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I think men who have a pierced ear
are better prepared for marriage.
They've experienced pain and bought jewelry.
- Rita Rudner
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When a man you like switches from what
he said a year ago, or four years ago,
he is a broad-minded person who has courage enough
to change his mind with changing conditions.
When a man you don't like does it,
he is a liar who has broken his promise.
- Franklin Pierce Adams
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
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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)
Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
- George Eliot
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
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
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
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.
Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
- Oscar Wilde
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
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
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
Circumstances make man, not man circumstances.
- Mark Twain
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
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.
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.
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
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)
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
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 is not old until his regrets take the place of his dreams.
- Yiddish Proverb
As long as a man stands in his own way,
everything seems to be in his way.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A wise man hears one word and understands two.
- Yiddish Proverb
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
A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.
- Oscar Wilde
A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
- Benjamin Franklin
He is a wise man who does not grieve
for the things which he has not,
but rejoices for those which he has.
- Epictetus
Anger is a killing thing:
it kills the man who angers,
for each rage leaves him less than he had been before -
it takes something from him.
- Louis L'Amour
Man lives freely only by his readiness to die, if need be,
at the hands of his brother, never by killing him.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man,
but he is brave five minutes longer.
- 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
If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought,
happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him.
- The Buddha
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
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
When you are offended at any man's fault,
turn to yourself and study your own failings.
Then you will forget your anger.
- Epictetus
The man who goes alone can start today;
but he who travels with another
must wait till that other is ready.
- Henry David Thoreau
Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal
of plain living and high thinking
the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants.
Man's happiness really lies in contentment.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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
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
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
An honest man is always a child.
- Socrates
A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.
- John F. Kennedy
Any man who reads too much
and uses his own brain too little
falls into lazy habits of thinking.
- Albert Einstein
Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation
can be trusted to act humanely
or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.
- Bertrand Russell
You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.
- John Morley
A great man is always willing to be little.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man should look for what is,
and not for what he thinks should be.
- Albert Einstein
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone
who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson
If thou wilt make a man happy,
add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.
- Epicurus
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
Many a man fails as an original thinker
simply because his memory is too good.
- Nietzsche
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 wise man can learn more from a foolish question
than a fool can learn from a wise answer.
- Bruce Lee
I submit to you that if a man hasn't
discovered something that he will die for,
he isn't fit to live.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Only a man's character is the real criterion of worth.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
A man does what he must - in spite of personal consequences,
in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures -
and that is the basis of all human morality.
- John F. Kennedy
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
Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
- Epicurus
A man who won't die for something is not fit to live.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
You cannot teach a man anything;
you can only help him find it within himself.
- Galileo Galilei
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