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He who spends time regretting the past,
loses the present and risks the future.
- Quevedo
Related topics: Wisdom Inspirational Life Human-Nature Psychology
If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day,
he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer.
But if he spends his days as a speculator,
shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time,
he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
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Every child comes with the message
that God is not yet discouraged of man.
- Rabindranath Tagore
No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.
- Anonymous (often attributed to Abraham Lincoln)
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
The man who is dissatisfied with himself, what can he do?
- Henry David Thoreau
Interdependence is and ought to be
as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency.
Man is a social being.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Freedom is never dear at any price.
It is the breath of life.
What would a man not pay for living?
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Of course I am afraid. What sane man is not?
- Luciano Pavarotti
Nearly all men can stand adversity,
but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
- Abraham Lincoln
The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.
- Anatole France
A man who doesn't trust himself
can never really trust anyone else.
- Cardinal De Retz
No man is a failure who enjoys life.
- William Feather
Each man's life touches so many other lives.
- It's a Wonderful Life (1946 movie)
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
Circumstance does not make the man: it reveals him to himself.
- James Allen
All religions must be tolerated...
for every man must get to heaven in his own way.
- Epictetus
No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is,
he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.
- Helen Keller
The man who can't dance thinks the band is no good.
- Polish Proverb
A man too busy to take care of his health is like
a mechanic too busy to take care of his tools.
- Spanish Proverb
The man of genius inspires us with
a boundless confidence in our own powers.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every man has his own courage,
and is betrayed because he seeks in himself
the courage of other persons.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
What is happiness except the simple harmony
between a man and the life he leads?
- Albert Camus
Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
- Francis Bacon
Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Experience is not what happens to a man.
It is what a man does with what happens to him.
- Aldous Huxley
I don't like that man.
I must get to know him better.
- Abraham Lincoln
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
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
A man who dares to waste one hour of time
has not discovered the value of life.
- Charles Darwin
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
A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
- Benjamin Franklin
He is a man of courage who does not run away,
but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.
- Socrates
Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea,
never regains its original dimensions.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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
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
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
Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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
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)
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
Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.
- Carl Jung
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men.
No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
- Elbert Hubbard
A man must be both stupid and uncharitable
who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.
- Joseph Addison
Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
- 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
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
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
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
- Anonymous
The man with insight enough to admit his limitations
comes nearest to perfection.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.
- Socrates
A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.
- Mark Twain
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
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
During the first period of a man's life
the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
- Soren Kierkegaard
A wise man can learn more from a foolish question
than a fool can learn from a wise answer.
- Bruce Lee
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 in debt is so far a slave.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Before you criticize a man,
walk a mile in his shoes.
- Anonymous
A man is not old until his regrets take the place of his dreams.
- Yiddish Proverb
A wise man hears one word and understands two.
- Yiddish Proverb
If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right.
Men will believe what they see.
- Henry David Thoreau
You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.
- John Morley
A great man is always willing to be little.
- 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
Is the babe young? When I behold it,
it seems more venerable than the oldest man.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
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