Introduction
June is Men’s Mental Health Awareness Month — and it couldn’t matter more
Men die by suicide at nearly four times the rate of women. Over 6 million men experience depression every year, yet most never reach out for support. Not because the pain isn’t real, but because so many men have been taught that silence is strength.
It isn’t. The bravest thing a man can do is say: I’m not okay — and I need help.
This month, as we raise our voices for the men in our lives quietly carrying more than the world can see, here is a list of the 33 best Men’s Mental Health Awareness Month quotes about their struggles and their healing.
Men’s Mental Health Quotes on Strength and Resilience
You don’t have to control your thoughts. You just have to stop letting them control you.
Dan Millman
It’s not the load that breaks you down, it’s the way you carry it.
Lou Holtz
There is hope, even when your brain tells you there isn’t.
John Green
My dark days made me stronger. Or maybe I already was strong, and they made me prove it.
Emery Lord
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
Winston Churchill
Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Confucius
He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
Confucius
Life doesn’t get easier or more forgiving, we get stronger and more resilient.
Steve Maraboli
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
Will Durrant
Identify your problems, but give your power and energy to solutions.
Tony Robbins
Men’s Mental Health Quotes on Vulnerability and Seeking Help
Being vulnerable is not a weakness—it’s a strength.
Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson
I believe the biggest stigma right now with mental health is that a lot of men are afraid to talk about it.
Michael Phelps
It’s okay not to be okay.
Prince Harry
Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength.
Sigmund Freud
The times in my life when I’ve been happiest are when I’ve let myself be the most vulnerable.
Chris Evans
It takes more courage to reveal insecurities than to hide them, more strength to relate to people than to dominate them, more ‘manhood’ to abide by thought-out principles rather than blind reflex. Toughness is in the soul and spirit, not in muscles and an immature mind.
Alex Karras
The heart of man’s pain is the pain of not being seen.
Frederick Buechner
Mental health is just as important as physical health. You have to nurture your inner world the same way.
Lewis Hamilton
Everyone is going through something that we can’t see.
Kevin Love
You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
William Faulkner
Quotes on Self-Worth and Personal Growth
Don’t give in to stigma. A diagnosis does not determine who you are or what you can do.
Pete Wentz
You don’t control the situation, but you control what you think about it and how you respond.
Ryan Holiday
We are all broken. That’s how the light gets in.
Ernest Hemingway
It is not death that a man should fear, but never beginning to live.
Marcus Aurelius
When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.
Van Gogh
Life is not easy. Life is not fair. But life is beautiful if you choose to see it that way.
Steve Gleason
Self-worth comes from one thing—thinking that you are worthy.
Wayne Dyer
When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.
Victor Frankl
There is no education like adversity.
Benjamin Disraeli
Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.
Einstein
Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one.
Marcus Aurelius
No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.
Aesop
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.
Ernest Hemingway
