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Every man thinks God is on his side.
- Jean Anouilh
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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
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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)
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.
Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
- Oscar Wilde
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
Two things a man should never be angry at:
what he can help,
and what he cannot help.
- Thomas Fuller
Circumstance does not make the man: it reveals him to himself.
- James Allen
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
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
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 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.
A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
- Benjamin Franklin
It is not the man who has too little,
but the man who craves more, that is poor.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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
A great secret of success is to go through life
as a man who never gets used up.
- Albert Schweitzer
A man who won't die for something is not fit to live.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for,
he isn't fit to live.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
A man too busy to take care of his health is like
a mechanic too busy to take care of his tools.
- Spanish Proverb
One man with courage makes a majority.
- old saying probably repeated by Andrew Jackson
(falsely attributed to Jefferson)
I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing,
and that is that I know nothing.
- Socrates
Great and good are seldom the same man.
- Winston Churchill
A man is not old until his regrets take the place of his dreams.
- Yiddish Proverb
A man is but the product of his thoughts -
what he thinks, he becomes.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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
The man who is dissatisfied with himself, what can he do?
- Henry David Thoreau
Any man who reads too much
and uses his own brain too little
falls into lazy habits of thinking.
- Albert Einstein
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
He is a man of courage who does not run away,
but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.
- Socrates
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone
who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson
Revenge... is like a rolling stone,
which, when a man hath forced up a hill,
will return upon him with a greater violence,
and break those bones whose sinews gave it motion.
- Albert Schweitzer
As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
- The Bible
Each man is afraid of his neighbor's disapproval -
a thing which, to the general run of the human race,
is more dreaded than wolves and death.
- Mark Twain
The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.
- Anatole France
Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.
- Albert Schweitzer
He is a wise man who does not grieve
for the things which he has not,
but rejoices for those which he has.
- Epictetus
Freedom is never dear at any price.
It is the breath of life.
What would a man not pay for living?
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Man becomes great exactly in the degree
in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
As soon as man does not take his existence for granted,
but beholds it as something
unfathomably mysterious, thought begins.
- Albert Schweitzer
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
It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinions;
it is easy in solitude to live after your own;
but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd
keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude
- 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
A man is as unhappy as he has convinced himself he is.
- Seneca
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
An honest man is always a child.
- Socrates
If a man loses his reverence for any part of life,
he will lose his reverence for all of life.
- Albert Schweitzer
To measure the man, measure his heart.
- Malcolm S. Forbes
How could man rejoice in victory
and delight in the slaughter of men?
- Lao Tzu
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.
I do not know whether I was then
a man dreaming I was a butterfly,
or whether I am now
a butterfly dreaming I am a man.
- Zhuangzi
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
- Anonymous
The man who promises everything, is sure to fulfill nothing,
and everyone who promises too much is in danger of
using evil means in order to carry out his promises,
and is already on the road to perdition.
- Carl Jung
A man who doesn't trust himself
can never really trust anyone else.
- Cardinal De Retz
Many a man fails as an original thinker
simply because his memory is too good.
- Nietzsche
If you stand up and be counted,
from time to time you may get yourself knocked down.
But remember this: A man flattened by an opponent can get up again.
A man flattened by conformity stays down for good.
- Thomas J. Watson
I don't like that man.
I must get to know him better.
- Abraham Lincoln
Man plans, God laughs
- Yiddish Proverb
No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
When you are offended at any man's fault,
turn to yourself and study your own failings.
Then you will forget your anger.
- Epictetus
If there is anything that a man can do well,
I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
- Abraham Lincoln
There comes a time in every man's education
when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance,
that imitation is suicide,
that he must take himself for better or for worse as his portion.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
A man is what he thinks about all day long.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
- Epicurus
Hardly a man in the world has an opinion
upon morals, political, or religion
which he got otherwise than
through his associations and sympathies.
- Mark Twain
Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man.
And man can be as big as he wants.
No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.
- John F. Kennedy
You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers.
You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.
- Naguib Mahfouz
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