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A man is as unhappy as he has convinced himself he is.
- Seneca
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Wherever there is a human being,
there is an opportunity for a kindness.
- Seneca
If we let things terrify us,
life will not be worth living.
- Seneca
It is not because life is difficult
that we do not dare.
Life is difficult
because we do not dare.
- Seneca
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Luck is preparation meeting opportunity.
- Seneca
If a man does not know what port he is steering for,
no wind is favorable to him.
- Seneca
Every child comes with the message
that God is not yet discouraged of man.
- Rabindranath Tagore
No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.
- Anonymous (often attributed to Abraham Lincoln)
Talent is God-given; be humble.
Fame is man-given; be thankful.
Conceit is self-given; be careful.
- John Wooden
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 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
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.
Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
- Oscar Wilde
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
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 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
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
As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
- The Bible
Each man is the architect of his own fate.
- Appius Claudius
It is what a man thinks of himself
that really determines his fate.
- Henry David Thoreau
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.
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
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
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
Two things a man should never be angry at:
what he can help,
and what he cannot help.
- Thomas Fuller
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
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 not old until his regrets take the place of his dreams.
- Yiddish Proverb
One man with courage makes a majority.
- old saying probably repeated by Andrew Jackson
(falsely attributed to Jefferson)
A man who is a master of patience is master of everything else.
- George Savile
That man is rich whose pleasures are the cheapest.
- Henry David Thoreau
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.
A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
- Benjamin Franklin
We must, however, acknowledge, as it seems to me,
that man with all his noble qualities...
still bears in his bodily frame
the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.
- Charles Darwin
There is a sufficiency in the world
for man's need but not for man's greed.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.
- John Morley
No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing,
and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.
- George Bernard Shaw
It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe,
that lures him to evil ways.
- The Buddha
Any man who reads too much
and uses his own brain too little
falls into lazy habits of thinking.
- Albert Einstein
During the first period of a man's life
the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
- Epicurus
I don't like that man.
I must get to know him better.
- Abraham Lincoln
If a man does not keep pace with his companions,
perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
- Henry David Thoreau
Is the babe young? When I behold it,
it seems more venerable than the oldest man.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
You cannot build character and courage by
taking away a man's initiative and independence.
- Abraham Lincoln
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone
who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson
The ultimate test of a man's conscience
may be his willingness to sacrifice something today
for future generations whose words of thanks will not be heard.
- Gaylord Nelson
The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.
- B. C. Forbes
There are other measures of self-respect for a man,
than the number of clean shirts he puts on every day.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Science gives man knowledge, which is power;
religion gives man wisdom, which is control.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.
- John F. Kennedy
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
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
If you talk to a man in a language he understands,
that goes to his head.
If you talk to him in his language,
that goes to his heart.
- Nelson Mandela
The man who has no imagination has no wings.
- Muhammad Ali
Early to bed and early to rise,
makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
- Benjamin Franklin
No man is free who is not master of himself.
- Epictetus
We like a man to come right out and say what he thinks-
if we agree with him.
- Mark Twain
If thou wilt make a man happy,
add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.
- Epicurus
Every man dies. Not every man truly lives.
- the movie Braveheart
Many a man fails as an original thinker
simply because his memory is too good.
- Nietzsche
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
A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.
- Oscar Wilde
Intent is what can make a man succeed
when his thoughts tell him that he is defeated.
- Carlos Castaneda
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
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]
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