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He who spends time regretting the past,
loses the present and risks the future.
- Quevedo
Related topics: Wisdom Inspirational Life Human-Nature Psychology
If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day,
he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer.
But if he spends his days as a speculator,
shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time,
he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.
- Henry David Thoreau
Talent is God-given; be humble.
Fame is man-given; be thankful.
Conceit is self-given; be careful.
- John Wooden
Nearly all men can stand adversity,
but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
- Abraham Lincoln
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
- George Eliot
No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.
- Anonymous (often attributed to 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
Every child comes with the message
that God is not yet discouraged of man.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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.
Great and good are seldom the same man.
- Winston Churchill
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)
You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.
- John Morley
The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.
- B. C. Forbes
It is what a man thinks of himself
that really determines his fate.
- Henry David Thoreau
A man who won't die for something is not fit to live.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Many a man fails as an original thinker
simply because his memory is too good.
- Nietzsche
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.
Is the babe young? When I behold it,
it seems more venerable than the oldest man.
- Henry David Thoreau
There are other measures of self-respect for a man,
than the number of clean shirts he puts on every day.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Every man dies. Not every man truly lives.
- the movie Braveheart
A great secret of success is to go through life
as a man who never gets used up.
- Albert Schweitzer
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
Before you criticize a man,
walk a mile in his shoes.
- Anonymous
A man can succeed at almost anything
for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.
- Charles M. Schwab
Intent is what can make a man succeed
when his thoughts tell him that he is defeated.
- Carlos Castaneda
If a man loses his reverence for any part of life,
he will lose his reverence for all of life.
- Albert Schweitzer
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
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
If a man does his best, what else is there?
- George S. Patton
Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
- Epicurus
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 as unhappy as he has convinced himself he is.
- Seneca
The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready
for his opportunity when it comes.
- Benjamin Disraeli
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
No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing,
and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.
- George Bernard Shaw
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.
Take a chance! All life is a chance.
The man who goes farthest is generally
the one who is willing to do and dare.
- Dale Carnegie
You cannot build character and courage by
taking away a man's initiative and independence.
- Abraham Lincoln
A man is not old until his regrets take the place of his dreams.
- Yiddish Proverb
The value of a man should be seen in what he gives
and not in what he is able to receive.
- Albert Einstein
During the first period of a man's life
the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
- Soren Kierkegaard
A man is but the product of his thoughts -
what he thinks, he becomes.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Man becomes great exactly in the degree
in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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
A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.
- Oscar Wilde
As long as a man stands in his own way,
everything seems to be in his way.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Man plans, God laughs
- Yiddish Proverb
Mystery creates wonder, and wonder is the basis
of man's desire to understand.
- Neil Armstrong
A man should look for what is,
and not for what he thinks should be.
- Albert Einstein
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.
No man is free who is not master of himself.
- Epictetus
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
Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand,
the spines of others are often stiffened.
- Billy Graham
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 wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
- Benjamin Franklin
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 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
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
Behind an able man there are always other able men.
- Chinese proverb
How could man rejoice in victory
and delight in the slaughter of men?
- Lao Tzu
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.
If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought,
happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him.
- The Buddha
The man who is successful is the man who is useful.
- Bourke Cockran
The Universe is one great kindergarten for man.
Everything that exists has brought
with it its own peculiar lesson.
- Orison Swett Marden
A wise man hears one word and understands two.
- Yiddish Proverb
There is a sufficiency in the world
for man's need but not for man's greed.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Every man I meet is in some way my superior.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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