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Every man thinks God is on his side.
- Jean Anouilh
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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
Talent is God-given; be humble.
Fame is man-given; be thankful.
Conceit is self-given; be careful.
- John Wooden
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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)
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
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
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
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.
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.
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
Mystery creates wonder, and wonder is the basis
of man's desire to understand.
- Neil Armstrong
The Universe is one great kindergarten for man.
Everything that exists has brought
with it its own peculiar lesson.
- Orison Swett Marden
I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing,
and that is that I know nothing.
- Socrates
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
Non-violence is a powerful and just weapon which cuts without wounding
and ennobles the man who wields it. It is a sword that heals.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
All this worldly wisdom was once
the unamiable heresy of some wise man.
- Henry David Thoreau
Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day,
teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime.
- Chinese Proverb
Circumstances make man, not man circumstances.
- Mark Twain
A man is what he thinks about all day long.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man can succeed at almost anything
for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.
- Charles M. Schwab
He is a wise man who does not grieve
for the things which he has not,
but rejoices for those which he has.
- Epictetus
A man who is a master of patience is master of everything else.
- George Savile
As soon as man does not take his existence for granted,
but beholds it as something
unfathomably mysterious, thought begins.
- Albert Schweitzer
Only a man's character is the real criterion of worth.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Science gives man knowledge, which is power;
religion gives man wisdom, which is control.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
I wept because I had no shoes
until I met a man who had no feet.
- old Persian Proverb
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
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man,
but he is brave five minutes longer.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The man who has no imagination has no wings.
- Muhammad Ali
You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers.
You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.
- Naguib Mahfouz
Feel Unity with Spirit and All Creation
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 [actually written by screenwriter Ted Perry in 1972]
Every man dies. Not every man truly lives.
- the movie Braveheart
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
The value of a man should be seen in what he gives
and not in what he is able to receive.
- Albert Einstein
Before you criticize a man,
walk a mile in his shoes.
- Anonymous
Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
- Epicurus
If a man does not keep pace with his companions,
perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
- Henry David Thoreau
Early to bed and early to rise,
makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
- Benjamin Franklin
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
A man is not old until his regrets take the place of his dreams.
- Yiddish Proverb
The more a man can forget, the greater the number
of metamorphoses which his life can undergo,
the more he can remember, the more divine his life becomes.
- Soren Kierkegaard
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
We like a man to come right out and say what he thinks-
if we agree with him.
- Mark Twain
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance;
the wise grows it under his feet.
- J. Robert Oppenheimer
To measure the man, measure his heart.
- Malcolm S. Forbes
A man is as unhappy as he has convinced himself he is.
- Seneca
The man who is successful is the man who is useful.
- Bourke Cockran
A man who won't die for something is not fit to live.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Many a man fails as an original thinker
simply because his memory is too good.
- Nietzsche
A man in debt is so far a slave.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The fear of death follows from the fear of life.
A man who lives fully, is prepared to die at any time.
- Mark Twain
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
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.
A man can do only what he can do.
But if he does that each day he can sleep at night
and do it again the next day.
- Albert Schweitzer
If a man loses his reverence for any part of life,
he will lose his reverence for all of life.
- Albert Schweitzer
A man is but the product of his thoughts -
what he thinks, he becomes.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Man must evolve for all human conflict,
a method which rejects
revenge, aggression and retaliation.
The foundation of such a method is love.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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.
No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is what a man thinks of himself
that really determines his fate.
- Henry David Thoreau
If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right.
Men will believe what they see.
- Henry David Thoreau
Is the babe young? When I behold it,
it seems more venerable than the oldest man.
- Henry David Thoreau
Non-violence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind.
It is mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction
devised by the ingenuity of man.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Behind an able man there are always other able men.
- Chinese proverb
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