Every man prefers belief to the exercise of judgment.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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Where fear is, happiness is not.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
A gift consists not in what is done or given,
but in the intention of the giver or doer.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
It is not the man who has too little,
but the man who craves more, that is poor.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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The wish for healing has always been half of health.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship
is to understand and to be understood.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Religion is regarded by the common people as true,
by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
A man who suffers before it is necessary,
suffers more than is necessary.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Talent is God-given; be humble.
Fame is man-given; be thankful.
Conceit is self-given; be careful.
- John Wooden
Every child comes with the message
that God is not yet discouraged of man.
- Rabindranath Tagore
No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.
- Anonymous (often attributed to Abraham Lincoln)
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)
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
Nearly all men can stand adversity,
but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
- Abraham Lincoln
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
Circumstance does not make the man: it reveals him to himself.
- James Allen
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
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 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
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
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.
Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
- Epicurus
Great and good are seldom the same man.
- Winston Churchill
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.
You cannot build character and courage by
taking away a man's initiative and independence.
- Abraham Lincoln
To measure the man, measure his heart.
- Malcolm S. Forbes
If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought,
happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him.
- The Buddha
A man is truly ethical only when he obeys
the compulsion to help all life which he is able to assist,
and shrinks from injuring anything that lives.
- Albert Schweitzer
Any man who reads too much
and uses his own brain too little
falls into lazy habits of thinking.
- Albert Einstein
Many a man fails as an original thinker
simply because his memory is too good.
- Nietzsche
How could man rejoice in victory
and delight in the slaughter of men?
- Lao Tzu
The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live
that his happiness shall depend
as little as possible on external things.
- Epictetus
I learned that courage was not the absence of fear,
but the triumph over it.
The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid,
but he who conquers that fear.
- Nelson Mandela
When you are offended at any man's fault,
turn to yourself and study your own failings.
Then you will forget your anger.
- Epictetus
Mystery creates wonder, and wonder is the basis
of man's desire to understand.
- Neil Armstrong
As long as a man stands in his own way,
everything seems to be in his way.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
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
If a man does not know what port he is steering for,
no wind is favorable to him.
- Seneca
A man should look for what is,
and not for what he thinks should be.
- Albert Einstein
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]
Each man is the architect of his own fate.
- Appius Claudius
If a man loses pace with his companions,
perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
Let him step to the music which he hears,
however measured or far away.
- Henry David Thoreau
There is a sufficiency in the world
for man's need but not for man's greed.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The Universe is one great kindergarten for man.
Everything that exists has brought
with it its own peculiar lesson.
- Orison Swett Marden
During the first period of a man's life
the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Well, I don't know what will happen now.
We've got some difficult days ahead.
But it doesn't matter with me now.
Because I've been to the mountaintop.
And I don't mind. Like any man,
I would like to live a long life.
Longevity has its place.
But I'm not concerned about that now.
I just want to do God's will.
And He's allowed me to go up to the mountain.
And I've looked over.
And I've seen the promised land.
I may not get there with you.
But I want you to know tonight, that we,
as a people, will get to the promised land.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.
- John F. Kennedy
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
The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready
for his opportunity when it comes.
- Benjamin Disraeli
You cannot teach a man anything;
you can only help him find it within himself.
- Galileo Galilei
As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
- The Bible
No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.
- Abraham Lincoln
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
The fear of death follows from the fear of life.
A man who lives fully, is prepared to die at any time.
- Mark Twain
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.
A man's good name is his best monument
- from an old churchyard at Lockerbie, Scotland
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
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
It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe,
that lures him to evil ways.
- The Buddha
Behind an able man there are always other able men.
- Chinese proverb
If a man loses his reverence for any part of life,
he will lose his reverence for all of life.
- Albert Schweitzer
If the stars should appear
but one night every thousand years
how man would marvel and stare.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand,
the spines of others are often stiffened.
- Billy Graham
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
If thou wilt make a man happy,
add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.
- Epicurus
All this worldly wisdom was once
the unamiable heresy of some wise man.
- Henry David Thoreau
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone
who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson
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