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Man's most valuable trait is a judicious sense
of what not to believe.
- Euripides
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One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.
- Euripides
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.
Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
- Oscar Wilde
No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.
- Anonymous (often attributed to Abraham Lincoln)
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
- George Eliot
Nearly all men can stand adversity,
but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
- Abraham Lincoln
Talent is God-given; be humble.
Fame is man-given; be thankful.
Conceit is self-given; be careful.
- John Wooden
Two things a man should never be angry at:
what he can help,
and what he cannot help.
- Thomas Fuller
Every child comes with the message
that God is not yet discouraged of man.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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
You cannot teach a man anything;
you can only help him find it within himself.
- Galileo Galilei
A wise man can learn more from a foolish question
than a fool can learn from a wise answer.
- Bruce Lee
A man who won't die for something is not 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)
There is nothing with which every man is so afraid
as getting to know how enormously much
he is capable of doing and becoming.
- Soren Kierkegaard
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.
Man plans, God laughs
- Yiddish Proverb
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
As long as a man stands in his own way,
everything seems to be in his way.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man is but the product of his thoughts -
what he thinks, he becomes.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Science gives man knowledge, which is power;
religion gives man wisdom, which is control.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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
Circumstance does not make the man: it reveals him to himself.
- James Allen
A man can succeed at almost anything
for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.
- Charles M. Schwab
A great secret of success is to go through life
as a man who never gets used up.
- Albert Schweitzer
Mystery creates wonder, and wonder is the basis
of man's desire to understand.
- Neil Armstrong
When you are offended at any man's fault,
turn to yourself and study your own failings.
Then you will forget your anger.
- Epictetus
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
If a man does not keep pace with his companions,
perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
All this worldly wisdom was once
the unamiable heresy of some wise man.
- Henry David Thoreau
A great man is always willing to be little.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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.
A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.
- John F. Kennedy
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone
who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson
If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right.
Men will believe what they see.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head,
and knows not that it brings abundance
to drive away the hunger.
- Saint Basil
A man is as unhappy as he has convinced himself he is.
- Seneca
Every man I meet is in some way my superior.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man who is a master of patience is master of everything else.
- George Savile
How could man rejoice in victory
and delight in the slaughter of men?
- Lao Tzu
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.
If a man loses pace with his companions,
perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
Let him step to the music which he hears,
however measured or far away.
- Henry David Thoreau
As soon as man does not take his existence for granted,
but beholds it as something
unfathomably mysterious, thought begins.
- Albert Schweitzer
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
The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready
for his opportunity when it comes.
- Benjamin Disraeli
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
A man should look for what is,
and not for what he thinks should be.
- Albert Einstein
Early to bed and early to rise,
makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
- Benjamin Franklin
A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.
- Oscar Wilde
Before you criticize a man,
walk a mile in his shoes.
- Anonymous
A man in debt is so far a slave.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought,
happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him.
- The Buddha
The Universe is one great kindergarten for man.
Everything that exists has brought
with it its own peculiar lesson.
- Orison Swett Marden
All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy.
What right have we then to depreciate imagination.
- Carl Jung
If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for,
he isn't fit to live.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.
- B. C. Forbes
No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing,
and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.
- George Bernard Shaw
Many a man fails as an original thinker
simply because his memory is too good.
- Nietzsche
If a man can... make a better mousetrap,
the world will make a beaten path to his door.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I cannot trust a man to control others
who cannot control himself.
- Robert E. Lee
During the first period of a man's life
the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
- Soren Kierkegaard
To measure the man, measure his heart.
- Malcolm S. Forbes
No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.
- Abraham Lincoln
Is the babe young? When I behold it,
it seems more venerable than the oldest man.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
Behind an able man there are always other able men.
- Chinese proverb
If there is anything that a man can do well,
I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
- Abraham Lincoln
Only a man's character is the real criterion of worth.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
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