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The willow which bends to the tempest,
often escapes better than the oak which resists it;
and so in great calamities,
it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits
recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner
than those of a loftier character.
- Albert Schweitzer
Men of lofty genius,
when they are doing the least work,
are most active.
- Leonardo da Vinci
leading by example creates a degree of
loyalty and overall success
that cannot be achieved through
issuing orders from a lofty office.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge -
broad, deep knowledge - is to know true ends from false,
and lofty things from low.
- Helen Keller
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When It's Darkest, Men See the Stars.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph
is for enough good men to do nothing.
- Edmund Burke
Tolerance is the first principle of community;
it is the spirit which conserves
the best that all men think.
- Helen Keller
Love men and women not for their strength
but their softness,
not for their fullness but their hunger,
not for their plenty but their need.
- Anais Nin
(paraphrase)
Most men lead lives of quiet desperation
and go to the grave with the song still in them.
- Henry David Thoreau
Nearly all men can stand adversity,
but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
- Abraham Lincoln
Women want mediocre men,
and men are working to be as mediocre as possible.
- Margaret Mead
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 mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.
- Henry David Thoreau
Behind an able man there are always other able men.
- Chinese proverb
Great men or men of great gifts
you shall easily find,
but symmetrical men never.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
In the long run, men hit only what they aim at.
Therefore, they had better aim at something high.
- Henry David Thoreau
Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully
as when they do it from religious conviction.
- Blaise Pascal
Men occasionally stumble over the truth,
but most of them pick themselves up
and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
- Winston Churchill
Men are disturbed not by things,
but by the view which they take of them.
- Epictetus
To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.
- Abraham Lincoln
When men are easy in their circumstances,
they are naturally enemies to innovations.
- Joseph Addison
Wise men put their trust in ideas
and not in circumstances
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men are born to succeed, not to fail.
- Henry David Thoreau
Men kick friendship around like a football,
but it doesn't seem to crack.
Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Men are what their mothers made them.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Truth is the property of no individual
but is the treasure of all men.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next.
Mere tolerance has given place to a sentiment of brotherhood
between sincere men of all denominations.
- Helen Keller
The difference between men friends and women friends
is that men tend to do things together,
women tend to just be together.
- Art Jahnke
Habits age men before their time.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
More men fail through lack of purpose than lack of talent.
- Billy Sunday
The only good luck many great men ever had was
being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.
- Channing Pollock
It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil.
If they would only expend the same
amount of energy loving their fellow men,
the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui.
- Helen Keller
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men.
No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
- Elbert Hubbard
There is a good ear, in some men,
that draws supplies to virtue
out of very indifferent nutriment.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Do not pray for easy lives.
Pray to be stronger men.
- John F. Kennedy
Men are not prisoners of fate,
but only prisoners of their own minds.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight
For the ends of Being and ideal Grace.
I love thee to the level of every day's
Most quiet need, by sun and candlelight.
I love thee freely, as men strive for Right;
I love thee purely, as they turn from Praise.
I love with a passion put to use
In my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith.
I love thee with a love I seemed to lose
With my lost saints, - I love thee with the breath,
Smiles, tears, of all my life! - and, if God choose,
I shall but love thee better after death.
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Trust men and they will be true to you;
treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.
- Henry David Thoreau
If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right.
Men will believe what they see.
- Henry David Thoreau
Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste
that they hurry past it.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men
is primarily based on mutual trust
and only secondarily on institutions
such as courts of justice and police.
- Albert Einstein
The highest proof of the spirit is love.
Love is the eternal thing which men can already
on earth possess as it really is.
- Albert Schweitzer
The problems of the world cannot possibly
be solved by skeptics or cynics
whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities.
We need men who can dream of things that never were.
- John F. Kennedy
Who never walks save where he sees
men's tracks, makes no discoveries.
- J. G. Holland
In every society some men are born to rule,
and some to advise.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Shallow men believe in luck.
Strong men believe in cause and effect.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I do not believe in a fate that
falls on men however they act;
but I do believe in a fate
that falls on them unless they act.
- The Buddha
There are times, sir, when men of good conscience
cannot blindly follow orders.
- Captain Picard, STAR TREK: The Next Generation
Just as a candle cannot burn without fire,
men cannot live without a spiritual life.
- The Buddha
Real friendships among men are so rare
that when they occur they are famous.
- Clarence Day
Men in general judge more from
appearances than from reality. All
men have eyes, but few have
the gift of penetration.
- Niccolo Machiavelli
The revelation of thought takes men
out of servitude into freedom.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men and women are not prisoners of fate,
but only prisoners of their own minds.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
A man likes his wife to be
just clever enough to appreciate his cleverness,
and just stupid enough to admire it.
- Israel Zangwill
Every creature is better alive than dead,
men and moose and pine trees,
and he who understands it aright
will rather preserve its life than destroy it.
- Henry David Thoreau
It is not work that kills men; it is worry.
Worry is rust upon the blade.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Many men go fishing all of their lives
without knowing that it is not fish they are after.
- Henry David Thoreau
Women must try to do things as men have tried.
When they fail their failure must be
but a challenge to others.
- Amelia Earhart
My heart bleeds at the death of every one of our gallant men.
- Robert E. Lee
It takes time to persuade men to do even
what is for their own good.
- Thomas Jefferson
The reason why men do not obey us,
is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I look only to the good qualities of men.
Not being faultless myself,
I won't presume to probe into the faults of others.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The majority of men meet with failure
because of their lack of persistence
in creating new plans to take
the place of those which fail.
- Napoleon Hill
Achievement seems to be connected with action.
Successful men and women keep moving.
They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
- Conrad Hilton
Man becomes great exactly in the degree
in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
How could man rejoice in victory
and delight in the slaughter of men?
- Lao Tzu
If God listened to the prayers of men,
all men would quickly have perished:
for they are forever praying for evil against one another.
- Epicurus
The means by which we live have outdistanced
the ends for which we live.
Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power.
We have guided missiles and misguided men.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Little do men perceive what solitude is,
and how far it extendeth.
For a crowd is not company,
and faces are but a gallery of pictures,
and talk but a tinkling cymbal,
where there is no love.
- Francis Bacon
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