These true man quotes will inspire you. True man someone who holds his oaths and morals.
A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging true man quotes, true man sayings, and true man proverbs.
Best True Man Quotes
- “A true man of honor feels humbled himself when he cannot help humbling others.” ~ Robert E. Lee
- “Stand true to your calling to be a man. Real women will always be relieved and grateful when men are willing to be men” ~ Elisabeth Elliot
- “The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason, he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.” ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
- “You cannot be a true man until you learn to obey.” ~ Robert E. Lee
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“A true man hates no one.” ~ Napoleon Bonaparte
- “Barbara Eden is the most beautiful girl in the world.” ~ Larry Hagman
- “Each mind has its own method. A true man never acquires after college rules.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “Christ’s whole life on earth was the assertion and example of true manliness — the setting forth in living act and word what man is meant to be, and how he should carry himself in this world of God — one long campaign in which the temptation stands out as the first great battle and victory.” ~ Thomas Hughes
- “We are living at an important and fruitful moment now, for it is clear to men that the images of adult manhood given by the popular culture are worn out; a man can no longer depend on them. By the time a man is thirty-five he knows that the images of the right man, the tough man, the true man which he received in high school do not work in life.” ~ Robert Bly
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“All true manliness grows around a core of divineness.” ~ Charles Henry Parkhurst
- “If Jesus Christ is not true God, how could he help us? If he is not true man, how could he help us?” ~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer
- “When I hear a man discoursing of virtue, or of any sort of wisdom, who is a true man and worthy of his theme, I am delighted beyond measure: and I compare the man and his words, and note the harmony and correspondence of them. And such an one I deem to be the true musician, having in himself a fairer harmony than that of the lyre.” ~ Plato
- “Whereas, according to the declaration of that true man of the world Talleyrand, the use of language is to conceal the thoughts; this is to declare in the present instance, when I say I am not able to bear much talking, it means really, and without any mistake, or equivocation, or oblique meaning, or implication, or subterfuge, or omission, that I am not able; being at present rather weak in the head, and able to work no more.” ~ Michael Faraday
- “I’m sure lots of people would love to ridicule me when I say this, but it is true: many people die from cold related deaths every winter, and here are studies that say that climate change in certain areas of the world would help those individuals.” ~ Dana Perino
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“Jesus is the true manifestation of God, and He is manifested to be the regenerating power of a divine life.” ~ Horace Bushnell
- “It is a mistake to think of these men as visionary dreamers, playing around at Philadelphia with abstract conceptions of political theory, pulling a whole scheme of government out of the air like a rabbit out of a hat. True, many of them had read and studied enough about the science of politics to put the average statesman of today to shame. But political science was to them an extremely practical topic of discussion, dealing with the extremely practical business of running a government–not, as today, a branch of higher learning reserved for the use of graduate students.” ~ Fred Rodell
- “Conservatives – they say, ‘Oh, Putin is a real leader, he’s a true man, he stays firm on his position, he’s not like this weak Obama.’ And also they are very much wrong. Because Putin is not a strong man; he is actually a man that put himself into a corner, and he’s fighting and biting from that corner, being very weak.” ~ Ilya Ponomarev
- “The true men of action in our time, those who transform the world, are not the politicians and statesmen, but the scientists” ~ W. H. Auden
- “don’t let anything make you believe that there are not as many decent men in the world as women, and they’re just as decent. Life isn’t worth living unless you know that – and it’s true.” ~ Dorothy Canfield Fisher
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“A true man of piety will consider himself a sinner and, therefore, untouchable.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
- “A proper autobiography is a death-bed confession. A true man finds so much work to do that he has no time to contemplate his yesterdays; for to-day and to-morrow are here, with their impatient tasks. The world is so busy, too, that it cannot afford to study any man’s unfinished work; for the end may prove it a failure, and the world needs masterpieces.” ~ Mary Antin
- “The true manipulator never has a reputation for manipulating.” ~ Martin Amis
- “He is not a true man of science who does not bring some sympathy to his studies, and expect to learn something by behaviour as well as application.” ~ Henry David Thoreau
- “Every true man’s apparel fits your thief.” ~ William Shakespeare
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“Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck, that of the people.” ~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
