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Size Quotes and Sayings
Quotes about Size
Self-respect is not a function of size, age, or wealth.
Breathe deep, sing loud and sweet,
"I am me, I am unique, I am magnificent."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Related topics: Affirmations Values Live-By Self-Esteem
It's not the size of the dog in the fight,
it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain 
The size of your success is measured by
the strength of your desire;
the size of your dream;
and how you handle disappointment along the way.
- Robert Kiyosaki
I truly believe that happiness is possible...
even when you're thirty-three
and have a bottom the size of two bowling balls.
- the movie Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason
I'm having a bad day. I am not size six.
My legs are not skinny as sticks,
and dammit, someone's got to pay.
I'm afraid that I can't satisfy myself
and that my happiness depends on someone else.
I feel weak, so you're gonna take the fall.
You're so shallow.
- Jewel
Sizes Quotes and Sayings
Eagles come in all shapes and sizes,
but you will recognize them chiefly by their attitudes.
- E. F. Schumacher
Sized Quotes and Sayings
Every man should have a fair-sized cemetery
in which to bury the faults of his friends.
- Henry Brooks Adams
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Today's acorns grow into the oak trees of thirty years hence.
But what acorns are we sowing today?
Imagine what an acorn-sized bit of prejudice or hatred would grow into.
Imagine what an acorn-sized bit of pollution can become.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Man Quotes and Sayings
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
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.
Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
- Oscar Wilde
Talent is God-given; be humble.
Fame is man-given; be thankful.
Conceit is self-given; be careful.
- John Wooden
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
Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
- George Eliot
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.
If thou wilt make a man happy,
add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.
- Epicurus
It is not the man who has too little,
but the man who craves more, that is poor.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
If a man does not know what port he is steering for,
no wind is favorable to him.
- Seneca
If there is anything that a man can do well,
I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
- Abraham Lincoln
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man,
but he is brave five minutes longer.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought,
happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him.
- The Buddha
Whatever your life's work is, do it well.
A man should do his job so well that the living,
the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers.
You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.
- Naguib Mahfouz
Early to bed and early to rise,
makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
- Benjamin Franklin
Try not to become a man of success,
but rather try to become a man of value.
- Albert Einstein
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
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
I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing,
and that is that I know nothing.
- Socrates
The man who has no imagination has no wings.
- Muhammad Ali
A man is as unhappy as he has convinced himself he is.
- Seneca
No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
For man with no forgiveness in heart,
life worse punishment than death.
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid 2
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.
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
Intent is what can make a man succeed
when his thoughts tell him that he is defeated.
- Carlos Castaneda
Every man and woman is born into the world
to do something unique and something distinctive;
and if he or she does not do it,
it will never be done.
- Benjamin E. Mays
A man is what he thinks about all day long.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man is not old until his regrets take the place of his dreams.
- Yiddish Proverb
A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.
- Oscar Wilde
Circumstances make man, not man circumstances.
- Mark Twain
That man is rich whose pleasures are the cheapest.
- Henry David Thoreau
Mystery creates wonder, and wonder is the basis
of man's desire to understand.
- Neil Armstrong
Man's enemies are not demons, but human beings like himself.
- Lao Tzu
As soon as man does not take his existence for granted,
but beholds it as something
unfathomably mysterious, thought begins.
- Albert Schweitzer
If a man can... make a better mousetrap,
the world will make a beaten path to his door.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
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
Take a chance! All life is a chance.
The man who goes farthest is generally
the one who is willing to do and dare.
- Dale Carnegie
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
Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal
of plain living and high thinking
the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants.
Man's happiness really lies in contentment.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Each man is the architect of his own fate.
- Appius Claudius
Only a man's character is the real criterion of worth.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
A great man is always willing to be little.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The value of a man should be seen in what he gives
and not in what he is able to receive.
- Albert Einstein
The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready
for his opportunity when it comes.
- Benjamin Disraeli
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
A man is but the product of his thoughts -
what he thinks, he becomes.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand,
the spines of others are often stiffened.
- Billy Graham
For the wise man looks into space
and he knows there is no limited dimensions.
- Lao Tzu
Many a man fails as an original thinker
simply because his memory is too good.
- Nietzsche
There is no limit to what a man can do
or where he can go,
if he doesn't mind who gets the credit.
- Robert Woodruff
There are other measures of self-respect for a man,
than the number of clean shirts he puts on every day.
- 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
The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live
that his happiness shall depend
as little as possible on external things.
- Epictetus
We like a man to come right out and say what he thinks-
if we agree with him.
- Mark Twain
