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I am a man of fixed and unbending principles,
the first of which is to be flexible at all times.
- Everett Dirksen
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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
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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
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 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
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
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.
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.
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
Two things a man should never be angry at:
what he can help,
and what he cannot help.
- Thomas Fuller
If a man loses his reverence for any part of life,
he will lose his reverence for all of life.
- Albert Schweitzer
There is a sufficiency in the world
for man's need but not for man's greed.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.
- John Morley
All this worldly wisdom was once
the unamiable heresy of some wise man.
- Henry David Thoreau
How could man rejoice in victory
and delight in the slaughter of men?
- Lao Tzu
Great and good are seldom the same man.
- Winston Churchill
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
A man who won't die for something is not fit to live.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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
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
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.
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.
It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe,
that lures him to evil ways.
- The Buddha
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 man's good name is his best monument
- from an old churchyard at Lockerbie, Scotland
Only a man's character is the real criterion of worth.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
I cannot trust a man to control others
who cannot control himself.
- Robert E. Lee
Try not to become a man of success,
but rather try to become a man of value.
- Albert Einstein
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
To measure the man, measure his heart.
- Malcolm S. Forbes
Is the babe young? When I behold it,
it seems more venerable than the oldest man.
- Henry David Thoreau
If a man does not keep pace with his companions,
perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
- Henry David Thoreau
As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
- The Bible
A man can fail many times,
but he isn't a failure until
he begins to blame somebody else.
- John Burroughs
Before you criticize a man,
walk a mile in his shoes.
- Anonymous
As soon as man does not take his existence for granted,
but beholds it as something
unfathomably mysterious, thought begins.
- Albert Schweitzer
You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers.
You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.
- Naguib Mahfouz
A man who is a master of patience is master of everything else.
- George Savile
Any man who reads too much
and uses his own brain too little
falls into lazy habits of thinking.
- Albert Einstein
Man plans, God laughs
- Yiddish Proverb
No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The value of a man should be seen in what he gives
and not in what he is able to receive.
- Albert Einstein
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 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 great secret of success is to go through life
as a man who never gets used up.
- Albert Schweitzer
It is what a man thinks of himself
that really determines his fate.
- Henry David Thoreau
No man is free who is not master of himself.
- Epictetus
The fear of death follows from the fear of life.
A man who lives fully, is prepared to die at any time.
- Mark Twain
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 foolish man seeks happiness in the distance;
the wise grows it under his feet.
- J. Robert Oppenheimer
Intent is what can make a man succeed
when his thoughts tell him that he is defeated.
- Carlos Castaneda
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
Science gives man knowledge, which is power;
religion gives man wisdom, which is control.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man,
but he is brave five minutes longer.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
For man with no forgiveness in heart,
life worse punishment than death.
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid 2
The gem cannot be polished without friction,
nor man perfected without trials.
- Confucius
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
If a man does his best, what else is there?
- George S. Patton
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 man who goes alone can start today;
but he who travels with another
must wait till that other is ready.
- Henry David Thoreau
If a man can... make a better mousetrap,
the world will make a beaten path to his door.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is not the man who has too little,
but the man who craves more, that is poor.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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
Man becomes great exactly in the degree
in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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