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“Perhaps it took several generations to make a man, perhaps it took several combinations and re-creations of his mother’s gentleness and resilience, his father’s enormous energy and appetite for the new, a subtle blending of masculine and feminine, selfish and selfless, stubborn and yielding, before a proper man could be fashioned.”
― Wallace Stegner, The Big Rock Candy Mountain

“No one owes you anything. If we live our lives expecting people to hand us anything, we’ll not only alienate all of our friends, but we’ll create a situation where our value is puffed up and manufactured, and not based on our actual value. When something goes wrong, when crisis comes, we are left feeling bankrupt.”
― Josh Hatcher

“How tender 'tis to love the babe that milks me:
I would, while it was smiling in my face,
Have pluck'd my nipple from his boneless gums,
And dash'd the brains out, had I so sworn as you
Have done to this.”
― William Shakespeare

“The truth is â€� no matter how “self-madeâ€� you think you are, you are really made by many who have invested in your life.
Be known as a thankful and grateful personâ€� and be known as the person that is investing in others to build them up, as well. It’s your way of paying back the debt that others have invested in you.”
― Josh Hatcher

“So, you’re handed a baby and a new name (Daddy) and you now have to choose to accept the challenge. Here’s the thing. I don’t believe that rejecting it’s an option. I mean, people DO reject it. But you shouldn’t. You choose then and there to be a father. And you make that choice, day in and day out to make sure their needs are met, that the example is set for them, that they are loved, cherished, corrected, and challenged. You have to choose it.”
― Josh Hatcher

“Men are wild, mighty, and fierce. Yet our culture wraps silky ropes around our necks, and shaves our faces, and trims our nails. The wildman isn’t quite socially acceptable. It’s not okay to have dirt under your fingernails, or to kill your own dinner.
We don’t have to reject civilization entirely, there is a time and a place for manners and polite conversation and neckties and cologne.
But I believe that all men, even the dandier, fluffier ones, have a call â€� drums beating in the distance â€� that beckons them into the wild.”
― Josh Hatcher

“I had to decide between being a man who is not entirely a man, and being a dead man. I chose the former.”
― Thando Mgqolozana, A Man Who is Not a Man

“Well, you know what men are. Anything new gets them in.”
― Elizabeth Harrower, The Watch Tower

“Your feelings come from your thoughts, as you master your mind, you'll need to matter feelings too. If an emotion starts to take controlâ€� your best weapon is truth. It's ok to feel. Not okay to be controlled by feelings. Don't follow your heart. Follow truth.”
― Josh Hatcher

“You have ONE job as a parent.
Raising a responsible human being.
If you don't set high expectations for that human being - the world will have yet another crappy human being.
Give them chores. Force them to do them”
― Josh Hatcher

“Your kids need you to be present - but that doesn’t mean in the building, playing X-Box and yelling at them. Change diapers. Show them how to treat their mother by treating her good yourself. Tell them that you love them. Laugh with them.”
― Josh Hatcher

“Wild fury and righteous anger stirs up in the hearts of men. Driving them to action, to battle, to fight. Hopefully, it’s tempered with the code, with the order. Fury must be kept in check, and be used to propel justice, to free the oppressed, to protect.”
― Josh Hatcher

“I’ve known men who fought in wars to liberate the Jews from Hitler. I’ve known men who sewed their own buttons on their clothes. I’ve known men who talked with a lisp and wore paisley shirts, and men who could chop down trees, and run heavy equipment. Other men were more comfortable in a suit and tie, with soft hands, and a penchant for math, or words. Some men are adventurers, others prefer comic books. Masculinity has never just been one thing.”
― Josh Hatcher

“Sometimes, we fail at a challenge. That can be a disappointment, but it can also be the thing that helps us learn how to rise above and meet that challenge on the next go round. Failure can build discipline and strength and wisdom. It’s up to us if we choose to let that failure rip our confidence away. We get to choose to keep pressing in and charging forward to meet the challenge.”
― Josh Hatcher

“When a boy leads a boy, he stays a boy. When a man leads a boy, he becomes a man.”
― Eric M. Watterson

“I have been lying to myself thinking that I know a man when I see one. And all those giant men who taught me what it is to be a man are also liars. Either that or you are a liar. You be the judge.
There was silence.
'And just for the record, I won't leave my home in the care of a man who is not a man.”
― Thando Mgqolozana, A Man Who is Not a Man

“...bÄ™dÄ™ miaÅ‚ okazjÄ™ dokonać wielkiego czynu, nie jestem już bowiem zwiÄ™dÅ‚Ä… liliÄ…...”
― Bohumil Hrabal, PociÄ…gi pod specjalnym nadzorem. Postrzyżyny

