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To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas
he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.
- Thomas Jefferson
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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)
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)
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Every child comes with the message
that God is not yet discouraged of man.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
- George Eliot
Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl
is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.
- Albert Einstein
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.
Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
- Oscar Wilde
Two things a man should never be angry at:
what he can help,
and what he cannot help.
- Thomas Fuller
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
A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
- Benjamin Franklin
Show me a man who knows his own heart
and to him I shall belong.
- Jewel
Nearly all men can stand adversity,
but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
- Abraham Lincoln
Some things will never seem adequate
no matter how hard we try.
- from the movie White Man's Burden
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
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
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.
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.
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
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
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
Circumstance does not make the man: it reveals him to himself.
- James Allen
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 true measure of a man is how he treats someone
who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson
A benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself,
to keep his friends in countenance.
- Benjamin Franklin
No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.
- Abraham Lincoln
If thou wilt make a man happy,
add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.
- Epicurus
A man too busy to take care of his health is like
a mechanic too busy to take care of his tools.
- Spanish Proverb
The making of friends, who are real friends,
is the best token we have of a man's success in life.
- Edward Everett Hale
Intent is what can make a man succeed
when his thoughts tell him that he is defeated.
- Carlos Castaneda
If a man empties his purse into his head,
no man can take it away from him.
An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
- Benjamin Franklin
To measure the man, measure his heart.
- Malcolm S. Forbes
No man is free who is not master of himself.
- Epictetus
Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand,
the spines of others are often stiffened.
- Billy Graham
The fear of death follows from the fear of life.
A man who lives fully, is prepared to die at any time.
- Mark Twain
It is not the man who has too little,
but the man who craves more, that is poor.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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
A man is usually more careful of his money
than he is of his principles.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
This communicating of a man's self to his friend
works two contrary effects;
for it redoubleth joys, and cutteth griefs in half.
- Francis Bacon
Is the babe young? When I behold it,
it seems more venerable than the oldest man.
- Henry David Thoreau
Dear Father in heaven, I'm not a praying man,
but if you're up there and you can hear me ...
show me the way... show me the way.
- It's a Wonderful Life (1946 movie)
If a man can... make a better mousetrap,
the world will make a beaten path to his door.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Angels whisper to a man when he goes for a walk.
- Raymond Inmon
As to marriage or celibacy, let a man
take which course he will,
he will be sure to repent.
- Socrates
Clothes make the man.
Naked people have little or no influence on society.
- Mark Twain
No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing,
and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.
- George Bernard Shaw
We like a man to come right out and say what he thinks-
if we agree with him.
- Mark Twain
The quality of a man's life is in direct proportion
to his commitment to excellence,
regardless of his chosen field of endeavor.
- Vince Lombardi
All religions must be tolerated...
for every man must get to heaven in his own way.
- Epictetus
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
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
Every man dies. Not every man truly lives.
- the movie Braveheart
Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man.
And man can be as big as he wants.
No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.
- John F. Kennedy
A man can't be too careful in the choice of enemies.
- Oscar Wilde
No man is a failure who enjoys life.
- William Feather
The healthy man does not torture others -
generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.
- Carl Jung
Freedom is never dear at any price.
It is the breath of life.
What would a man not pay for living?
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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
Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.
- Carl Jung
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
The ultimate test of a man's conscience
may be his willingness to sacrifice something today
for future generations whose words of thanks will not be heard.
- Gaylord Nelson
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men.
No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
- Elbert Hubbard
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
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
- Anonymous
One man with courage makes a majority.
- old saying probably repeated by Andrew Jackson
(falsely attributed to Jefferson)
Mystery creates wonder, and wonder is the basis
of man's desire to understand.
- Neil Armstrong
Try not to become a man of success,
but rather try to become a man of value.
- Albert Einstein
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
No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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