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A man's interest in a single bluebird
is worth more than a complete but dry list
of the fauna and flora of a town.
- Henry David Thoreau
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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
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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
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
Two things a man should never be angry at:
what he can help,
and what he cannot help.
- Thomas Fuller
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 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 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.
Circumstance does not make the man: it reveals him to himself.
- James Allen
A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
- Benjamin Franklin
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
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.
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 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
The man who has no imagination has no wings.
- Muhammad Ali
How could man rejoice in victory
and delight in the slaughter of men?
- Lao Tzu
Man's enemies are not demons, but human beings like himself.
- Lao Tzu
Seek always to do some good, somewhere.
Every man has to seek in his own way to realize his true worth.
You must give some time to your fellow man.
For remember, you don't live in a world all your own.
Your brothers are here too.
- Albert Schweitzer
Man plans, God laughs
- Yiddish Proverb
One man with courage makes a majority.
- old saying probably repeated by Andrew Jackson
(falsely attributed to Jefferson)
If a man empties his purse into his head,
no man can take it away from him.
An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
- Benjamin Franklin
He is a man of courage who does not run away,
but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.
- Socrates
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
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
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
There is a sufficiency in the world
for man's need but not for man's greed.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
A man can fail many times,
but he isn't a failure until
he begins to blame somebody else.
- John Burroughs
A man is as unhappy as he has convinced himself he is.
- Seneca
The man with insight enough to admit his limitations
comes nearest to perfection.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Man becomes great exactly in the degree
in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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
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
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man,
but he is brave five minutes longer.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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 who doesn't trust himself
can never really trust anyone else.
- Cardinal De Retz
The youth gets together his materials
to build a bridge to the moon,
or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth,
and, at length, the middle-aged man
concludes to build a woodshed with them.
- Henry David Thoreau
No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The man form is higher than the angel form;
of all forms it is the highest.
Man is the highest being in creation,
because he aspires to freedom.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
No man is free who is not master of himself.
- Epictetus
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
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
A man who is a master of patience is master of everything else.
- George Savile
Habit is habit,
and not to be flung out of the window by any man,
but coaxed down-stairs a step at a time.
- Mark Twain
If a man is proud of his wealth,
he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
- Socrates
Behind an able man there are always other able men.
- Chinese proverb
If the stars should appear
but one night every thousand years
how man would marvel and stare.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A dog is not considered a good dog because he is a good barker.
A man is not considered a good man because he is a good talker.
- The Buddha
Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.
- Albert Schweitzer
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
- Anonymous
The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready
for his opportunity when it comes.
- Benjamin Disraeli
There are other measures of self-respect for a man,
than the number of clean shirts he puts on every day.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day,
teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime.
- Chinese Proverb
Each man's life touches so many other lives.
- It's a Wonderful Life (1946 movie)
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]
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
You cannot teach a man anything;
you can only help him find it within himself.
- Galileo Galilei
Freedom is never dear at any price.
It is the breath of life.
What would a man not pay for living?
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
During the first period of a man's life
the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
- Soren Kierkegaard
No man is a failure who enjoys life.
- William Feather
The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.
- Anatole France
What is happiness except the simple harmony
between a man and the life he leads?
- Albert Camus
The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.
- B. C. Forbes
Every man I meet is in some way my superior.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
All this worldly wisdom was once
the unamiable heresy of some wise man.
- Henry David Thoreau
A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.
- John F. Kennedy
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
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
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