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Welcome to these Beethoven Quotes from my large collection of Love Quotes and Sayings. Please enjoy these Quotes about Beethoven and Love.
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.
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)
No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.
- Anonymous (often attributed to Abraham Lincoln)
Talent is God-given; be humble.
Fame is man-given; be thankful.
Conceit is self-given; be careful.
- John Wooden
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Every child comes with the message
that God is not yet discouraged of man.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Show me a man who knows his own heart
and to him I shall belong.
- Jewel
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
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
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
Nearly all men can stand adversity,
but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
- Abraham Lincoln
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.
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
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
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
Circumstance does not make the man: it reveals him to himself.
- James Allen
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
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 does not lay up his own treasures.
The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.
- Lao Tzu
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
Some things will never seem adequate
no matter how hard we try.
- from the movie White Man's Burden
You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.
- John Morley
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands
in moments of comfort and convenience,
but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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
All religions must be tolerated...
for every man must get to heaven in his own way.
- Epictetus
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 greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.
- Anatole France
The man who is successful is the man who is useful.
- Bourke Cockran
Until he extends the circle of
his compassion to all living things,
man will not himself find peace.
- Albert Schweitzer
As long as a man stands in his own way,
everything seems to be in his way.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
You cannot teach a man anything;
you can only help him find it within himself.
- Galileo Galilei
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
There is One Infinite Mind,
which of necessity includes all that is,
whether it be the intelligence in man,
the life in the animal,
or the invisible Presence which is God.
- Ernest Holmes
The man who is awakened, lives in such a way
that he leaves no footprints.
- Osho quoting The Buddha
A man is truly ethical only when he obeys
the compulsion to help all life which he is able to assist,
and shrinks from injuring anything that lives.
- Albert Schweitzer
Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation
can be trusted to act humanely
or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.
- Bertrand Russell
It is not the man who has too little,
but the man who craves more, that is poor.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
There was a time when a man was so convinced
that the world was round
that he was determined to prove it.
- Ernest Holmes
I wept because I had no shoes
until I met a man who had no feet.
- old Persian Proverb
Hardly a man in the world has an opinion
upon morals, political, or religion
which he got otherwise than
through his associations and sympathies.
- Mark Twain
The man with insight enough to admit his limitations
comes nearest to perfection.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A man too busy to take care of his health is like
a mechanic too busy to take care of his tools.
- Spanish Proverb
I hate the giving of the hand
unless the whole man accompanies it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
This above all: to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.
- William Shakespeare
Before you criticize a man,
walk a mile in his shoes.
- Anonymous
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
- Anonymous
A man can fail many times,
but he isn't a failure until
he begins to blame somebody else.
- John Burroughs
Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand,
the spines of others are often stiffened.
- Billy Graham
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
If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought,
happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him.
- The Buddha
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
Man knows so much and does so little.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
An honest man is always a child.
- Socrates
Give the right man two fishes and some bread,
and he will feed the world;
give the wrong man two fishes and some bread
and he will invent the fast-food fish sandwich.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You cannot build character and courage by
taking away a man's initiative and independence.
- Abraham Lincoln
A man's good name is his best monument
- from an old churchyard at Lockerbie, Scotland
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
One man with courage makes a majority.
- old saying probably repeated by Andrew Jackson
(falsely attributed to Jefferson)
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.
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 man is usually more careful of his money
than he is of his principles.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A great man is always willing to be little.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
As soon as man does not take his existence for granted,
but beholds it as something
unfathomably mysterious, thought begins.
- Albert Schweitzer
I like a man who grins when he fights.
- Winston Churchill
If a man does not know what port he is steering for,
no wind is favorable to him.
- Seneca
A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.
- Oscar Wilde
Books serve to show a man
that those original thoughts of his
aren't very new at all.
- Abraham Lincoln
No man is a failure who enjoys life.
- William Feather
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