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If a man does not make new acquaintances
as he advances through life,
he will soon find himself alone.
A man, sir, should keep his friendships in constant repair.
- Samuel Johnson
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Great works are performed not by strength,
but by perseverance.
- Samuel Johnson
Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
- Samuel Johnson
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
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The true measure of a man is how he treats someone
who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson
The chains of habit are too weak to be felt
until they are too strong to be broken.
- Samuel Johnson
The feeling of friendship is like that
of being comfortably filled with roast beef;
love, like being enlivened with champagne.
- Samuel Johnson
Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.
- Samuel Johnson [also attributed to Oscar Wilde]
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)
Every child comes with the message
that God is not yet discouraged of man.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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 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
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
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
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.
Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
- Oscar Wilde
Nearly all men can stand adversity,
but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
- Abraham Lincoln
Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
- George Eliot
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
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
A man is not old until his regrets take the place of his dreams.
- Yiddish Proverb
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 a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
- The Bible
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
Each man is the architect of his own fate.
- Appius Claudius
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
As long as a man stands in his own way,
everything seems to be in his way.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
One man with courage makes a majority.
- old saying probably repeated by Andrew Jackson
(falsely attributed to Jefferson)
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.
A man is as unhappy as he has convinced himself he is.
- Seneca
It is what a man thinks of himself
that really determines his fate.
- Henry David Thoreau
Circumstances make man, not man circumstances.
- Mark Twain
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
A man who is a master of patience is master of everything else.
- George Savile
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.
Great and good are seldom the same man.
- Winston Churchill
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
A man who as a physical being
is always turned toward the outside,
thinking that his happiness lies outside him,
finally turns inward and
discovers that the source is within him.
- Soren Kierkegaard
The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.
- B. C. Forbes
A man is what he thinks about all day long.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
That man is rich whose pleasures are the cheapest.
- Henry David Thoreau
Many a man fails as an original thinker
simply because his memory is too good.
- Nietzsche
A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.
- John F. Kennedy
Man becomes great exactly in the degree
in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
To measure the man, measure his heart.
- Malcolm S. Forbes
Try not to become a man of success,
but rather try to become a man of value.
- Albert Einstein
A man should look for what is,
and not for what he thinks should be.
- Albert Einstein
Is the babe young? When I behold it,
it seems more venerable than the oldest man.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe,
that lures him to evil ways.
- The Buddha
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.
A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
- Benjamin Franklin
The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live
that his happiness shall depend
as little as possible on external things.
- Epictetus
If a man loses his reverence for any part of life,
he will lose his reverence for all of life.
- Albert Schweitzer
I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing,
and that is that I know nothing.
- Socrates
The gem cannot be polished without friction,
nor man perfected without trials.
- Confucius
As soon as man does not take his existence for granted,
but beholds it as something
unfathomably mysterious, thought begins.
- Albert Schweitzer
The value of a man should be seen in what he gives
and not in what he is able to receive.
- Albert Einstein
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man,
but he is brave five minutes longer.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
- Epicurus
There are other measures of self-respect for a man,
than the number of clean shirts he puts on every day.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
When I am getting ready to reason with a man,
I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself
and what I am going to say
and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.
- Abraham Lincoln
Non-violence requires a double faith,
faith in God and also faith in man.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance;
the wise grows it under his feet.
- J. Robert Oppenheimer
We like a man to come right out and say what he thinks-
if we agree with him.
- Mark Twain
Every man must decide whether he will
walk in the light of creative altruism
or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The Universe is one great kindergarten for man.
Everything that exists has brought
with it its own peculiar lesson.
- Orison Swett Marden
If a man loses pace with his companions,
perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
Let him step to the music which he hears,
however measured or far away.
- Henry David Thoreau
No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing,
and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.
- George Bernard Shaw
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