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Welcome to these Heaviest Quotes of the Day from my large collection of positive, romantic, and funny quotes.
Life is a constant opponent,
and an overpowering adversary if attacked directly.
The successful and happy ones dance lightly with life -
a parry here, a feint there - always engaged,
but never in the direct line of life's heaviest blows.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Related topics: Life Human-Nature Psychology
He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother.
- Roe Fulkerson
Feeling important makes one heavy, clumsy and vain.
To be a warrior one needs to be light and fluid.
- Carlos Castaneda
In the final choice, a soldier's pack
is not so heavy as a prisoner's chains.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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 anyone has material possessions and sees his brother in need
but has no pity on him, how can the love of God be in him?
- 1 John 3:17
If you wish to succeed in life,
make perseverance your bosom friend,
experience your wise counselor,
caution your elder brother,
and hope your guardian genius.
- Joseph Addison
Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not.
- Bono
Forgive Your Brother from Your Heart.
- Matthew 18:21-22
If thy brother wrongs thee,
remember not so much his wrong-doing,
but more than ever that he is thy brother.
- Epictetus
A brother is a friend given by Nature.
- Jean Baptiste Legouve
In your brother is The Light.
See him as sinless,
and there can be no fear in you.
- A Course In Miracles
Moreover if your brother shall trespass against you,
go and tell him his fault between you and him alone.
- Matthew 18:15
Then came Peter to him, and said,
Lord, how oft shall my brother sin against me,
and I forgive him? till seven times?
Jesus saith unto him, I say not unto thee,
Until seven times: but, Until seventy times seven.
- Matthew 18:21-22
I want to be the white man's brother, not his brother-in-law.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The African is my brother but he is
my younger brother by several centuries.
- Albert Schweitzer
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
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)
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
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.
Every man dies. Not every man truly lives.
- the movie Braveheart
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.
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 man is as unhappy as he has convinced himself he is.
- Seneca
If a man does his best, what else is there?
- George S. Patton
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
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
Behind an able man there are always other able men.
- Chinese proverb
Before you criticize a man,
walk a mile in his shoes.
- Anonymous
The man who is successful is the man who is useful.
- Bourke Cockran
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
Man plans, God laughs
- Yiddish Proverb
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 what he thinks about all day long.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
That man is rich whose pleasures are the cheapest.
- Henry David Thoreau
Every man I meet is in some way my superior.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If a man loses his reverence for any part of life,
he will lose his reverence for all of life.
- Albert Schweitzer
Any man who reads too much
and uses his own brain too little
falls into lazy habits of thinking.
- Albert Einstein
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
If a man does not keep pace with his companions,
perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
- Henry David Thoreau
I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing,
and that is that I know nothing.
- Socrates
Circumstance does not make the man: it reveals him to himself.
- James Allen
Only a man's character is the real criterion of worth.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
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
The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.
- B. C. Forbes
A man who is a master of patience is master of everything else.
- George Savile
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 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
If thou wilt make a man happy,
add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.
- Epicurus
Early to bed and early to rise,
makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
- Benjamin Franklin
Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand,
the spines of others are often stiffened.
- Billy Graham
I cannot trust a man to control others
who cannot control himself.
- Robert E. Lee
A man can fail many times,
but he isn't a failure until
he begins to blame somebody else.
- John Burroughs
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
As long as a man stands in his own way,
everything seems to be in his way.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
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
No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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.
As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
- The Bible
We like a man to come right out and say what he thinks-
if we agree with him.
- Mark Twain
As soon as man does not take his existence for granted,
but beholds it as something
unfathomably mysterious, thought begins.
- Albert Schweitzer
To measure the man, measure his heart.
- Malcolm S. Forbes
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
All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy.
What right have we then to depreciate imagination.
- Carl Jung
It is what a man thinks of himself
that really determines his fate.
- Henry David Thoreau
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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