Man's most valuable trait is a judicious sense
of what not to believe.
- Euripides
Related topics: Cynical Skepticism
One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.
- Euripides
No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.
- Anonymous (often attributed to Abraham Lincoln) 
Talent is God-given; be humble.
Fame is man-given; be thankful.
Conceit is self-given; be careful.
- John Wooden
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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)
Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
- George Eliot
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
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
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 wise man does not lay up his own treasures.
The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.
- Lao Tzu
Nearly all men can stand adversity,
but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
- Abraham Lincoln
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
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.
Any man who reads too much
and uses his own brain too little
falls into lazy habits of thinking.
- Albert Einstein
Man's enemies are not demons, but human beings like himself.
- Lao Tzu
If a man can... make a better mousetrap,
the world will make a beaten path to his door.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
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
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
He is a wise man who does not grieve
for the things which he has not,
but rejoices for those which he has.
- Epictetus
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
A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
- Benjamin Franklin
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.
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
A wise man can learn more from a foolish question
than a fool can learn from a wise answer.
- Bruce Lee
I cannot trust a man to control others
who cannot control himself.
- Robert E. Lee
How could man rejoice in victory
and delight in the slaughter of men?
- Lao Tzu
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 not old until his regrets take the place of his dreams.
- Yiddish Proverb
Non-violence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind.
It is mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction
devised by the ingenuity of man.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The man who goes alone can start today;
but he who travels with another
must wait till that other is ready.
- Henry David Thoreau
It is not the man who has too little,
but the man who craves more, that is poor.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man,
but he is brave five minutes longer.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Nothing can stop the man with the right
mental attitude from achieving his goal;
nothing on earth can help the man
with the wrong mental attitude.
- Thomas Jefferson
Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
- Epicurus
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.
The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.
- B. C. Forbes
A great secret of success is to go through life
as a man who never gets used up.
- Albert Schweitzer
Great and good are seldom the same man.
- Winston Churchill
Every man I meet is in some way my superior.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
As soon as man does not take his existence for granted,
but beholds it as something
unfathomably mysterious, thought begins.
- Albert Schweitzer
Intent is what can make a man succeed
when his thoughts tell him that he is defeated.
- Carlos Castaneda
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
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)
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
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
Many a man fails as an original thinker
simply because his memory is too good.
- Nietzsche
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
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
A man can succeed at almost anything
for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.
- Charles M. Schwab
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
That man is rich whose pleasures are the cheapest.
- Henry David Thoreau
A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.
- Oscar Wilde
There is a sufficiency in the world
for man's need but not for man's greed.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Mystery creates wonder, and wonder is the basis
of man's desire to understand.
- Neil Armstrong
You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.
- John Morley
The ultimate test of a man's conscience
may be his willingness to sacrifice something today
for future generations whose words of thanks will not be heard.
- Gaylord Nelson
Science gives man knowledge, which is power;
religion gives man wisdom, which is control.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.
- Albert Schweitzer
One man with courage makes a majority.
- old saying probably repeated by Andrew Jackson
(falsely attributed to Jefferson)
A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.
- John F. Kennedy
Try not to become a man of success,
but rather try to become a man of value.
- Albert Einstein
There are other measures of self-respect for a man,
than the number of clean shirts he puts on every day.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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 is but the product of his thoughts -
what he thinks, he becomes.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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