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If a man does his best, what else is there?
- George S. Patton
Related topics: Values Honor Self
Watch what people are cynical about,
and one can often discover what they lack.
- George S. Patton
Prepare for the unknown by studying how others in the past
have coped with the unforeseeable and the unpredictable.
- George S. Patton
Never tell people how to do things.
Tell them what to do and they will
surprise you with their ingenuity.
- George S. Patton
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If we take the generally accepted definition of bravery
as a quality which knows no fear, I have never seen a brave man.
All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are,
the more they are frightened.
- George S. Patton
It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died.
Rather we should thank God that such men lived.
- George S. Patton
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
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
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)
Nearly all men can stand adversity,
but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
- Abraham Lincoln
As long as a man stands in his own way,
everything seems to be in his way.
- 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.
The man who has no imagination has no wings.
- Muhammad Ali
Circumstance does not make the man: it reveals him to himself.
- James Allen
Circumstances make man, not man circumstances.
- Mark Twain
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
An honest man is always a child.
- Socrates
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
Great and good are seldom the same man.
- Winston Churchill
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
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 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.
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.
To measure the man, measure his heart.
- Malcolm S. Forbes
A man who won't die for something is not fit to live.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
A man in debt is so far a slave.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
How could man rejoice in victory
and delight in the slaughter of men?
- Lao Tzu
Man's enemies are not demons, but human beings like himself.
- Lao Tzu
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.
Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
- Oscar Wilde
Try not to become a man of success,
but rather try to become a man of value.
- Albert Einstein
A man who is a master of patience is master of everything else.
- George Savile
All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.
- Meister Eckhart
Two things a man should never be angry at:
what he can help,
and what he cannot help.
- Thomas Fuller
Only a man's character is the real criterion of worth.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe,
that lures him to evil ways.
- The Buddha
A man is as unhappy as he has convinced himself he is.
- Seneca
If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought,
happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him.
- The Buddha
Man plans, God laughs
- Yiddish Proverb
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
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
Each man is the architect of his own fate.
- Appius Claudius
A man's good name is his best monument
- from an old churchyard at Lockerbie, Scotland
A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
- Benjamin Franklin
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
- Anonymous
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
I wept because I had no shoes
until I met a man who had no feet.
- old Persian Proverb
Mystery creates wonder, and wonder is the basis
of man's desire to understand.
- Neil Armstrong
A man is not old until his regrets take the place of his dreams.
- Yiddish Proverb
The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.
- B. C. Forbes
It is what a man thinks of himself
that really determines his fate.
- Henry David Thoreau
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.
I submit to you that if a man hasn't
discovered something that he will die for,
he isn't fit to live.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
A man can succeed at almost anything
for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.
- Charles M. Schwab
Each man's life touches so many other lives.
- It's a Wonderful Life (1946 movie)
Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal
of plain living and high thinking
the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants.
Man's happiness really lies in contentment.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
A great man is always willing to be little.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
That man is rich whose pleasures are the cheapest.
- Henry David Thoreau
Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
A man is truly ethical only when he obeys
the compulsion to help all life which he is able to assist,
and shrinks from injuring anything that lives.
- Albert Schweitzer
No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.
- Abraham Lincoln
Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The man who is successful is the man who is useful.
- Bourke Cockran
A man can do only what he can do.
But if he does that each day he can sleep at night
and do it again the next day.
- Albert Schweitzer
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