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When a man you like switches from what
he said a year ago, or four years ago,
he is a broad-minded person who has courage enough
to change his mind with changing conditions.
When a man you don't like does it,
he is a liar who has broken his promise.
- Franklin Pierce Adams
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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
No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.
- Anonymous (often attributed to Abraham Lincoln)
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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)
Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl
is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.
- Albert Einstein
Nearly all men can stand adversity,
but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
- Abraham Lincoln
A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
- Benjamin Franklin
Two things a man should never be angry at:
what he can help,
and what he cannot help.
- Thomas Fuller
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.
Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
- Oscar Wilde
Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
- George Eliot
Show me a man who knows his own heart
and to him I shall belong.
- Jewel
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
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
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
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.
Some things will never seem adequate
no matter how hard we try.
- from the movie White Man's Burden
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
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
Circumstance does not make the man: it reveals him to himself.
- James Allen
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
A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.
- W. C. Fields
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 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
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.
Man plans, God laughs
- Yiddish Proverb
Before you criticize a man,
walk a mile in his shoes.
- Anonymous
Every man and woman is born into the world
to do something unique and something distinctive;
and if he or she does not do it,
it will never be done.
- Benjamin E. Mays
All religions must be tolerated...
for every man must get to heaven in his own way.
- Epictetus
Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal
of plain living and high thinking
the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants.
Man's happiness really lies in contentment.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Man tends to treat all of his opinions as principles.
- Herbert Sebastian Agar
A man who won't die for something is not fit to live.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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
No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
A man never knows how to say goodbye;
a woman never knows when to say it.
- Helen Rowland
We like a man to come right out and say what he thinks-
if we agree with him.
- Mark Twain
By all means marry.
If you get a good wife, you'll be happy.
If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher
and that is a good thing for any man.
- Socrates
Mystery creates wonder, and wonder is the basis
of man's desire to understand.
- Neil Armstrong
A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I do not know whether I was then
a man dreaming I was a butterfly,
or whether I am now
a butterfly dreaming I am a man.
- Zhuangzi
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 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
When you are offended at any man's fault,
turn to yourself and study your own failings.
Then you will forget your anger.
- Epictetus
A man is what he thinks about all day long.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man should look for what is,
and not for what he thinks should be.
- Albert Einstein
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men.
No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
- Elbert Hubbard
The good man is the friend of all living things.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Early to bed and early to rise,
makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
- Benjamin Franklin
Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Try not to become a man of success,
but rather try to become a man of value.
- Albert Einstein
Never trust a man who speaks well of everybody
- John Churton Collins
A man too busy to take care of his health is like
a mechanic too busy to take care of his tools.
- Spanish Proverb
There was a time when a man was so convinced
that the world was round
that he was determined to prove it.
- Ernest Holmes
Of course I am afraid. What sane man is not?
- Luciano Pavarotti
The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.
- Anatole France
One man with courage makes a majority.
- old saying probably repeated by Andrew Jackson
(falsely attributed to Jefferson)
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
You cannot build character and courage by
taking away a man's initiative and independence.
- Abraham Lincoln
All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy.
What right have we then to depreciate imagination.
- Carl Jung
You cannot teach a man anything;
you can only help him find it within himself.
- Galileo Galilei
A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The man who can't dance thinks the band is no good.
- Polish Proverb
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 as unhappy as he has convinced himself he is.
- Seneca
I cannot trust a man to control others
who cannot control himself.
- Robert E. Lee
Behind an able man there are always other able men.
- Chinese proverb
Thou canst not then be false to any man.
- William Shakespeare
If a man can... make a better mousetrap,
the world will make a beaten path to his door.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Show me a sane man, and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Jung
If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought,
happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him.
- The Buddha
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