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I am a man of fixed and unbending principles,
the first of which is to be flexible at all times.
- Everett Dirksen
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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)
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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Every child comes with the message
that God is not yet discouraged of man.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Anxiety is love's greatest killer.
It makes one feel as you might
when a drowning man holds unto you.
You want to save him, but you know
he will strangle you with his panic.
- Anais Nin
Two things a man should never be angry at:
what he can help,
and what he cannot help.
- Thomas Fuller
Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl
is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.
- Albert Einstein
Show me a man who knows his own heart
and to him I shall belong.
- Jewel
A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
- Benjamin Franklin
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
The wise man in the storm prays God,
not for safety from danger,
but for deliverance from fear.
It is the storm within which endangers him,
not the storm without.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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.
A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.
- W. C. Fields
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.
Gather yourself by the sea shore and I will love you there.
Assemble yourself with wild things,
with songs of the sparrow and sea-foam.
Let mad beauty collect itself in your eyes
and it will shine - Calling me.
For I long for a man with nests of wild things in his hair.
A man who will Kiss the Flame.
- Jewel
Circumstance does not make the man: it reveals him to himself.
- James Allen
Some things will never seem adequate
no matter how hard we try.
- from the movie White Man's Burden
I, with a deeper instinct,
choose a man who compels my strength,
who makes enormous demands on me,
who does not doubt my courage or my toughness,
who does not believe me naive or innocent,
who has the courage to treat me like a woman.
- Anais Nin
The wise man does not lay up his own treasures.
The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.
- Lao Tzu
The full measure of a man is
not to be found in the man himself,
but in the colors and textures that
come alive in others because of him.
- Albert Schweitzer
Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits
and then complain that he's not the man she married?
- Barbra Streisand
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
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
A man is but the product of his thoughts -
what he thinks, he becomes.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Behind an able man there are always other able men.
- Chinese proverb
The best friend is the man who in wishing me well
wishes it for my sake.
- Anonymous
If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for,
he isn't fit to live.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
This communicating of a man's self to his friend
works two contrary effects;
for it redoubleth joys, and cutteth griefs in half.
- Francis Bacon
Any man who reads too much
and uses his own brain too little
falls into lazy habits of thinking.
- Albert Einstein
Books serve to show a man
that those original thoughts of his
aren't very new at all.
- Abraham Lincoln
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
As long as a man stands in his own way,
everything seems to be in his way.
- 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
If there is anything that a man can do well,
I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
- Abraham Lincoln
The man form is higher than the angel form;
of all forms it is the highest.
Man is the highest being in creation,
because he aspires to freedom.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
No man is free who is not master of himself.
- Epictetus
A man is usually more careful of his money
than he is of his principles.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
- Epicurus
The Divine Plan is one of Freedom.
The inherent nature of man is ever seeking
to express itself in terms of freedom,
because freedom is the birthright of every living soul.
- Ernest Holmes
Each man is the architect of his own fate.
- Appius Claudius
All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy.
What right have we then to depreciate imagination.
- Carl Jung
I wept because I had no shoes
until I met a man who had no feet.
- old Persian Proverb
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men.
No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
- Elbert Hubbard
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
A man's dying is more his survivor's affair than his own.
- Thomas Mann
The gem cannot be polished without friction,
nor man perfected without trials.
- Confucius
No man is a failure who enjoys life.
- William Feather
Jealousy is that pain which a man feels
from the apprehension that he is not equally beloved
by the person whom he entirely loves.
- Joseph Addison
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
If a man can... make a better mousetrap,
the world will make a beaten path to his door.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I hate the giving of the hand
unless the whole man accompanies it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Circumstances make man, not man circumstances.
- Mark Twain
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
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 great man is always willing to be little.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is easy enough to be pleasant
When life flows by like a song,
But the man worth while is the one who will smile
When everything goes dead wrong.
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
A man does what he must - in spite of personal consequences,
in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures -
and that is the basis of all human morality.
- John F. Kennedy
The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
- Albert Schweitzer
Science gives man knowledge, which is power;
religion gives man wisdom, which is control.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Each man's life touches so many other lives.
- It's a Wonderful Life (1946 movie)
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
The healthy man does not torture others -
generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.
- Carl Jung
As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
- The Bible
No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing,
and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.
- George Bernard Shaw
When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of,
he always declares that it's his duty.
- George Bernard Shaw
How could man rejoice in victory
and delight in the slaughter of men?
- Lao Tzu
He is a wise man who does not grieve
for the things which he has not,
but rejoices for those which he has.
- Epictetus
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