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If a man does not make new acquaintances
as he advances through life,
he will soon find himself alone.
A man, sir, should keep his friendships in constant repair.
- Samuel Johnson
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Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
- Samuel Johnson
Great works are performed not by strength,
but by perseverance.
- Samuel Johnson
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone
who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson
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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
The chains of habit are too weak to be felt
until they are too strong to be broken.
- Samuel Johnson
The feeling of friendship is like that
of being comfortably filled with roast beef;
love, like being enlivened with champagne.
- Samuel Johnson
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
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)
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
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
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 man who has no imagination has no wings.
- Muhammad Ali
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.
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
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
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.
Great and good are seldom the same man.
- Winston Churchill
If thou wilt make a man happy,
add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.
- Epicurus
Circumstance does not make the man: it reveals him to himself.
- James Allen
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
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.
Circumstances make man, not man circumstances.
- Mark Twain
An honest man is always a child.
- Socrates
As long as a man stands in his own way,
everything seems to be in his way.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.
- Meister Eckhart
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
A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
- Benjamin Franklin
Try not to become a man of success,
but rather try to become a man of value.
- Albert Einstein
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
If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought,
happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him.
- The Buddha
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'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
A man is not old until his regrets take the place of his dreams.
- Yiddish Proverb
If a man does his best, what else is there?
- George S. Patton
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
- Anonymous
Man plans, God laughs
- Yiddish Proverb
Man's enemies are not demons, but human beings like himself.
- Lao Tzu
The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.
- B. C. Forbes
I wept because I had no shoes
until I met a man who had no feet.
- old Persian Proverb
How could man rejoice in victory
and delight in the slaughter of men?
- Lao Tzu
A man in debt is so far a slave.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.
Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
- Oscar Wilde
No man is a failure who enjoys life.
- William Feather
A man who won't die for something is not fit to live.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
A man who is a master of patience is master of everything else.
- George Savile
Mystery creates wonder, and wonder is the basis
of man's desire to understand.
- Neil Armstrong
Each man is the architect of his own fate.
- Appius Claudius
Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.
- Albert Schweitzer
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.
A man is as unhappy as he has convinced himself he is.
- Seneca
That man is rich whose pleasures are the cheapest.
- Henry David Thoreau
Never give a sword to a man who can't dance.
- Confucius
Of course I am afraid. What sane man is not?
- Luciano Pavarotti
A man should look for what is,
and not for what he thinks should be.
- Albert Einstein
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's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.
- Charles Darwin
We like a man to come right out and say what he thinks-
if we agree with him.
- Mark Twain
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
If a man does not keep pace with his companions,
perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
- Henry David Thoreau
If you talk to a man in a language he understands,
that goes to his head.
If you talk to him in his language,
that goes to his heart.
- Nelson Mandela
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