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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
Talent is God-given; be humble.
Fame is man-given; be thankful.
Conceit is self-given; be careful.
- John Wooden
Two things a man should never be angry at:
what he can help,
and what he cannot help.
- Thomas Fuller
No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.
- Anonymous (often attributed to Abraham Lincoln)
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Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
- George Eliot
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.
Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
- Oscar Wilde
Every child comes with the message
that God is not yet discouraged of man.
- Rabindranath Tagore
A man must be both stupid and uncharitable
who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.
- Joseph Addison
He is a man of courage who does not run away,
but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.
- Socrates
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
Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The man of genius inspires us with
a boundless confidence in our own powers.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is,
he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.
- Helen Keller
A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
- Benjamin Franklin
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)
Interdependence is and ought to be
as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency.
Man is a social being.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
It doesn't matter how long my hair is
or what color my skin is
or whether I'm a woman or a man.
- John Lennon
Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty;
it is its own reward.
Everything else is in God's hands.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
What is happiness except the simple harmony
between a man and the life he leads?
- Albert Camus
Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea,
never regains its original dimensions.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
The man who is dissatisfied with himself, what can he do?
- Henry David Thoreau
All religions must be tolerated...
for every man must get to heaven in his own way.
- Epictetus
No man is a failure who enjoys life.
- William Feather
A man too busy to take care of his health is like
a mechanic too busy to take care of his tools.
- Spanish Proverb
Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Freedom is never dear at any price.
It is the breath of life.
What would a man not pay for living?
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.
- Mark Twain
Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.
- Socrates
It is easy enough to be pleasant
When life flows by like a song,
But the man worth while is the one who will smile
When everything goes dead wrong.
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Every man has his own courage,
and is betrayed because he seeks in himself
the courage of other persons.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man who dares to waste one hour of time
has not discovered the value of life.
- Charles Darwin
Nearly all men can stand adversity,
but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
- Abraham Lincoln
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
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
- Anonymous
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
The man with insight enough to admit his limitations
comes nearest to perfection.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
- Francis Bacon
The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.
- Anatole France
The man who can't dance thinks the band is no good.
- Polish Proverb
Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.
- Carl Jung
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
Experience is not what happens to a man.
It is what a man does with what happens to him.
- Aldous Huxley
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
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
Circumstance does not make the man: it reveals him to himself.
- James Allen
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men.
No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
- Elbert Hubbard
Of course I am afraid. What sane man is not?
- Luciano Pavarotti
I don't like that man.
I must get to know him better.
- Abraham Lincoln
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
If a man is proud of his wealth,
he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
- Socrates
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
Each man's life touches so many other lives.
- It's a Wonderful Life (1946 movie)
Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.
- 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
Many a man fails as an original thinker
simply because his memory is too good.
- Nietzsche
Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
- Epicurus
The Universe is one great kindergarten for man.
Everything that exists has brought
with it its own peculiar lesson.
- Orison Swett Marden
A man in debt is so far a slave.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right.
Men will believe what they see.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
The gem cannot be polished without friction,
nor man perfected without trials.
- Confucius
Science gives man knowledge, which is power;
religion gives man wisdom, which is control.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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
Above all, don't lie to yourself.
The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie
comes to a point that he cannot
distinguish the truth within him, or around him,
and so loses all respect for himself and for others.
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
It is what a man thinks of himself
that really determines his fate.
- Henry David Thoreau
Man becomes great exactly in the degree
in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
What is the appropriate behavior for a man or a woman
in the midst of this world,
where each person is clinging to his piece of debris?
What's the proper salutation between people
as they pass each other in this flood?
- The Buddha
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
Any man who reads too much
and uses his own brain too little
falls into lazy habits of thinking.
- Albert Einstein
Every man I meet is in some way my superior.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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