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A man can fail many times,
but he isn't a failure until
he begins to blame somebody else.
- John Burroughs
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Leap and the net will appear.
- John Burroughs
A somebody was once a nobody who wanted to and did.
- John Burroughs
No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.
- Anonymous (often attributed to Abraham Lincoln) 
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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
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
Nearly all men can stand adversity,
but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
- Abraham Lincoln
Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
- George Eliot
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
Circumstance does not make the man: it reveals him to himself.
- James Allen
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
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
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.
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.
Only a man's character is the real criterion of worth.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
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
The gem cannot be polished without friction,
nor man perfected without trials.
- Confucius
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
The man who is successful is the man who is useful.
- Bourke Cockran
A man in debt is so far a slave.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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.
If there is anything that a man can do well,
I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
- Abraham Lincoln
It is not the man who has too little,
but the man who craves more, that is poor.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
If a man loses his reverence for any part of life,
he will lose his reverence for all of life.
- 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.
Each man is the architect of his own fate.
- Appius Claudius
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands
in moments of comfort and convenience,
but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
If a man does not know what port he is steering for,
no wind is favorable to him.
- Seneca
All this worldly wisdom was once
the unamiable heresy of some wise man.
- Henry David Thoreau
The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.
- B. C. Forbes
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
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
If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for,
he isn't fit to live.
- 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
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
Every man I meet is in some way my superior.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
You cannot build character and courage by
taking away a man's initiative and independence.
- Abraham Lincoln
It is what a man thinks of himself
that really determines his fate.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
A man's good name is his best monument
- from an old churchyard at Lockerbie, Scotland
No man is free who is not master of himself.
- Epictetus
If you talk to a man in a language he understands,
that goes to his head.
If you talk to him in his language,
that goes to his heart.
- Nelson Mandela
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
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.
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
I wept because I had no shoes
until I met a man who had no feet.
- old Persian Proverb
Man becomes great exactly in the degree
in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
We like a man to come right out and say what he thinks-
if we agree with him.
- Mark Twain
Early to bed and early to rise,
makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
- Benjamin Franklin
An honest man is always a child.
- Socrates
A man should look for what is,
and not for what he thinks should be.
- Albert Einstein
A man is as unhappy as he has convinced himself he is.
- Seneca
A great secret of success is to go through life
as a man who never gets used up.
- Albert Schweitzer
Man lives freely only by his readiness to die, if need be,
at the hands of his brother, never by killing him.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.
- Albert Schweitzer
A wise man hears one word and understands two.
- Yiddish Proverb
Man plans, God laughs
- Yiddish Proverb
A wise man can learn more from a foolish question
than a fool can learn from a wise answer.
- Bruce Lee
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone
who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson
When I look back on all these worries,
I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed
that he had had a lot of trouble in his life,
most of which had never happened.
- Winston Churchill
A man is not old until his regrets take the place of his dreams.
- Yiddish Proverb
A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
- Benjamin Franklin
If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought,
happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him.
- The Buddha
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 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
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.
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