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The man who has no imagination has no wings.
- Muhammad Ali
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He who is not courageous enough to take risks
will accomplish nothing in life.
- Muhammad Ali
A man who views the world the same at fifty
as he did at twenty
has wasted thirty years of his life.
- Muhammad Ali
Service to others is the rent you pay
for your room here on earth.
- Muhammad Ali
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It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand.
I beat people up.
- Muhammad Ali (world champion boxer)
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
No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.
- Anonymous (often attributed to Abraham Lincoln)
Circumstance does not make the man: it reveals him to himself.
- James Allen
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)
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
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
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
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 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
Each man is the architect of his own fate.
- Appius Claudius
A man is as unhappy as he has convinced himself he is.
- Seneca
One man with courage makes a majority.
- old saying probably repeated by Andrew Jackson
(falsely attributed to Jefferson)
As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
- The Bible
A man who is a master of patience is master of everything else.
- George Savile
Nothing can stop the man with the right
mental attitude from achieving his goal;
nothing on earth can help the man
with the wrong mental attitude.
- Thomas Jefferson
Two things a man should never be angry at:
what he can help,
and what he cannot help.
- Thomas Fuller
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 is not old until his regrets take the place of his dreams.
- Yiddish Proverb
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.
It is what a man thinks of himself
that really determines his fate.
- Henry David Thoreau
Circumstances make man, not man circumstances.
- Mark Twain
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 can do only what he can do.
But if he does that each day he can sleep at night
and do it again the next day.
- Albert Schweitzer
As long as a man stands in his own way,
everything seems to be in his way.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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.
There is nothing with which every man is so afraid
as getting to know how enormously much
he is capable of doing and becoming.
- Soren Kierkegaard
If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for,
he isn't fit to live.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Every man I meet is in some way my superior.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought,
happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him.
- The Buddha
Only a man's character is the real criterion of worth.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
When you are offended at any man's fault,
turn to yourself and study your own failings.
Then you will forget your anger.
- Epictetus
Any man who reads too much
and uses his own brain too little
falls into lazy habits of thinking.
- Albert Einstein
Money has never made man happy, nor will it,
there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness.
The more of it one has the more one wants.
- Benjamin Franklin
A wise man can learn more from a foolish question
than a fool can learn from a wise answer.
- Bruce Lee
The wise man looks into space,
and does not regard the small as too little,
nor the great as too much;
for he knows that there is no limit to dimensions.
- Lao Tzu
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 this worldly wisdom was once
the unamiable heresy of some wise man.
- Henry David Thoreau
A man's good name is his best monument
- from an old churchyard at Lockerbie, Scotland
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
All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy.
What right have we then to depreciate imagination.
- Carl Jung
The value of a man should be seen in what he gives
and not in what he is able to receive.
- Albert Einstein
Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head,
and knows not that it brings abundance
to drive away the hunger.
- Saint Basil
Early to bed and early to rise,
makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
- Benjamin Franklin
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
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 a success if he gets up in
the morning and gets to bed at night,
and in between he does what he wants to do.
- Bob Dylan
I wept because I had no shoes
until I met a man who had no feet.
- old Persian Proverb
Man's enemies are not demons, but human beings like himself.
- Lao Tzu
We like a man to come right out and say what he thinks-
if we agree with him.
- Mark Twain
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man,
but he is brave five minutes longer.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
If a man does not keep pace with his companions,
perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
- Henry David Thoreau
How could man rejoice in victory
and delight in the slaughter of men?
- Lao Tzu
The quality of a man's life is in direct proportion
to his commitment to excellence,
regardless of his chosen field of endeavor.
- Vince Lombardi
Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
- Epicurus
The more a man can forget, the greater the number
of metamorphoses which his life can undergo,
the more he can remember, the more divine his life becomes.
- Soren Kierkegaard
The man who goes alone can start today;
but he who travels with another
must wait till that other is ready.
- Henry David Thoreau
Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only
by the man who is as well organized
in his individuality as the mass itself.
- Carl Jung
As soon as man does not take his existence for granted,
but beholds it as something
unfathomably mysterious, thought begins.
- Albert Schweitzer
You cannot teach a man anything;
you can only help him find it within himself.
- Galileo Galilei
Take a chance! All life is a chance.
The man who goes farthest is generally
the one who is willing to do and dare.
- Dale Carnegie
A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.
- Oscar Wilde
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