Man tends to treat all of his opinions as principles.
- Herbert Sebastian Agar
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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
No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.
- Anonymous (often attributed to Abraham Lincoln)
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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)
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
There are other measures of self-respect for a man,
than the number of clean shirts he puts on every day.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.
- Abraham Lincoln
If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right.
Men will believe what they see.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
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
Circumstances make man, not man circumstances.
- Mark Twain
A man is as unhappy as he has convinced himself he is.
- Seneca
Each man is the architect of his own fate.
- Appius Claudius
The man who goes alone can start today;
but he who travels with another
must wait till that other is ready.
- Henry David Thoreau
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 man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.
- B. C. Forbes
Every man I meet is in some way my superior.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Money has never made man happy, nor will it,
there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness.
The more of it one has the more one wants.
- Benjamin Franklin
No man is free who is not master of himself.
- Epictetus
Only a man's character is the real criterion of worth.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.
- John F. Kennedy
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
All this worldly wisdom was once
the unamiable heresy of some wise man.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
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 is what he thinks about all day long.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing,
and that is that I know nothing.
- Socrates
Intent is what can make a man succeed
when his thoughts tell him that he is defeated.
- Carlos Castaneda
The man who is successful is the man who is useful.
- Bourke Cockran
If a man can... make a better mousetrap,
the world will make a beaten path to his door.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
This above all: to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.
- William Shakespeare
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.
The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready
for his opportunity when it comes.
- Benjamin Disraeli
A wise man hears one word and understands two.
- Yiddish Proverb
Early to bed and early to rise,
makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
- Benjamin Franklin
A man can fail many times,
but he isn't a failure until
he begins to blame somebody else.
- John Burroughs
Man's enemies are not demons, but human beings like himself.
- Lao Tzu
You cannot build character and courage by
taking away a man's initiative and independence.
- Abraham Lincoln
The gem cannot be polished without friction,
nor man perfected without trials.
- Confucius
A man should look for what is,
and not for what he thinks should be.
- Albert Einstein
The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live
that his happiness shall depend
as little as possible on external things.
- Epictetus
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
The value of a man should be seen in what he gives
and not in what he is able to receive.
- Albert Einstein
You cannot teach a man anything;
you can only help him find it within himself.
- Galileo Galilei
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
If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought,
happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him.
- The Buddha
Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
- Epicurus
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
If a man does not know what port he is steering for,
no wind is favorable to him.
- Seneca
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.
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
A man who is a master of patience is master of everything else.
- George Savile
You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers.
You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.
- Naguib Mahfouz
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
Man becomes great exactly in the degree
in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The man who has no imagination has no wings.
- Muhammad Ali
If the stars should appear
but one night every thousand years
how man would marvel and stare.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If there is anything that a man can do well,
I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
- Abraham Lincoln
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