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Each man's life touches so many other lives.
- It's a Wonderful Life (1946 movie)
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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)
Every time you hear a bell ring,
it means that some angel's just got his wings.
- It's a Wonderful Life (1946 movie)
I didn't want to marry anybody else in town.
I want my baby to look like you.
- It's a Wonderful Life (1946 movie)
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Might I perhaps win my wings?
I've been waiting for over 200 years now, sir,
and people ARE beginning to talk.
- It's a Wonderful Life (1946 movie)
No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.
- Anonymous (often attributed to Abraham Lincoln)
Every child comes with the message
that God is not yet discouraged of man.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Talent is God-given; be humble.
Fame is man-given; be thankful.
Conceit is self-given; be careful.
- John Wooden
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)
As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
- The Bible
Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
- George Eliot
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
Circumstance does not make the man: it reveals him to himself.
- James Allen
Circumstances make man, not man circumstances.
- Mark Twain
Feel Unity with Spirit and All Creation
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 [actually written by screenwriter Ted Perry in 1972]
An honest man is always a child.
- Socrates
The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was:
"If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?"
But... the good Samaritan reversed the question:
"If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?"
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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
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 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
No man is free who is not master of himself.
- Epictetus
Nearly all men can stand adversity,
but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
- Abraham Lincoln
Well, I don't know what will happen now.
We've got some difficult days ahead.
But it doesn't matter with me now.
Because I've been to the mountaintop.
And I don't mind. Like any man,
I would like to live a long life.
Longevity has its place.
But I'm not concerned about that now.
I just want to do God's will.
And He's allowed me to go up to the mountain.
And I've looked over.
And I've seen the promised land.
I may not get there with you.
But I want you to know tonight, that we,
as a people, will get to the promised land.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
To measure the man, measure his heart.
- Malcolm S. Forbes
The man who has no imagination has no wings.
- Muhammad Ali
If thou wilt make a man happy,
add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.
- Epicurus
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.
Great and good are seldom the same man.
- Winston Churchill
As long as a man stands in his own way,
everything seems to be in his way.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man who won't die for something is not fit to live.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth,
and if a man does not know what a thing is,
it is at least an increase in knowledge
if he knows what it is not.
- Carl Jung
I would rather try to persuade a man to go along,
because once I have persuaded him, he will stick.
If I scare him, he will stay just as long
as he is scared, and then he is gone.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.
- B. C. Forbes
Man plans, God laughs
- Yiddish Proverb
A man's good name is his best monument
- from an old churchyard at Lockerbie, Scotland
If a man does his best, what else is there?
- George S. Patton
Two things a man should never be angry at:
what he can help,
and what he cannot help.
- Thomas Fuller
Each man is the architect of his own fate.
- Appius Claudius
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
- Anonymous
How could man rejoice in victory
and delight in the slaughter of men?
- Lao Tzu
Try not to become a man of success,
but rather try to become a man of value.
- Albert Einstein
No man is a failure who enjoys life.
- William Feather
I wept because I had no shoes
until I met a man who had no feet.
- old Persian Proverb
A man is not old until his regrets take the place of his dreams.
- Yiddish Proverb
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.
Man's enemies are not demons, but human beings like himself.
- Lao Tzu
It is what a man thinks of himself
that really determines his fate.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.
- Meister Eckhart
Mystery creates wonder, and wonder is the basis
of man's desire to understand.
- Neil Armstrong
Only a man's character is the real criterion of worth.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
A man who is a master of patience is master of everything else.
- George Savile
A man is as unhappy as he has convinced himself he is.
- Seneca
A man in debt is so far a slave.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe,
that lures him to evil ways.
- The Buddha
A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
- Benjamin Franklin
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.
Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
- Oscar Wilde
Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.
- Albert Schweitzer
If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought,
happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him.
- The Buddha
New Year's Day is every man's birthday.
- Charles Lamb
Early to bed and early to rise,
makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
- Benjamin Franklin
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
A man who dares to waste one hour of time
has not discovered the value of life.
- Charles Darwin
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.
If a man loses his reverence for any part of life,
he will lose his reverence for all of life.
- Albert Schweitzer
If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for,
he isn't fit to live.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing,
and that is that I know nothing.
- Socrates
One who is injured ought not to return the injury,
for on no account can it be right to do an injustice;
and it is not right to return an injury,
or to do evil to any man,
however much we have suffered from him.
- Socrates
You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.
- John Morley
Seek always to do some good, somewhere.
Every man has to seek in his own way to realize his true worth.
You must give some time to your fellow man.
For remember, you don't live in a world all your own.
Your brothers are here too.
- Albert Schweitzer
A man is a success if he gets up in
the morning and gets to bed at night,
and in between he does what he wants to do.
- Bob Dylan
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