. Steven Crowder
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). Steven Crowder
Why do you have to break up with her? Be a man. Just stop calling. Matt LeBlanc
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. Stefon Diggs
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. Peter Graves
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. Dean Jones
It seems to me that it will be very wearisome to be a man. Pierre Loti
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. Mike Epps
It is of no consequence of what parents a man is born, as long as he be a man of merit. Horace
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. Andy Kaufman
If you’re losing, just be a man; be a man and lose as a man. Marat Safin
The law does not require a man to cease to be a man, and act without regard to consequences, when he becomes a juror. Lysander Spooner
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. Agnes Smedley
If The Dream is worried about other people’s matches, how can he be a man of his word? Velveteen Dream
I want to be a man who is truthful and who won’t let pride get in the way of my ripping myself open to my partner and saying, ‘Here I am. This is me.’ I feel there’s something powerful when a man reaches a point in his life when he can be completely vulnerable. Dwayne Johnson
The fact that there has to be a man behind my success when I genuinely have worked so hard is frustrating. Clairo
My poems are political in the deeper sense of the word. Political means to live in your time, to be a man of your time. Yehuda Amichai
I would like to get married, but it must be a man who is part of my work, or me part of his. Elsa Peretti
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. Jacob Bronowski
I’d love to be a man for a day, just to see what it’s like. Brittany Murphy
A boy needs a male figure, and the girls do, too. Somebody to discipline them and make them be a man. Bobby Bowden
Not only is it harder to be a man, it is also harder to become one. Arianna Huffington
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. Vivienne Westwood
Do you want to be a man of today or a man of tomorrow? Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
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. Marianne Elliott
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’. Bryson Tiller
It’s upsetting to be a man in our society. David Mamet
The point of feminism is you shouldn’t have to be a man to be treated with equal respect. Kimberle Williams Crenshaw
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. Sarah Snook
Rioting is a childish way of trying to be a man, but it takes time to rise out of the hell of hatred and frustration and accept that to be a man you don’t have to riot. Abraham Maslow
You can do a hell of a film if you can understand what it is to be a man in America. Jim Brown
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. David Harbour
Everyone thinks of God as a man – you can’t help it – Santa Claus was a man, therefore God has to be a man. Patti Smith
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. Jennifer Saunders
I’ve always wanted to be a man for a day. Kym Whitley
I was never a weapons person, you’re a coward if you have to walk with a weapon, be a man and fight. Anthony Yarde
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. Rudyard Kipling
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! Andrea Bocelli
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. Jason Momoa
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. Ann Beattie
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. Jerry Leiber
I too hope in this short reign to be a man of peace. Pope Benedict XVI
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. John Paul Jones
I’d rather be a kid and play with paper planes, than be a man and play with a woman’s heart. Niall Horan
If I stay in here until I am 100 years olds, I will still be a man. Suge Knight
Early on, I was so impressed with Charles Dickens. I grew up in the South, in a little village in Arkansas, and the whites in my town were really mean, and rude. Dickens, I could tell, wouldn’t be a man who would curse me out and talk to me rudely. Maya Angelou
My old man tried to force on me a notion of what it was to be a ‘man.’ And it destroyed my dad. Sam Shepard
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. Steve Young
A man should be rugged like Steve McQueen; the way he stands, like he’s ready for something. Or he should be a man of the world like Dean Martin. Maureen McCormick
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. Lyle Lovett
I wanted to be a man who travelled the world to make peace. I didn’t realise that most diplomats are megaphones for their governments. Stellan Skarsgard
I didn’t want to be a man of words but of action. Dan Bongino
My philosophy is if you’re a man at night, you gotta be a man in the morning. Ryan Lochte
The battle against cancer has made me strong. It’s like winning a war! When I was diagnosed, I was told by doctors my kidney, liver and other organs could fail. It was tough. I didn’t know if I could save my life. But I was positive, and because of that, the doctor told me that I would be a man who would never have cancer. Yuvraj Singh
I like being able to be a man. Anson Mount
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. Jerry Lewis
So much of Hollywood is this kind of overly machismo, nonsensical view of masculinity, which I just don’t find honest. I think it’s this idea of – you know, we’re told, well, ‘Be a man, be a man.’ But what does that mean, exactly? Does that mean you can’t carry yourself with any fear? That you can’t acknowledge that you’re scared? Joe Carnahan
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. Jack Antonoff
Life kicks you hard but you have to be a man to come back. Ricky Hatton
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. Nate Parker
I believe that Sean Quinn wouldn’t be a man at all if he let someone steal his family’s assets. Sean Quinn
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. Elle King
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. Hedy Lamarr
The man who would forge to the front in this competitive age must be a man of prompt and determined decision. Orison Swett Marden
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. Jamie Foxx
The way to be a man if you’re a little boy is to be willing to throw your weight around. Patricia Ireland
No one ceases to be a man, no one forfeits his rights to civilization merely by being more or less uncultured, and since the Filipino is regarded as a fit citizen when he is asked to pay taxes or shed his blood to defend the fatherland, why must this fitness be denied him when the question arises of granting him some right? Jose Rizal
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. Eddie Griffin
