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A man who views the world the same at fifty
as he did at twenty
has wasted thirty years of his life.
- Muhammad Ali
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The man who has no imagination has no wings.
- Muhammad Ali
He who is not courageous enough to take risks
will accomplish nothing in 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
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
Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
- George Eliot
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
Circumstance does not make the man: it reveals him to himself.
- James Allen
Nearly all men can stand adversity,
but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
- Abraham Lincoln
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.
Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
- Oscar Wilde
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
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.
Two things a man should never be angry at:
what he can help,
and what he cannot help.
- Thomas Fuller
There is a sufficiency in the world
for man's need but not for man's greed.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
A man is as unhappy as he has convinced himself he is.
- Seneca
A man can fail many times,
but he isn't a failure until
he begins to blame somebody else.
- John Burroughs
A man does what he must - in spite of personal consequences,
in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures -
and that is the basis of all human morality.
- John F. Kennedy
A man's good name is his best monument
- from an old churchyard at Lockerbie, Scotland
Many a man fails as an original thinker
simply because his memory is too good.
- Nietzsche
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man,
but he is brave five minutes longer.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live
that his happiness shall depend
as little as possible on external things.
- Epictetus
A man should look for what is,
and not for what he thinks should be.
- Albert Einstein
Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
- Epicurus
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
Each man is the architect of his own fate.
- Appius Claudius
The Universe is one great kindergarten for man.
Everything that exists has brought
with it its own peculiar lesson.
- Orison Swett Marden
Is the babe young? When I behold it,
it seems more venerable than the oldest man.
- Henry David Thoreau
I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing,
and that is that I know nothing.
- Socrates
A man in debt is so far a slave.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
- The Bible
You cannot build character and courage by
taking away a man's initiative and independence.
- Abraham Lincoln
Early to bed and early to rise,
makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
- Benjamin Franklin
When I look back on all these worries,
I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed
that he had had a lot of trouble in his life,
most of which had never happened.
- Winston Churchill
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
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 the stars should appear
but one night every thousand years
how man would marvel and stare.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Anger is a killing thing:
it kills the man who angers,
for each rage leaves him less than he had been before -
it takes something from him.
- Louis L'Amour
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
It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe,
that lures him to evil ways.
- The Buddha
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
As long as a man stands in his own way,
everything seems to be in his way.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
That man is rich whose pleasures are the cheapest.
- Henry David Thoreau
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance;
the wise grows it under his feet.
- J. Robert Oppenheimer
The gem cannot be polished without friction,
nor man perfected without trials.
- Confucius
You cannot teach a man anything;
you can only help him find it within himself.
- Galileo Galilei
Great and good are seldom the same man.
- Winston Churchill
Try not to become a man of success,
but rather try to become a man of value.
- Albert Einstein
A wise man hears one word and understands two.
- Yiddish Proverb
If a man does not know what port he is steering for,
no wind is favorable to him.
- Seneca
If you talk to a man in a language he understands,
that goes to his head.
If you talk to him in his language,
that goes to his heart.
- Nelson Mandela
The quality of a man's life is in direct proportion
to his commitment to excellence,
regardless of his chosen field of endeavor.
- Vince Lombardi
A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.
- John F. Kennedy
The wise man looks back into the past,
and does not grieve over what is far off,
nor rejoice over what is near;
for he knows that time is without end.
- Lao Tzu
A man is what he thinks about all day long.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth,
and if a man does not know what a thing is,
it is at least an increase in knowledge
if he knows what it is not.
- Carl Jung
If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right.
Men will believe what they see.
- Henry David Thoreau
Man becomes great exactly in the degree
in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing,
and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.
- George Bernard Shaw
No man is free who is not master of himself.
- Epictetus
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
A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.
- Oscar Wilde
If there is anything that a man can do well,
I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
- Abraham Lincoln
The man who is successful is the man who is useful.
- Bourke Cockran
A wise man can learn more from a foolish question
than a fool can learn from a wise answer.
- Bruce Lee
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