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The man who has no imagination has no wings.
- Muhammad Ali
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He who is not courageous enough to take risks
will accomplish nothing in life.
- Muhammad Ali
A man who views the world the same at fifty
as he did at twenty
has wasted thirty years of his life.
- Muhammad Ali
Service to others is the rent you pay
for your room here on earth.
- Muhammad Ali
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It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand.
I beat people up.
- Muhammad Ali (world champion boxer)
Talent is God-given; be humble.
Fame is man-given; be thankful.
Conceit is self-given; be careful.
- John Wooden
No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.
- Anonymous (often attributed to Abraham Lincoln)
Every child comes with the message
that God is not yet discouraged of man.
- Rabindranath Tagore
All things share the same breath -
the beast, the tree, the man...
the air shares its spirit with all the life it supports.
- Chief Seattle (attributed)
The full measure of a man is
not to be found in the man himself,
but in the colors and textures that
come alive in others because of him.
- Albert Schweitzer
Circumstance does not make the man: it reveals him to himself.
- James Allen
The wise man does not lay up his own treasures.
The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.
- Lao Tzu
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.
Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
- Oscar Wilde
The wise man in the storm prays God,
not for safety from danger,
but for deliverance from fear.
It is the storm within which endangers him,
not the storm without.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nearly all men can stand adversity,
but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
- Abraham Lincoln
Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
- George Eliot
The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was:
"If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?"
But... the good Samaritan reversed the question:
"If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?"
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
If a man is called to be a street sweeper,
he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted,
or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry.
He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts
of heaven and earth will pause to say,
here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men
who walked through the huts comforting others,
giving away their last piece of bread...
They offer sufficient proof that everything
can be taken from a man but one thing:
to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances,
to choose one's own way.
- Viktor E. Frankl
Two things a man should never be angry at:
what he can help,
and what he cannot help.
- Thomas Fuller
As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
- The Bible
A man is as unhappy as he has convinced himself he is.
- Seneca
A man who as a physical being
is always turned toward the outside,
thinking that his happiness lies outside him,
finally turns inward and
discovers that the source is within him.
- Soren Kierkegaard
An honest man is always a child.
- Socrates
There are other measures of self-respect for a man,
than the number of clean shirts he puts on every day.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
When the tempest rages, when the thunders roar,
and the lightnings blaze around us
it is then that the truly brave man stands firm at his post.
- Luther Martin
Every man dies. Not every man truly lives.
- the movie Braveheart
Non-violence means avoiding not only external physical violence
but also internal violence of spirit.
You not only refuse to shoot a man,
but you refuse to hate him.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The ultimate test of a man's conscience
may be his willingness to sacrifice something today
for future generations whose words of thanks will not be heard.
- Gaylord Nelson
When you are offended at any man's fault,
turn to yourself and study your own failings.
Then you will forget your anger.
- Epictetus
A man is not old until his regrets take the place of his dreams.
- Yiddish Proverb
Try not to become a man of success,
but rather try to become a man of value.
- Albert Einstein
A man is what he thinks about all day long.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man is but the product of his thoughts -
what he thinks, he becomes.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The gem cannot be polished without friction,
nor man perfected without trials.
- Confucius
Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.
- Albert Schweitzer
A wise man hears one word and understands two.
- Yiddish Proverb
Mystery creates wonder, and wonder is the basis
of man's desire to understand.
- Neil Armstrong
Circumstances make man, not man circumstances.
- Mark Twain
If the stars should appear
but one night every thousand years
how man would marvel and stare.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Early to bed and early to rise,
makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
- Benjamin Franklin
One man with courage makes a majority.
- old saying probably repeated by Andrew Jackson
(falsely attributed to Jefferson)
Every man must decide whether he will
walk in the light of creative altruism
or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The wise man looks into space,
and does not regard the small as too little,
nor the great as too much;
for he knows that there is no limit to dimensions.
- Lao Tzu
If a man does his best, what else is there?
- George S. Patton
We must, however, acknowledge, as it seems to me,
that man with all his noble qualities...
still bears in his bodily frame
the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.
- Charles Darwin
A wise man will make haste to forgive,
because he knows the true value of time,
and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.
- Samuel Johnson
As long as a man stands in his own way,
everything seems to be in his way.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
For man with no forgiveness in heart,
life worse punishment than death.
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid 2
I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing,
and that is that I know nothing.
- Socrates
You cannot build character and courage by
taking away a man's initiative and independence.
- Abraham Lincoln
Man's enemies are not demons, but human beings like himself.
- Lao Tzu
A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.
- Oscar Wilde
Is the babe young? When I behold it,
it seems more venerable than the oldest man.
- Henry David Thoreau
How could man rejoice in victory
and delight in the slaughter of men?
- Lao Tzu
If a man does not know what port he is steering for,
no wind is favorable to him.
- Seneca
To measure the man, measure his heart.
- Malcolm S. Forbes
Only a man's character is the real criterion of worth.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
A man can fail many times,
but he isn't a failure until
he begins to blame somebody else.
- John Burroughs
A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
- Benjamin Franklin
The man who is successful is the man who is useful.
- Bourke Cockran
It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe,
that lures him to evil ways.
- The Buddha
Any man who reads too much
and uses his own brain too little
falls into lazy habits of thinking.
- Albert Einstein
There is nothing with which every man is so afraid
as getting to know how enormously much
he is capable of doing and becoming.
- Soren Kierkegaard
The eyes of the cheerful and of the melancholy man
are fixed upon the same creation;
but very different are the aspects which it bears to them.
- Albert Pike
Behind an able man there are always other able men.
- Chinese proverb
Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head,
and knows not that it brings abundance
to drive away the hunger.
- Saint Basil
When I am getting ready to reason with a man,
I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself
and what I am going to say
and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.
- Abraham Lincoln
I submit to you that if a man hasn't
discovered something that he will die for,
he isn't fit to live.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
A great secret of success is to go through life
as a man who never gets used up.
- Albert Schweitzer
A man should look for what is,
and not for what he thinks should be.
- Albert Einstein
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