“Feelings are great, and they have a purpose, but it’s certainly not to guide your life. Whoever said, “Follow your heartâ€� was a fool. Your “heartâ€� is your emotional center. Emotions have a great purpose â€� to allow us to enjoy life, to mourn loss, to have a tangible way to experience love â€� but feelings are fickle, and they are not meant to be the guiding force in our life.”
― Josh Hatcher

“In our culture today â€� there is a rampant “victim mentalityâ€� â€� and while we don’t want to take away the legitimate issues that a real victim of a crime or abuse faces â€� we think somehow people have used their status as victim as a cop out, or invented reasons to identify as a victim.”
― Josh Hatcher

“At the core of the wild is the idea that we must seek, stalk, kill, and haul our prey home to feed our young. It was a right of passage for young men for generations â€� to get that first kill. To take the life of an animal, and to learn that our life depends on the life of another. I understand that there are some that don’t eat meat -but don’t think for a minute that you aren’t still killing SOMETHING when you pluck that carrot out of its dirty ground!
Our cultured and shiny environment now doesn’t require people to get their hands dirty. If you go to the store to buy meat, you buy meat. You don’t see the beating heart, the twitching nerves, or the cold stare left behind by the animal that gave its flesh for you”
― Josh Hatcher

“From the time boys are young, they enter contests, either alone or with their brothers, and their fathers â€� to see how strong they are. Wrestling, weightlifting, arm-wrestling, “bloody knuckles,â€� Chinese hot-hands, even thumb wrestling. This wild behavior may seem reminiscent of goats butting their heads against each other, or bears mawing at each other’s necksâ€�. But it’s a part of who we are. We don’t necessarily outgrow it. And that rough and tumble tug-of-war helps shape us, helps bond us together, and helps remind us who we want on our side if there is a time to fight.
The call of the wild pushes men to success. It drives men to be refreshed in nature. As long as we wrap it up in silk and lace and soap, it will still be there.”
― Josh Hatcher

“To be wild, to hear the heartbeat of nature, to feel the rush of adrenal strength, to drink from the fresh air and howl at the moon â€� these are things that are embedded into men.”
― Josh Hatcher, Manlihood: The 12 Pillars of Masculinity

“The answers to today's problems are not to eschew masculinity. We do not need to redefine masculinity. We need to reclaim it. We need to affirm the masculinity, the rough and tumble, the competition, and the discipline needed to teach boys right from wrong. We need to be able to give them safe avenues to express themselves, and to model for them what it means to accept and love people. We need to teach them things like honor, perseverance, integrity, adventure, justice, tenderness, determination, hope, love, peace, and freedom are all masculine virtues, and they are a part of what it means to be a man.”
― Josh Hatcher

“You can’t live without purpose. You exist for a reason. You didn’t just “poofâ€� into the world, meant to suck in oxygen, and eat and poop, make a kid or two, and then disappear.”
― Josh Hatcher

“If you could look at your whole life from the outside, you can see that just past the point you wanted to give up, is the victory you hoped for. And in the grand scheme - the distance between the “I feel like I can’tâ€� and the “I did itâ€� was miniscule.”
― Josh Hatcher

“Our American culture paints a picture of masculinity where a man is an island. A lone cowboy on the prairie smoking marlboros. A caped crusader who works better alone. A dad in his den, reading the paper, shooing the kids away so he can unwind.
But this lone ranger mentality is dangerous. Even the actual Lone Ranger had Tonto.
We are not made to be alone.”
― Josh Hatcher

“You can’t expect to achieve a dream if you don’t push yourself harder. Whether it’s strength training, or a sales goal at work, or anything. You’ve got to push through past what you think you can do. And when you do it, it builds confidence in you, and your next task will have a momentum to it. The confidence gained makes your output exponential. You have already done something you thought was impossible. Now you are waiting for the next impossible task.”
― Josh Hatcher

“If life is a battlefield, many of us would be rejected as 4F, given a card, and sent home. What can we do to be ready for the battle of manhood? What can we do to reset ourselves, and get our lives healthy enough to thrive?”
― Josh Hatcher

“As you’re trying to reignite your life, coming up with a new vision, new goals, and trying to get the fire back, you’re not going to get there without a plan.”
― Josh Hatcher

“Your dream is the destination that you plug into your GPS. And once you know your destination, you plot your course to get there. Sometimes, as you travel, you change your destination. Maybe I wanted to visit California, but I fell in love with Wyoming on the way.”
― Josh Hatcher