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If a man does not know what port he is steering for,
no wind is favorable to him.
- Seneca
Related topics: Motivational Wisdom Values Purpose Life-Purpose
If we let things terrify us,
life will not be worth living.
- Seneca
Luck is preparation meeting opportunity.
- Seneca
A man is as unhappy as he has convinced himself he is.
- Seneca
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Wherever there is a human being,
there is an opportunity for a kindness.
- Seneca
It is not because life is difficult
that we do not dare.
Life is difficult
because we do not dare.
- Seneca
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)
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
As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
- The Bible
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
Nearly all men can stand adversity,
but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
- Abraham Lincoln
If thou wilt make a man happy,
add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.
- Epicurus
Great and good are seldom the same man.
- Winston Churchill
The man who has no imagination has no wings.
- Muhammad Ali
An honest man is always a child.
- Socrates
To measure the man, measure his heart.
- Malcolm S. Forbes
Circumstances make man, not man circumstances.
- Mark Twain
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.
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.
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]
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
As long as a man stands in his own way,
everything seems to be in his way.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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.
Circumstance does not make the man: it reveals him to himself.
- James Allen
No man is free who is not master of himself.
- Epictetus
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
How could man rejoice in victory
and delight in the slaughter of men?
- Lao Tzu
A man's good name is his best monument
- from an old churchyard at Lockerbie, Scotland
The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.
- B. C. Forbes
Mystery creates wonder, and wonder is the basis
of man's desire to understand.
- Neil Armstrong
All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.
- Meister Eckhart
A man in debt is so far a slave.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought,
happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him.
- The Buddha
A man is not old until his regrets take the place of his dreams.
- Yiddish Proverb
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
I wept because I had no shoes
until I met a man who had no feet.
- old Persian Proverb
A man who won't die for something is not fit to live.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Only a man's character is the real criterion of worth.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
- Benjamin Franklin
A man who is a master of patience is master of everything else.
- George Savile
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
If a man does his best, what else is there?
- George S. Patton
Try not to become a man of success,
but rather try to become a man of value.
- Albert Einstein
Each man is the architect of his own fate.
- Appius Claudius
Man plans, God laughs
- Yiddish Proverb
Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.
- Albert Schweitzer
No man is a failure who enjoys life.
- William Feather
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
It is what a man thinks of himself
that really determines his fate.
- Henry David Thoreau
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.
Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
- Oscar Wilde
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
- Anonymous
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
It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe,
that lures him to evil ways.
- The Buddha
Two things a man should never be angry at:
what he can help,
and what he cannot help.
- Thomas Fuller
Anger is a killing thing:
it kills the man who angers,
for each rage leaves him less than he had been before -
it takes something from him.
- Louis L'Amour
The fear of death follows from the fear of life.
A man who lives fully, is prepared to die at any time.
- Mark Twain
Every man dies. Not every man truly lives.
- the movie Braveheart
Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only
by the man who is as well organized
in his individuality as the mass itself.
- Carl Jung
The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.
- Anatole France
There comes a time in every man's education
when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance,
that imitation is suicide,
that he must take himself for better or for worse as his portion.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone
who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson
The eyes of the cheerful and of the melancholy man
are fixed upon the same creation;
but very different are the aspects which it bears to them.
- Albert Pike
If the stars should appear
but one night every thousand years
how man would marvel and stare.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
- Epicurus
A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.
- Mark Twain
Property is intended to serve life,
and no matter how much we surround it with rights and respect,
it has no personal being.
It is part of the earth man walks on.
It is not man.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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