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An overfull calendar, like an overfull stomach,
is a consequence of taking on too much.
Commit, and eat, in moderation.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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If one oversteps the bounds of moderation,
the greatest pleasures cease to please.
- Epictetus
People who work together will win,
whether it be against complex football defenses,
or the problems of modern society.
- Vince Lombardi
Social progress can be measured
by the social position of the female sex.
- Karl Marx
(German philosopher and political economist
whose ideas are credited as the foundation of modern communism)
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Modern cynics and skeptics... see no harm in paying those
to whom they entrust the minds of their children
a smaller wage than is paid to those to whom
they entrust the care of their plumbing.
- John F. Kennedy
Have we not come to such an impasse in the modern world
that we must love our enemies - or else?
The chain reaction of evil -
hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars -
must be broken, or else we shall be plunged
into the dark abyss of annihilation.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The task of the modern educator
is not to cut down jungles,
but to irrigate deserts.
- C.S. Lewis
Be merciful, moderate, and modest.
- Lao Tzu
During his training, a baseball player strives
to make each swing better than the last.
The repetition of a faulty swing would be worse than useless.
It would ingrain bad habits.
The same is true of emotional responses.
If we allow ourselves to continue to have the same angry responses,
we just entrench our anger habit.
But if we strive - through consciousness, visualization, and coaching -
to moderate our anger response,
over time, we can train ourselves to respond
to events as we choose - without anger.
You can't magically be free from anger tomorrow,
but you can put yourself on your own training program
that will reduce the frequency and intensity
of your anger response day by day, year by year.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Mr. Attlee is a very modest man.
Indeed he has a lot to be modest about.
- Winston Churchill
Talent is God-given; be humble.
Fame is man-given; be thankful.
Conceit is self-given; be careful.
- John Wooden
Circumstance does not make the man: it reveals him to himself.
- James Allen
The gem cannot be polished without friction,
nor man perfected without trials.
- Confucius
A man is what he thinks about all day long.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
A man in debt is so far a slave.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers.
You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.
- Naguib Mahfouz
Early to bed and early to rise,
makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
- Benjamin Franklin
Before you criticize a man,
walk a mile in his shoes.
- Anonymous
When you are offended at any man's fault,
turn to yourself and study your own failings.
Then you will forget your anger.
- Epictetus
You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.
- John Morley
Every man I meet is in some way my superior.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
That man is rich whose pleasures are the cheapest.
- Henry David Thoreau
It is not the man who has too little,
but the man who craves more, that is poor.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
As soon as man does not take his existence for granted,
but beholds it as something
unfathomably mysterious, thought begins.
- Albert Schweitzer
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance;
the wise grows it under his feet.
- J. Robert Oppenheimer
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
Science gives man knowledge, which is power;
religion gives man wisdom, which is control.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Man plans, God laughs
- Yiddish Proverb
The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live
that his happiness shall depend
as little as possible on external things.
- Epictetus
A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.
- John F. Kennedy
Many a man fails as an original thinker
simply because his memory is too good.
- Nietzsche
I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing,
and that is that I know nothing.
- Socrates
No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.
- Abraham Lincoln
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
Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
- Epicurus
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.
Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
- Oscar Wilde
All this worldly wisdom was once
the unamiable heresy of some wise man.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
A wise man hears one word and understands two.
- Yiddish Proverb
Man becomes great exactly in the degree
in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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
A great man is always willing to be little.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.
- Anonymous (often attributed to Abraham Lincoln)
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
Mystery creates wonder, and wonder is the basis
of man's desire to understand.
- Neil Armstrong
A man is but the product of his thoughts -
what he thinks, he becomes.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The man who goes alone can start today;
but he who travels with another
must wait till that other is ready.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy.
What right have we then to depreciate imagination.
- Carl Jung
You cannot teach a man anything;
you can only help him find it within himself.
- Galileo Galilei
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
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 Universe is one great kindergarten for man.
Everything that exists has brought
with it its own peculiar lesson.
- Orison Swett Marden
A man should look for what is,
and not for what he thinks should be.
- Albert Einstein
A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.
- Oscar Wilde
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
If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right.
Men will believe what they see.
- Henry David Thoreau
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 wise man can learn more from a foolish question
than a fool can learn from a wise answer.
- Bruce Lee
You cannot build character and courage by
taking away a man's initiative and independence.
- Abraham Lincoln
On life's journey, faith is nourishment,
virtuous deeds are a shelter,
wisdom is the light by day
and right mindfulness is the protection by night.
If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him.
- The Buddha
Circumstances make man, not man circumstances.
- Mark Twain
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.
If a man loses his reverence for any part of life,
he will lose his reverence for all of life.
- Albert Schweitzer
Man lives freely only by his readiness to die, if need be,
at the hands of his brother, never by killing him.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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
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