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Every man must decide whether he will
walk in the light of creative altruism
or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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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
No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.
- Abraham Lincoln
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
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
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
Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
- Epicurus
All this worldly wisdom was once
the unamiable heresy of some wise man.
- Henry David Thoreau
The gem cannot be polished without friction,
nor man perfected without trials.
- Confucius
Before you criticize a man,
walk a mile in his shoes.
- Anonymous
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
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
Every man I meet is in some way my superior.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man is but the product of his thoughts -
what he thinks, he becomes.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
As soon as man does not take his existence for granted,
but beholds it as something
unfathomably mysterious, thought begins.
- Albert Schweitzer
You cannot build character and courage by
taking away a man's initiative and independence.
- Abraham Lincoln
You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.
- John Morley
Science gives man knowledge, which is power;
religion gives man wisdom, which is control.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Man plans, God laughs
- Yiddish Proverb
All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy.
What right have we then to depreciate imagination.
- 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
Man becomes great exactly in the degree
in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
A wise man can learn more from a foolish question
than a fool can learn from a wise answer.
- Bruce Lee
A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.
- Oscar Wilde
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance;
the wise grows it under his feet.
- J. Robert Oppenheimer
We like a man to come right out and say what he thinks-
if we agree with him.
- Mark Twain
A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.
- John F. Kennedy
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 in debt is so far a slave.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.
- Anonymous (often attributed to Abraham Lincoln)
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
That man is rich whose pleasures are the cheapest.
- Henry David Thoreau
You cannot teach a man anything;
you can only help him find it within himself.
- Galileo Galilei
A great man is always willing to be little.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Mystery creates wonder, and wonder is the basis
of man's desire to understand.
- Neil Armstrong
It is not the man who has too little,
but the man who craves more, that is poor.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
A man is what he thinks about all day long.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Any man who reads too much
and uses his own brain too little
falls into lazy habits of thinking.
- Albert Einstein
The man who goes alone can start today;
but he who travels with another
must wait till that other is ready.
- Henry David Thoreau
You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers.
You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.
- Naguib Mahfouz
The Universe is one great kindergarten for man.
Everything that exists has brought
with it its own peculiar lesson.
- Orison Swett Marden
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
Is the babe young? When I behold it,
it seems more venerable than the oldest man.
- Henry David Thoreau
The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live
that his happiness shall depend
as little as possible on external things.
- Epictetus
Early to bed and early to rise,
makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
- Benjamin Franklin
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
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
If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right.
Men will believe what they see.
- Henry David Thoreau
A wise man hears one word and understands two.
- Yiddish Proverb
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
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
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 value of a man should be seen in what he gives
and not in what he is able to receive.
- Albert Einstein
Non-violence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind.
It is mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction
devised by the ingenuity of man.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
If there is anything that a man can do well,
I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
- Abraham Lincoln
It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe,
that lures him to evil ways.
- The Buddha
No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing,
and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.
- George Bernard Shaw
A great secret of success is to go through life
as a man who never gets used up.
- Albert Schweitzer
If a man does his best, what else is there?
- George S. Patton
A man can fail many times,
but he isn't a failure until
he begins to blame somebody else.
- John Burroughs
Behind an able man there are always other able men.
- Chinese proverb
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
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands
in moments of comfort and convenience,
but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
A man is not old until his regrets take the place of his dreams.
- Yiddish Proverb
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)
When I look back on all these worries,
I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed
that he had had a lot of trouble in his life,
most of which had never happened.
- Winston Churchill
Every child comes with the message
that God is not yet discouraged of man.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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