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The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance;
the wise grows it under his feet.
- J. Robert Oppenheimer
Related topics: Wisdom Self Happy Insight Attitude Positive Choice
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson 
When the water starts boiling
it is foolish to turn off the heat.
- Nelson Mandela
Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
- Albert Einstein
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Until you'll willing to look foolish,
you'll never have the possibility of being great.
- Cher
You will do foolish things,
but do them with enthusiasm.
- Colette
If a million people say a foolish thing,
it is still a foolish thing.
- Anatole France
If you want to improve,
be content to be thought foolish and stupid.
- Epictetus
A widespread belief is more often likely
to be foolish than sensible.
- Bertrand Russell
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds,
adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.
With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. -
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A wise man can learn more from a foolish question
than a fool can learn from a wise answer.
- Bruce Lee
It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died.
Rather we should thank God that such men lived.
- George S. Patton
It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures,
but the foolish to be a slave to them.
- Epictetus
Every child comes with the message
that God is not yet discouraged of man.
- Rabindranath Tagore
No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.
- Anonymous (often attributed to Abraham Lincoln)
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
If thou wilt make a man happy,
add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.
- Epicurus
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
To measure the man, measure his heart.
- Malcolm S. Forbes
No man is free who is not master of himself.
- Epictetus
As long as a man stands in his own way,
everything seems to be in his way.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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]
Circumstances make man, not man circumstances.
- Mark Twain
Nearly all men can stand adversity,
but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
- Abraham Lincoln
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
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
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.
Great and good are seldom the same man.
- Winston Churchill
The man who has no imagination has no wings.
- Muhammad Ali
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
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.
An honest man is always a child.
- Socrates
A man who is a master of patience is master of everything else.
- George Savile
The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.
- B. C. Forbes
Man plans, God laughs
- Yiddish Proverb
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
- Anonymous
How could man rejoice in victory
and delight in the slaughter of men?
- Lao Tzu
If a man does his best, what else is there?
- George S. Patton
A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
- Benjamin Franklin
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.
All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.
- Meister Eckhart
Each man is the architect of his own fate.
- Appius Claudius
A man is not old until his regrets take the place of his dreams.
- Yiddish Proverb
A man is as unhappy as he has convinced himself he is.
- Seneca
A man's good name is his best monument
- from an old churchyard at Lockerbie, Scotland
Two things a man should never be angry at:
what he can help,
and what he cannot help.
- Thomas Fuller
Try not to become a man of success,
but rather try to become a man of value.
- Albert Einstein
I wept because I had no shoes
until I met a man who had no feet.
- old Persian Proverb
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.
Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
- Oscar Wilde
It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe,
that lures him to evil ways.
- The Buddha
If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought,
happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him.
- The Buddha
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
A man who won't die for something is not fit to live.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Mystery creates wonder, and wonder is the basis
of man's desire to understand.
- Neil Armstrong
Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.
- Albert Schweitzer
A man in debt is so far a slave.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is what a man thinks of himself
that really determines his fate.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
Only a man's character is the real criterion of worth.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
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
No man is a failure who enjoys life.
- William Feather
Man's enemies are not demons, but human beings like himself.
- Lao Tzu
A man can succeed at almost anything
for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.
- Charles M. Schwab
The man who is dissatisfied with himself, what can he do?
- Henry David Thoreau
What is happiness except the simple harmony
between a man and the life he leads?
- Albert Camus
Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.
- Socrates
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