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My children have made me more aggressive about the world
that they're about to inhabit.
- Bono
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Human nature is potentially aggressive and destructive
and potentially orderly and constructive.
- Margaret Mead
I have never met an aggressive person
who wasn't a fearful person.
- John Bradshaw
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.
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Aggression unopposed becomes a contagious disease.
- Jimmy Carter
Nearly all men can stand adversity,
but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
- Abraham Lincoln
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
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
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.
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
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
A wise man hears one word and understands two.
- 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
No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing,
and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.
- George Bernard Shaw
How could man rejoice in victory
and delight in the slaughter of men?
- Lao Tzu
I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing,
and that is that I know nothing.
- Socrates
The man who is successful is the man who is useful.
- Bourke Cockran
Circumstances make man, not man circumstances.
- Mark Twain
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)
Many a man fails as an original thinker
simply because his memory is too good.
- Nietzsche
Man plans, God laughs
- Yiddish Proverb
A wise man can learn more from a foolish question
than a fool can learn from a wise answer.
- Bruce Lee
As soon as man does not take his existence for granted,
but beholds it as something
unfathomably mysterious, thought begins.
- 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
You cannot build character and courage by
taking away a man's initiative and independence.
- Abraham Lincoln
The man who goes alone can start today;
but he who travels with another
must wait till that other is ready.
- Henry David Thoreau
To measure the man, measure his heart.
- Malcolm S. Forbes
No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance;
the wise grows it under his feet.
- J. Robert Oppenheimer
Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
- Epicurus
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
We like a man to come right out and say what he thinks-
if we agree with him.
- Mark Twain
Intent is what can make a man succeed
when his thoughts tell him that he is defeated.
- Carlos Castaneda
Only a man's character is the real criterion of worth.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
A man is what he thinks about all day long.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I cannot trust a man to control others
who cannot control himself.
- Robert E. Lee
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
Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand,
the spines of others are often stiffened.
- Billy Graham
A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.
- Oscar Wilde
Science gives man knowledge, which is power;
religion gives man wisdom, which is control.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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
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
Try not to become a man of success,
but rather try to become a man of value.
- Albert Einstein
The Universe is one great kindergarten for man.
Everything that exists has brought
with it its own peculiar lesson.
- Orison Swett Marden
Circumstance does not make the man: it reveals him to himself.
- James Allen
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.
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.
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
If a man loses his reverence for any part of life,
he will lose his reverence for all of life.
- Albert Schweitzer
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.
A man is as unhappy as he has convinced himself he is.
- Seneca
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 a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
- The Bible
All this worldly wisdom was once
the unamiable heresy of some wise man.
- Henry David Thoreau
Every man dies. Not every man truly lives.
- the movie Braveheart
If a man does his best, what else is there?
- George S. Patton
During the first period of a man's life
the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
- Soren Kierkegaard
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
The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live
that his happiness shall depend
as little as possible on external things.
- Epictetus
The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready
for his opportunity when it comes.
- Benjamin Disraeli
You cannot teach a man anything;
you can only help him find it within himself.
- Galileo Galilei
A man can fail many times,
but he isn't a failure until
he begins to blame somebody else.
- John Burroughs
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
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
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
If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right.
Men will believe what they see.
- Henry David Thoreau
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