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Every man should have a fair-sized cemetery
in which to bury the faults of his friends.
- Henry Brooks Adams
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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
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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)
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
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
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
Nearly all men can stand adversity,
but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
- Abraham Lincoln
Circumstance does not make the man: it reveals him to himself.
- James Allen
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
No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing,
and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.
- George Bernard Shaw
Every man dies. Not every man truly lives.
- the movie Braveheart
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 wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
- Benjamin Franklin
A man should look for what is,
and not for what he thinks should be.
- Albert Einstein
Man's enemies are not demons, but human beings like himself.
- Lao Tzu
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
All this worldly wisdom was once
the unamiable heresy of some wise man.
- Henry David Thoreau
Intent is what can make a man succeed
when his thoughts tell him that he is defeated.
- Carlos Castaneda
Behind an able man there are always other able men.
- Chinese proverb
He is a wise man who does not grieve
for the things which he has not,
but rejoices for those which he has.
- Epictetus
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
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
The man who goes alone can start today;
but he who travels with another
must wait till that other is ready.
- Henry David Thoreau
A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.
- John F. Kennedy
Is the babe young? When I behold it,
it seems more venerable than the oldest man.
- Henry David Thoreau
A man is as unhappy as he has convinced himself he is.
- Seneca
To measure the man, measure his heart.
- Malcolm S. Forbes
A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.
- Oscar Wilde
Mystery creates wonder, and wonder is the basis
of man's desire to understand.
- Neil Armstrong
A man is a success if he gets up in
the morning and gets to bed at night,
and in between he does what he wants to do.
- Bob Dylan
A wise man hears one word and understands two.
- Yiddish Proverb
A man who won't die for something is not fit to live.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
If a man loses his reverence for any part of life,
he will lose his reverence for all of life.
- Albert Schweitzer
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
The value of a man should be seen in what he gives
and not in what he is able to receive.
- Albert Einstein
How could man rejoice in victory
and delight in the slaughter of men?
- Lao Tzu
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
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.
Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
- Epicurus
If a man empties his purse into his head,
no man can take it away from him.
An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
- Benjamin Franklin
A great secret of success is to go through life
as a man who never gets used up.
- Albert Schweitzer
A man is but the product of his thoughts -
what he thinks, he becomes.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Science gives man knowledge, which is power;
religion gives man wisdom, which is control.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
As long as a man stands in his own way,
everything seems to be in his way.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I wept because I had no shoes
until I met a man who had no feet.
- old Persian Proverb
A man is what he thinks about all day long.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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.
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
Only a man's character is the real criterion of worth.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.
- Abraham Lincoln
Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only
by the man who is as well organized
in his individuality as the mass itself.
- Carl Jung
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
If thou wilt make a man happy,
add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.
- Epicurus
Before you criticize a man,
walk a mile in his shoes.
- Anonymous
No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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.
You cannot build character and courage by
taking away a man's initiative and independence.
- Abraham Lincoln
The fear of death follows from the fear of life.
A man who lives fully, is prepared to die at any time.
- Mark Twain
During the first period of a man's life
the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
- Soren Kierkegaard
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
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]
The man who has no imagination has no wings.
- Muhammad Ali
As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
- The Bible
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
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