Justin Baldoni Quotes

Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best; it removes all that is base. All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is the essence of manhood.

Think about a guy like Bob Mitchum, with his kind of chest gut not defining itself one way or the other. Was there anybody tougher? Lee Marvin was a marine sniper during the Second World War. They had this sense of themselves, and they had this product of being a man in a masculine way.

I challenge you [other men] to see if you can use the same qualities that you feel make you a man to go deeper into yourself. Your strength, your bravery, your toughness: Can we redefine what those mean and use them to explore our hearts? Are you brave enough to be vulnerable? To reach out to another man when you need help? To dive headfirst into your shame? Are you strong enough to be sensitive, to cry whether you are hurting or you're happy, even if it makes you look weak? Are you confident enough to listen to the women in your life? To hear their ideas and their solutions? To hold their anguish and actually believe them, even if what they're saying is against you? And will you be man enough to stand up to other men when you hear "locker room talk," when you hear stories of sexual harassment? When you hear your boys talking about grabbing ass or getting her drunk, will you actually stand up and do something so that one day we don't have to live in a world where a woman has to risk everything and come forward to say the words "me too?"

I'm a big boy, and I'm a tough guy.

Father's Day is hopefully a time when the culture says, 'This is our moment to look at who our men and boys are.'

It's weird: I don't see myself as a tough guy.

Real men are sadly lacking in this world, for when they are put to the test they prove worthless.

I like guys who, no matter what, are men.

I have no memory of feeling strong and rugged at any point. I've been considering masculinity my whole life.

The great passion in a man's life may not be for women or men or wealth or toys or fame, or even for his children, but for his masculinity, and at any point in his life he may be tempted to throw over the things for which he regularly lays down his life for the sake of that masculinity. He may keep this passion secret from women, and he may even deny it to himself, but the other boys know it about themselves and the wiser ones know it about the rest of us as well.

Men want a battle to fight, an adventure to live, and a beauty to rescue. That is what is written in their hearts. That is what little boys play at. That is what men's movies are about. You just see it. It is undeniable.

Let men see, let them know, a real man, who lives as he was meant to live.

Not only is it harder to be a man, it is also harder to become one.

When I'm talking to groups that are all men, we talk about how the masculine role limits them. They often want to talk about how they missed having real fathers, real loving, present fathers, because of the way that they tried to fit the picture of masculinity.

I was never in an awkward position where I had to curb my manhood.

Society says that men need to be bigger and stronger, and they must protect their women and so on.

I don't really relate to certain blokey men who just want to talk about blokey things. I never really know what to say and I always feel I have to act blokey in order to have them not say, 'You're a weirdo.'

I'm not trying to be macho, I promise you.

Masculinity is not something given to you, but something you gain. And you gain it by winning small battles with honor.

There are alternate definitions of manhood in the West.

Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.

It's at the borders of pain and suffering that the men are separated from the boys.

Black men struggle with masculinity so much. The idea that we must always be strong really presses us all down - it keeps us from growing.

I like being able to be a man.

Manhood coerced into sensitivity is no manhood at all.