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Self-respect is not a function of size, age, or wealth.
Breathe deep, sing loud and sweet,
"I am me, I am unique, I am magnificent."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Related topics: Affirmations Values Live-By Self-Esteem
It's not the size of the dog in the fight,
it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain
The size of your success is measured by
the strength of your desire;
the size of your dream;
and how you handle disappointment along the way.
- Robert Kiyosaki
I truly believe that happiness is possible...
even when you're thirty-three
and have a bottom the size of two bowling balls.
- the movie Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason
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I'm having a bad day. I am not size six.
My legs are not skinny as sticks,
and dammit, someone's got to pay.
I'm afraid that I can't satisfy myself
and that my happiness depends on someone else.
I feel weak, so you're gonna take the fall.
You're so shallow.
- Jewel
What counts is not necessarily
the size of the dog in the fight -
it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower quoting Mark Twain
Eagles come in all shapes and sizes,
but you will recognize them chiefly by their attitudes.
- E. F. Schumacher
Every man should have a fair-sized cemetery
in which to bury the faults of his friends.
- Henry Brooks Adams
Today's acorns grow into the oak trees of thirty years hence.
But what acorns are we sowing today?
Imagine what an acorn-sized bit of prejudice or hatred would grow into.
Imagine what an acorn-sized bit of pollution can become.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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)
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
Every child comes with the message
that God is not yet discouraged of man.
- Rabindranath Tagore
The man of genius inspires us with
a boundless confidence in our own powers.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
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
Each man's life touches so many other lives.
- It's a Wonderful Life (1946 movie)
Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.
- Socrates
All religions must be tolerated...
for every man must get to heaven in his own way.
- Epictetus
What is happiness except the simple harmony
between a man and the life he leads?
- Albert Camus
He is a man of courage who does not run away,
but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.
- Socrates
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
- Anonymous
No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is,
he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.
- Helen Keller
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
A man must be both stupid and uncharitable
who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.
- Joseph Addison
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
Experience is not what happens to a man.
It is what a man does with what happens to him.
- Aldous Huxley
If a man is proud of his wealth,
he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
- 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
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
The man with insight enough to admit his limitations
comes nearest to perfection.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Freedom is never dear at any price.
It is the breath of life.
What would a man not pay for living?
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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
Of course I am afraid. What sane man is not?
- Luciano Pavarotti
Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
- Francis Bacon
Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man who dares to waste one hour of time
has not discovered the value of life.
- Charles Darwin
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
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
A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
- Benjamin Franklin
The man who can't dance thinks the band is no good.
- Polish Proverb
Circumstance does not make the man: it reveals him to himself.
- James Allen
Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.
- Carl Jung
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
I don't like that man.
I must get to know him better.
- Abraham Lincoln
Interdependence is and ought to be
as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency.
Man is a social being.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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)
Every man has his own courage,
and is betrayed because he seeks in himself
the courage of other persons.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nearly all men can stand adversity,
but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
- Abraham Lincoln
A man who doesn't trust himself
can never really trust anyone else.
- Cardinal De Retz
A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.
- 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
The man who is dissatisfied with himself, what can he do?
- Henry David Thoreau
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 machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men.
No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
- Elbert Hubbard
No man is a failure who enjoys life.
- William Feather
Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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 greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.
- Anatole France
Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea,
never regains its original dimensions.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Every man I meet is in some way my superior.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
As long as a man stands in his own way,
everything seems to be in his way.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
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
Man becomes great exactly in the degree
in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
A wise man will make haste to forgive,
because he knows the true value of time,
and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.
- Samuel Johnson
Many a man fails as an original thinker
simply because his memory is too good.
- Nietzsche
There is nothing with which every man is so afraid
as getting to know how enormously much
he is capable of doing and becoming.
- Soren Kierkegaard
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