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I hope you find these Franklin Pierce Adams Quotes inspiring and motivational.
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
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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
It is not the man who has too little,
but the man who craves more, that is poor.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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The man who goes alone can start today;
but he who travels with another
must wait till that other is ready.
- Henry David Thoreau
Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
- Epicurus
That man is rich whose pleasures are the cheapest.
- Henry David Thoreau
A man is but the product of his thoughts -
what he thinks, he becomes.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right.
Men will believe what they see.
- Henry David Thoreau
Before you criticize a man,
walk a mile in his shoes.
- Anonymous
You cannot teach a man anything;
you can only help him find it within himself.
- Galileo Galilei
The gem cannot be polished without friction,
nor man perfected without trials.
- Confucius
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
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
Is the babe young? When I behold it,
it seems more venerable than the oldest 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
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
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance;
the wise grows it under his feet.
- J. Robert Oppenheimer
When you are offended at any man's fault,
turn to yourself and study your own failings.
Then you will forget your anger.
- Epictetus
A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.
- John F. Kennedy
No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.
- Abraham Lincoln
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
Mystery creates wonder, and wonder is the basis
of man's desire to understand.
- Neil Armstrong
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
A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.
- Oscar Wilde
A wise man can learn more from a foolish question
than a fool can learn from a wise answer.
- Bruce Lee
The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live
that his happiness shall depend
as little as possible on external things.
- Epictetus
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.
Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
- Oscar Wilde
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
A great man is always willing to be little.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
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
Any man who reads too much
and uses his own brain too little
falls into lazy habits of thinking.
- Albert Einstein
Science gives man knowledge, which is power;
religion gives man wisdom, which is control.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
A man in debt is so far a slave.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Many a man fails as an original thinker
simply because his memory is too good.
- Nietzsche
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
I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing,
and that is that I know nothing.
- Socrates
Man plans, God laughs
- Yiddish Proverb
As soon as man does not take his existence for granted,
but beholds it as something
unfathomably mysterious, thought begins.
- Albert Schweitzer
Man becomes great exactly in the degree
in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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
The Universe is one great kindergarten for man.
Everything that exists has brought
with it its own peculiar lesson.
- Orison Swett Marden
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
A man should look for what is,
and not for what he thinks should be.
- Albert Einstein
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
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
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
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 what he thinks about all day long.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Early to bed and early to rise,
makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
- Benjamin Franklin
No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.
- Anonymous (often attributed to Abraham Lincoln)
You cannot build character and courage by
taking away a man's initiative and independence.
- Abraham Lincoln
If a man loses his reverence for any part of life,
he will lose his reverence for all of life.
- Albert Schweitzer
Only a man's character is the real criterion of worth.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
One man with courage makes a majority.
- old saying probably repeated by Andrew Jackson
(falsely attributed to Jefferson)
I submit to you that if a man hasn't
discovered something that he will die for,
he isn't fit to live.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
A man's good name is his best monument
- from an old churchyard at Lockerbie, Scotland
It is impossible for a man to conceal himself.
In every act, word or gesture,
he stands revealed as he is,
and not as he would have himself appear to be.
From the Universe, nothing is or can be hidden.
- Ernest Holmes
As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
- The Bible
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
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
During the first period of a man's life
the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Non-violence is a powerful and just weapon which cuts without wounding
and ennobles the man who wields it. It is a sword that heals.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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
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
Try not to become a man of success,
but rather try to become a man of value.
- Albert Einstein
A man can fail many times,
but he isn't a failure until
he begins to blame somebody else.
- John Burroughs
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