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Welcome to these Traits Quotes from my large collection of Love Quotes and Sayings. Please enjoy these Quotes about Traits and Love.
The moment a person forms a theory,
his imagination sees in every object
only the traits which favor that theory.
- Thomas Jefferson
Related topics: Life Human-Nature Psychology Open Mind
Man's most valuable trait is a judicious sense
of what not to believe.
- Euripides
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
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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)
Talent is God-given; be humble.
Fame is man-given; be thankful.
Conceit is self-given; be careful.
- John Wooden
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
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.
Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
- Oscar Wilde
A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
- Benjamin Franklin
Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl
is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.
- Albert Einstein
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
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
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
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.
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
Circumstance does not make the man: it reveals him to himself.
- James Allen
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 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
Some things will never seem adequate
no matter how hard we try.
- from the movie White Man's Burden
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 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
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
Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth,
and if a man does not know what a thing is,
it is at least an increase in knowledge
if he knows what it is not.
- Carl Jung
A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea,
never regains its original dimensions.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
I wept because I had no shoes
until I met a man who had no feet.
- old Persian Proverb
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
For man with no forgiveness in heart,
life worse punishment than death.
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid 2
The best friend is the man who in wishing me well
wishes it for my sake.
- Anonymous
Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
It is not the man who has too little,
but the man who craves more, that is poor.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Never trust a man who speaks well of everybody
- John Churton Collins
Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.
- Albert Schweitzer
Angels whisper to a man when he goes for a walk.
- Raymond Inmon
Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head,
and knows not that it brings abundance
to drive away the hunger.
- Saint Basil
We like a man to come right out and say what he thinks-
if we agree with him.
- Mark Twain
If there is anything that a man can do well,
I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
- Abraham Lincoln
Man does not weave this web of life.
He is merely a strand of it.
Whatever he does to the web,
he does to himself.
- Chief Seattle (attributed)
Your friend is the man who knows all about you,
and still likes you.
- Elbert Hubbard
Great and good are seldom the same man.
- Winston Churchill
No man is free who is not master of himself.
- Epictetus
The highest revelation is that God is in every man.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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.
Man knows so much and does so little.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
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
Feel Unity with Spirit and All Creation
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 [actually written by screenwriter Ted Perry in 1972]
A man who is a master of patience is master of everything else.
- George Savile
I choose my friends for their good looks,
my acquaintances for their good characters,
and my enemies for their intellects.
A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde
The man who can't dance thinks the band is no good.
- Polish Proverb
Clothes make the man.
Naked people have little or no influence on society.
- Mark Twain
The healthy man does not torture others -
generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.
- Carl Jung
A man must be both stupid and uncharitable
who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.
- Joseph Addison
As soon as man does not take his existence for granted,
but beholds it as something
unfathomably mysterious, thought begins.
- Albert Schweitzer
The man with insight enough to admit his limitations
comes nearest to perfection.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself,
to keep his friends in countenance.
- Benjamin Franklin
As long as a man stands in his own way,
everything seems to be in his way.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
He is a man of courage who does not run away,
but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.
- Socrates
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
If a man is proud of his wealth,
he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
- Socrates
A man is usually more careful of his money
than he is of his principles.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand,
the spines of others are often stiffened.
- Billy Graham
One may as well dam for water tanks
the people's cathedrals and churches,
for no holier temple has ever
been consecrated by the heart of man.
- John Muir
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
Before you criticize a man,
walk a mile in his shoes.
- Anonymous
You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers.
You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.
- Naguib Mahfouz
If the stars should appear
but one night every thousand years
how man would marvel and stare.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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