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People in their handlings of affairs
often fail when they are about to succeed.
If one remains as careful at the end
as he was at the beginning,
there will be no failure.
- Lao Tzu
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A religion that takes no account of practical affairs
and does not help to solve them, is no religion.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
You are to have implicit confidence in your own ability,
knowing that it is the nature of thought
to externalize itself in your health and affairs,
knowing that you are the thinker.
- Ernest Holmes
When people get married because they think
it's a long-time love affair,
they'll be divorced very soon,
because all love affairs end in disappointment.
But marriage is a recognition of a spiritual identity.
- Joseph Campbell
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The price of apathy towards public affairs
is to be ruled by evil men.
- Plato
I desire so to conduct the affairs
of this administration that, if at the end...
I have lost every other friend on earth,
I shall at least have one friend left,
and that friend shall be down inside of me.
- Abraham Lincoln
A man's dying is more his survivor's affair than his own.
- Thomas Mann
There are four stages in a marriage.
First there's the affair,
then the marriage,
then children
and finally the fourth stage,
without which you cannot know a woman, the divorce.
- Norman Mailer
Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
- George Eliot
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.
Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
- Oscar Wilde
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
No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.
- Anonymous (often attributed to Abraham Lincoln)
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.
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
That man is rich whose pleasures are the cheapest.
- Henry David Thoreau
Many a man fails as an original thinker
simply because his memory is too good.
- Nietzsche
The man who is successful is the man who is useful.
- Bourke Cockran
A man is not old until his regrets take the place of his dreams.
- Yiddish Proverb
I cannot trust a man to control others
who cannot control himself.
- Robert E. Lee
Science gives man knowledge, which is power;
religion gives man wisdom, which is control.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
If a man does not keep pace with his companions,
perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
- Henry David Thoreau
A man's good name is his best monument
- from an old churchyard at Lockerbie, Scotland
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
You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.
- John Morley
A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.
- John F. Kennedy
If there is anything that a man can do well,
I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
- Abraham Lincoln
Intent is what can make a man succeed
when his thoughts tell him that he is defeated.
- Carlos Castaneda
There is no limit to what a man can do
or where he can go,
if he doesn't mind who gets the credit.
- Robert Woodruff
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 should look for what is,
and not for what he thinks should be.
- Albert Einstein
It is not the man who has too little,
but the man who craves more, that is poor.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Try not to become a man of success,
but rather try to become a man of value.
- Albert Einstein
A man can fail many times,
but he isn't a failure until
he begins to blame somebody else.
- John Burroughs
A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
- Benjamin Franklin
If thou wilt make a man happy,
add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.
- Epicurus
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
Any man who reads too much
and uses his own brain too little
falls into lazy habits of thinking.
- Albert Einstein
Non-violence requires a double faith,
faith in God and also faith in man.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
As long as a man stands in his own way,
everything seems to be in his way.
- 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.
The Universe is one great kindergarten for man.
Everything that exists has brought
with it its own peculiar lesson.
- Orison Swett Marden
The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live
that his happiness shall depend
as little as possible on external things.
- Epictetus
There is a sufficiency in the world
for man's need but not for man's greed.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
When I am getting ready to reason with a man,
I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself
and what I am going to say
and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.
- Abraham Lincoln
Circumstance does not make the man: it reveals him to himself.
- James Allen
Circumstances make man, not man circumstances.
- Mark Twain
The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.
- B. C. Forbes
A wise man hears one word and understands two.
- Yiddish Proverb
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
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone
who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson
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
Only a man's character is the real criterion of worth.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Is the babe young? When I behold it,
it seems more venerable than the oldest man.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
A man is what he thinks about all day long.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man can succeed at almost anything
for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.
- Charles M. Schwab
As soon as man does not take his existence for granted,
but beholds it as something
unfathomably mysterious, thought begins.
- Albert Schweitzer
There are other measures of self-respect for a man,
than the number of clean shirts he puts on every day.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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 hasn't discovered something that he will die for,
he isn't fit to live.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers.
You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.
- Naguib Mahfouz
We like a man to come right out and say what he thinks-
if we agree with him.
- Mark Twain
I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing,
and that is that I know nothing.
- Socrates
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
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
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
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)
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