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A man who suffers before it is necessary,
suffers more than is necessary.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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Where fear is, happiness is not.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
A gift consists not in what is done or given,
but in the intention of the giver or doer.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
The wish for healing has always been half of health.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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It is not the man who has too little,
but the man who craves more, that is poor.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship
is to understand and to be understood.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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
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)
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
To measure the man, measure his heart.
- Malcolm S. Forbes
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
Great and good are seldom the same man.
- Winston Churchill
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 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
Circumstance does not make the man: it reveals him to himself.
- James Allen
Nearly all men can stand adversity,
but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
- Abraham Lincoln
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.
Circumstances make man, not man circumstances.
- Mark Twain
The man who has no imagination has no wings.
- Muhammad Ali
No man is free who is not master of himself.
- Epictetus
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.
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.
As long as a man stands in his own way,
everything seems to be in his way.
- 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
If thou wilt make a man happy,
add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.
- Epicurus
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
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
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
- Anonymous
Mystery creates wonder, and wonder is the basis
of man's desire to understand.
- Neil Armstrong
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 is not old until his regrets take the place of his dreams.
- Yiddish Proverb
Two things a man should never be angry at:
what he can help,
and what he cannot help.
- Thomas Fuller
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
Each man is the architect of his own fate.
- Appius Claudius
Man plans, God laughs
- Yiddish Proverb
If a man does his best, what else is there?
- George S. Patton
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
How could man rejoice in victory
and delight in the slaughter of men?
- Lao Tzu
The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.
- B. C. Forbes
A man who is a master of patience is master of everything else.
- George Savile
A man in debt is so far a slave.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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's enemies are not demons, but human beings like himself.
- Lao Tzu
I wept because I had no shoes
until I met a man who had no feet.
- old Persian 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.
A man's good name is his best monument
- from an old churchyard at Lockerbie, Scotland
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
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
Try not to become a man of success,
but rather try to become a man of value.
- Albert Einstein
A man does what he must - in spite of personal consequences,
in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures -
and that is the basis of all human morality.
- John F. Kennedy
All this worldly wisdom was once
the unamiable heresy of some wise man.
- Henry David Thoreau
The value of a man should be seen in what he gives
and not in what he is able to receive.
- Albert Einstein
The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.
- Anatole France
If a man loses his reverence for any part of life,
he will lose his reverence for all of life.
- Albert Schweitzer
Before you criticize a man,
walk a mile in his shoes.
- Anonymous
A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.
- Mark Twain
Many a man fails as an original thinker
simply because his memory is too good.
- Nietzsche
No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man,
but he is brave five minutes longer.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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