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"Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!"
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,
The lone and level sands stretch far away.
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
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And on the pedestal these words appear:
`My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings:
'Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!'
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,
The lone and level sands stretch far away.
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
An architect's most useful tools are
an eraser at the drafting board,
and a wrecking bar at the site.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Each man is the architect of his own fate.
- Appius Claudius
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He who rejects change is the architect of decay.
- Harold Wilson
Gratitude is an attitude that
hooks us up to our source of supply.
And the more grateful you are,
the closer you become to your maker,
to the architect of the universe,
to the spiritual core of your being.
- Bob Proctor
The physician can bury his mistakes,
but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines -
so they should go as far as possible from home
to build their first buildings.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
A doctor can bury his mistakes
but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
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
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)
As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
- The Bible
If thou wilt make a man happy,
add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.
- Epicurus
No man is free who is not master of himself.
- Epictetus
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
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.
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
To measure the man, measure his heart.
- Malcolm S. Forbes
The man who has no imagination has no wings.
- Muhammad Ali
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
An honest man is always a child.
- Socrates
Circumstance does not make the man: it reveals him to himself.
- James Allen
As long as a man stands in his own way,
everything seems to be in his way.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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]
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.
Two things a man should never be angry at:
what he can help,
and what he cannot help.
- Thomas Fuller
A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
- Benjamin Franklin
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
A man's good name is his best monument
- from an old churchyard at Lockerbie, Scotland
Man plans, God laughs
- Yiddish 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.
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
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.
Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
- Oscar Wilde
A man is not old until his regrets take the place of his dreams.
- Yiddish Proverb
A man in debt is so far a slave.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Only a man's character is the real criterion of worth.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
A man is as unhappy as he has convinced himself he is.
- Seneca
If a man does his best, what else is there?
- George S. Patton
It is what a man thinks of himself
that really determines his fate.
- Henry David Thoreau
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
- Anonymous
How could man rejoice in victory
and delight in the slaughter of men?
- Lao Tzu
Try not to become a man of success,
but rather try to become a man of value.
- Albert Einstein
It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe,
that lures him to evil ways.
- The Buddha
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
No man is a failure who enjoys life.
- William Feather
Man's enemies are not demons, but human beings like himself.
- Lao Tzu
All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.
- Meister Eckhart
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
Mystery creates wonder, and wonder is the basis
of man's desire to understand.
- Neil Armstrong
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 speaks or acts with a pure thought,
happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him.
- The Buddha
Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.
- Albert Schweitzer
Whenever a man or women is truly inspired,
it is because the same One Universal Spirit
is doing the inspiring.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.
- Charles Darwin
The fear of death follows from the fear of life.
A man who lives fully, is prepared to die at any time.
- Mark Twain
A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him,
that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men,
and when he devotes himself helpfully
to all life that is in need of help.
- Albert Schweitzer
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
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.
Before you criticize a man,
walk a mile in his shoes.
- Anonymous
It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinions;
it is easy in solitude to live after your own;
but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd
keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.
- Mark Twain
Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.
- Carl Jung
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