- “Tis gold Which buys admittance–oft it doth–yea, and makes Diana’s rangers false themselves, yield up This deer to th’ stand o’ th’ stealer: and ’tis gold Which makes the true man kill’d and saves the thief, Nay, sometimes hangs both thief and true man.” ~ William Shakespeare
- “We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be done.” ~ Theodore Roosevelt
- “I like a look of Agony, because I know it’s true – men do not sham Convulsion, nor simulate, a Throe” ~ Emily Dickinson
- “There are courageous and honest men enough in both sections to fight. There is no question of courage involved. The people of both sections of this Union have illustrated their courage on too many battlefields to be questioned. They have shown their fighting qualities shoulder to shoulder whenever their country has called upon them; but that they may never come in contact with each other in fratricidal war, should be the ardent wish of every true man and honest patriot.” ~ Robert Toombs
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“Remember that a man, a true man, never hates. His rages and his bad moods never last beyond the present moment-like electric shocks.” ~ Napoleon Bonaparte
- “Whoso is full of sacred (religious, moral, humane) love loves only the spook, the “true man,” and persecutes with dull mercilessness the individual, the real man.” ~ Max Stirner
- “Man is the yokel par excellence, the booby unmatchable, the king dupe of the cosmos. He is chronically and unescapably deceived, not only by the other animals and by the delusive face of nature herself–by his incomparable talent for searching out and embracing what is false, and for overlooking and denying what is true.” ~ H. L. Mencken
- “True men and women are all physicians to make us well.” ~ C. A. Bartol
- “The late Rev. Peter Gomes at The Memorial Church at Harvard was a true mentor to me when I was in college. He instilled in me a commitment to service, saying that it’s not enough to believe in service, or support those who serve – you ought to find a way yourself to serve. When I looked at different options after college, nobody inspired me more than the 18- and 19-year-olds who serve on the front lines of our nation’s military. Serving with them in the Marines as we together served our country was the greatest honor of my life to date.” ~ Seth Moulton
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“A true man belongs to no other time or place, but is the center of things.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “People should remain unaffected by what others may say. A true man is one who overcomes the ups and downs of life with fortitude. One should not recoil before reverses of fortunes. One should bravely face them and overcome them.” ~ Sathya Sai Baba
- “Most men would feel shame if caught preparing with their own hands precisely such a dinner, whether of animal or vegetable food, as is every day prepared for them by others. Yet till this is otherwise we are not civilized, and, if gentlemen and ladies, are not true men and women. This certainly suggests what change is to be made.” ~ Henry David Thoreau
- “Government, we are sometimes told, is just another word for things we choose to do together. Like a lot of things politicians say, this sounds good. And, also like a lot of things politicians say, it isn’t the least bit true. Many of the things government does, we don’t choose. Many of the things we choose, government doesn’t do. And whatever gets done, we’re not the ones doing it. And those who are doing it often interpret their mandates selfishly.” ~ Glenn Reynolds
- “You must try to combine in your life immense idealism with immense practicality. You must be prepared to go into deep meditation now, and the next moment you must be ready to go and cultivate the fields. You must be prepared to explain the intricacies of the scriptures now, and the next moment to go and sell the produce of the fields in the market….The true man is he who is strong as strength itself and yet possesses a woman’s heart.” ~ Swami Vivekananda
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“True, man does not know woman. But neither does woman.” ~ Ambrose Bierce
- “When you get that person out of that dude, that’s the real person, you know. And I don’t think its dead, but it needs to be more examples, of what a true gentleman and what a true man in every sense of the word is, and that’s what I try to be.” ~ Ginuwine
- “Those are the magical songwriting moments, when you have a partner that clicks like that. That’s a dream come true, man.” ~ Sammy Hagar
- “To be that big of a star and that grounded and that classy, I’m mean [ George Clooney] was a true mentor for me and, as a director, he’s incredible.” ~ John Krasinski
- “My brother, this “religiosity” is not the standard by which true men of God are measured. In all the rituals that Islam has, deeply imbedded in those rituals are principles of truth. And sometimes we get lost in the religiosity; we get lost in the “symbol,” but we miss the substance of the truth that is buried in the ritual!” ~ Louis Farrakhan
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“Though we best know and cannot deny our imperfections, it is not for us to lose our self-reliance and true manhood.” ~ Nicolas Chamfort
- “The loss of fortune to a true man is but the trumpet challenge to renewed exertion, not the thunder stroke of destruction.” ~ Edwin Hubbel Chapin
- “If what they are saying about you is true, mend your ways. If it isn’t true, forget it, and go on and serve the Lord.” ~ Henry Allen Ironside
- “Bobby made references to me a few times on Show Me The Money. He seemed to enjoy using words like ‘sangnamja (T/N: true man, also the title for ‘Boy in Luv’) and ‘leading a fast life’ (T/N: pronounced as Bangtang). Saying “Like a true man, I lead a fast life” isn’t a common mix of words, right? I thought that it wasn’t just a coincidence.” ~ Kim Nam-joon
