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If you begin to understand what you are
without trying to change it,
then what you are undergoes a transformation.
- J. Krishnamurti
Related topics: Wisdom
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
True friendship is a plant of slow growth,
and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity
before it is entitled to the appellation.
- George Washington
When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves
and our own self-preservation,
we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.
- Joseph Campbell
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.
Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
- Oscar Wilde
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)
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
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
Every child comes with the message
that God is not yet discouraged of man.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Two things a man should never be angry at:
what he can help,
and what he cannot help.
- Thomas Fuller
A wise man hears one word and understands two.
- Yiddish Proverb
No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
There are other measures of self-respect for a man,
than the number of clean shirts he puts on every day.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The gem cannot be polished without friction,
nor man perfected without trials.
- Confucius
If a man loses his reverence for any part of life,
he will lose his reverence for all of life.
- Albert Schweitzer
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
I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing,
and that is that I know nothing.
- Socrates
You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers.
You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.
- Naguib Mahfouz
A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.
- Oscar Wilde
A man can do only what he can do.
But if he does that each day he can sleep at night
and do it again the next day.
- Albert Schweitzer
Try not to become a man of success,
but rather try to become a man of value.
- Albert Einstein
If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought,
happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him.
- The Buddha
Early to bed and early to rise,
makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
- Benjamin Franklin
If there is anything that a man can do well,
I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
- Abraham Lincoln
Behind an able man there are always other able men.
- Chinese proverb
Great and good are seldom the same man.
- Winston Churchill
If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for,
he isn't fit to live.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
A man should look for what is,
and not for what he thinks should be.
- Albert Einstein
A man can succeed at almost anything
for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.
- Charles M. Schwab
Science gives man knowledge, which is power;
religion gives man wisdom, which is control.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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
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.
Many a man fails as an original thinker
simply because his memory is too good.
- Nietzsche
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
Man plans, God laughs
- Yiddish Proverb
To measure the man, measure his heart.
- Malcolm S. Forbes
I cannot trust a man to control others
who cannot control himself.
- Robert E. Lee
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
No man is free who is not master of himself.
- Epictetus
If a man can... make a better mousetrap,
the world will make a beaten path to his door.
- 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
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
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.
Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand,
the spines of others are often stiffened.
- Billy Graham
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 his best, what else is there?
- George S. Patton
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
Any man who reads too much
and uses his own brain too little
falls into lazy habits of thinking.
- Albert Einstein
A man is not old until his regrets take the place of his dreams.
- 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
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.
As long as a man stands in his own way,
everything seems to be in his way.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Intent is what can make a man succeed
when his thoughts tell him that he is defeated.
- Carlos Castaneda
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
One man with courage makes a majority.
- old saying probably repeated by Andrew Jackson
(falsely attributed to Jefferson)
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
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
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 foolish man seeks happiness in the distance;
the wise grows it under his feet.
- J. Robert Oppenheimer
A man is but the product of his thoughts -
what he thinks, he becomes.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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 thou wilt make a man happy,
add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.
- Epicurus
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
The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready
for his opportunity when it comes.
- Benjamin Disraeli
A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.
- John F. Kennedy
As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
- The Bible
That man is rich whose pleasures are the cheapest.
- Henry David Thoreau
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