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The man who can smile when things go wrong
has thought of someone else he can blame it on.
- Robert Bloch
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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)
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
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
Circumstance does not make the man: it reveals him to himself.
- James Allen
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.
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's good name is his best monument
- from an old churchyard at Lockerbie, Scotland
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
If a man loses his reverence for any part of life,
he will lose his reverence for all of life.
- Albert Schweitzer
As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
- The Bible
It is not the man who has too little,
but the man who craves more, that is poor.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
The man who has no imagination has no wings.
- Muhammad Ali
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 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 there is anything that a man can do well,
I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
- Abraham Lincoln
To measure the man, measure his heart.
- Malcolm S. Forbes
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 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
The value of a man should be seen in what he gives
and not in what he is able to receive.
- Albert Einstein
We must, however, acknowledge, as it seems to me,
that man with all his noble qualities...
still bears in his bodily frame
the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.
- Charles Darwin
Whatever your life's work is, do it well.
A man should do his job so well that the living,
the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Early to bed and early to rise,
makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
- Benjamin Franklin
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
The man who is successful is the man who is useful.
- Bourke Cockran
An honest man is always a child.
- Socrates
A man is as unhappy as he has convinced himself he is.
- Seneca
Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.
- Albert Schweitzer
A man who won't die for something is not fit to live.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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
There are other measures of self-respect for a man,
than the number of clean shirts he puts on every day.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
When you are offended at any man's fault,
turn to yourself and study your own failings.
Then you will forget your anger.
- Epictetus
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
Try not to become a man of success,
but rather try to become a man of value.
- Albert Einstein
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
I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing,
and that is that I know nothing.
- Socrates
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man,
but he is brave five minutes longer.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand,
the spines of others are often stiffened.
- Billy Graham
A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.
- Oscar Wilde
All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy.
What right have we then to depreciate imagination.
- Carl Jung
The fear of death follows from the fear of life.
A man who lives fully, is prepared to die at any time.
- Mark Twain
There is a sufficiency in the world
for man's need but not for man's greed.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
All this worldly wisdom was once
the unamiable heresy of some wise man.
- Henry David Thoreau
If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for,
he isn't fit to live.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
One man with courage makes a majority.
- old saying probably repeated by Andrew Jackson
(falsely attributed to Jefferson)
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
Many a man fails as an original thinker
simply because his memory is too good.
- Nietzsche
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.
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
Is the babe young? When I behold it,
it seems more venerable than the oldest man.
- Henry David Thoreau
Every man dies. Not every man truly lives.
- the movie Braveheart
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
You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers.
You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.
- Naguib Mahfouz
Great and good are seldom the same man.
- Winston Churchill
A man in debt is so far a slave.
- 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
Any man who reads too much
and uses his own brain too little
falls into lazy habits of thinking.
- Albert Einstein
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