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Self-respect is not a function of size, age, or wealth.
Breathe deep, sing loud and sweet,
"I am me, I am unique, I am magnificent."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Related topics: Affirmations Values Live-By Self-Esteem
It's not the size of the dog in the fight,
it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain 
The size of your success is measured by
the strength of your desire;
the size of your dream;
and how you handle disappointment along the way.
- Robert Kiyosaki
I'm having a bad day. I am not size six.
My legs are not skinny as sticks,
and dammit, someone's got to pay.
I'm afraid that I can't satisfy myself
and that my happiness depends on someone else.
I feel weak, so you're gonna take the fall.
You're so shallow.
- Jewel
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I truly believe that happiness is possible...
even when you're thirty-three
and have a bottom the size of two bowling balls.
- the movie Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason
Eagles come in all shapes and sizes,
but you will recognize them chiefly by their attitudes.
- E. F. Schumacher
Every man should have a fair-sized cemetery
in which to bury the faults of his friends.
- Henry Brooks Adams
Today's acorns grow into the oak trees of thirty years hence.
But what acorns are we sowing today?
Imagine what an acorn-sized bit of prejudice or hatred would grow into.
Imagine what an acorn-sized bit of pollution can become.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.
- Anonymous (often attributed to Abraham Lincoln)
Every child comes with the message
that God is not yet discouraged of man.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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
Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
- George Eliot
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
Nearly all men can stand adversity,
but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
- Abraham Lincoln
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
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
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]
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
The man who has no imagination has no wings.
- Muhammad Ali
Great and good are seldom the same man.
- Winston Churchill
Circumstance does not make the man: it reveals him to himself.
- James Allen
To measure the man, measure his heart.
- Malcolm S. Forbes
If thou wilt make a man happy,
add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.
- Epicurus
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
Circumstances make man, not man circumstances.
- Mark Twain
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.
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.
It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe,
that lures him to evil ways.
- The Buddha
Mystery creates wonder, and wonder is the basis
of man's desire to understand.
- Neil Armstrong
How could man rejoice in victory
and delight in the slaughter of men?
- Lao Tzu
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
A man's good name is his best monument
- from an old churchyard at Lockerbie, Scotland
A man is not old until his regrets take the place of his dreams.
- Yiddish Proverb
Each man is the architect of his own fate.
- Appius Claudius
A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
- Benjamin Franklin
All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.
- Meister Eckhart
I wept because I had no shoes
until I met a man who had no feet.
- old Persian Proverb
Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.
- Albert Schweitzer
If a man does his best, what else is there?
- George S. Patton
Man plans, God laughs
- Yiddish Proverb
Man's enemies are not demons, but human beings like himself.
- Lao Tzu
A man in debt is so far a slave.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man who is a master of patience is master of everything else.
- George Savile
Try not to become a man of success,
but rather try to become a man of value.
- Albert Einstein
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
- Anonymous
A man is as unhappy as he has convinced himself he is.
- Seneca
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
A man who won't die for something is not fit to live.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.
Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
- Oscar Wilde
The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.
- B. C. Forbes
Two things a man should never be angry at:
what he can help,
and what he cannot help.
- Thomas Fuller
It is what a man thinks of himself
that really determines his fate.
- Henry David Thoreau
Only a man's character is the real criterion of worth.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
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.
If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought,
happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him.
- The Buddha
All this worldly wisdom was once
the unamiable heresy of some wise man.
- Henry David Thoreau
If a man does not know what port he is steering for,
no wind is favorable to him.
- Seneca
The man who is successful is the man who is useful.
- Bourke Cockran
When the tempest rages, when the thunders roar,
and the lightnings blaze around us
it is then that the truly brave man stands firm at his post.
- Luther Martin
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands
in moments of comfort and convenience,
but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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)
The eyes of the cheerful and of the melancholy man
are fixed upon the same creation;
but very different are the aspects which it bears to them.
- Albert Pike
The best friend is the man who in wishing me well
wishes it for my sake.
- Anonymous
Many a man fails as an original thinker
simply because his memory is too good.
- Nietzsche
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