- “[Kaz] is a great scholar, very funny – a true man of no rank!” ~ Joan Halifax
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“We honor our heroic and patriotic dead by being true men, as true men by faithfully fighting the battles of our day as they fought the battles of their day.” ~ David McMurtrie Gregg
- “Every true man is a cause, a country, and an age; requires infinite spaces and numbers and time fully to accomplish his design;–and posterity seem to follow his steps as a train of clients.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “The true man of science will know nature better by his finer organization; he will smell, taste, see, hear, feel, better than other men. His will be a deeper and finer experience. We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy. It is with science as with ethics,–we cannot know truth by contrivance and method; the Baconian is as false as any other, and with all the helps of machinery and the arts, the most scientific will still be the healthiest and friendliest man, and possess a more perfect Indian wisdom.” ~ Henry David Thoreau
- “It can be consoling to think your children are in heaven. You have got to understand that that doesn’t make it true. Many people cannot understand that distinction.” ~ Richard Dawkins
- “The true men of action in our time those who transform the world are not the politicians and statesmen but the scientists. Unfortunately poetry cannot celebrate them because their deeds are concerned with things, not persons, and are therefore speechless. When I find myself in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a drawing room full of dukes.” ~ W. H. Auden
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“Repression does for a true man or a nation what fire does for gold.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
- “Washington and the elder Napoleon. Both were brave men; both were true men; both loved their country and dared to expose their lives for their country’s cause.” ~ Matthew Simpson , True man quotes love
- “He is not a true man of science who does not bring some sympathy to his studies, and expect to learn something by behavior as well as by application. It is childish to rest in the discovery of mere coincidences, or of partial and extraneous laws. The study of geometry is a petty and idle exercise of the mind, if it is applied to no larger system than the starry one. Mathematics should be mixed not only with physics but with ethics; that is mixed mathematics. The fact which interests us most is the life of the naturalist. The purest science is still biographical.” ~ Henry David Thoreau
- “The nation blest above all nations is she in whom the civic genius of the people does the saving day by day, by acts without external picturesqueness; by speaking, writing, voting reasonably; by smiting corruption swiftly; by good temper between parties; by the people knowing true men when they see them, and preferring them as leaders to rabid partisans and empty quacks.” ~ William James
- “The gentleman does not needlessly and unnecessarily remind an offender of a wrong he may have committed against him. He cannot only forgive, he can forget; and he strives for that nobleness of self and mildness of character which impart sufficient strength to let the past be but the past. A true man of honor feels humbled himself when he cannot help humbling others.” ~ Robert E. Lee
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“Chaos claims the unwary or the incomplete. A true man may flinch away its embrace, if he is stalwart, and he girds his soul with the armour of contempt.” ~ Dan Abnett
- “Don`t be imitators. The mind is an imitator, because it is easier to play the game of imitation than to become authentically true. Many ideas have been given to you: become like a Buddha, become like Jesus. become like Krishna – as if you have to become everybody else EXCEPT yourself. As if God is only against you. He`s for Krishna, for Christ, for Mahavir, for Buddha – only against you. Then why does He create you? Then He seems simply foolish. Why does He go on creating you? If He`s interested in Buddha, Hc can create Buddhas. Why you?” ~ Rajneesh
- “War paralyzes your courage and deadens the spirit of true manhood. It degrades and stupefies with the sense that you are not responsible, that ’tis not yours to think and reason why, but to do and die,’ like the hundred thousand others doomed like yourself. War means blind obedience, unthinking stupidity, brutish callousness, wanton destruction, and irresponsible murder.” ~ Alexander Berkman
- “My conclusion is that there is no reason to believe any of the dogmas of traditional theology and, further, that there is no reason to wish that they were true. Man, in so far as he is not subject to natural forces, is free to work out his own destiny. The responsibility is his, and so is the opportunity.” ~ Bertrand Russell
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“A true man does not only stand up for himself, he stands up for those that do not have the ability to.” ~ William Lyon Mackenzie King
- “I felt a great dislike to journeys, especially when they were long. But once I had started, I thought nothing of them, thinking of Him for Whose service they were undertaken and remembering that Our Lord would be praised and the most Holy Sacrament would dwell in the house I was going to found… It should be a great consolation to us – though many of us do not think of it – that Jesus Christ, true God and true man, dwells as He does in so many places in the most Holy Sacrament” ~ Teresa of Avila
