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The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance;
the wise grows it under his feet.
- J. Robert Oppenheimer
Related topics: Wisdom Self Happy Insight Attitude Positive Choice
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson 
When the water starts boiling
it is foolish to turn off the heat.
- Nelson Mandela
If you want to improve,
be content to be thought foolish and stupid.
- Epictetus
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A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds,
adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.
With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. -
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A widespread belief is more often likely
to be foolish than sensible.
- Bertrand Russell
If a million people say a foolish thing,
it is still a foolish thing.
- Anatole France
You will do foolish things,
but do them with enthusiasm.
- Colette
A wise man can learn more from a foolish question
than a fool can learn from a wise answer.
- Bruce Lee
Until you'll willing to look foolish,
you'll never have the possibility of being great.
- Cher
Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
- Albert Einstein
To be idle is a short road to death
and to be diligent is a way of life;
foolish people are idle,
wise people are diligent.
- The Buddha
It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures,
but the foolish to be a slave to them.
- Epictetus
It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died.
Rather we should thank God that such men lived.
- George S. Patton
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
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)
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 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
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
Nearly all men can stand adversity,
but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
- Abraham Lincoln
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 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
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
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
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 as unhappy as he has convinced himself he is.
- Seneca
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.
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
As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
- The Bible
A man is not old until his regrets take the place of his dreams.
- Yiddish Proverb
It is what a man thinks of himself
that really determines his fate.
- Henry David Thoreau
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.
Circumstances make man, not man circumstances.
- Mark Twain
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
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
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
I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing,
and that is that I know nothing.
- Socrates
It is not the man who has too little,
but the man who craves more, that is poor.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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.
Man plans, God laughs
- Yiddish Proverb
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.
You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers.
You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.
- Naguib Mahfouz
If a man does his best, what else is there?
- George S. Patton
If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right.
Men will believe what they see.
- Henry David Thoreau
He is a wise man who does not grieve
for the things which he has not,
but rejoices for those which he has.
- Epictetus
Man's enemies are not demons, but human beings like himself.
- Lao Tzu
A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.
- Oscar Wilde
We like a man to come right out and say what he thinks-
if we agree with him.
- Mark Twain
The wise man looks back into the past,
and does not grieve over what is far off,
nor rejoice over what is near;
for he knows that time is without end.
- Lao Tzu
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
Only a man's character is the real criterion of worth.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
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.
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
Every man I meet is in some way my superior.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Early to bed and early to rise,
makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
- Benjamin Franklin
A man who won't die for something is not fit to live.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
A man's good name is his best monument
- from an old churchyard at Lockerbie, Scotland
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
No man is free who is not master of himself.
- Epictetus
If thou wilt make a man happy,
add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.
- Epicurus
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
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