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Welcome to these Mechanical Quotes from my large collection of Love Quotes and Sayings. Please enjoy these Quotes about Mechanical and Love.
We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake,
not by mechanical aid, but by
an infinite expectation of the dawn.
- Henry David Thoreau
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The spirit of democracy is not a mechanical thing
to be adjusted by abolition of forms.
It requires change of heart.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
A man too busy to take care of his health is like
a mechanic too busy to take care of his tools.
- Spanish Proverb
A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor,
mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
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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)
Every child comes with the message
that God is not yet discouraged of man.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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)
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
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
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
Nearly all men can stand adversity,
but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
- Abraham Lincoln
Show me a man who knows his own heart
and to him I shall belong.
- Jewel
Circumstance does not make the man: it reveals him to himself.
- James Allen
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
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.
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
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
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
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 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
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
A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.
- W. C. Fields
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
As long as a man stands in his own way,
everything seems to be in his way.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Great and good are seldom the same man.
- Winston Churchill
Every man I meet is in some way my superior.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Never trust a man who speaks well of everybody
- John Churton Collins
The gem cannot be polished without friction,
nor man perfected without trials.
- Confucius
I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing,
and that is that I know nothing.
- Socrates
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
You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.
- John Morley
We like a man to come right out and say what he thinks-
if we agree with him.
- Mark Twain
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
All this worldly wisdom was once
the unamiable heresy of some wise man.
- Henry David Thoreau
A wise man hears one word and understands two.
- Yiddish Proverb
If a man loses his reverence for any part of life,
he will lose his reverence for all of life.
- Albert Schweitzer
So long as we are loved by others,
I would almost say that we are indispensable;
and no man is useless while he has a friend.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
A great secret of success is to go through life
as a man who never gets used up.
- Albert Schweitzer
The Universe is one great kindergarten for man.
Everything that exists has brought
with it its own peculiar lesson.
- Orison Swett Marden
Each man is the architect of his own fate.
- Appius Claudius
Interdependence is and ought to be
as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency.
Man is a social being.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Every man has his own courage,
and is betrayed because he seeks in himself
the courage of other persons.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
- Epicurus
A man's good name is his best monument
- from an old churchyard at Lockerbie, Scotland
If you talk to a man in a language he understands,
that goes to his head.
If you talk to him in his language,
that goes to his heart.
- Nelson Mandela
The fear of death follows from the fear of life.
A man who lives fully, is prepared to die at any time.
- Mark Twain
The man who is dissatisfied with himself, what can he do?
- Henry David Thoreau
Revenge... is like a rolling stone,
which, when a man hath forced up a hill,
will return upon him with a greater violence,
and break those bones whose sinews gave it motion.
- Albert Schweitzer
Mystery creates wonder, and wonder is the basis
of man's desire to understand.
- Neil Armstrong
He is a wise man who does not grieve
for the things which he has not,
but rejoices for those which he has.
- Epictetus
No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man is as unhappy as he has convinced himself he is.
- Seneca
I like a man who grins when he fights.
- Winston Churchill
Whatever your life's work is, do it well.
A man should do his job so well that the living,
the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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
A dog is not considered a good dog because he is a good barker.
A man is not considered a good man because he is a good talker.
- The Buddha
Intent is what can make a man succeed
when his thoughts tell him that he is defeated.
- Carlos Castaneda
Early to bed and early to rise,
makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
- Benjamin Franklin
Nothing can stop the man with the right
mental attitude from achieving his goal;
nothing on earth can help the man
with the wrong mental attitude.
- Thomas Jefferson
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
The making of friends, who are real friends,
is the best token we have of a man's success in life.
- Edward Everett Hale
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
Thou canst not then be false to any man.
- William Shakespeare
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone
who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson
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
If a man does not make new acquaintances
as he advances through life,
he will soon find himself alone.
A man, sir, should keep his friendships in constant repair.
- Samuel Johnson
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