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We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.
- Francis Bacon
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The reason why men do not obey us,
is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A leader is best when people barely know he exists,
not so good when people obey and acclaim him,
worst when they despise him.
But of a good leader, who talks little,
when his work is done, his aim fulfilled,
they will say, "We did this ourselves."
- Lao Tzu
If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun.
- Katharine Hepburn
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He said to them, "Where is your faith?"
And they were afraid, and marveled, saying to one another,
"Who can this be?
For He commands even the winds and water,
and they obey Him!"
- Luke 8:25
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
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
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
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)
An honest man is always a child.
- Socrates
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
If thou wilt make a man happy,
add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.
- Epicurus
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]
Circumstance does not make the man: it reveals him to himself.
- James Allen
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
To measure the man, measure his heart.
- Malcolm S. Forbes
As long as a man stands in his own way,
everything seems to be in his way.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
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.
The man who has no imagination has no wings.
- Muhammad Ali
Nearly all men can stand adversity,
but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
- Abraham Lincoln
Great and good are seldom the same man.
- Winston Churchill
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.
The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.
- B. C. Forbes
Try not to become a man of success,
but rather try to become a man of value.
- Albert Einstein
A man in debt is so far a slave.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
- Anonymous
Only a man's character is the real criterion of worth.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
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
Man plans, God laughs
- Yiddish Proverb
All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.
- Meister Eckhart
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.
Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
- Oscar Wilde
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.
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
Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.
- Albert Schweitzer
A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
- Benjamin Franklin
Each man is the architect of his own fate.
- Appius Claudius
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
I wept because I had no shoes
until I met a man who had no feet.
- old Persian Proverb
No man is a failure who enjoys life.
- William Feather
How could man rejoice in victory
and delight in the slaughter of men?
- Lao Tzu
Mystery creates wonder, and wonder is the basis
of man's desire to understand.
- Neil Armstrong
A man who won't die for something is not fit to live.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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's enemies are not demons, but human beings like himself.
- Lao Tzu
It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe,
that lures him to evil ways.
- The Buddha
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 does his best, what else is there?
- George S. Patton
A man who is a master of patience is master of everything else.
- George Savile
It is what a man thinks of himself
that really determines his fate.
- Henry David Thoreau
A man is as unhappy as he has convinced himself he is.
- Seneca
Man becomes great exactly in the degree
in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The highest revelation is that God is in every man.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.
- Anatole France
Never give a sword to a man who can't dance.
- Confucius
Dear Father in heaven, I'm not a praying man,
but if you're up there and you can hear me ...
show me the way... show me the way.
- It's a Wonderful Life (1946 movie)
All that we are is the result of what we have thought.
If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him.
If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought,
happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him.
- The Buddha
A man can succeed at almost anything
for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.
- Charles M. Schwab
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
A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.
- Mark Twain
Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.
- Socrates
A wise man hears one word and understands two.
- Yiddish Proverb
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