Whether it’s overtly masculine men like [Teddy Roosevelt] or Jack Donavon, or the Stoic philosophers Seneca and Aurelius, or writers like Mailer and Marden, or contrasting and opposing leaders like Churchill and Gandhi, manliness has always been a virtue with similar characteristics. Never has its meaning been up for much debate. No matter who is speaking of it, manliness has always been self-reliance. It always requires persistence and hard work and toughness and grit. It requires one to act with honor. It is everything good about humanity and men who possess it have developed our modern, free society. Yet now we turn our backs on our most prized virtue?Love that. Some people really get bent out of shape about the term "man up." This article does a great job to talking about what being a man is really about. We need more men to stand up and be men. I really like this part as well, "The Holy Bible says, in Corinthians 1 16:33, 'Be watchful, stand firm in the faith, act like men, be strong.' When manly action and strength are spoken in the same breath they don’t conjure up an image of a physically superior human, rather, a spiritually tougher individual who can persist with a clear mind while others lose theirs and quit." Good stuff.
"Personally, I hold that a man, who deliberately and intelligently takes a pledge and then breaks it, forfeits his manhood." -Gandhi
Check out the rest of the article, Manliness Was Once Our Greatest Virtue.
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