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Timid men prefer the calm of despotism
to the tempestuous sea of liberty.
- Thomas Jefferson
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The timid man yearns for full value and demands a tenth.
The bold man strikes for double value and compromises on par.
- Mark Twain
When one has nothing to lose, one becomes courageous.
We are timid only when
there is something we can still cling to.
- Carlos Castaneda
Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions.
All life is an experiment.
The more experiments you make the better.
What if they are a little coarse,
and you may get your coat soiled or torn?
What if you do fail, and get fairly rolled
in the dirt once or twice.
Up again, you shall never be so afraid of a tumble.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Doubt and mistrust are the mere panic of timid imagination,
which the steadfast heart will conquer,
and the large mind will transcend.
- Helen Keller
History does not long entrust the care of freedom
to the weak or the timid.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions.
All life is an experiment.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Circumstance does not make the man: it reveals him to himself.
- James Allen
Talent is God-given; be humble.
Fame is man-given; be thankful.
Conceit is self-given; be careful.
- John Wooden
Every man I meet is in some way my superior.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy.
What right have we then to depreciate imagination.
- Carl Jung
All this worldly wisdom was once
the unamiable heresy of some wise man.
- Henry David Thoreau
We must, however, acknowledge, as it seems to me,
that man with all his noble qualities...
still bears in his bodily frame
the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.
- Charles Darwin
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 wise man can learn more from a foolish question
than a fool can learn from a wise answer.
- Bruce Lee
Man becomes great exactly in the degree
in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right.
Men will believe what they see.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live
that his happiness shall depend
as little as possible on external things.
- Epictetus
Before you criticize a man,
walk a mile in his shoes.
- Anonymous
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
That man is rich whose pleasures are the cheapest.
- Henry David Thoreau
A great man is always willing to be little.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A wise man will make haste to forgive,
because he knows the true value of time,
and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.
- Samuel Johnson
Money has never made man happy, nor will it,
there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness.
The more of it one has the more one wants.
- Benjamin Franklin
A man in debt is so far a slave.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers.
You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.
- Naguib Mahfouz
A man is but the product of his thoughts -
what he thinks, he becomes.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
A wise man hears one word and understands two.
- Yiddish Proverb
A man is what he thinks about all day long.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
When you are offended at any man's fault,
turn to yourself and study your own failings.
Then you will forget your anger.
- Epictetus
It is not the man who has too little,
but the man who craves more, that is poor.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.
- John Morley
Mystery creates wonder, and wonder is the basis
of man's desire to understand.
- Neil Armstrong
As soon as man does not take his existence for granted,
but beholds it as something
unfathomably mysterious, thought begins.
- Albert Schweitzer
A man should look for what is,
and not for what he thinks should be.
- Albert Einstein
Many a man fails as an original thinker
simply because his memory is too good.
- Nietzsche
We like a man to come right out and say what he thinks-
if we agree with him.
- Mark Twain
The wise man looks into space,
and does not regard the small as too little,
nor the great as too much;
for he knows that there is no limit to dimensions.
- Lao Tzu
The Universe is one great kindergarten for man.
Everything that exists has brought
with it its own peculiar lesson.
- Orison Swett Marden
The gem cannot be polished without friction,
nor man perfected without trials.
- Confucius
A man who as a physical being
is always turned toward the outside,
thinking that his happiness lies outside him,
finally turns inward and
discovers that the source is within him.
- Soren Kierkegaard
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance;
the wise grows it under his feet.
- J. Robert Oppenheimer
Is the babe young? When I behold it,
it seems more venerable than the oldest man.
- Henry David Thoreau
Early to bed and early to rise,
makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
- Benjamin Franklin
The wise man looks back into the past,
and does not grieve over what is far off,
nor rejoice over what is near;
for he knows that time is without end.
- Lao Tzu
A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.
- Oscar Wilde
Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
- Epicurus
You cannot teach a man anything;
you can only help him find it within himself.
- Galileo Galilei
Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day,
teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime.
- Chinese Proverb
The man who goes alone can start today;
but he who travels with another
must wait till that other is ready.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.
- Anonymous (often attributed to Abraham Lincoln)
A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.
- John F. Kennedy
You cannot build character and courage by
taking away a man's initiative and independence.
- Abraham Lincoln
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
No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.
- Abraham Lincoln
Science gives man knowledge, which is power;
religion gives man wisdom, which is control.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing,
and that is that I know nothing.
- Socrates
Any man who reads too much
and uses his own brain too little
falls into lazy habits of thinking.
- Albert Einstein
Man plans, God laughs
- Yiddish Proverb
There is nothing with which every man is so afraid
as getting to know how enormously much
he is capable of doing and becoming.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Men ought either to be indulged or utterly destroyed,
for if you merely offend them, they take vengeance,
but if you injure them greatly, they are unable to retaliate,
so that the injury done to a man
ought to be such that vengeance cannot be feared.
- Niccolo Machiavelli
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
It is what a man thinks of himself
that really determines his fate.
- Henry David Thoreau
A man can do only what he can do.
But if he does that each day he can sleep at night
and do it again the next day.
- Albert Schweitzer
Do not hire a man who does your work for money,
but him who does it for love of it.
- Henry David Thoreau
The value of a man should be seen in what he gives
and not in what he is able to receive.
- Albert Einstein
A man is not old until his regrets take the place of his dreams.
- Yiddish Proverb
When a man you like switches from what
he said a year ago, or four years ago,
he is a broad-minded person who has courage enough
to change his mind with changing conditions.
When a man you don't like does it,
he is a liar who has broken his promise.
- Franklin Pierce Adams
If there is anything that a man can do well,
I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
- Abraham Lincoln
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