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Every man and woman is born into the world
to do something unique and something distinctive;
and if he or she does not do it,
it will never be done.
- Benjamin E. Mays
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Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.
- Socrates
What is the appropriate behavior for a man or a woman
in the midst of this world,
where each person is clinging to his piece of debris?
What's the proper salutation between people
as they pass each other in this flood?
- The Buddha
The real ornament of woman is her character, her purity.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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A man never knows how to say goodbye;
a woman never knows when to say it.
- Helen Rowland
A blessed thing it is for any man or woman to have a friend,
one human soul whom we can trust utterly,
who knows the best and worst of us,
and who loves us in spite of all our faults.
- Charles Kingsley
It doesn't matter how long my hair is
or what color my skin is
or whether I'm a woman or a man.
- John Lennon
For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
- Virginia Woolf
Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man.
- Margaret Mead
It's all right for a woman to be, above all, human.
I am a woman first of all.
- Anais Nin
The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing.
The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I, with a deeper instinct,
choose a man who compels my strength,
who makes enormous demands on me,
who does not doubt my courage or my toughness,
who does not believe me naive or innocent,
who has the courage to treat me like a woman.
- Anais Nin
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
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
No man is free who is not master of himself.
- Epictetus
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
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.
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
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]
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.
Circumstances make man, not man circumstances.
- Mark Twain
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
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.
To measure the man, measure his heart.
- Malcolm S. Forbes
Great and good are seldom the same man.
- Winston Churchill
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 as unhappy as he has convinced himself he is.
- Seneca
How could man rejoice in victory
and delight in the slaughter of men?
- Lao Tzu
Man plans, God laughs
- Yiddish Proverb
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
If a man does his best, what else is there?
- George S. Patton
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
Two things a man should never be angry at:
what he can help,
and what he cannot help.
- Thomas Fuller
Man's enemies are not demons, but human beings like himself.
- Lao Tzu
Try not to become a man of success,
but rather try to become a man of value.
- Albert Einstein
I wept because I had no shoes
until I met a man who had no feet.
- old Persian Proverb
A man is not old until his regrets take the place of his dreams.
- Yiddish Proverb
No man is a failure who enjoys life.
- William Feather
Only a man's character is the real criterion of worth.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
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
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
Mystery creates wonder, and wonder is the basis
of man's desire to understand.
- Neil Armstrong
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
- Anonymous
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
All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.
- Meister Eckhart
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
Each man is the architect of his own fate.
- Appius Claudius
Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.
- Albert Schweitzer
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
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
Non-violence is a powerful and just weapon which cuts without wounding
and ennobles the man who wields it. It is a sword that heals.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Non-violence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind.
It is mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction
devised by the ingenuity of man.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
This above all: to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.
- William Shakespeare
No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.
- Abraham Lincoln
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