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If a man does not know what port he is steering for,
no wind is favorable to him.
- Seneca
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It is not because life is difficult
that we do not dare.
Life is difficult
because we do not dare.
- Seneca
If we let things terrify us,
life will not be worth living.
- Seneca
Luck is preparation meeting opportunity.
- Seneca
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Wherever there is a human being,
there is an opportunity for a kindness.
- Seneca
A man is as unhappy as he has convinced himself he is.
- Seneca
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
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 wise man does not lay up his own treasures.
The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.
- Lao Tzu
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
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
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.
Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
- Oscar Wilde
Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
- George Eliot
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.
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.
Two things a man should never be angry at:
what he can help,
and what he cannot help.
- Thomas Fuller
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.
Many a man fails as an original thinker
simply because his memory is too good.
- Nietzsche
He is a wise man who does not grieve
for the things which he has not,
but rejoices for those which he has.
- Epictetus
Try not to become a man of success,
but rather try to become a man of value.
- Albert Einstein
Science gives man knowledge, which is power;
religion gives man wisdom, which is control.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand,
the spines of others are often stiffened.
- Billy Graham
The gem cannot be polished without friction,
nor man perfected without trials.
- Confucius
The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready
for his opportunity when it comes.
- Benjamin Disraeli
If a man does his best, what else is there?
- George S. Patton
Dear Father in heaven, I'm not a praying man,
but if you're up there and you can hear me ...
show me the way... show me the way.
- It's a Wonderful Life (1946 movie)
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
There is a sufficiency in the world
for man's need but not for man's greed.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
An honest man is always a child.
- Socrates
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
As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
- The Bible
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 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
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 man can succeed at almost anything
for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.
- Charles M. Schwab
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.
Is the babe young? When I behold it,
it seems more venerable than the oldest man.
- Henry David Thoreau
The man who is successful is the man who is useful.
- Bourke Cockran
Each man is the architect of his own fate.
- Appius Claudius
Only a man's character is the real criterion of worth.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
If there is anything that a man can do well,
I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
- Abraham Lincoln
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
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
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
One man with courage makes a majority.
- old saying probably repeated by Andrew Jackson
(falsely attributed to Jefferson)
Mystery creates wonder, and wonder is the basis
of man's desire to understand.
- Neil Armstrong
All this worldly wisdom was once
the unamiable heresy of some wise man.
- Henry David Thoreau
A great man is always willing to be little.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.
- John F. Kennedy
A man is not old until his regrets take the place of his dreams.
- Yiddish Proverb
No man is free who is not master of himself.
- Epictetus
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
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's good name is his best monument
- from an old churchyard at Lockerbie, Scotland
All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy.
What right have we then to depreciate imagination.
- Carl Jung
A wise man hears one word and understands two.
- Yiddish Proverb
Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.
- Albert Schweitzer
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
Man lives freely only by his readiness to die, if need be,
at the hands of his brother, never by killing him.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
If a man can... make a better mousetrap,
the world will make a beaten path to his door.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I wept because I had no shoes
until I met a man who had no feet.
- old Persian Proverb
No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.
- Abraham Lincoln
A man in debt is so far a slave.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Universe is one great kindergarten for man.
Everything that exists has brought
with it its own peculiar lesson.
- Orison Swett Marden
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands
in moments of comfort and convenience,
but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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