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A man's pride shall bring him low,
but honor shall uphold the humble in spirit.
- Proverbs 29:23
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For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he.
- Proverbs 23:7
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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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nearly all men can stand adversity,
but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
- Abraham Lincoln
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.
Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
- Oscar Wilde
Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
- George Eliot
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 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.
Every child comes with the message
that God is not yet discouraged of man.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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.
It is what a man thinks of himself
that really determines his fate.
- Henry David Thoreau
Behind an able man there are always other able men.
- Chinese proverb
Any man who reads too much
and uses his own brain too little
falls into lazy habits of thinking.
- Albert Einstein
A man who won't die for something is not fit to live.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Great and good are seldom the same man.
- Winston Churchill
Circumstance does not make the man: it reveals him to himself.
- James Allen
A wise man can learn more from a foolish question
than a fool can learn from a wise answer.
- Bruce Lee
Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand,
the spines of others are often stiffened.
- Billy Graham
You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers.
You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.
- Naguib Mahfouz
Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
- Epicurus
It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe,
that lures him to evil ways.
- The Buddha
Is the babe young? When I behold it,
it seems more venerable than the oldest man.
- Henry David Thoreau
If a man loses his reverence for any part of life,
he will lose his reverence for all of life.
- Albert Schweitzer
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 value of a man should be seen in what he gives
and not in what he is able to receive.
- Albert Einstein
If a man does not keep pace with his companions,
perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
A great man is always willing to be little.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man who is a master of patience is master of everything else.
- George Savile
It is not the man who has too little,
but the man who craves more, that is poor.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
The gem cannot be polished without friction,
nor man perfected without trials.
- Confucius
No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.
- Abraham Lincoln
I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing,
and that is that I know nothing.
- Socrates
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 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
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance;
the wise grows it under his feet.
- J. Robert Oppenheimer
The man who goes alone can start today;
but he who travels with another
must wait till that other is ready.
- Henry David Thoreau
Early to bed and early to rise,
makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
- Benjamin Franklin
The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.
- B. C. Forbes
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
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
If a man can... make a better mousetrap,
the world will make a beaten path to his door.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If thou wilt make a man happy,
add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.
- Epicurus
Intent is what can make a man succeed
when his thoughts tell him that he is defeated.
- Carlos Castaneda
A man can fail many times,
but he isn't a failure until
he begins to blame somebody else.
- John Burroughs
Man plans, God laughs
- Yiddish Proverb
That man is rich whose pleasures are the cheapest.
- Henry David Thoreau
To measure the man, measure his heart.
- Malcolm S. Forbes
A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
- Benjamin Franklin
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
A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.
- John F. Kennedy
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.
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
You cannot build character and courage by
taking away a man's initiative and independence.
- Abraham Lincoln
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 quality of a man's life is in direct proportion
to his commitment to excellence,
regardless of his chosen field of endeavor.
- Vince Lombardi
We like a man to come right out and say what he thinks-
if we agree with him.
- Mark Twain
A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.
- Oscar Wilde
If there is anything that a man can do well,
I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
- Abraham Lincoln
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
If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought,
happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him.
- The Buddha
Try not to become a man of success,
but rather try to become a man of value.
- Albert Einstein
Non-violence is a powerful and just weapon which cuts without wounding
and ennobles the man who wields it. It is a sword that heals.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
A man is not old until his regrets take the place of his dreams.
- Yiddish Proverb
No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
All this worldly wisdom was once
the unamiable heresy of some wise man.
- Henry David Thoreau
There is a sufficiency in the world
for man's need but not for man's greed.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
A man can succeed at almost anything
for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.
- Charles M. Schwab
No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing,
and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.
- George Bernard Shaw
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