Comments on: Manvotional: Wanted-A Man

By: Jester

Jester — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 21:37:07 +0000

There’s no point in aiming for the moon if you truly don’t believe you can hit it.

By: Jon

Jon — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 19:06:29 +0000

Wow…just wow. My only thoughts right now are that I wish this article had been presented to me (and that I understood and taken it to heart) 25 years ago. This ought to be mandatory reading for boys entering junior high school or middle school.

By: Steve

Steve — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 15:27:59 +0000

I believe the most accurate quote offered up above is as follows: “It is better to aim for the stars and land on the moon than to aim for the curb and land in the gutter.” Shoot for ideals. If you don’t hit your mark, your still better off than shooting off the mark initially. The word “sin” means to miss the mark. There is much good, but to choose a lesser good over a greater good is to miss the mark.

By: TR

TR — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 11:13:00 +0000

Excellent!

By: Michael M

Michael M — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 05:10:47 +0000

Real men pray with their family. Real men read/study the Bible. They do devotionals. They train their children and teach them moral and ethics. They provide for their family. They put God first, their wife second, and their children next. They uphold honor and the truth. They don’t drink, smoke, or do any other drugs so they don’t purposely shorten their lives leaving their family behind. They don’t curse or use fool language. I know when I have met a real man when I have met a man with these qualities. Oh and they don’t whine and complain (almost forgot that).

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 01:22:29 +0000

If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too:
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies,
Or being hated, don’t give way to hating,
And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise;

If you can dream—and not make dreams your master;
If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim,
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two imposters just the same:
If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build ’em up with worn-out tools;

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss:
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: “Hold on!”

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with Kings—nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much:
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,
And—which is more—you’ll be a Man, my son!

By: PatrickC

PatrickC — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 00:34:43 +0000

The only man worth imitating is the God-man Jesus Christ and He is patient with us.

By: Rob

Rob — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 23:51:55 +0000

to David. Chin up, Buddy. It is achievable but more than that it’s worth working toward each day but acknowledge that you’re human and sometimes fall short and when you do don’t beat yourself up but,rather, pick yourself up and go at it again. I sense that maybe too many people have told you for too long what you can’t do and somewhere along the way you started believing them. You were born for a purpose. Imbued with power. And you carry the seeds of greatness within you. That’s a fact. That’s reality. Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise.
And to Dan. Happy to see the re-read. Brother I’ve believed for a long time that the fathers of this world are some of the most courageous men on it. The sacrifices you’ve made. As you said yourself you are unable to persue other dreams and lusts but you’ve taken on a responsibility and every day you climb out of bed and go off to work to do what you must to provide for your family. Those dreams and lusts can only be in your head as you continue forward to do what you must. You can’t turn back and you cnat run away. You just keep marching forward in the battle of life doing your best to provide for, care for, and poroperly raise your children. To me there’s no greater courage. Courage is not bravery but the tenacity to continue forward against all obstacles to achieve the objective. There may be days you are brave and others you’re craping your pants but when you continue forward in spite of it all, Man,. That’s Courage.

By: EM HAAG

EM HAAG — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 23:13:37 +0000

It’s a great article about meaningful human qualities. Both men and women need these. A society is only as great as its women. The societies at the lowest rung are the ones in which women are treated the worst. Let’s teach our sons and daughters all these incredible qualities of character and skill development and watch our country really soar.

By: Jack

Jack — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 21:48:08 +0000

I just reread my post. Sorry…there is nothing snobbier than misquoting Latin and then not giving a translation.

Parvum Parva Decent— small things become the small

i.e. great men will seek to great things