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A man who doesn't trust himself
can never really trust anyone else.
- Cardinal De Retz
Related topics: Life Human-Nature Psychology Self
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
Every child comes with the message
that God is not yet discouraged of man.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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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)
Circumstance does not make the man: it reveals him to himself.
- James Allen
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
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
Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
- George Eliot
Nearly all men can stand adversity,
but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
- Abraham Lincoln
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 wise man does not lay up his own treasures.
The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.
- Lao Tzu
A man is not old until his regrets take the place of his dreams.
- Yiddish Proverb
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
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
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 a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
- The Bible
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
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
One man with courage makes a majority.
- old saying probably repeated by Andrew Jackson
(falsely attributed to Jefferson)
A man is as unhappy as he has convinced himself he is.
- Seneca
Circumstances make man, not man circumstances.
- Mark Twain
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
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.
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
All this worldly wisdom was once
the unamiable heresy of some wise man.
- 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
I learned that courage was not the absence of fear,
but the triumph over it.
The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid,
but he who conquers that fear.
- Nelson Mandela
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance;
the wise grows it under his feet.
- J. Robert Oppenheimer
Is the babe young? When I behold it,
it seems more venerable than the oldest man.
- Henry David Thoreau
Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
- Epicurus
Many a man fails as an original thinker
simply because his memory is too good.
- Nietzsche
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
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
It is not the man who has too little,
but the man who craves more, that is poor.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
As soon as man does not take his existence for granted,
but beholds it as something
unfathomably mysterious, thought begins.
- Albert Schweitzer
A man should look for what is,
and not for what he thinks should be.
- Albert Einstein
If a man loses his reverence for any part of life,
he will lose his reverence for all of life.
- Albert Schweitzer
If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for,
he isn't fit to live.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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
During the first period of a man's life
the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
- Soren Kierkegaard
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.
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 wise man can learn more from a foolish question
than a fool can learn from a wise answer.
- Bruce Lee
Man becomes great exactly in the degree
in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
- Benjamin Franklin
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
When you are offended at any man's fault,
turn to yourself and study your own failings.
Then you will forget your anger.
- Epictetus
No man is free who is not master of himself.
- Epictetus
An honest man is always a child.
- Socrates
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
Every man dies. Not every man truly lives.
- the movie Braveheart
This above all: to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.
- William Shakespeare
You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.
- John Morley
Mystery creates wonder, and wonder is the basis
of man's desire to understand.
- Neil Armstrong
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
We like a man to come right out and say what he thinks-
if we agree with him.
- Mark Twain
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.
The man who goes alone can start today;
but he who travels with another
must wait till that other is ready.
- Henry David Thoreau
No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.
- Abraham Lincoln
Only a man's character is the real criterion of worth.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Man's enemies are not demons, but human beings like himself.
- Lao Tzu
Before you criticize a man,
walk a mile in his shoes.
- Anonymous
Great and good are seldom the same man.
- Winston Churchill
Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand,
the spines of others are often stiffened.
- Billy Graham
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
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